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    Old 04-16-2009, 04:48 PM
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    I'm a Floridian also so welcome and I'm a hand quilter also. It may take longer but I enjoy the process. I want to get into some machine quilting but have only done one so far.
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    Old 04-16-2009, 05:06 PM
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    Thanks everyone for the welcome... I oh sooo bad need to finish a quilt for my beother...I only started it 5 years ago. Feel free tp pester, taunt, bribe or whatever might work to get it done!!!!! The feed dogs on my machine don't drop down. I have a plate I can cover them with but I won't be doing anything fancy until I get a machine that regulates the stitches. It's to much puch-pull for me. I have Fibromyalgia and would rather do it by hand till I can let the machine do the hard work. 'Like hand quilting isn't hard work'. :lol: I love the Zen in quilting. I have been meditating for 3 years and love the calmness of both endevors!

    If I were to live anywhere else it would be somewhere in the Bule ridge...but I don't do snow! So I guess Gainesville will be home another 40 (yikes!) years.
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    Old 04-17-2009, 12:18 PM
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    Welcome from central part of Indiana :D :!:
    Love love love your rooster, I might mention I love chickens and roosters :lol: your hand quilting is beautiful. What are you doing reading this post you are suppose to be working on your brothers quilt! Get a move on it girl :!:
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    Old 04-17-2009, 01:20 PM
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    Welcome from Roscoe, Illinois. Your rooster is wonderful!
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    Old 04-18-2009, 08:57 PM
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    Welcome from SW Iowa. My hat goes off to you. I couldn't begin to hand quilt.
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    Old 04-18-2009, 09:01 PM
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    Welcome from Oregon. Your chicken in your quilt is beautiful. Your hand quilting is amazing. You must have a lot of patience to do that.
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    Old 04-19-2009, 01:13 PM
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    Hi Sharon,
    I just finished the last plantinging the garden so now I can sit back quilt and watch them both grow.

    I had a plan when I started quilting the Rooster quilt for my grand nephew. It started with celtic spirals in the center and it sort of evolved into echo (sp) quilting...by the time I got to the outer edges I cursed myself for quilting so much per square inch, because I had to keep to the same density the rest of the way. arrrrgggg!

    This is a special quilt because I combined some of my mom's stash with mine to make the quilt. She passed away several years before he was born. I have three lap size tops that she left that just worked out to be the personalities of my niece and two nephews. And two others that I will finish for my son. I have picked out and purchased the fabric to enlarge them . Now each will have a quilt of some of her making. I know she did not plan these for them but it just worked out that way. So in a way I still get to work with her on their quilts.


    Thanks for the encouracement!
    Do you have some photos posted? What do you like to do?

    Thanks and Namaste
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    Old 04-19-2009, 01:15 PM
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    Welcome from SWFL! Which part of Florida do u live?
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    Old 04-19-2009, 01:16 PM
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    Thanks everyone for the compliments on the rooster.

    What a hoot, I just found out I am allergic to feathers!

    I'll try to post mor pics. Yall tell me where I can find pics of your work, and thy kind of techniques you like to use!

    :)
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    Old 04-20-2009, 05:15 AM
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    Originally Posted by marty girl
    I'm in Gainesville.(Alum of U of F) Also known as the 'swamp' or 'Hog town'. I think my van has an auto find because I don't get lost finding the Quilt Show there every year....That is a hard place to navigate and is growing so fast! Where are you now? What kind of quilting do you like? I like hand applique!
    Hi from Florida, also. I have two questions: love your rooster, did you get him off a web site? Some of us, are doing chicken/rooster quilts :P
    You mentioned an annual Quilt show in Gainesville? Could you tell me when the next one is? I've never been to one, and maybe I could manage it. Seems those that have, loved it. You posted a pic...your in girl. You been reading, so you know, everybody loves pics! :D
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