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we re not going until tomorrow morning and then two and a half days of sewing laughing shopping and of course chocolate if there s one thing that quilters can do well besides quilt it s cook the goodies at these retreats are always scrumptious this retreat is always special to me because my daughter julie comes along last year she was expecting andrew and the bunk beds were not kind to her this year the retreat we are attending is in shipshewana indiana at the farmstead inn it is a wonderful facility with very nice rooms great sewing rooms a pool hot tub and exercise room to work off all the chocolate there are several great places to buy fabric in case we don t bring enough lolly s is like heaven on earth and i hear they have a bargain basement now yoder s department store is a favorite also we always eat dinner at the essenhaus restaurant in middlebury and a trip to the wanna cup for ice cream is in order if you ve heard of shipshewana for anything besides fabric it s probably the flea market it isn t open for the year yet but there are still plenty of places to shop i have my projects all cut packed and ready to go i just need to get a haircut to pack my clothes to visit rossville quilts tonight for wednesday block of the month and then get a good night s sleep cause i know i won t get much sleep for the next couple nights if you re in the area stop in and say hi we ll be the bunch in the red barn up meeting room i ll have lots of pictures to show you on sunday posted by ruthie at 10 35 am no comments tuesday march 25 2008 my son the soldier as a mother i couldn t be prouder of my youngest son he s been notified that he is on the us army s e 7 promotion list for this year he joined the army in the spring of 1998 so this is his 10th year achieving this rank in that amount of time is amazing sergeant first class sfc addressed as sergeant key assistant and advisor to the platoon leader generally has 15 to 18 years of army experience and puts it to use by making quick accurate decisions in the best interests of the soldiers and the country retrieved from this site http www army mil symbols enlistedescription2 html my friend fran is going to see her son return from iraq this week and i remember the goosebumps i had when jeff s plane landed and they started filing down those steps and then they were marching toward the hanger we had been waiting in for their arrival and then to see his photo in the newspaper was a mothers proudest moment fran my heart is with you this week enjoy the time with your son posted by ruthie at 11 09 am 1 comment monday march 24 2008 stashbusting report 3 24 08 i bought no fabric this week and didn t work on very much of my own stuff until the weekend but it s still going down fabric added this week 0 yards fabric added year to date 5 375 yards fabric used this week 3 5 yards fabric used year to date 117 625 yards net year to date 112 25 yards used posted by ruthie at 11 31 am 1 comment saturday march 22 2008 rhapsody pantograph this post should have been before the other one because i finished this quilt before i started the other one rhapsody is the panto and the batting is warm natural and the thread is permacore eggshell i am always surprised at how long this panto takes it really is time consuming but beautiful especially on floral quilts hope she likes it posted by ruthie at 9 13 pm no comments labels rhapsody pantograph new to me border quilting i finished this quilt today that was made by kathy she used to live here but moved to pennsylvania she ll be in indiana this coming week for our guild retreat at shipshewana i can t wait i tried something new to me in the borders they aren t quite all the same size but i think with practice i could like these i did 2 different flowers in the blocks and just meandered in the sashing around the signatures and quotes warm natural batting and permacore eggshell thread posted by ruthie at 9 01 pm no comments thursday march 20 2008 my 15 minutes of fame well here it is my very own 15 minutes of fame the current issue of quiltmaker s all time favorites special issue spring 2008 has two photos of my whiteout quilt on page 10 it s the quilt i made for a december wedding where the theme was snowflakes and we had a near blizzard that weekend posted by ruthie at 8 02 am 9 comments monday march 17 2008 hidden wells strip sets sandy asked if i had a photo of the strip sets used in my hidden wells quilt i don t actually but through the wonders of photoshop i can show you what they looked like my strips varied from 1 75 to 3 5 inches and when sewn together my sets were 14 5 inches from top to bottom my squares were cut 14 inches the first one i made was 9 blocks but this one which was a class sample only used 6 blocks as you can see the top and bottom strips create the most graphic diamonds in the quilt posted by ruthie at 1 56 pm no comments quilt smart apple core at the sewing seminar in noblesville in i purchased a quilt smart apple core pattern with fusible interfacing patterns one of my guilds is having a speaker this week from quilt smart so i thought this would be a great time to work on this project we have a fabric swap every other month and the last one was shabby chic there have been a few swaps in the past year or so that had lots of florals so that is what i m using for this one here is the background which i had a hard time just leaving it alone and not rearranging the fabrics won t actually be touching each other in the finished project so any amount of rearranging would be useless here are a couple of the finished apple cores i only have 47 more to do posted by ruthie at 11 10 am 1 comment labels quilt smart shabby chic stashbusting report 3 17 08 wow that little jelly roll i bought for the photo quilt has 2 5 yards of fabric so that has been my biggest purchase so far this year fabric added this week 2 5 yards fabric added year to date 5 375 yards fabric used this week 10 25 yards fabric used year to date 114 125 yards net year to date 108 75 yards used posted by ruthie at 11 01 am 2 comments labels stash busting saturday march 15 2008 hidden wells ufo i finally added borders to my hidden wells quilt this week i loaded and quilted it friday evening using the rose vine panto again i used a poly batting on a small roll from joanns that was cheap it feels pretty stiff but i hope it will soften up when washed the first side of the binding is sewn down by machine and one side of the hand sewing is done this ufo from 2001 is on one of my ufo elimination lists for this month so i m going to finish it up in the next few days the instructions for this one are here i made my first one of these when i had just started quilting and didn t know to be afraid of bias edges posted by ruthie at 9 30 pm 3 comments labels hidden wells ufo friday march 14 2008 qov last night i was stuck on laying out the photo blocks so i turned out the light in the sewing room and loaded a qov quilt on the longarm sometimes you just need to walk away from something and focus on something else this is a really pretty quilt made by martha i used warm natural batting double rose vine pantograph and lilac permacore thread what a quick easy panto with great results i just love this simple panto for floral quilts posted by ruthie at 9 41 am 3 comments labels double rose vine panto qov thursday march 13 2008 photo quilt after janet left i started working on a photo wall hanging ordered by a co workers friend for his wife s birthday the wife is a quilter and an art teacher so i have to make sure this one is good when i asked him about colors and design this is how he replied she is a quilter and an art teacher sooooo i would say pinks purples and blues maybe a touch of green jewel tones the room where the quilt will likely hang has mauve carpet i think those colors would work so what i found is fresh air by chez moi by moda i didn t take a picture of the jelly roll but bren has some good shots of it on her blog i bought a jelly roll at cheryl s quilts across town on my lunch hour yesterday along with some eq printables this is what i have done so far i just love the clarity of the photos on these fabric sheets posted by ruthie at 8 34 am 1 comment labels eq printables photo quilt soldier quilts my friend janet finished quilting her soldier quilt last night and should be stitching the binding on as i type this one along with 2 of mine will go to my online friend fran for single soldiers in her sons unit scheduled to return from iraq later this month posted by ruthie at 8 25 am 1 comment tuesday march 11 2008 how i make text a link brigitte wanted to know how i do this so here it is this is how i link a word in my post to a new page while typing the post i open a new window and go to the page that i wish to link to select the url in the menu bar and copy it using the edit menu or the keys control and c go back to the original post and highlight the word that you want to link then click on the link icon above the post a new window will appear with the start of a url paste the url from the link page and click ok the text in your post will be html and will look funny click on preview to make sure your linked word is a different color posted by ruthie at 8 12 am 2 comments monday march 10 2008 conkerr update what a great project this is pillowcases are a quick project and this organization is so worthwhile i just got an email from may and here is her update francine pp chair and i have delivered our guild s first batch of 100 pillowcases after meeting with the nj coordinator of conkerr we are even more committed to this project the pillowcases will be distributed to children with life changing illnesses at the children s center of hackensack university medical center here in new jersey http www thechildrenshospitalhumc net all of the children in the center as patients or as outpatients receiving chemo or therapy receive a pillowcase that could up 300 per month posted by ruthie at 10 43 am 1 comment march challenge quilt i also got the center finished of the catch a spinning star which used lots of fabric the stripe is what i planned to use for the outer border but now i m thinking that it isn t right i have 56 inches left of the dark fabric so i could still use that posted by ruthie at 9 18 am 2 comments stashbusting report 3 10 08 woo hoo i m over 100 fabric added this week 0 yards fabric added year to date 2 875 yards fabric used this week 20 yards fabric used year to date 103 875 yards net year to date 101 yards used one of my online friends may is working on a project to make pillowcases and this is the message she posted to our group i m co chair of my guild s latest community project project pillowcases cases for children s smiles we are making cheerful pillowcases for kids ages 2 17 who are in hospitals with life changing illnesses tomorrow the chair and i will be delivering our first 100 pillowcases to the nj coordinator of conkerr cancer she will be distributing them to kids in nj hospitals we ve had 2 sew ins so far and will continue to have them throughout the years to come biggest problem we ve had so far is finding suitable fabrics for the older kids especially the boys if your are interested in this nationwide project their site is conkerrcancer org you don t have to send large numbers of cases like our guild is any cases are more than welcomed may in jersey i sent her 9 yards to use for the pillowcases posted by ruthie at 8 56 am 2 comments labels conkerr stash busting sunday march 9 2008 pineapple blossoms thanks again to sossity s kit idea i finished putting together another quilt kit i saw on susie s blog last week a pineapple blossom quilt done in greens i couldn t remember where i saw it but found it now i knew that my green scrap tote was overflowing so i started cutting greens into 2 pieces in 3 lengths then i got out my white tan scrap tote i had all the 3 5 squares cut before i thought to take a picture here s the pile of white cream scraps waiting to be pressed and cut here is the after photo of that tote notice all the nice squares all cut up for the next project and the strips eady for string quilts posted by ruthie at 1 41 pm 3 comments thursday march 6 2008 the march challenge quilt i m not sure when exactly i cut the fabric for my online march challenge catch a spinning star one of julyl s free patterns but i would guess it was late at night i cut 6 squares that were supposed to be 5 25 x 5 25 like this they were cut 5 x 5 25 instead which wouldn t be a bad thing except when i was clearing off my cutting table i cut all those 2 black square s so i wouldn t have to put any back into my scrap totes i said a few choice words to myself last night and then went in search of more black solid which i found luckily in my black scrap tote it s not the same fabric but at least it s a solid black so i continued on making the blocks for this quilt i finished putting together 12 blocks and still had these left over i must have been really tired when i cut this one out i sewed the sashing strips together and put 8 of the 12 up on the design wall i really like this one and may make more blocks since i already have half of them sewn and make this a queen size posted by ruthie at 10 41 am 5 comments tuesday march 4 2008 stashbusting report 3 4 08 this past week wasn t such a good week for me i still used more than i bought 4 25 yards this week fabric added this week 1 yard fabric added year to date 2 875 yards fabric used this week 4 25 yards fabric used year to date 83 875 yards net year to date 81 yards used this is what i purchased at the quilt show an activity kit to make for andrew i believe that it has about a yard of fabric in it posted by ruthie at 10 23 am no comments t shirt quilts pottery barn baby quilt i did these 2 last week for a customer and used colorburst lava thread one of them has batting and flannel backing and the other has minkee backing and no batting she did a great job piecing them and was happy with the quilting this same customer purchased a pottery barn bumper pad at goodwill for 2 she took it apart and sewed it back together for a quilt i echoed the shapes and did a squiggle around the blocks instead of sid due to the difference in fabrics posted by ruthie at 10 03 am 3 comments sunday stitchers my friends janet and denise came over on sunday and janet quilted one of her ufos it is really cute dogs with floppy ears all flannel she meandered while denise and i lifted the ears i loaded a wheelchair lap quilt and tried my hand as some free motion flowers leaves and loops posted by ruthie at 9 53 am no comments catching up it feels like i haven t posted in days which actually i haven t bloomington quilt show the quilt show on saturday was wonderful even though i didn t win a ribbon it was so exciting to see my quilts hanging there among the winners there is so much quilting on most of the winning quilts i think there should be a 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