Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Read All About It!

What picture comes to your mind when you think of quilters?    Do you see the big oak tree with several ladies sitting under its shade, a pitcher of lemonade on a table close by...all working on a patchwork quilt...sewing each stitch by hand...sharing all the "newsy gossip"???

This "picture" of quilters from years gone by is similar to our current quilt bees and quilt guilds of today.  Now, we  have "cyber quilt bees" on the internet.  We share everything we do; our quilts (naturally), but ........also our ideas, questions, sewing tips, our patterns, our fabrics, and our  lives, news of our families, pets, areas where we live, our joys, our sorrows......etc. 

I belong to a wonderful "cyber quilt bee" through my Etsy Shop and the team on Etsy....called Quiltsy.  (See the Quiltsy badge on my RH sidebar)  Besides sharing all the things above, we help each other with our Etsy Shops to increase our sales.    Everyday most of us visit our chat discussion on the team for our "social quilt bee" online.  We even have our own Quiltsy Team Blog. so we can share our projects, patterns, and items for sale in our Quiltsy Team Shop.    I invite you to become a follower of the Quiltsy Team Blog.

One of our Quiltsy Team members Karen Jones (aka Tessie Textile)  created an "electronic" quilting newspaper called World Of Quilts Daily.   It's sew fun to get this electronic newspaper totally devoted to quilting. 

Today's issue includes a few of my most recent quilted items, so naturally I want to share it.....  (remember....I'm a quilter...and we share!)  LOL  I hope you enjoy reading all about it!   You can subscribe to it too...upper RH corner.

http://paper.li/tessietextile/1350845054?utm_source=subscription&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=paper_sub#

What kind of quilt group do you belong to?


Thanks for visiting.

I linked up this post to Quiltsy's W.I.P. Wednesday post.
 

More........

Happy Halloween!



I'm making More.....   No, not s'Mores! 

More zipper bags......

with the help of of one of my supervisors watching me closely....naturally.

I like for the outside fabrics for the bags to be quilted with cotton batting.   Easy, peasy simple FMQ is the way I do it.

Loopy loops on this one.

For sewing things like this I prefer production construction, so I have several different ones all quilted, ready for zippers and linings.

Here's 8 of them finished & ready for me to make the glass beaded zipper pulls.

So that's what I'm doing on this WIP Wednesday.  What are you doing?



I'm linking up to Quiltsy Team Blog for WIP Wednesday.   We are a bunch of busy quilters who like to share, so GO take a look at what others are doing today. 


Thanks for visiting.

What a Surprise!

Had a wonderful surprise today!  I belong to the Quiltsy Team on Etsy, and we have a Quiltsy Blog.

Today is WIP's Wednesday and I'm one of the featured quilters.  Don't know if that's good or not 'cause it talks about my quilting mess when I was making my Over The Rainbow quilt. 

In case you didn't see the post about that project.....go here. 

Golly Gee! Maybe I should take more pictures of my many messes I make.......if it's a way to get promoted and featured more often. LOL

Maybe I should show this horrible mess I made yesterday in my extra "store it"  room!  It's embarrassing, but who cares!  I was hunting for something and just knew it was in one of those boxes from the closet.  We all make messes when we are looking for something....right?    Oh...please tell me you do the same thing...puhleeze! 

No, that's not wallpaper swatches on the wall next to the window......that's post it notes!!  Important, dontcha know?

As I was looking and sorting through a bunch of  those boxes of "STUFF" I had in the closet late yesterday afternoon I had to stop and go get Braveheart (the King) from the Vet.  Then it was time to fix supper, watch the news, then Dancing with the Stars.  After that I was just too tired to do it and just left it for today.   

That black box in the front of the picture is my new printer that arrived yesterday.  So besides doing some more sorting and cleaning today, that new printer has got to get out of the box and get set up and running......jeez!

Oh...back to what I was talking about  WIP's Wednesday for our Quiltsy Blog.  There's a button at the top of this page on the right hand side if you want to keep up with what we are doing.

Waaaaaaa!  AND all I wanted to do today is sew! 

What are you doing today........besides visiting blogs? 

  Now stop staring at that horrible messy room and come here and help me sort through those boxes.