Friday Five

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This week's theme for Friday Five is You:

Ms. Lacy awarded me with this cute button - thank you Lacy!  One of the desire requirements is to share 7 things about yourself . . .well, I think 5 will work just nicely.  Here are the rest of the guidelines:

• Thanks the person who gave you the award.
• Share 7 (or 5) things about yourself.
• Give this award to several newly discovered bloggers (see my suggestions below my answers).

1. I just took both of my kids to a mid-night showing of Pirates of the Caribbean - I'm cool like that (ok, it was more for me, but they really enjoyed the movie and the time together).
2. I am left-handed.
3. I have worked as/in a telecommunication equipment repairer, a medical assistant, day care provider, service call center, an account payable, Tupperware consultant, Partylite consultant, inside sales, administrative assistant, instructor, webmaster, and mom.
4. I have mini wall poster of Will Turner on the back of my bedroom door --thanks to my kids.
5. I love my gray hair!

A few of favorite bloggers - not necessarily new ones, but good ones none the less.  And I pass this award on to each of them.

1. Gary Rupert's Blog - great thinking posts every morning.
2. Just About Cindy
3. Quilting Fiesta
4. Stray Stitches
5. Threaded Mess
6. A Left-Handed Quilter
7. Crafty Musings
8. The Quilty Home

Friday Five

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This week's theme for Friday Five is Sewing Machines:

1. How many sewing machines do you have?

2. Which machine is your "regular-go to" machine?

3. Do you own a specialty machine (serger, embroidery, longarm)?

4. Have you inherited a sewing machine?

5. If you could upgrade your "go-to" machine, no price limit, what would you upgrade to?

My Answers:

1. Currently, 4.

2. My Husqvarna 870 Quilt.

3. Yes,serger and embroidery machine.

4. Yes, my grandmothers Bernina, that my great aunt purchase 1 year before I was born.

5. Well, my next machine will be a long arm by year's end - but if I purchase another sewing machine it would be a Bernina 830.

Friday Five

I haven't done Friday Fives in many years and rediscovered them as I was printing my blog2print last week and I think it's time to try them again.  Feel free to play along and share you answers in the comments or in your own blog.

This week's theme for Friday Five is Quilting in General:

1. What is your favorite quilting technique?

2. What is your least favorite?

3. What is your favorite genre of fabric?

4. What is your least favorite?

5. Who is your favorite quilting personality?

My Answers:

1. Straight chain piecing.  As long as I'm set up I can speed piece and continually sew.  I always feel more accomplished with I'm chain piecing.

2. I don't have a "least" favorite, but if there is one technique I don't like the look of is raw edge appliqué.

3. Batiks.  Love how they look, feel, sew nicely and don't need to worry about too many winkles.

4. Mmmm...civil war and 30's reproductions.

5. I have several favorites, but the 2 at the top are Mark Lipinski and Pat Sloan.

Friday Five

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This week's theme is unusual, and might not be to everyone's taste is doing: State of Mind

1. Do you find times where you just don't feel "into quilting"?
2. Is there a season that you tend to be more quilty?
3. How do you pull yourself out of a funk?
4. Do you find that quilting is good therapy when you are down?
5. Are there times when quilting is a wee bit consuming in your life?

My Answers

1. Yep.
2. Not really, but if I picked one season the most I quilt in, it would be winter.
3. I'm trying to figure that part out, hence the Friday Five questions :D. I think the best way for me is to find something related to quilting to keep me "into the mood". (like designing a quilt, reading a magazine, shopping :)
4. Oh yes. When I need a serious distraction from stress that is out of my control, I turn to quilting. I use to clean when stressed, LOL not no more.
5. LOL, ummm yes. There are weeks where all the days revolve around quilting to get a project done.

Friday Quilt Five

It's Friday again! Please either post in your own blog or share your answers here in mine :D

This week's theme: Sales!

1. How often do you use coupons for quilting related items?
2. Do you find coupons for local quilt shops?
3. Do you shop online with coupons?
4. What was the best coupon/sale you took advantage of?
5. What would you like to see your local quilt shop often in a coupon or sale?


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My Answers

1. Very often, though because I get a discount where I work, I use most coupons/sales online now days.
2. Not really. They don't seem to be available.
3. Yes. Since I joined the Fab Shop Hop, I get sales info all the time in my emails.
4. 50% coupons that come from Joann's...I get rotary cutting stuff there and books.
5. Buy one, get one free - either fabric or notions.

Friday Five

This week's theme: Computering

Don't forget to share you answers here and in your own blog! :D

1. Do you own/use any computer programs just for quilting?
2. Which ones?
3. Do you use the internet for tutorials?
4. What other communities do you participate in that involves quilting?
5. What is your favorite website for quilting?


My Answers

1. Yes!!
2. I use EQ6, the most. I also have the Dear Jane program from EQ, The Foundation Factory (all), Sew Precise (all) --last two are paper piecing pattern programs.
3. Yes. I am mostly self taught and I have seen some great tutorials out there done by regular people (verses professionals in the business).
4. I am apart of several yahoo groups - The Quilting Post and Quilting Corner Club, Nickel Quilts, and Stash Busters. I also bounce around through verses other forums.
5. I visit soo many, but I guess the one I visit the most is: http://www.fabshophop.com/

Friday Five

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Today's theme is randomness.

1. Have you ever done any redwork (machine or by hand)?
2. Do you measure your finished rows to be sure they are the proper length?
3. What did you sew/quilt this week?
4. Share a random quilting picture.
5. Why did you share that random picture?



My Answers:
1. Yes and both. Of course being I have an embroidery machine for the past 6 years, I do it all by machine now days.
2. Um....no. It was weird for me doing a row by row swap this week when I had to verify and check the length of the row to be exactly 54.5" long...it was a pain.
3. I finished 6 rows for said above swap and started 2 other swaps where you send finished projects. I like those kinds of swaps, because I don't have to worry about adding borders, binding, or backing to them :D
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5. That is most of my autumn stash, which I'm about to use to make two doll quilts for swaps!

Friday Five

It's Friday again! Please either post in your own blog or share your answers here in mine :D


This week's theme: Appliquéing

1. Do you appliqué?
2. What method do you prefer - machine or hand?
3. Are you self-taught or have you been to a class?
4. What kind of thread do you prefer using while appliquéing?
5. If you do hand work, what needles sizes/brand do you prefer?

My Answers

1. Yes - but not much.
2. Machine. I have done hand, but I'm impatient and prefer machine.
3. Self-taught. I have taken patterns that really teach me step by step with using fusible webbing to lay down pattern pieces and machine stitch them.
4. For machine appliquéing, I like to use poly blends because it accents my pieces better and prettier - especially with variegated thread.
5. I like straw needles the best, best they are long and thin and I prefer a size 9.

Friday Five

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This week's theme: Batting & Backings

1. What batting do you prefer to use?
2. Do you purchase batting by the yard (off a bolt) or in a bag?
3. Do you purchase batting for more than one project at a time?
4. When do you purchase your backing (after a project is completed or while you are picking out all the fabric in the beginning of a project)?
5. What do you do with all the leftover strips of batting?


My Answers.

Friday Five

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This week's theme is: Borders.

1. Do you find borders challenging?
2. Have you ever miter your borders?
3. Have you ever used a border print?
4. Have you ever used a flange?
5. What is the hardest border you have created? (insert picture)

My answers are here.

Friday Five

Normally, when I do these I can easily pick a theme based on my quilting projects throughout the week. This week I'm actually pretty clueless to a theme. Oh wait, I got one!

This week's theme: Color Choices

1. Do you notice yourself choosing light, medium, or darker tones the most?
2. Which specific color group do you tend to gravitate towards?
3. What colors/themes/genres fabrics do you consider "outside your comfort zone"?
4. Do you notice, over time, your color choices change?
5. Do you ever purchase fabric out side your comfort zone?

My Answers

Friday Five

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This week's theme: Swapping

1. Have you ever participated in a quilt block swap - online or with a guild?
2. Would you be interested in doing one?
3. What reservations would you have to not participating in a swap?
4. Ever hosted a swap before?
5. Where do you find online swaps?

My answers can be found here.

Friday Five

Here's this week's theme: Shop Hopping.

Again, feel free to post in your blog or leave a comment here with the answers!

This week's theme: Shop Hopping.

1. How many quilt shops are within 2 hours of your home?
2. Have you been to them all?
3. Have you visited other shops while on traveling in different states?
4. What is your favorite quilt shop?
5. Do you plan your trips around visiting quilt shops?

My answers are here.

Friday’s Quilt Five

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My answers are here.

Here's this week's installment - theme is Binding.

1. Do you make your own binding or purchase it?
2. Do you sew on your own binding or let the longarm machiner do it?
3. Double fold binding or Single fold binding?
4. Have you ever done strips/plaids on a bias binding?
5. Have you ever made binding on a scallop edge?


Some binding links:
How to Cut and Assemble Quilt Binding Strips
Continuous Quilt Binding
Making & Adding Binding

Friday Quilt Five

It's Friday again. . . what has the week gone? This week's theme is Paper Piecing.

Please feel free to post your own answers in your journal or blog. My answers can be found here.

1. Have you ever tried to paper piece a quilt block before?
2. If not, why? If yes, what did you make?
3. Is there a paper piecing pattern you are dying to test out (post a picture or a link)?
4. Have you ever designed your own paper piecing patterns?
5. Would you be willing to learn or teach someone about paper piecing?

Friday Quilt Five

Here's this week's quilt five - see my answers here.

This week's theme is Fat Quarters.

1. Do you collect Fat Quarters?
2. How many Fat Quarters do you have?
3. Have you ever made a quilt just out of fat quarters?
4. What color do you have the most fat quarters in?
5. How often do you purchase fat quarters?

Friday Quilt Five

I do this every Friday in my livejournal community and figured I would post it here as well.

Feel free to post in your blog.
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This week's theme is Memorial Quilts.

1. Have you seen a memorial quilt?
2. Have you ever made a memorial quilt?
3. Do you think memorial quilts are important?
4. If you made/make one what would it be for?
5. What are your quilting related plans/goals for this 3-day Memorial Day weekend?

My answers can be found here.