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Tilde Thread-- just a needle a day makes progress

On every message board I belong to I usually start a TILDE THREAD. It was the philosophy of a dear quilter from Denmark I met on the DJ list years ago. She would say if you sewed just one needles worth of thread a day you would make progress on any project you were working on.

Once when I was depressed and sick I started taking her message to heart... I sewed one needles worth of thread... soon that led to having to do more on the project and it got me back to sewing again. When I was healed and no longer confined to a sick bed, I was half done with my project. I had made more progress on that project then any other project I had worked on before. This technique was totally freeing for me. In that I had always waited until I had large hunks of time to work on a project. To this day I sew for 10-15 minutes every morning on a project. ( I always have 3-4 projects in progress stacked up in sweater boxes on my sewing table so I just have to pick one of them to work on. ) Sometimes that is the only sewing I get to do for that day. Sewing in the morning before work usually sets me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

In that light I plan to post the progress of a project I am working on currently. I would like other posters to come and tell me what you are working on even if it is just a small item. Let us all celebrate our accomplishments.

I went to a mystery quilt class on Friday night and made blocks for a lap size quilt. The block pattern turned out to be a fast strip piecing / assembly line sewing technique for the block, CARD TRICKS/ WINNING HAND. I had such fun doing this block and this technique.

Things I learned in the class....
How to strip piece and sub cut sets for the same block.

How to assembly line sew a number of the same block.

Prior to this I had always made sampler block quilts or a type of quilt that had to be put together one block at a time.... I just realized that this is the reason I had so few of quilts completed. Doing one block at a time is not efficient. Today I am putting on the borders and sashing to my little quilt .... this will be a quilt for my grand son.

Have fun quilting

Lady Rags.


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I will be posting my pictures of my quilts here. I have not figured out how to use the picture posting on this message board yet.

10-6-08 - I'm working on a Christmas quilt made from a panel and I'm also locker hooking a rug.

Bummer... I ran out of material for my setting triangles. I have to go out tomorrow and pick some up.

Worked on my stain glass window blocks... have the sashing to put on a hundred of them.

Tonight while watching Dancing With the Stars, I finished another applique heart. My mantra is 'I don't do applique', but I broke down and took a hand applique class in May. The project is 9 hearts each appliqued using a different prep method. I have 1 1/2 left, then I'll put them together into a wall hanging. I won't say that I'm hooked, but I did purchase a kit called Tulips for Beginners. It's the 3rd quilt from the bottom of this page: http://www.lilliesclassicquilts.com/kit ... m/kits.nxg.

I also purchased Lillbet's Garden by Beth Ferrier. http://applewd.com/LillebetsGarden.html ... arden.html We shall see.

You are so right! Just a needle full at a time and very soon you are done. I take a needle full bread between cleaning the house. LOL

I had a meeting at church last night but when I got home I spent about 30 minutes in my sewing room putting away some things and rolling up some fabric on those plastic fabric board thingers. So, even though I didn't touch needle and thread, I did fondle fabric.

Lady can you plz pm. Sarah

6 whole days without quilting... Just had more things on my TO DO LIST than I had days to do it it. I have not even been on the INTERNET which is amazing for me.

I got my triangles cut for my on point diagonal setting... came up short one but was able to piece left over fabric. I cut them big so I am going to fake seams down some of my other triangles to fake out the fact that I goofed. It will look like it was part of the plan when I get though with the quilt...

I have been watching a bunch of old DVDs from Q.I.D archives.... I could not believe that E-B use to serge her blocks. I thought she always made her blocks using traditional methods. I also noted that some of the things she was teaching back then have really advanced and become standard techniques today... specifically half and quarter triangles, also her method for making flying geese is revolutionary at one time.

Well it is back to putting insulation up into the attic for this winter... I want to keep those heating bills in check.

Happy quilting...

L-R

OK, I bit the bullet and finally started appliqueing the Boston Terrier I'm trying to make. He has 3 legs attached to the background. Maybe I'll get part of his body and other leg tomorrow. Took 3 needles of thread.