You Could Skip This One ...

Because quite frankly, I don't have much to offer this week. We've been painting!

The Cornmeal walls DEBBY SICCARDI'S FABULOUS QUILT

Here's what she has to say:

"My quilt came from a pattern out of the Cotton Theory ll book & it was a lot of work only because each block included 5 machine embroidered quilt designs & LOTS of straight line quilting. BUT the actual Cotton Theory construction process can be done with just about any quilt block. I really like the folded techniques & the use of decorative stitches to hold the folds together. This is my favorite quilt. It has won a 3rd place ribbon, a 2nd place ribbon, it was accepted in a juried state-wide show (no ribbon though) & in one show it won the overall show award of  Best Use of Machine Quilting (& I was even competing with some fancy log-arm quilters). It is also entered in a show later this month. The only con to this process is that if you are making a large quilt it is a little tricky to reach into the middle areas of the quilt to fold the sections and pin them as needed before stitching (because you have so much fabric around the outside it's hard to bunch it up in your hands & be able to pin the inner sections - but definitely doable). I highly suggest giving the method a try. Try a wall-hanging or lap size quilt first." Some sites to visit: *Join a free-motion quilt-along! (Thanks to Diane for this site): A Few Scraps @font-face { font-family: "Cambria"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline; }a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: underline; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } *More free-motion (thanks, AJ): 365 Days of Free-Motion Quilting Fill-in Designs *Patchwork Schoolhouse DVDs: http://www.patchworkschoolhouse.com/