Here is the 2017 schedule for meetings of the ACTS Ministry (Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Sharing) at West Hills Baptist Church in Knoxville, TN.

This is a group of people who get together to crochet, quilt, sew, needle tat, knit, make jewelry, and enjoy each others company. We multiply our joys and divide our burdens while we meet with each other. Many members of this group are not members of this church, as we met through classes that I taught. Beginners in these or other arts &…

I just posted a story of how this quilt come to be, even when things are all wrong something beautiful can come out, check it out my friends.

has anyone made the Jack' chain quilt? If so I would love to see it. I'm in the process of doing one of my own, what a workout. I found the pattern in  a quilters newsletter dated back toJuly of 1998. This is a great pattern. Just wondering  how other quilters did.

Just won 1st place in our guild with these funky woodland creatures. Added lots of hand quilting to the machine applique. Animal patterns by Wendy Gratz of Shiny Happy…

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."  (Thoreau);  "A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short." (Andre Maurois);  "Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards." (e.e. cummings)';  "All, everything that I understand, I understand because I love." (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace); "No one has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold." (Zelda Fitzgerald).

These are the five quotes about…

On Friday, March 10, I drove from Champaign, IL  to St. Joseph, Michigan to attend a class at Accomplish Quilting on Saturday, March 11th.  It was the first class for training on my new Innova machine.  There were about 8 others in the class and some ladies brought their husbands with them.  We got to know each other and learn more about our machines.  Accomplish Quilting sells more than just Innova's and so they had others there who were learning more about their Gammill machines or other…

Thought this might be fun. You might be a quilter if you ____fill in the blanks. So I was making a chili dog and this happened. …

How fun it was to work on this quilt!  I didn't know how I was going to quilt the set-in triangles all around the quilt, but I laid it down and just started drawing with my rulers and my chalk pencil and out came the design!  Thanks to Lisa H. Calle for her Divide and Design instruction - class at MQX Springfield (Midwest) and also her online iQuilt class!  I LOVE how this turned out.  Enjoy!…

I am the newest sales associate at Quality Sewing and Vacuum in Tacoma.  I will be working full time.  Minimum wage plus commission.  I start tomorrow morning.  Woohoo!!.  This is a shout out to all of my quilty friends.  Come and see me if you are in the area.

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I quilt coming here and posting because I sent a pattern and some fabric to people here and it seems they were lost somewhere in outerspace a 20,00 pattern and 25.00 in fabris now this doesnt seem to be a lot of money to some people but I live on SS so am tightly budgeted. So I was angry, I kept coming back ever once in awhile and seeing what everyone was doing but didnt say anything. some times at night I read your posts.

and I have been battling cancer for 2 years , lost a lot of my…

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Thank you for adding me to My Quilt Place.  Looking forward to learning new things and meeting fellow quilters.

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Hello fellow quilting fanatics. This has been a very busy month around the Leiner household.  We sold one rental house and bought two more so I have been kept from my quilting by landlady duties.  But I am happy to report that I am making progress on the quilt for Beck and Todd, the quilt that has stymied me all…

My quilting friend, Riana Noyes asked me to do a post on the Halloween cross stitch quilt which is #108 in my albums.  The following are  pictures and some explanations/descriptions of how that quilt came to be.

First the back story.  I have been quilting since I was 18 years old.  I had my first child, Jamie at 23 and my second, Becky at 27.  All through their childhood, I was making quilts and once upon a time, cross stitching as well.  in 1984 or 85 I decided to do a Christmas…

I know I have been incommunicato for awhile but I have been busy quilting!  Here is the most recent quilt I finished just tonight, a few scant hours before Halloween.  No, you are not crazy, this is a Christmas quilt.  Sometimes, we just don't get to choose the timing of when things get accomplished. 

The…

I the winter is coming upon us, I pretty much achieved a goal... I cleaned out my basement and organized nearly everything!  Nearly organized enough to buy a different house... Plastic containers are my friends... it's been hard work, but now Im at the end of this haul.... 

I made a few dresses this summer, and a tunic... now I want to start on a wall hanging.  I am hoping all my planning will make for smooth transitions so I can continue on my path! 

Looking forward to a more…