MarionsQuilts

Kassaundra ... I so wish I could get my garden started LOL ... mine's still under 2 feet of snow!!!!

Kassaundra

Oh no, we are busting out w/ blooms everywhere. I need to get the warm weather veggies in really soon (probably next week ish) I am to late for most of the cole crops. Just have to wait until fall now. I could never live in the north like you guys, I just wouldn't survive. I think anything below 50' F, is inhumanely cold not fit for human habitation. You know how the old maps used to say "beyond here there be dragons" well in the map in my head there is a line just north of where I live that says "beyond here there be ice breathing dragons" lol lol lol

Anoka Quilter

Well Marion you are not alone. I cannot do anything with my gardens yet either. Here in MN you really do not put anything into the ground until at least after Mothers Day weekend. If you do you better be prepared to cover the poor little things at least once or twice.

ube quilting

I'm still waiting for the peepers to make their appearance. Since I have lived in this house they start their song on March 9th. Just a few weeks late this year.. The water is open but the ground is still froze.

There is no gardening in my woods and bedrock. I am just a little envious of all the gardeners out there.
peace

JNCT14

I am so TIRED of cold and snow!

lynnie

same here on Long Island, don't put anything in the ground till the week after Mother's day. you get fooled into trying it and then you get a freeze on Tuesday or Wednesday. we must wait for the weekend after or all you planted is dead.

skaduzy

I like all the wall hanging beginnings. I think I know what I want to do but have to find where I stashed the pattern.

And not to sound stupid but what is the birthing method in binding a quilt? Please tell me. I may have used it and never knew what I was doing.

MarionsQuilts

The birthing method is when you put the batting on the floor first, then your backing (facing up), and then your quilt top (facing down). Sew along all the edges, leaving a gap of about 10-12 inches, depending on the size of the quilt.

Turn it inside right, pulling the quilt through the hole ... and voila! Sew your hole shut and quilt away!

I'm at work, so can't provide you with a video link, but there are some great ones!

Make sure you check and double check and triple check that you've laid it all out correctly. I messed up one of mine TWICE - I went from memory, and put the backing first, then the batting, then the top ... had to start all over, and then I put the the backing the wrong way LOL It was not a fun time for me that morning!

MizMelly

So THAT'S what it's called! I always called it the bagging method (sans sewn on binding). I think I'll be using that method on my wall hanging, the pattern I'm using does not lend it's self to stitched on binding.

JNCT14

OK ladies, someone at the end of June is going to get a little taste of New England. I also have an idea for hanging it but we will see if that pans out. What do you think?