2025 Birthday Candy Swap - 2.5" Squares
04-19-2025, 05:39 AM
#581
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Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Kansas
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I mailed my April envelopes out earlier this week. I'm sorry for running late again! 😞
My 9 year old daughter was looking though my bin of 2.5" candies and then, out of the blue, asked" Can I sew them?" YES! So I set her up on my vintage Singer and gave her very simple instructions and let her have fun! She is making scrappy 9 patches and she is loving it! She has taken to it like second nature!
My 9 year old daughter was looking though my bin of 2.5" candies and then, out of the blue, asked" Can I sew them?" YES! So I set her up on my vintage Singer and gave her very simple instructions and let her have fun! She is making scrappy 9 patches and she is loving it! She has taken to it like second nature!
04-19-2025, 04:34 PM
#582
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
Posts: 9,461
NZ, sign her up for the next 2.5 Birthday Swap! Sharing with the next generation is precious. I am hoping that at least one of my grands will catch the quilting for fabric arts bug. All are now too busy with school and college to dive into sewing of any kind.
04-20-2025, 03:38 PM
#585
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
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I just sent the address for our May Birthday Swapper and info about a little contest.
I hope you each had a joyous Easter or if you celebrate Passover that your week was book ended with two lovely meals.
A reminder that it is so, so encouraging to converse and chat among ourselves. We have not heard from several in the group. Oh, you are faithful at sending your packages, but it would be nice to heard from you and your sewing journey, life, and well, just those daily comments that are shared among friends.
I am off to Shipshewana tomorrow with my son! I'll be going to at least one of the quilt shops to purchase background for a graduation quilt for a nephew. (Twenty percent discount is a good incentive.) Then son and I will be going to the meat and cheese store and bulk food store. Every time I open my cupboard, I find something else to put on my list. Interesting fact, at the bulk food store, no credit cards. Amish country, so only cash or check. Fabric stores? Bring your card to avoid carrying that much cash! Tee-Hee-Hee
I hope you each had a joyous Easter or if you celebrate Passover that your week was book ended with two lovely meals.
A reminder that it is so, so encouraging to converse and chat among ourselves. We have not heard from several in the group. Oh, you are faithful at sending your packages, but it would be nice to heard from you and your sewing journey, life, and well, just those daily comments that are shared among friends.
I am off to Shipshewana tomorrow with my son! I'll be going to at least one of the quilt shops to purchase background for a graduation quilt for a nephew. (Twenty percent discount is a good incentive.) Then son and I will be going to the meat and cheese store and bulk food store. Every time I open my cupboard, I find something else to put on my list. Interesting fact, at the bulk food store, no credit cards. Amish country, so only cash or check. Fabric stores? Bring your card to avoid carrying that much cash! Tee-Hee-Hee
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04-20-2025, 04:58 PM
#586
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: West Sacramento, CA
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I started a new job April 1. I am a manager in the fiscal management office at the Califirnia Highway Patrol headquarters. I have 4 managers, 3 supervisors, and 25 staff. Mentally I have been drained, but love a challenge. I have not had anytime sewing or quilting.
Here is my first quilt. It's an animal rag quilt made for a coworker who was having her first baby. They chose not to know the sex and loved animals, so I made this quilt. Jude is now 19 and still has this quilt. I have made 100s of these quilts since this one. Still one of my favorite patterns.
Here is my first quilt. It's an animal rag quilt made for a coworker who was having her first baby. They chose not to know the sex and loved animals, so I made this quilt. Jude is now 19 and still has this quilt. I have made 100s of these quilts since this one. Still one of my favorite patterns.
04-20-2025, 07:57 PM
#589
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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: PNW
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Hav, that's such an adorable quilt!
My first quilt was made without knowing anything about quilting. I had bought a book from Barnes and Noble and tried to teach myself. I hand pieced it because I didn't own a machine at that time. then someone donated me a used machine, and I then stitched in the ditch. it turned out to be maybe 3' x 3' and my dogs used it and loved it. I kept it for a long time, but decided to throw it in the trash a few years ago when we were downsizing for a move simply because I could not get the dog smell out, it was super bad.
My first quilt was made without knowing anything about quilting. I had bought a book from Barnes and Noble and tried to teach myself. I hand pieced it because I didn't own a machine at that time. then someone donated me a used machine, and I then stitched in the ditch. it turned out to be maybe 3' x 3' and my dogs used it and loved it. I kept it for a long time, but decided to throw it in the trash a few years ago when we were downsizing for a move simply because I could not get the dog smell out, it was super bad.
04-21-2025, 04:28 AM
#590
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: The Great State of Texas
Posts: 417
I’ve recently been going through the process of putting all of my quilt photos into an online album, so I took “pictures of pictures” of the ones that exist only in physical form; that’s where these pictures come from.
My first quilt was made in 2001, after the passing of my grandmother and finding boxes of “quilting stuff” amongst her belongings when my mother and I cleaned out her house.
I used a book called Quilting for People Who Still Don’t Have Time to Quilt, and it instilled many good habits to my practice and was a really good place to start. So, I’m pretty much a “self/book-taught” quilter, though in the intervening years I’ve taken some classes here and there.
That very first quilt is still around, after being used on our bed a lot, but having been made with many flimsy and not-appropriate-for-quilting fabrics, is very shabby on the top, so it’s on my UFO list to be repurposed. I might make it into a seat cover for my car, or for my office chair, or maybe just a few dog blankets. Circle of life!
My first quilt was made in 2001, after the passing of my grandmother and finding boxes of “quilting stuff” amongst her belongings when my mother and I cleaned out her house.
I used a book called Quilting for People Who Still Don’t Have Time to Quilt, and it instilled many good habits to my practice and was a really good place to start. So, I’m pretty much a “self/book-taught” quilter, though in the intervening years I’ve taken some classes here and there.
That very first quilt is still around, after being used on our bed a lot, but having been made with many flimsy and not-appropriate-for-quilting fabrics, is very shabby on the top, so it’s on my UFO list to be repurposed. I might make it into a seat cover for my car, or for my office chair, or maybe just a few dog blankets. Circle of life!
