I have never been more excited to share with you a quilt than I am today!! My hexie flower quilt is done. Finally! No more basting hexies or sewing flowers together. When I initially started back in the summer of 2015, I never thought it would take me this long. In fact it was going so slow tha
With a ton of things to do before the end of the year I got distracted yet again! I saw the "Quilt as you go Hexagon" tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co. (here) and realized that this was my kind of hexie! Paper piecing and little hexies scare me - but this bigger, faster and easy version seemed like a whole lot of fun. You don't have to buy a template; there are lots of tutorials and videos that show you the same technique using cardboard and different sized units. I did get the one sold by MSQC on their daily deal and am loving it. I got a "Scrap Pack" of fabric from Hawthorne Supply Co. in Amy Butler fabric to expand my own Amy stash. This may not be the traditional way to do this but here is my process. Cut your larger hexie and then with a pencil trace the image of where the batting and smaller hexie will go. Position your batting on your pencil lines and stick the batting down with the help of a little glue stick. Pin the smaller hexie onto the batting. Put a little glue on the bottom edge of the larger hexie. Make the first fold and press. Then dab a little more glue onto the hexie, fold and press with the iron. Apply glue and press one side at a time. The MSQC tutorial shows Jenny using "Magic Pins" - pins that have a silicone tip that can be ironed and not melt. I don't have those and figured applique glue would work, which it does just fine. Lastly, straight stitch around the unit and that's it. Will experiment in the final joining of all the hexies with a thicker #28 weight Aurifil thread using a zig zag so that stitching shows up even more. This is a long term project but it's easy to pick up for a quick sewing fix when one gets tired of bigger projects and you 'just want to sew something!' So, for good instructions and lots of ideas of what to make with these hexies - check out the MSQC video here. Materials: Quilt As You Go Hexagon Template from Missouri Star Quilt Co. Amy Butler everything :) Hawthorne Supply Co. Aurifil Thread #50 weight (#2024-white) Warm & White batting scraps Roxanne Glue Baste Glue & Collins Fabric Glue Stick December 2019
I’m super excited to introduce this new quilt pattern! A fun jelly roll friendly Hexie Quilt. Hexagons are super popular right now in quilts and this is a fun twist to the classic Hexie quilt. I’ve yet to attempt a Y seam so this pattern is made up of half hexies which go together in […]
I’d like to introduce you to my new favorite thing to make: the giant hexie flower lap quilt! (Also affectionately known as the big-ass hexie quilt.)
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Do you love hexie flowers? If so, we've collected five lovely hexie flower projects for you to choose from whether you have one, a few, or a garden of hexie flowers waiting for their forever home in a project. Read through to find a variety of quilts and accessories. There's something for everyone!
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This hexagon quilt kit, Sundown, features fabrics from the Dusk Fusion collection from Art Gallery Fabrics. The quilt is pieced from a half hexie template included in the pattern. "Enter a dreamworld of opulent botanicals in a rich tapestry of mauves, lavender and plum emboldened by deep navy and rich copper. Twilight beckons in this enchanting collection of textural motifs and lavish florals." This quilt kit comes with all of the patterned and solid colored fabric needed to make the front and binding of this Sundown quilt, seen in the first and second photos. All fabrics are OEKO-TEX certified. Finished quilt size comes to 80"x83". You also have the option of adding a backing fabric, seen in photo 3. You can choose from one of three backings: Rambling Rose Bloomkind Meadow Tinted Blooms The Sundown quilt pattern is a free pattern from Art Gallery Fabrics. The pattern can be found here: https://www.artgalleryfabrics.com/projects/images/Sundown_Instructions.pdf
Here is my eleventh hexagon block which is based upon an image of a bunch of Poppies, Daisies and little mauve flowers. This block was a challenge in that it only had five colours - orange, green, mauve, yellow and dark brown (plus a few white daisy petals). The purple sequin flowers are paler than they appear in the photo - blame the scanner again.......
When I was in Houston in 2016 my special exhibit was right across the aisle from the beautiful Millefiori exhibit with all the beautiful English paper pieced quilts inspired by Willyne Hammerstein and I became fascinated with English paper piecing. I did a few pieces out of fancy silks but then I began to wonder how
It's nice to have a small project to do while on vacation, or even just sitting outside enjoying the weather. This little hexie pincushion is a fun little project. I first saw it on facebook and fell in love with it. This pattern is part of the Sew Over The Rainbow quilt along hosted by Victoriana Quilt Designs. You can check it out on her Facebook Page. The FREE pattern can be found HERE.... Benita, Thank you for the great pattern, it's adorable when finished and you can never have too many pincushions. It would also make a cute little gift for one of your quilting buddies. So here is my spin on her awesome pattern.... I printed up the pattern and traced out the hexie just as it printed up. You could make this cute little project with just about any size hexie. Using the hexie template I cut out several foundation papers out of a paper bag. It's a great way to recycle an old paper bag! Cut fabric a 1/4" or so bigger than the hexie shape.... Wrap your fabric around and pin using sequin pins. (They are tiny) My hexies are all ready to piece together. I am using three different fabrics from the 'Gallery in Red' fabric line from Marcus Brothers. Sewing using tiny little stitches.... right sides together. Here's the layout to form the pincushion. Here I am sewing the 'sides' of the pincushion... remember to remove pins and hexie papers when all sides are 'sewn'. Continue to sew until you have all the sides sewn up, except for one. Remove the last of the pins and paper and then turn right side out. Then use stuffing or leftover batting and stuff. Finish sewing the last seam. Remember to use tiny little blind stitches. I think it's adorable with an added button! I hope you enjoy this cute little project. Remember this cute little hexie project from last year? My tutorial for this project can be found HERE. Happy Quilting!
I'll post more pictures when I knit the next one. Size US9 DPN's Vanna's choice yarn. (you can use any yarn and the appropriate needle size to make various sizes of hexagons) Hexagons can be joined to make a pillow or blanket of any size. You will need to knit some half hexagons to create a straight edge. Using the vanna yarn and 9 needles, each side of the hexagon measures 2 1/2 inches and 4 inches from side to side. Bind on using long tail method, onto two needles alternating from one to the other till you have 10 stitches on each needle. The needles will be next to each other and you'll knit in the round. Knit one round increase on the second, and each second round till you have 20 stitches on each needle, Knit front and back of first and last stitch on each needle. When you get to 20 on each needle, knit a round and then start decreasing by K2tog on each end of each needle every second round. (You can stuff the little hexagon with batting or something similar before binding off) When you get back to 10 stitches on each needle, knit one round and bind off using the 3 needle method. Long tail cast on, alternating needles. At the halfway point - it forms a little pocket. The blue hexagon is knit on size 7 needles. Caron simply soft yarn.
I have never been more excited to share with you a quilt than I am today!! My hexie flower quilt is done. Finally! No more basting hexies or sewing flowers together. When I initially started back in the summer of 2015, I never thought it would take me this long. In fact it was going so slow tha
As I mentioned in my Friday Favorite Post last week, I’ve been working on some English Paper Piecing projects and finished them up this weekend! When I decided that I was interested in learning how to English Paper Piecing, I do what most of us do these days – I turned to the internet of […]
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Hexies! Hexies! Hexies! What's not to love? Even though I fell in love with EPP through 60 degree diamonds, once I started to hex seriously, I found that they're so soothing. When basted to templates, they are perfectly contained little morsels of my favorite fabrics, portable, pleasing, playful.. Today is my day on the 12 Hexies Blog Hop and I've got a little tutorial for how to make a pin cushion with just 8 hexagons. Though this is my tutorial, I can't take credit for coming up with the shape/pattern of the pin cushion. I actually saw it on flickr ages ago, and in the comments of that pic, the poster referenced another blog post that she was inspired by. Really folks, it's 8 hexies joined together.. there are only so many ways to do it. But they go together so nicely and you can turn them into a really substantial pin cushion, so let's have a go at it-- First cut and baste your hexies. I'm using 3 5/8" squares on 1 1/2" paper hexagon templates. There are lots of great places to learn how to baste, if you don't have my book, check out this online tutorial. Join the first 7 hexies into a rosette. I tend to go around adding one "petal" at a time, then backtracking through the seam allowance to get back to the corner so I can join the new petal to the center. I travel through the seam allowance on the back to get to another corner so I can continue sewing without cutting my thread. Next start sewing the petals to each other, making the whole piece curve into a bowl. Then add the last hexie to the "bottom". When you're down to the last two seams, remove the last of the templates and whipstitch carefully along the edge. Before you get all the way around, you'll need to flip the piece right side out. Before you complete that last seam, insert a funnel in the hole and fill the pin cushion with crushed walnut shells. You can get them at some quilt shops and most large pet supply stores (they are sold as reptile bedding). Carefully stitch up the last part of the seam and smoosh it around until the corners have popped out and the filling is evenly distributed. Then find two nice buttons and some thick thread. Tie a knot in the thread and push it through the center of the pin cushion and up through the first button. Come back down and catch the second button, covering up the knot on the bottom. Go through each button a few more times (3? 4?) then make a knot and bury it. Thanks for stopping by my post on the blog hop! If you make one of these pin cushions, I'd love to see it! And don't forget to visit the rest of the blogs on the 12 Hexie Hop! CraftyPod InLinkz.com
Here are our final photos of favorites from the the 43rd Annual Springville (Utah) Quilt Show! This juried exhibition features quilts of al...
What a wonderful time I have had....I've seen Festival of Quilts from all sides as a spectator and behind the scenes helping and watching what goes on when you rent a stall/booth. I had the wonderful pleasure of being driven from my own doorstep directly to Birmingham by Linzi (Linzi Upton of 'The Quilted Yurt' fame), how lucky am I? We travelled down on Wednesday to set up Linzi's stall demonstrating the APQS Lenni longarm quilting machine. I went to lectures and took classes but most of all I had the whole four days to drink it all in. What a fabulous display of quilts, themed, traditional, art, pieced, wholecloth, hand quilted, machine quilted and longarm quilted. What a privilege to be able to enter the show floor at 8.30 in the morning and study the quilts before the general public arrived. I am amazed by the number of people I met and already knew through my blog and the forums, you know who you are, it was great to meet you all! What a shopping experience too....I am not going to divulge all of my hoard here but there were many bargains to be had! We attended the fashion show, what a wealth of talent, a spectacular show! The Tent Makers from Cairo were amazing....the quilters sat cross legged and seemed to make quilts without patterns using huge scissors and sewed so fast, they can make a small quilt all by hand in around ten days... Tent Maker's Quilts from Cairo Here is a selection of my favorite quilts from the show.... I may come back later and edit in the names of the quilt makers! Firstly from my travel companion Linzi..... 'The Hare'...... And 'Celtic Connections' Winner of Pictoral quilts 'Hot Africa' by Janneke de Vries-Bodzinga The Rhinoceros by Pam Holland....I attended a wonderful class with Pam.... Look at that eye in close up....all those tiny hexagons... Ammonoidia by C J Barnes.....amazing, looks like leather but isn't! Aren't these two handsome fellows? If you know me then you know I have to include a wholecloth....but this little beauty is only around 8 inches square...honestly! This quilt won the Miniature class and was made by Kumiko Frydl from Texas....Blue like Wedgewood! Before I knew it was Sunday and time to dismantel the Lenni and pack it back into and onto the Landrover but we stayed on another night. We had been directed to the most wonderful 'Brummy Curry' House where we ate till we were stuffed on two separate occasions.....I would like to say how impressed I was by all of the local Birmingham people who we met during our trip, they were courteous and friendly, it was a pleasure! I had a great time, Thanks Linzi!
This simple English paper pieced hexie tutorial will have you growing your fabric hexagon collection in no time.
Traditional Quilt Pattern inspired by Antique Quilt from collection at Grand Rapids Public Museum - used with permission.Finished quilt size is 64 1/2in x 74 1/2in
Today's quilts include all the quilts I saw in the RMQM exhibit made from patterns by Willyne Hammerstein. Probably the most "famous" pattern of hers is La Passacaglia, which include all the quilts shown here except the second one. A couple of these ladies said this was their first attempt at English Paper Piecing. I'm not sure they could've picked a more difficult pattern! I have this book and the "papers" and have yet to start it. Some of the pieces are very tiny! I love all of these quilts - I think they're just amazing. And the three made from the same pattern are all very unique!
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Små, nyttige ting til sysakene våre. Kombinert håndsøm og maskinsøm. Delene er dekorert med engelsk papirsøm (1/2" hexagon) og yo-yo'er. (Tingene kan også lages uten denne pynten). Dette kurset kan også brukes som ''dagkurs'' på færre timer, der en bare lager en av tingene. Det vesle skrinet / boksen kan også brukes som reint håndsømkurs.
Let's see if I can go through this without being too confusing. First thing is to cut out some hexigons. I made mine out of charm squares...
Have you tried EPP yet? That’s short for English paper piecing. It’s a technique that’s as old as the hills but has been making a HUGE comeback. Hexagons are perhaps the best-known shape used in EPP, and author Jaynette Huff makes the most of hexagon quilts in the re-release of Quilts from Grandmother’s Garden. Originally …
I'd hoped to finish two PIGS (Projects in Grocery Sacks) in May but it didn't happen. I had a project for Creative Machine Embroidery to make. See my blog here to see that pretty quilt.
I don't know why, but it always seems that "blog time" comes around the corner so fast each month that it takes me by surprise. I sweat over what to put in my blog... and this month I started sweating early because most of what I've been working on is not "photo ready." I've been doing lots of paperwork and pattern-writing... nothing that I can take a picture of! This month, I've decided to share a bunch of hexagon quilts with you . It seems that hexagons started showing up in only the last year or two. I went back and looked at all my Houston quilt show pictures -- there were lots of hexagons last year, only a couple the year before, and I only found one picture from 2011. Where did all these hexagons come from? Well... it's not as if they didn't exist until a year or two ago. Take a look... The quilt below was part of the French Legendary Quilts exhibit at the International Quilters Association (IQA) show in Houston last year. These quilts are totally hand-made (no machine work at all!) and are replicas of antique quilts. This quilt, Mosaic quilt, was made by Isabelle Etienne-Bugnot of Soisy-sur-Seine, France. It is based on a circa 1840 quilt in the DAR Museum in Washington, D.C. (note: please excuse the plastic band in front of the quilt at the bottom of the picture... sometimes I can't avoid those in my picture-taking...). I love the quilt above with its diamonds made of hexagons... though I must admit that hexagons are NOT my unit of choice. In fact, there were SO many hexagons in the quilt show and in the vendors' booths last year that everytime I saw one, I started humming Taylor Swift's "I.....i....iii....i... will never, ever, ever.... (and I changed the lyrics).... make a hexagon"! Really - hexagons were everywhere I looked!!! Here's another one at the show last year: Honeycomb (Rayon de miel) by Liliane Verger of Royan, France. Liliane's quilt was inspired by an English quilt made in the 1840s. This quilt offers hexagon diamonds and hexagon stars. The outer edge of the quilt offers a unique way of handling those persnickety hexagons, too. Here's a closeup of Liliane's blocks. She used the English paper piecing method - is there any other way? In this method, fabric is stitched around a hexagonal template, then the hexagons are sewn together and the template paper is removed. Hexagonal Star, below, was made by Renee Elie of Royan, France. Here are the stars... and no hexagon diamonds. Instead, Renee has hexagon flowers -- a common use for hexagons. This quilt was inspired by an 1830 quilt. With almost 10,000 three-quarter inch hexagons, I can only imagine how long it took to complete this quilt. That's probably another reason hexagons hold little appeal to me. I'm still open to the idea... but not excited at this point. What a masterpiece of work, though! Here are some close-ups of the Hexagonal Star quilt. And another close-up. Can you imagine making all of those hexagons... and fussy-cutting so many units? It is another reason I'm not tempted. Yet. I have to admit they are pretty... and after all... ...by now you know that I do love intricacy! Here's another hexagon quilt - with flowers and diamonds done as a strippy quilt! This one, Diamonds with Flowers (Losanges de fleurs) was made by Dominique Husson of Arvert, France. It was inspired by an 1840 American quilt. The hexagons are each one inch in size. But wait... there's more! Check out the fussy cutting in these flowers and diamonds. It is simply amazing. Dominique's choice of fabrics is simply wonderful. It makes me think of fabric in an entirely different way. You might not realize it, but "baby blocks" are actually a form of hexagon - made of three diamonds. Cubes by Catherine Guy of Saint-heand, France, was based on a quilt made between 1855 and 1875. With over 3,000 pieces, the quilt was jaw-dropping in its perfection. The pattern for this quilt was published in American and British women's magazines circal 1850-1860. The fabric used in the above quilt also made me think of fabric in a different way. I think we all might be a bit too timid in our fabric choices: can you see the red and white checked fabric that is used in one of the baby block rows? Who would have imagined that it would melt right into the other fabrics? Below is another quilt using hexagons as baby blocks. At first, it looks like stars, but if you disect the larger hexagon shapes (the stars), you wil notice that there are three baby block hexagons in each larger hexagon. Stars or Baby Blocks was made by Marie-Paule Nedelec and Anne Helene Nedelec, from Chateaubriant, France. It was inspired by a circa 1880 quilt from Kentucky. You can check out the "stars" or baby blocks in this close-up. Notice the precision required to make all these blocks fit together so nicely. Alice Springs, below, uses combinations of hexagons with piecing and applique. Annick Tauzin of Floirac, France based her quilt on a "Persian applique," circa 1840, from Australia. Persian applique is a more arcane term for what most of us call broderie perse. Here are some close-ups of Annick's quilt. The hand-quilting is incredible in this quilt. Note, in the picture below, that there are elongated hexagons in the narrow border to the right of the flowers. The quilt below was made by Keiko Hasegawa of Ikoma, Nara, Japan. She made a series of hexagon quilts, then had a baby named Canon... and named this quilt Canon because this quilt is for her. Keiko listened to music and canons, and sang along as she made this quilt. Here are some close-ups of this amazing quilt. Notice the hexagon border in this quilt. It's a nice touch and makes for a certain unity across the face of the qiult. And, as in many hexagone quilts, there was ample fussy-cutting of pieces. Not all hexagon quilts are based on antique quilts or use reproduction fabric. Here's a bright, cheery quilt by Lilija Kostenko fo Gouda, The Netherlands. Lilija says this quilt reminded her of a summer day. You might notice that there are hexagons inside of hexagons in this quilt -- AND there are elongated hexagons. I told you there were hexagons everywhere last year! Look at those wild fabrics, too. Celtic Summer Celebration by Jaynette Huff of Conway, Arkansas, is a wonderful exercise in detail. With original basket designs, this quilt has over 690 quarter-inch hexagons (yes, quarter inch!), over 2,580 beads, buttons and charms, and includes "hidden treasures" such as a pig, frog, ladybug, armadillo, and squirrel. What fun! Looking at the above picture, you might not have found the hexagons. Look at the center of this photo and you can see a basket of flowers. Here's a closer look... notice the buttons and the beads in this picture. And in this picture, you can easily see more hexagon flowers -- but also, you can see the 1/8th inch bias tubes that Jaynette made for this quilt. Wow! Jaynette's quilt is an original design using Celtic applique designs modified from Everything Celtic by Mary Butler Shannon. Hiromi Yokota of Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan, made Flower of 13,585 Pieces and Peace. Hiromi says we cannot make peace or a quilt in a few days - so she wanted to make a flower quilt of hexagones using "1 centimeter paper liner method and a feeling of peace". It is hand made and hand-quilted. Here are two close-ups. What an amazing amount of work. Notice the outer edge of the quilt: Hiromi went to great pains to maintain the hexagon shapes when she backed and quilted her quilt with a knife-edge where no binding is visible from the top of the quilt. Here are diamonds and flowers and a star - all in the same quilt - and all within a large, hexagonal shape. Credit for this quitl, Flowers from Grandmother's Secret Garden, goes to Diana Perry of Hot Springs, Arkansas. With one-quarter inch hexagons, Diana sewed approximately 2,000 hexagons to make this quilt. The quilb below is an antique quilt. I try really hard to provide attribution for each quilt I post on my blog, but I have lost the source information for this picture. I do remember that it was in a special exhibit at the Houston quilt show. It is an amazing piece of work -- and very folksy! Check out all of the hexagons just appliqued at random, as well as in flowers. Isn't it all fun? Here's a close-up of the quilt. Notice the charming baskets, the heart motifs, the butterfly... I bet the maker smiled her way through all of her stitching. These baskets just tickled my fancy with their wild abandon and crazy use of fabrics. The quilt below was also in a special antique quilt exhibit. The quiltmaker is unknown, but it was made entirely of silk circa 1860. Measuring 74 by 81 inches, this Grandmother's Flower Garden variation is unique. It did not hang because of its delicate condition -- it laid on a slanted pallet to protect it from the stress of any stretching that hanging might cause. Here's a close-up. It reminds me of the Italian milleifiori ("thousand flowers") glass. And if you had seen this quilt, you would have noticed the gorgeous quilting in the border. Seven Sisters is a classic pattern of stars - here was a quilt I saw in a class on dating fabrics. Notice the hexagons! It wasn't too hard to date the fabric, with the "Sail On, O Union" fabric in one of the hexagons. While scouring the antique booths at the Houston quilt show, I found a most amazing quilt in John Saul's antique booth. He has some incredible quilts, and this one certainly took the prize for amazing! Made of one-inch silk hexagons, it was an unbelievable piece of work. Here's a close-up. Almost none of the silk had shattered, which made it all the more beautiful. Here's another qult made of hexagons -- it looks quite different from some of the others seen here. Made by Isako Wada of Kurokawa-Gun, Miyagi-Ken, Japan, Bolero 21609 was designed when Isako had a dream about making a hexagon quilt. It is made of hexagon units - but notice that there are also many large and small hexagon motifs across the face of the quilt. Isako named her quilt because she listened to Ravel's "Bolero" while she stitched - and my guess is that it has 21,609 pieces in it. Here's another contemporary hexagon quilt. Made by Cheryl See of Ashburn, Virginia, Star Struck has 12,256 hexagon units forming a rainbow-colored star which repeats in the background. Cheryl notes that the otuer star is bordered by appliqued circles with complimentary-colored backgrounds that transition through the colors of the rainbow. Appliqued flowers and Grandmother's flowers were placed throughout the quilt, forming secondary patterns and random surprises. Okay - so after seeing all these hexagons, was I tempted? Even the least little bit? Well... not so much. Here's the closest I've gotten: snowball blocks. Of course, these are not hexagons; they're octagons! But that's as close as I can get. My friend Becky must have felt sorry for me, though. After she heard me sing Taylor Swift's "I..I...I... will never, ever, ever..." so many times, she thought that I really needed a hexagon quilt. She's an angel... and she did it, did it, did it for me.... So what have I been working on over the past month? Like I said earlier, it's been computer work and home work and family matters. I did finish binding my newest quilt, Twirly Balls and Pinwheels, and even put a sleeve on it. When I finished it, it had some "waves" in it. Those are sometimes to be expected when one deals with so many small pieces, such heavy quilting, and a wool batting. I hesitated in trying to figure out how to make the quilt flat... and finally bit the bullet and blocked it. It bled, despite the fact that I had pre-washed all my fabrics and the batting... and used no chemicals or pens that would cause bleeding. Go figure. I have a hunch it has to do with the pH level in water and will test that later with tap water, bottled water, and filtered water. I'll keep you posted! Quakertown Quilts (www.quakertownquilts.com) will be offering the pattern in the next couple of weeks -- I finished writing it this week and will get it over to them next week. Writing the pattern took extra long, not because the quilt is hard to make, but because I invested a LOT of time into photos so that everyone who makes the quilt will have a good time making it and avoid problems. It is a wonderful quilt to make! Quakertown, at some point (and maybe your own local quilt shop) will be kitting it as a 6-month block-of-the-month quilt. It's not your classic block-of-the-month, but having the fabric delivered to you over a period of time makes it a lot easier to make; there are a lot of different fabrics in this quilt. In my last blog, I mentioned that I was going to start doing lectures and workshops and traveling a bit. Whoa! Stop the presses! Within two weeks, my calendar fell into overload! I'm totally booked for 2013 and for most of 2014. I'ved accepted a couple of 2015 engagements, but I'm reluctant to accept many more. So... hang in there and send me an email if you're interested, but I'm kind of booked solid right now. Having said that, I've made a new quick-and-easy "Twirly Ball" quilt that I'm going to use in workshops. It was so much fun and so easy to make this quilt! Hopefully, someday I can come to your guild and teach a workshop! Until we meet - and until next month -- happy quilting to everyone! Sue (c)2013 Susan H. Garman