You all tickle me so much! But I sure am glad those little minis are so well liked! That amazes me! These are old works and sure hope you'll be able to see improvement in my recent works!

Yes, this 3-D stuff is really something to behold. Time-consuming, yes, but well worth it!!! Thanks, amma, for your beautiful sentiments! So much appreciate all of you and your nice words!!! :wink: :lol: :wink:

Well, it might take longer to make a strip quilt if I make the foundations four inches square, but on the other hand <g> I will be able to use SMALLER strips! You have no idea how many of those I have ... wouldn't it be cool to have bitty scraps and just strip them on to the foundation as I finish each project ... I could just keep one container especially for that purpose (along with the twenty three other ones I have + the boxes ) LOL
I have a plan ... it might just work! <g>

WOW -- they are all beautiful! But my favorite is still the blue hearts.... :D

I use to be fascinated with gymnists and ice skaters for the beauty they create. My dad used to say we admire greatly those things we ourselves can't do! I think he is so right! We take for granted what we can do as we are used to seeing our own work but what others do is so breathtaking because we wish we could do it too!!

N2scraplvr - You create beauty for yourself and others to see and it deserves to be appreciated! I am so glad you brought these out of the past and shared them with us!! Now I've just got to try that snail's trail!

Four-inch sqs. sounds great! The quilt will go fast; that's no so small. Stripping the scraps onto the fdn sounds good; it's called "mile-a-minute piecing" where you prepare them for crumb blocks. I know of one woman who keeps them all linked together and rolled onto empty toilet tissue rolls to have ready for strip pcing, etc., backs of quilts, etc. What a great idea this is! You definitely have the right idea. Let me know how it goes! Good luck putting it together. :wink: :lol: :-) :wink: :roll:

Don't you know it!!!! Really do LOVE the color BLUE!!! There are wonderful shades of it to mix and match!! Thank you, sewjoyce, for the very nice compliment!!! :wink: :lol: :-) :wink:

One day it hit me why we are so glued to viewing ice skaters and gymnists and it's the "grace" we appeal to and deeply desire! We don't see enough of it displayed, specifically, the ice skating. It mellows us and is so comforting to the psyche. Your dad is right, we admire what we can't do. Thank you so much for seeing something in my work I never saw b4 and hopefully it will be the grace we all internally long for! May the love of the Creator and His creation be seen thru all of us in our work; to Him be the glory forever. Now we want to see your spin on that wonderful old pattern called snail's trail! We are all looking forward to it for sure! Thanks again Rhonda for your super kindness and down-to-earth qualities! :lol: :wink: :lol:

When I get past some orders and some swaps I do plan to try the snail's trail. It has appealed to me for a long time and seeing yours just makes me want to sit down and play with it!

Isn't that funny? When I see your Drunkard's Path, reminds me of how I've always wanted to try it for the "curves" aspect, but don't think I'm ready for curves yet; still trying to keep everything straight! LOL. We will def. have to try ea. other's blocks out and compare notes!! :wink: :lol: :-o :-) :roll:

You'll have to try the new block coming out. It is a Wings block and if you look at my avatar you will see curves but they are an optical illusion. There are no curves in this block! But it looks like there are in a lot of the designs.

As for the Drunkard's path I don't do any more curves than sewing a yoyo onto a background fabric with my sewing machine. Then cut in 4 pieces. So easy!! The only hard part is sewing slowly around the circle of the yoyo. And that isn't hard once you get a feel for sewing slowly and turning it as you go.

I do not do curves!! I tried once to do the Drunkard's Path the old fashioned way and curves and I do not get along!! That is why I was so excited when I figured out the way I do it now. I took Eleanor Burns ideas and changed them some added my spin to hers and got what I do now. It is so much fun to see the designs emerge!!

n2scraplvr, they are all just beautiful. I really love the pyramids. Such a simple pattern but your use of color really brings it alive! Thanks for sharing them.

Thank you, hunnib! I love those pyramids 2nd best after the tumblers. Let me know which panel of pyra. you like best, I'll ship you some so you can finish it for me and keep it. Don't think I'll ever get that WIP done. Haven't even figured out yet how to put these big diamond shaped panels together yet, duh. Have any suggestions. Think it'll end up looking like a kite! LOL.

Your new bl. sounds great!! I've read many times abt these bl. you can do to make them appear curvaceous without doing a single curve! There are a few books on the mkt abt that. It's all optical illusions. Tessellating blocks are optical illusions too and so interesting to look at. Can surely understand how excited you must have been on seeing that bl. played out with yoyos! What a great invention. Love working backwards first to get to the conclusion, don't you???? Start at the end and back up to the beginning. That's what this woman did on Alex Anderson's show in order to cut 30-40 blocks out at once! She said it now takes "NO TIME" to put together a quilt! I can imagine! Once we put our heads together, Rhonda, and begin talking, it's no tellling what new ideas will come forth!!hahaha.

You are too kind...I couldn't possibly take your work, but I sincerely appreciate your generosity. I do enjoy your posts and I'm glad you seemed to have your computer woes taken care of and now can post your lovely pictures. I really don't have any advice about the diamond shaped panels. Sounds too complicated for my feeble little mind! I'm sure you will figure it out. Yes, the tumblers would definitely be my second choice too. They look pretty difficult. Keep posting...Can't wait to see what else you're doing.

I love bouncing ideas off others and haveing others take my ideas and adding their own twists! So much fun to see all the creativity! I get to see ideas I had never thought of! Especially color choices just as you said you used the Bostons and let them fall wherever instead of lining them up in a predictable way. I love getting new ways to look at things like that!

Thank you, hunnib, for your nice words. They mean so much! Yes, it's too complicated for my feeble little mind too but we'll figure it out when I get there and love the surprise in the end! The tumbling blocks are a challenge for me w/o getting puckers but some people can breeze on thru them. Gosh, I'm always N2 something - keep checking back for some more posts from me. You'll love my baby bargellos I know but can't show any big stuff yet. You'll laugh at my 1st split sec. thoughts of your name when I saw it I said to myself "hun - nib" that's a strange name!!! wonder where she's from? hahahha Have a good day :roll: :roll: :roll: :wink: .

It's funny you told me your technique about DPath because I had just been wondering what other bl. I could "sew first, cut later" after doing the D9Patch. I'll bet you've never done this b4. I have such a heart for eyelet that I couldn't wait to put it in a string quilt. I had so much fun sewing over the tops of the holes!!! hhaahahha. Don't know anyone who's done that yet! Also, I put velour, velvet, corduroy, flannel and silk in the same quilt. It's a scrap quilt so I see it with everything in it. Don't you just want to put some eyelet in your bookmarks now? And have fun sewing over those holes? Oh my. It's no telling what you'll come up with after talking to me! :wink: :-o :-) :roll: :wink: :lol:

All my "blocks" directions are sew first cut later. That is what I call my cut down method. I love it as you get tiny piecing without handling tiny pieces.

I have never had the guts to try velvet and lace etc. I know they used to use alot of that in crazy quilts in the "old" days. I admire anyone who can sew with silk! I have had some fabrics that are slick and I hated sewing with them. But I am used to only cotton. So if I did it on purpose it might be a differant story. I would be prepared for the slipping feeling instead of frustrated with it.

I have made stuffed hearts with velveteen fabric. I love how it looks and I like the stretchiness of it as I made some teeny tiny hearts with it. Hope you don't mind a pic on your thread. But this is what my hearts look like. Some of the littler ones are less than an inch. My mom is nuts over hearts for Valentines so I play around with a lot of differant kinds closer to Feb. every year.

Yes, know what you mean by cut-down method. Am getting ready to do the same thing with some tiny stuff; it's the only way to handle them.

No, I don't mind a pic on my thread. You're hearts are just adorable. We all love the hearts no matter what size or fabric!

Have some gorgeous satin the seamstress supplied my family with and can't wait to get N2 that stuff. It'll be just like trying to sew silk I'm sure. But the sheen is just so beautiful, I can't let it just sit there. Some creative idea will pop up for sure! Having done crafting for many yrs I know I'll use it some way to maximize on its color. Velveteen i s very nice to work with. Found some interesting looking leather appearing bonded poly of some type and want to use it also in a deep wine color. I found so much wonderful silk/poly fabrics that I'll be using a lot of them as they are so colorfast! They'll hold better in a quilt than cottons I think, but anyway it's a chance to play with something else! :wink: :lol: :roll: :wink: :roll:

I love these little hearts they look so cute in a candy dish. I have a candy dish on a pedestal and it really shows them off nicely.

Your craft experience probably explains why it is easy for you to work with the stretchy and silky fabrics. I have never been too comfortable with them. Maybe some day. Right now I have too much going on to take on much more for awhile.

Abosolutely adorable!! They would make gorgeous dolly quilts.

Know what you mean about having too much going on - not enough back burners for now. Your little hearts look good enough to eat!

Thank you so much, Boston1954! You are right - perfect quilts for dolls! :wink: :lol: :-o :wink: :roll:

All I really can say is WOW!! Very cool!

Thank you so much, jbsstrawberry! Glad you liked them!!! :lol: :-o :roll: :wink:

Love the blocks :D

Thank you, BethAnn! And welcome to the board! Love your darling pic of the family! So glad you like my stuff! :wink: :lol: :roll: :lol:

You've got some tiny work there!! They look great!!!

Thank you so much, Jim's Gem! Sure love all the work you do too! :lol: :roll: :wink: :-) :-)

It's no problem...I know it looks funny. I use the first few letters of my last name and then the first letter of my first name. Its suppose to be pronounced "honeybee". I usually type it HunniB but didn't when I signed up for the group initially. LOL!

Fantastic pics....love your work and the colours are beautiful....very sweet hearts too, entirely appropriate to post the pics on the same thread. Love and quilting go together.

Thanks for the approval on the hearts. I posted them because we were talking about other fabrics than cotton. I am fabric challenged when it comes to anything other than cotton!! LOL LOL But I had worked with velveteen on the hearts so I wanted to show N2scraplver my hearts. I try not to highjack anyone's thread but it does happen occasionally accidently. I just didn't want to offend.

n2scraplvr Do you have more pics to show sometime soon? You said this was stuff you did long ago. Just wondered if there were going to be more hhmmmm????? I will have to go see what you have posted of the work you do now.

I laugh every time I see your name and catch myself accidentally saying there's hun nib again!! haha . Love your name, that's so cute, the first letters of your last name and first of your first so you should change it to hunniB! It makes sense now since you explained it so I'll be saying there's hunni Bee again!LOL :wink: :lol: :-o :-) :wink:

Thanks so much earthwalker! Sure do appreciate the nice comments and compliments! Met a girl from Perth this summer - we were emailing for awhile. Yes, the hearts aren't mine but yes, they do go hand in hand with quilting! Thanks again for your sweet words! Much appreciated! :lol: :-) :wink: :roll:

Not really. I posted one today of a quilt I did yesterday. I have lots of minis left over from the shops I had my things in but don't think I'll be showing any more things of yesteryear; just newbies from here on out. :lol: :roll: :roll: