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Sorry to cause so much stress with this giveaway! 😅 But glad you are enjoying the machine. Hey Quilter is a new group, but we have enjoyed working with them and their other sponsors. We got connected as one of the leaders is in a quilt guild with our education manager! All legit, all fun.

Congratulations on your wonderful new machine! And your piecing is meticulous!❤

I am so happy for you Congratulations 🎉

Congrats! I love all of my Babylock machines. That one you won is a pretty solid machine. I actually looked at one of those to free motion before I decided to sit buy a sit down long arm. !!! I hope you get a ton of stuff done with it !

Oh, you never can be too careful these days. You really did your due diligence! I was gritting my teeth like, oh no, but then, what a great ending to that story! 😊❤

Congratulations!

Did you miss the last video? It was a Halloween Bona Lisa Quilt: th-cam.com/video/7KcO9mDEYjU/w-d-xo.html Thank you to Hey Quilter for organizing this giveaway and picking my name! Thank you to BabyLock and Tacony for this wonderful prize! I look forward to finishing many quilts with this Jazz II Sewing Machine!

WOWZA! You really did win a sewing machine!! Congratulations!!

Wonderful. No excuses for UFOs anymore😂 enjoy.

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Congratulations!!!!

That looks like a great machine; congratulations!

Congratulations Shelina! I love my Babylock Crescendo!

congrats! THat's a nice one!

WOW! 🎉🎉🎉CONGRATULATIONS ❤❤❤🎉🎉

Congratulations, you are blessed.

It's a necchi artisan s30 with a new badge! I thought I'd never be able to get new parts for it, but if there's a baby lock on the market using the same design - woohoo!

🎉👏🎉 congratulations.... you took great steps! So happy for you!

Congratulations! You're going to love it!❤

💜Glad you got your machine, looks like it will be fun to quilt with. You can never be too careful nowadays. I was nervous for you, especially about the open lot information. Whew!💜

Congrats! Good to stay vigilant though, there's a lot of shady stuff out there. I'm thinking about buying this same machine, so I can't wait to hear your impression after you've used it for awhile!

What an awesome cause and a wonderful collective of donors and volunteers coming together around supporting others in need during a delicate time. Joanne is amazing and her passion and continued dedication to the cause is admirable ❤❤❤

I am so touched by the heartfelt stories of all these ladies and how they give back to the community in such a loving and gracious way with their beautiful quilts. 39,000!! Quilts and counting! That is incredible! So many lives touched and comforted!! ❤❤❤

Thanks for introducing me to a new quilter. I found this Blog snd their fb page! Cool quilt!

Happy Halloween 🎃 What a fun quilt to adorn your door with during this season!

Love this! And you really set the mood with the music... I could hear Bona Lisa's bones rattle and just enough scary in the tunes ❤ you make the free motion quilting look so easy! I'd probably be lazy and not put binding on it... I'd be tempted to sew around the perimeter, clip it and have a raggy edge or just sew around perimeter and then cut the edge with pinking shears...cuz I'm lazy 😂

Oooh as soon as I saw the name of your quilt I hear Nat King Cole singing 🤓 love him! No w back to the video

I have really enjoyed this and the other one that you did first. I watched it on TV so didn't comment.

Love this kind of "giving to those going through a hard time" quilting best of all! When you went to the wonderful 2nd quilter she had so many wonderful things to say. I was sorry i wasn’t able to hear every word. The other voices drowned her out...now thats really how this super busy kind of work in a group really is 😂😂 But it all was lovely fun! And i am amazed at the wonderful variety of shows shared!

This was so inspiring ❤❤. True, if you start to quilt, you never stop.😂

Thank you for sharing the work of this wonderful group. ❤

I'm loving this series about Stitching Sisters. I can imagine they have a ton of scraps! I wonder if there are quilters dedicated to tackling those and making scrap quilts. I like that they use the thin strips to tie up the rolled quilts.

As a Dutch person: I really don't think we deserve to have these beautiful fabrics named for us. These fabrics aren't in common use here, they haven't become part of our cultural history either. At least not any more than slavery has and I should *HOPE* we've moved on from that being a part of our living culture. Dutch colonists may have facilitated the cross pollination of technique and style that made these possible, but neither wax printing nor the colorful styles are Dutch. Don't give us this one.

I need one. I am cancer free now 3 years now. It's a long road.

Great PSA video. Yes, cotton burns and polyester and nylon melt. Now, if you are working with polyester or nylon webbing, you will want run the cut end through a flame to melt the fibers. There are also hot knives that will cut and burn the ends or cut sunbrella type fabric. Otherwise, they fray like mad.

I have made 2 such quilts. One of the recipients did not survive long. She was in her mid 50's and a mentor and friend to my daughter. She had an incurable blood cancer (after having 2 other cancer incidences). She was a very accomplished mother, professional and philanthropist. She had money to buy anything that she wanted. She wrote that the quilt that she received from my daughter and I was the most beautiful gift she has ever received, and that in the hospital it was a conversation starter. The second went to my daughter's neighbor (my age 60's) who had to take cancer treatments. She took the quilt with her to her treatments, and sent a picture to us saying how much comfort it gave her. I'm fortunate that there is no one in my orbit needing one currently, but I have about three more to finish to have on hand. Thank you for your informative interview showcasing the 20 year legacy of Stitching Sisters' charitable quilt efforts.

Nice story Shelina! Thanks for sharing😊❤

Great interview Shelina. I also watch Amy Dement. 😊❤

Hi again it's me, I've been binge watching your channel. I'm loving the interviews I've been listening while sewing... Great content!😊

What a beautifu and lovely initiative ❤👏

This is a great video! Thanks!

Sometimes people see these prints as religious because people don’t know much about its history and various usage. Beautiful prints and nice to see both sexes wearing colorful and beautiful prints showing pride in themselves. 🙏💕

"The fabrics get along so that is what matters" ❤❤❤❤❤

This was great Shelina! I'm watching while sewing. Wow! Those are beautiful art quilts. Her story about Maine, I live here in Maine, and not to far away from where she referenced.❤😊

Absolutely fantastic site, videos, quilts, and you do an amazing job! Really am enjoying seeing and hearing you after all of these years of knowing you as a wonderful blogger and blogging friend. I am so impressed with your hard work to create this beautiful site and your open and honest comments. What an amazing and ever growing journey this has been in all ways. Kudos to you! Congratulations in all ways. This is totally wonderful!

Thank you for your calm, clear teaching of the history of this type of fabric.

I live in The Netherlands and the fabric called Dutch wax is produced in Helmond by a firm called Vlisco. Therefore it is also called Vlisco fabric. When the Dutch colonialised Indonesia they found batiks there and so in the 19th century they tried the procedure in Holland hoping to sell it in Indonesia. The Brits did something like that in Manchester and sold their printed fabric in India. The Indonesians were, however, not impressed by the designs , as Indonesian traditional batik is often more refined. The Dutch then found a better market in West Africa so that established the export there. I have understood that the Africans appreciate the quality of the Dutch wax print fabrics and that is why it is still shipped there, for dress making mainly. I guess all trade was and is influenced by colonialism, also coffee, tea, chocolate etc unfortunately. I think it is okay to use these fabrics outside Africa and also for quilts. In my opinion it would only be cultural appropriation if you make and or wear something and claim it is or makes you really African. Unless you are African, of course. We are all entitled to our own opinions, but we don't have the right to force those on others

I saw your comment on Kayla Carlile’s channel and had to come see yours! Thank you for sharing this!! So inspiring ❤️

“The fabrics get along.” That is definitely the lesson.

Continue to use whatever makes you happy. I bought African print/african fabric and made my first African quilt after watching one of your videos. At the end of the day, you really exposing others to different fabrics and styles they may not have otherwise been exposed to.keep pushing forward. Those that are not happy can simply move on.