Setting tension is definitely not my favourite thing, and as I'm talking about white and deepish blue, I think I'd better start looking for a blue and white batik-y backing fabric so that I can quilt in white all over.  I've seen some extra wide batiks somewhere (online) in the past few days, but I don't think there was a blue and white.   

It's frustrating, because I have a blue and white batik that I was thinking of using for the binding, but I don't have enough for the backing - and I've had it for a very long time, so very little chance of getting any more.

Do you (Rubes and Imi, and anyone else) use different colours for the top and bobbin threads?

This is going to be the first time I've machine quilted anything of any size, and I don't want the quilting to stand out as it is inevitably going to be chockful of wobbles.

I'm jumping ahead of myself here, but I was looking at the quilting on this pattern.

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Two questions.

1.  What colour thread do you think the quilter has used here?  Clearly not blue, but is it white or some sort of clear thread?  The pattern just says 'Quilt as desired.'

2.  What would you use to do the quilting?  The backing is likely to be a medium or dark blue.

The problems I had with BT email addresses were on completely different forums, not SMF.  I know that the discussion on the support forums for that software are completely useless - everyone has a different idea, but the simple fact remains that I changed the email address I was using, and the notifications started coming through.  The same thing happened here when I changed from using a BT address.

It is not down to the software and they are not being put into spam folders.  They are being removed at some point after they have left the forum, and before they reach your account.  We have no control over that.  The most likely scenario is that a server somewhere en route is recognising them as automated emails and removing them.  They are automated emails, and if we did something to hide that fact (if indeed there is anything that could be done) we would get blacklisted all over the place.

The link you provided to the discussion on the SMF support forum says 'hotmail is hard to deliver to'.

New post notifications are not shown on the forum itself - Unread Topics should cover that need.

[Crossposted with Bodge - that might help if the messages were going into a spam folder, but not necessarily - it depends why they're being marked as spam.]

I have Elnnina's pictures of her quillow.

The first shows the gorgeous poppy front:
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The back with the pocket showing (the pocket gets turned inside out, so the inside of the pocket is decorative):
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The quillow folded up ready to turn the pocket inside out around it:
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The final quillow as a cushion:
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Mostly, DF, they only look wonky to the person who stitched them.

Sandra - that is so pretty, and so beautifully made!

They are lovely Ruby.  Hey - does this mean that if I make chevron quilts I may one day find myself making bargelloes?!?    

Imi - I coloured in the diagram of the layout with sand, white, turquoise (sea), white, blue (sky), white yesterday and it did look good.  Unfortunately I don't seem to have saved the picture. 

I think the one thing that I am certain about is that I need white fabric for the alternates!  Might need a trip to Calico Kate's tomorrow.