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Stitching & Crafting Room:  Charm square exchange  |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
 Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 6:17:21 PM
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Sort of like the look my husband gets when I comment on an adorable apron someone in a movie is wearing I bet....they don't get it at all!! I love it!
Mine will be going out this week for sure..got the stuff all ready to cut and got bubbleopes to mail it all in...this is fun!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 7:54:48 PM
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Sent my blocks out today! Can't wait for the sound of the mailman!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 8:05:51 PM
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Oh, goody, goody! Can't wait!!! My mailbox is too far away to hear the mailman. Hmmm...I just might tie a stout string to the lid and the other end to one of my dogs. When it yelps....oh, no, no,no...okay, to one of my fingers, then when it snaps like a twig....oh dear, no, no....I think I'll.......I think I'll get off my rump and go check the box a lot more often for the next few days. No strings attached!
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
4439 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2005 : 10:50:36 PM
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Men just don't get it!!
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
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Fabulous Farm Femmes
True Blue Farmgirl
792 Posts
Diane
Lakebay, Tacoma
WA
792 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 12:34:46 AM
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| Carol, if you have a laptop you could probably put in a few hours working on a folding lawn chair right up next to the mailbox...don't tell the mail man why you are there though... the mail man might call for the little white van to take you away...Mailing the updates list tomorrow ladies...we have 19 Farmgirls signed up now! |
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Kim
True Blue Farmgirl
146 Posts
Kim
Pflugerville
Texas
USA
146 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 07:19:38 AM
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Goody! I'll have the complete list when I get home next Friday (Sept 23rd) and I will be sending out buttons and squares then!!! I'm going to miss Kansas!
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 09:57:10 AM
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My dear husband is funny when he goes to fabric stores with me. He always says, "What are you going to do with that?" and "What's that for?" Men don't get the concept of a stash unless it has to do with cars. Still, he made a quilt for me once. He's a scientist and he has to try everything he comes across. Once he's mastered it, he loses interest, but I still have my watercolor quilt with a heart and butterflies on it.
Happy Wishes! |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 10:10:11 AM
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He made a quilt for you???!!!! That's amazing! I'd have it under lock and key with a Smithsonian curator regularly monitoring the temperature and humidity!!! I love the watercolor effect. I recently made a couple of hundred large flying geese blocks (6-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches each) of bright hand-dyed fabric (door prize at the Los Alamos Quilt Show last year) and batiks. I took them over to my sister's house recently and asked her help. I needed 2 quilts out of them, 4 long vertical rows in each. She has a very large dining table (I don't) and, for a relative newbie, laying them out so you don't end up with 2 blues next to each other or 4 greens vertically in a row, etc., is a challenge. It took us HOURS but we did a great job. The 2 quilts are belated graduation quilts for a beloved niece and nephew. In laying the blocks out, we found, much to our consternation, that we had run out of the blocks that really popped with bright color contrast and had too many where I had had to resort to blending blues/greens/purples...all of which were too alike in hue, value, whatever. I didn't have fabric to make more. My sister (an artist at heart) suddenly started moving blocks all over the table in an intricate jigsaw and when she finished she had placed 2 outer rows in a watercolor effect using the ones that were too blended into each other. Then, she put 2 inner rows of the blocks that really popped with contrast. It was beautiful!!!! I would never have come up with that solution. We stacked and marked and bagged them and I need to sit down and sew those 2 quilts up soon. I'm really excited about it! I want to try to make a watercolor effect quilt for myself someday and have collected little bits of flowered fabric toward that goal.
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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Utahfarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1940 Posts
Portland
Oregon
USA
1940 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 11:46:02 AM
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Girl, I am so impressed! Do you have photos of those quilts? I'd love to see them. (Anybody know how to post photos here?) Stu and I used to go to quilt shows in L.A. but I havn't found one here in SLC yet. I could (and did) spend hours admiring the piecing, the colors, the tiny tiny hand quilting. Both of us are admirers of hand work, be it quilts or woodwork or whatever. If I figure out how to post photos, I'll show you one of Stu admiring a quilt at a fair and one of the one he made for me. Mind you, it's not huge, it's more of an art quilt, but it's precious to me.
I'm beginning to work on a watercolor wreath for Christmas that's done in strip piecing, which I haven't done before. We have several excellent quilt shops in SLC area because the LDS sisters do a lot of handwork. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, scrapbooking was born here of LDS mothers. Anyway, when I picked out the fabrics for the wreath, I was lucky to find some gorgeous matching fabrics. The manager of the shop, who happened to wait on me, said, "you'll have to bring it back for show and tell". I said, "Sure!" but I'm thinking, HA! We'll see about that one, Missy.
Happy Wishes! |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 12:16:30 PM
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Oh, I haven't sewn the blocks together yet to make those quilts...just have them ready to sew. A project for this autumn, if I can work it in. Sorry, I don't have a digital camera to put any pictures on the PC. I bet your watercolor wreath turns out better than my recent attempt. I found a gorgeous and supereasy pattern in an Australian quilting mag and cut out a zillion (it seemed) small squares for it of my Christmas fabrics. I don't have a design wall, so I took some cotton batting and drew a grid on it and started placing the blocks according to the suggestions in the mag (will sling the grid over the sewing room door for a makeshift design wall). The wreath, much to my chagrin, looks awful, flat, no blending whatsoever. I didn't realize until I got the blocks set out that almost all my Christmas fabrics were "small" prints and what I needed were much bigger scale prints to help with the watercolor effect. I see it now when looking at the magazine photo but when cutting out all my Christmas fabrics I was just excited about using all those bright Christmas colors I'd been collecting for years. I'll probably go ahead and sew it together..don't want to waste all those squares...but I'm disappointed. Well, that's okay...it's just another learning experience. I learn from each project (don't we all?). Learned never to use iron-on batting ever again (it was a nightmare), never use monofilament in mom's ancient sewing machine that can't adjust to the proper tension, never use tiny prints when large-scale are called for, and learn to study the pictures in the magazine a bit more carefully before starting a project...to see just what made their quilt so striking that I wanted to reproduce it!
I love quilt shows and I really miss the Houston Quilt Show since moving to NM. I used to go just about every year and would drive the 2 hours home, utterly exhausted and absolutely invigorated..if that makes any sense! There are very few quilt shows here and they are so tiny as to be almost invisible but I'm so starved for them...I cherish every single one I can find. A recent one in Angel Fire was miniscule but I found myself spending more time on each single entry and thoroughly enjoying every aspect (as well as chatting with the quilters themselves), instead of flitting from quilt to quilt in a race against time like I would do in Houston. The Los Alamos quilt show is only every 2 years and I was so excited when I won a huge bag of hand-dyed fabrics last year as a door prize! I'm one of those people who never wins anything and I didn't even check my ticket stub when they called out the number because I felt it was a waste of time. My sister was there with me and she had noticed my number and jabbed me with her elbow...."Hey, I think that's yours"... Wow, I felt like I'd won a jackpot at a casino!
I did a "Spring Leaves" wall-hanging-size quilt this spring for my parents. It was meant to be a spring gift for Mother's Day and Father's Day but I screwed up the binding and have been trying to redo it ever since. It has curved green leaves split in the middle, all of them set on staggered pink and yellow backgrounds, some bright pink and yellow, others very pale. I found the pattern in one of the Better Homes and Gardens Quilt Lovers' Favorites books (spiral binding). It was SO springy and fresh and bright and charming. Well, I had never done curves before but decided while watching TV one night to do one block by hand and see how it turned out. I had so much fun, I ended up doing the whole little quilt by hand, using the yellows and pinks and myriad of greens I had in my stah. I was absolutely delighted by it and intend to make one for me someday. The book also showed a dark rich batik version that also knocks my socks off! I'm just aggravated with myself that I wasn't able to get the wall-hanging done in time for SPRING...it's autumn and I'm just now finishing it up to send to my folks. My timing is always off. Argh! Anyway, I had pulled out a notebook of photographs I had taken every year at the Houston Quilt Show and was flipping through it the other day for color ideas and, lo and behold, there was the "Spring Leaves" quilt!... in pinks and yellows...identical to the one in the book and to MINE! If you are as inexperienced as I am at the whole process of quilting (I do more planning and dreaming than actual piecing), you can imagine how excited I was to see a quilt JUST LIKE THE ONE I MADE hanging at the Houston Quilt show. I didn't even remember seeing that one...of course, every year there is an ocean of quilts and it IS hard to remember them all. I see there is a Quilt show in Payson, Arizona November 3-5 and I had hoped to try to make it there, but I just don't think I'm going to. It's the first one they've had, according to the brochure...called Rim Country Quilt Roundup. Sigh.
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2005 : 12:34:21 PM
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Apologies, ladies! I tend to write as I speak...too much. I didn't mean to take up so much room! My mantra shall now be "brevity, brevity!"
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 10:47:31 AM
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Carol! What a lovely surprise in my mailbox today! They are beautiful! I especially loved the winter birds! Precious buttons too! Thank you so much! Yours is on it's way!
Being is what it is. Jean Paul Sartre |
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junebug
True Blue Farmgirl
2421 Posts
Sue
West Plains,
Mo.
USA
2421 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 12:32:08 PM
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I had hoped to get mine out this week, but as it turns out I've had a busier week than expected, but they will go out next week for sure!!! Don't you just love it when life takes over!
I'm not 40 something, I'm 39.95 plus shipping and handling! |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 12:35:27 PM
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Ain't it the truth! And "life" seldom checks with me before taking over...doesn't even bother to consult me! Acts like I'm not even here...sometimes I just don't even know "life" anymore! LOL!!!
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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Bridge
True Blue Farmgirl
814 Posts
Bridgette
Southern
Indiana
USA
814 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 3:04:03 PM
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Ok I am confused
Do I register under Quilt at Mary Janes farm page sign up, or do I need to email someone?
I would like to be in the Charm block exchange, but not the other quilt block exchange.
Can someone please clarify, I didn't see a charm block sign up on the MJF sign up page. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 4:09:16 PM
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I got wonderful charm squares from Julia and Carol today....LOVED them!! Thanks so much..the buttons were adorable too...Now to get mine mailed out. I have some of them cut and will get them out by Saturday..that is the plan. Thanks so much gals..
Bridgette..you can sign up at the farm page.
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
1818 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 4:17:54 PM
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| OK, when I try to sign up at the farm page, I get something saying I need to set up an account. So, I enter a name and then an email address, and then I get something about my server, outgoing and incoming. I have no idea! Is this really how I need to sign up? Or is my computer playing tricks on me? Seems like I could just send a request in, using my FarmGirl screen name, but that's not happening. Boy, I feel dumb, but I gotta ask. |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 4:26:16 PM
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I just went to quilts@maryjanesfarm.org and registered my address for the charm exchange. I didn't have to go through all that. The email regarding it (from moderator CindyLou) is under Charm Square Kerfuffle topic! Good luck!
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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katie-ell
True Blue Farmgirl
1818 Posts
Katie
Illinois
1818 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 4:55:42 PM
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| Thanks, Carol. I sent off an email to the quilts address; hope I land on the list! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 8:35:57 PM
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Oh good..I am so glad that hopefully worked for you...I am not good at computer glitch type problems...I tend to count on Clare..she always knows how to fix stuff like that!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
1949 Posts |
Posted - Sep 15 2005 : 8:36:18 PM
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Thanks Carol! I got my squares and buttons today. What fun! I love the fabrics. My daughter liked the ghost fabric best!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2005 : 08:42:26 AM
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I've been collecting Halloween fabrics for years but haven't gotten around to making anything yet. Did see a pattern recently for a whole quilt but I'm thinking about using just the outlying border, which has diagonal stripes of various "ghoulish" prints for a tablerunner. Looks SO easy! I know, I know...looks are deceiving!
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
11381 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2005 : 10:30:26 AM
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I was up until 2:30am..nothing unusual for me but I was busy busy busy cutting charm squares and sewing buttons onto cards..so I am sending out to the ones I have on my list so far today...
and carol..I thought the ghost fabric was cute too!!! Be watching your mail!!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
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CarolC
True Blue Farmgirl
85 Posts
Carol
Santa Fe
New Mexico
USA
85 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2005 : 10:35:54 AM
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Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh boy! I'm humming that song..."Anticipation"!!!!
I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque..Bugs Bunny |
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BlueApple
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Julia
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Sep 16 2005 : 11:32:02 AM
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Hi everyone,
Sorry to ask too many questions but I would like to cut squares in anticipation of getting the list soon - are they 4-inch or 6-inch. I went threw past posts and was pretty sure they were 6. Just want to make sure before I start cutting. Thanks
Julia
BlueApple Farm |
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Stitching & Crafting Room: Charm square exchange |
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Charm square exchange
