What a treat these two were to sew! No PP last night. I'm having a hard time getting them straight on the scanning bed and then they are off after I crop the 1/4" seam allowances off. Oh well. I think the strings breed on my scanning bed and then birth when the warm light of the scanner hits them![ATTACH=CONFIG]368387[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]368389[/ATTACH]

OK--those blocks turned out great!

OK - Those are beautiful! Good goin'!:thumbup:

Your DGM was six foot eight inches? Is that a typo? OK I agree that it was fun to do these blocks. They we very straight forward and you did a beautiful job but I've never heard if a breeding screen. Made me laugh!

Very pretty blocks, OK. These were easy to piece. I think for the next 4 I made subs. Too many y seams and too much thinking!

:o:oOh man am I embarrassed. Yes she was Five foot eight inches. We are still gittin' shorter. This is oldest DD ta oldest DD, and so on.

Thanks Ladies ... some pretty pretties for me, before off to bed!

What an interesting read this thread was ... from quilting, to wildlife to who the giants and pygmies are of this group .... and more!

CWD ... deer herds are monitored here for this. I don't think it's as much concern as it was a few years ago.

And while we're talking about the wildlife damage to crops ... let us not forget our national bird, the Canada Goose ... surely some must go south? Though with corn here to eat all winter long, more and more of them stay and continue to eat (and destroy!).

How about coyotes? Not for food, though dreaded for their kill instinct. Many live in the bushes/valleys. I often hear them at night or early morn.

Hunters are getting antsy here. Deer hunting doesn't start til November for the better part, unless you are way north. Moose hunting will have started for those that head northwards and gradually it will work to it's more southern areas, though not so far south as here.

As kids we regularly had deer and moose as my Grandfather went hunting. I think what I enjoyed the most was the bear meat we got one year. ITA with OKSGlad that deer meat isn't so gamey anymore ... never thought about the extra feed! The last few years that I had deer meat to cook, I tended to just do the same as beef ... and even often barbecued it. One of our ways of cooking venison was with tomato juice instead of the vinegar ... Mom did it once, and the pickled smell in the house, turned us all off! Never again! :)

We have a 'coyote' farm in the neighborhood...like the pheasant farms...that grow them for people to pay to come shoot them...very noisy at night and early morning hours. Moose in its second season in Alaska has eaten pine needles and beats out dried beans for 'gas' on the tummy.

Fabric here has risen in price $$...wow!! So I am limited to sales if I buy anything. Gas prices has fewer cars on the road here. Did the main run for groceries yesterday for the month and some for next month...so less traveling for us while gas is so high. More ordering items (what we can) internet to save on gas.

Seriously QNS, a coyote hunt farm? Coyotes moved into the area about 20 years ago and the yearly hunt by locals doesn't make a dent in their population. They have no predators above them in the food chain so their numbers grow. At night they start to howl on the ridge to the SW then in a clockwise rotation the song is picked up all around in our little valley. It sets the Border Collies off first with a couple of barks and then an answering howl. Ususally coyotes quiet down after that.
Haven't had a FART lately (well not this kind!;)) so not sure what fabric is doing. Do know that in the last 6 months 3 shops have closed or moved closer to larger retail centers. Will miss them, but means I will just stop at the locals more often.

YIKES!!! a dedicated coyote farm? Like OKSGlad, they are just wild predators here ... small and large animals beware and humans are hesitant. Hunting is allowed, though there are so many rules and exclusion areas that it;s minimal. And besides, hard to get ahead of the population! The best friend is oft said to be disease that kills them out.

The howling is something else, and as you said, how it starts and goes around. I am often amazed how it grows in numbers and volume. Then all of a sudden it stops, dead, as though the conductor dropped his baton to signal!!

OKSGlad ... beware about those FARTs and your DGKs!!! I wonder if JanRN's face has come back to a normal flesh tone yet?

Here's railroad crossing...

Choo Choo! to you for another great block, CarrieM!

Being that the tracks run the back of my property and are only one house away at the roadfront ... maybe I should do a whole quilt? Oh how helpful OKSGlad's EQ would be for predicatability!

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OK--I think there might have been a little challenge. :) Your sample looks good!

Challenge?
What, you say?
Me? Issue a challenge?

**bats eyes innocently**

You're so talented!!! :D

Kind of like an advanced modified Irish Chain with a twist ... and would take on so many different looks, depending on how you worked with the colours and contrasts. Not that, that ever happens elsewhere!

Do you mean like these two? Same layout as the first one, just differing colors. Time to call it a night, been getting fabrics paired with blocks so I can sew Carrie style at a guild SitnSew in a couple of weeks. I'm skipping next week's blocks.[ATTACH=CONFIG]369493[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]369494[/ATTACH]

Carriem, love your block. It's showing as a deep mauve on my screen. Very pretty.

OKSewglad, you're good!! I'm slowly making my way around EQ7; just added BlockBase so it's really a lot of fun. Maybe you can help me here: I take a lot of blocks, re-size them, and print them out as foundation piecing. I've had too many pieces get split and printed on separate pages. I cut them out and tape them together but is there a way to get the pieces intact on a page? (Does this make sense?) Seems I'm missing something when I do "page set up" but I haven't figured it out. Thanks!

BTW...Quilt in a Day has EQ7 on sale with free shipping this weekend. Almost $50 off. I'm considering it but I do so many scrappy quilts it might be hard to capture. Carrie, isn't it fun to see the end in sight? I've been watching all of your additions although I haven't commented on each one. Great job!

Jeanie, there is a way in EQ7 to move and rotate each piece in the foundation printing to save on paper and to get all the whole piece on one page...watch the top of your headings in 'preview' and adjust. Each program can be a challenge for even the 'computer savvy' I am not as good as Oksewglad with EQ7; often 'giving' the problem to dh.

The last block in the PC book looks so hard, I went into Bella-on-line free squares and downloaded the Iowa Star which is much easier way to do that block...why make it so hard to do when there is a simpler way of doing it??? Unless you love Y seams and wanna go that way...I also downloaded the Missouri Star for consideration in the quilt, as a 'sub'. www.bellaonline.com has a neat newsletter and free blocks if you have not visited that site, you may want to take a look.

That is, I can adjust in the templates in EQ7 that way in preview; think you can in foundation as well.

Jan when you have your Print Foundation Pattern dialog box open, click on Options. On the rt hand side are boxes to check. Make sure that Print as many as fit is unchecked and Separate units is checked. Then go to Preview. Now you can Move the sections around to get on a full piece of paper. When the section is in position go to the Print box and print your piece. Once in a while the whole section is too big to fit on a sheet of paper and then you have to tape.

I have downloaded a pdf maker from the following website and is set as one of my default printers in EQ. When I want to create a pdf of a file I "Print" to the Cute PDF Writer and then save my newly created PDF to a file in Documents.

http://www.cutepdf.com/

Hope this helps:)

*airplanes flying all around*

The only thing I will contribute to this EQ thing ... by chance can you widen your margins out to give more printing space?



QNSue ... Thanks for the link! I found the Iowa Star and see it is PC sized. However, Missouri, we'd have to re-size ... It's a pretty one and would be fun to do!


Now I wonder if there's anyone who could do that easier than me making a trip to Staples and spending hours getting it to size? ... and still needing to add in the 1/4" seams allowance. Gosh I wonder............... :D


DublB ... And all your USA blocks are there ... might be some additions to your quilt?

Jeanie, finished block means what it says...if you say 8 it will make the one fourth inch margin for you, so that it finishes as an 8.

QuitE, go to www.quilterscache.com for the 8 inch Missouri star. I think it was GardenGal who used it (mentioned it) on this PC drive or will be posting it in the future PC postings before the trail ends. I sent Olsewglad's pattern for the Maple leaf and the rippppit frog to Carrie, so she has it to forward if you are interested. Or I can...whatever works for you.

QE--margins are preset at .25, but you can get down to .1 on all four sides.
Jeanie--plug in size of finished block so 12"
Here's MO Star as an 8" PDF foundation piecing and rotary cut instructions
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Experience is always the best teacher. Glad you got it figured out, Jeanie, now you will know since you did try it!! Good for you.

Good for Oksewglad to give the Missouri Star the right size; thank you, since I will be using that...love it.

Yes, this is my 'guild' the QB PC members. Helpful, encouraging, and they produce wonderful show and tell sessions.

Weird?
I know I responded yesterday to the above post from QNSue and OKSGlad ... and yet it's not here
... did something go poof? ... I wouldn't know why?

QNSue ... Thanks for the offer! I did find the 3 Maple Leaves, Aussie Frog and Anael's Tulips on the weekend, and have printed them out. What an honour for the 3 of us non-Americans to be given our very own blocks for the PC! I'll be making them for sure, and chances are they will be the first ones when I get back to the machine.

OKSGlad ... You've been playing again with that magic wand! Thanks for Missouri and also for the 3 Nationals for us! I've also got your Iowa one from the linke QNSue gave before!

Dreary day here ... not raining ... well except for the odd bit of drizzle
Sat/Sun overnight we got 1-1/2" rain .......... atleast it's not S!!!! :) That'll come all too soon!

What a variety of topics, and some great blocks, too. :D
My Homeward Bound is complete. I wasted quite a bit of my pumpkin fabric getting those little fussy cut squares but I think it was worth it. This is weird - all my seams matched and even my edges matched and, get this, it finished at 8 1/2 inches. I only trimmed a few little fuzzies off. Wow!
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The FC is great, very well done! Sometimes I don't understand the measurements of blocks either! When you've done everything right it should be the right size but sometimes it just isn't :(

Anael - Thank you. There should be enough scraps to use in another block, hopefully on this quilt. Otherwise, I came up with another quilt for using these scraps while taking with QuiltE. I said it in jest, but, the more I think about it, the more fun I think it just might be.

Usually, my blocks are 8 1/2 at one end and about 8 5/8 or 3/4 at the other. This one turned out correctly all the way around. I was quite happy.

JeanieG - thank you. I am enjoying the fussy cutting opportunities in this quilt. Of course, I am not using as appropriate fabrics as others did but still...

What is appropriate? You like what you're doing. I didn't like the dark colours so I used bright ones. If we would all do the same it would be so boooooooooooooooooooring :D :D :D

Very true.

works4me--a couple more very nice blocks this weekend!

W4Me ... Your FC choices are indeed appropriate ........ just can't imagine a galloping horse across this Halloween wonder. Such a relief when a block comes out to perfect sizing! And not only that, but this one is perfect for looks too!!

Yes, save those scraps ... sometimes for another block in the same quilt, or sometimes for a new project! (new project? ... your Mustang Sally? or?)