Hi everybody! Sorry I haven't blogged in a week or so, but I've been out of town all weekend, at a quilt retreat, then had board mee...

Here's Mickey, (my mom) holding up a table runner I made for her. This was done before I got the Janome, so the quilting was straight o...

Lots of practice with freemotion quilting this week. :) I looked online at some of the many quilting patterns you can buy, for ideas, then...

Well, here's what I've been doing this week! I gathered all my scraps from the Liberty quilt, even the teeny ones, and started stit...

Summer Reading club kicked off today! We had the Mid-South Navy Band Brass Quintet play at our library today, for the neighborhood childre...

Well, there's my first attempt at free motion quilting. It's about 8 inches square, so I'll probably bind the edges for a potho...

Here it is! I changed the fan in the upper right corner to the pinwheel block because I wanted more white there. When I decided to go on an...

Well, here's where I am now - got my Liberty sewn to the house and spark. I tried several different fuses for the firecracker, and fina...

Do you get tired of seeing this quilt block by block? :) I think I'm a slow quilter when it comes to making things without a pattern, a...

Well, after looking at the pictures of the bottom ¼ of the wallhanging (sometimes a picture takes you away from the details and makes you lo...

Well, here's the watermelon, AND the first two blocks I've made on my new machine. I really like the ¼ inch foot, it is so much eas...

Well, I finally did it, after talking about it for months, I bought a new sewing machine. It's a Janome Memory Craft, 6500. My trusty ...

Ok, took out some of the blocks... this is only going to be 30 inches wide, maybe 40 or so long, so I think it WAS getting too busy. The ho...

Here's my first attempt at a layout for the patriotic blocks I'm making. The only ones that are done so far are the words LIBERTY A...

Finally finished my red, white, and blue feathered star for the patriotic quilt. :) Compared to all these folks who seem to be doing a new...

Funny story today at work. :) I'm making 32 half square triangles that will finish at one inch, for a feathered star type block I'm...

Ok, sorry, couldn't resist the title... :) Here's JUSTICE with the ice added. I think people got the idea that they were already at...

Here ya go, Tonya ! Liberty and Just(ice)and maybe (for all) added later. :) I know my checkerboard red and white fabric on navy blue won...

A couple of people have asked me if I did end up trimming my blocks before adding borders - no, I didn't. I'd decided to just wing ...

Well, here's the strip twist quilt, with borders! Since the quilt has no pinks, and not many pastels, except a couple of yellows and ...