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    Search: Posts Made By: SueSew
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    Forum: Main
    12-23-2021, 01:27 PM
    Replies: 13
    Views: 2,652
    Posted By SueSew

    Question Farmer's Wife 1920's Sampler Colors?

    Now I've got the paper piecing patterns, thanks to Gay, does anyone have any suggestions about color? I've never done a sampler so no clue on how to give it some coherence. The closest I've been is...
    Forum: Main
    12-23-2021, 01:17 PM
    Replies: 13
    Views: 2,652
    Posted By SueSew

    Are you doing the link Farmers Wife 6" blocks...

    Are you doing the link Farmers Wife 6" blocks (http://www.susangatewood.net/FWPatterns.html) ?

    If you are, let me know which don't work and I will give it a try. Maybe the PDF you downloaded got...
    Forum: Main
    12-21-2021, 05:15 AM
    Replies: 13
    Views: 2,652
    Posted By SueSew

    Awesome - thanks for link! (Whoa - I just...

    Awesome - thanks for link! (Whoa - I just realized that she's got them numbered and the complex ones have multiple pieces so I don't even have to work from the 6" diagram. Duh, Sue!)

    I would never...
    Forum: Main
    12-20-2021, 02:46 PM
    Replies: 13
    Views: 2,652
    Posted By SueSew

    Question Farmer's Wife 1920 Sampler

    Just got this book as a gift, and no way I am cutting up little 1" triangles! I can paper piece, though. I've done Sue Garman's Washington Star and Halo Medallion quilts (love medallions!) and I've...
    Forum: Main
    08-19-2019, 05:42 AM
    Replies: 9
    Views: 2,072
    Posted By SueSew

    Feline, gorgeous quilting! I love the thought...

    Feline, gorgeous quilting! I love the thought that I can do the curved cross-hatching on DSM with walking foot... given lots of practice. I am studying how you filled the background to 'erase' the...
    Forum: Main
    08-05-2019, 03:03 AM
    Replies: 9
    Views: 2,072
    Posted By SueSew

    Wow, good ideas all. I'm not an applique-er...

    Wow, good ideas all.

    I'm not an applique-er and not much past lines and meanders in free motion but I bet I could do oversize pieced triangle and cut with my 12" square ruler to the proper shape....
    Forum: Main
    08-04-2019, 03:36 AM
    Replies: 9
    Views: 2,072
    Posted By SueSew

    Filling in boring setting triangles

    Making placemats, using a plain (nine-patch) star block on point, there is a lot of empty space there.

    Wish I'd thought of that before I made ten blocks!

    Has anybody ever setting triangles...
    Forum: Pictures
    01-11-2018, 07:10 AM
    Replies: 74
    Views: 72,407
    Posted By SueSew

    Adorable - what color are you using for the...

    Adorable - what color are you using for the background?
    Forum: Pictures
    01-11-2018, 07:08 AM
    Replies: 92
    Views: 20,348
    Posted By SueSew

    Your fabric choices are wonderful, and love the...

    Your fabric choices are wonderful, and love the rosy pink satin!
    Forum: Pictures
    01-11-2018, 07:06 AM
    Replies: 109
    Views: 15,390
    Posted By SueSew

    Beautiful! Your colors are pure genius! It's like...

    Beautiful! Your colors are pure genius! It's like a stained-glass kaleidoscope where all the pieces suddenly fell into a perfect pattern.
    Forum: Main
    12-30-2016, 04:25 AM
    Replies: 24
    Views: 5,658
    Posted By SueSew

    I try to figure the outside border at roughly 2/3...

    I try to figure the outside border at roughly 2/3 of the block size but never related to the narrow stop border except to make sure it is at least 3x as wide and maybe 5x as wide. But overall the...
    Forum: Pictures
    09-29-2016, 01:18 AM
    Replies: 221
    Views: 16,519
    Posted By SueSew

    Did anyone ever find the pattern for this quilt? ...

    Did anyone ever find the pattern for this quilt?
    It is spectacular and has been on my list since it was published but my skills weren't up to it back then - finally found the perfect fabric line...
    Forum: Main
    08-16-2016, 02:26 PM
    Replies: 19
    Views: 4,054
    Posted By SueSew

    That is lovely! What a great way to start a life...

    That is lovely! What a great way to start a life together, stars aligned :)
    Forum: Main
    08-10-2016, 03:16 AM
    Replies: 19
    Views: 4,054
    Posted By SueSew

    Smile Fortune Cookie Advice for Quilters!

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    Do you believe this came in a fortune cookie I got the other night? You could have knocked me over with a feather!
    I've heard measure-twice, that's what carpenters say, but this cracked me...
    Forum: Main
    07-23-2016, 11:59 AM
    Replies: 94
    Views: 7,726
    Posted By SueSew

    Here's to graph paper! I have EQ7 but don't use...

    Here's to graph paper! I have EQ7 but don't use it much because there seem to be too many constraints. I've used it to make a paper-piecing pattern from, but when I have a custom thing - like how...
    Forum: Main
    06-23-2016, 04:14 AM
    Replies: 33
    Views: 4,822
    Posted By SueSew

    Post First Quilt Repair Job - maybe the last one!

    A young woman in my office came to me with a handmade quilt wedding-gifted to her by a friend. Modern design, big squares, nice choice of pattern, placement, color and print. roughly 5'x6'. The DH...
    Forum: Main
    06-23-2016, 03:49 AM
    Replies: 45
    Views: 5,350
    Posted By SueSew

    Dunster, you are a treasure! I haven't been...

    Dunster, you are a treasure! I haven't been reading this board for ages, just tuned in and read this. I missed all you ladies, for sure!

    Your attitude is how I was taught by grandmother in this...
    Forum: Main
    06-23-2016, 03:37 AM
    Replies: 41
    Views: 13,611
    Posted By SueSew

    This is exactly my question! the deal seems to...

    This is exactly my question! the deal seems to be that even to use a plain old straight-edge ruler, you have to move both quilt and ruler in unison or OOPS.

    How can you do that? Do you tape...
    Forum: Main
    03-21-2016, 01:14 PM
    Replies: 23
    Views: 3,551
    Posted By SueSew

    Other than price, or accessibility, what would be...

    Other than price, or accessibility, what would be a reason to use a sit down machine without a frame?

    Without a frame and a way to move the machine, don't you then have to moose the quilt around...
    Forum: General Chit-Chat (non-quilting talk)
    10-01-2015, 08:21 AM
    Replies: 75
    Views: 5,310
    Posted By SueSew

    It is like nails scraping a blackboard (of course...

    It is like nails scraping a blackboard (of course they are obsolete so you young'uns just imagine a horrible screech!) to hear:

    'actually' - misused horribly repeatedly even on radio and TV
    ...
    Forum: Main
    08-20-2015, 05:35 AM
    Replies: 19
    Views: 2,357
    Posted By SueSew

    I am sad to think you may not be able to finish...

    I am sad to think you may not be able to finish all your beautiful work.


    Machine quilting and hand quilting, to me, are like chalk and cheese. The pattern may be the same but the stitches...
    Forum: Mission: Organization
    08-20-2015, 05:29 AM
    Replies: 59
    Views: 10,062
    Posted By SueSew

    I am not in favor of having open shelves, because...

    I am not in favor of having open shelves, because of dust, random bugs if you open the window to the mountain air, that sort of thing. Love the shelves though - wow!
    Forum: Main
    08-20-2015, 04:56 AM
    Replies: 43
    Views: 6,202
    Posted By SueSew

    Bearisgray love your posts! You are so...

    Bearisgray love your posts! You are so thoughtful and discussion- provoking (but never provoking! :) )

    Did you forget NO SEAM RIPPING?
    How about 'everything square and points perfect'
    ...
    Forum: Main
    08-18-2015, 08:00 AM
    Replies: 23
    Views: 10,613
    Posted By SueSew

    I sw a machine on line which had exactly that -...

    I sw a machine on line which had exactly that - 10' with 2' extension and I thought exactly the same thing! Easy to add on and remove as needed. Hah! Good heads-up there, thanks.
    Forum: Main
    08-15-2015, 12:53 PM
    Replies: 23
    Views: 10,613
    Posted By SueSew

    nothing in this room is perfectly level! House...

    nothing in this room is perfectly level! House built in1803 (not by me LOL!!!!) and the wide pine boards, still with original paint, are lovely but the whole house is a bit off kilter even without...
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