Call me Crazy

But I have signed up for three quilting bees for the year of 2010. Circuit Block Party, The Block Swap and Modern Quilting Bee. I am very excited to start each one of these. I'm sure I will learn quite alot. I am still doing the Old Red Barn Quilt Along. We are almost 1000 strong and I have met some great women there, not to mention all I have learned.

Fabric Store to die for

I found a new fabric store on line called Hawthorne Threads. To see all the yumminess from them go to www.hawthornethreads.com . It is owned by a husband and wife team and they have the best possible taste and selection. Head over there now and check out the giveaway they are hosting. Enjoy!

Jamestown

English settlement

Dressed in period

Indain Village- log houses not tepees

Queen 2 and I had a good time on her field trip. It was 7 hours on a bus with two 4th grade classes. The weather was great, breezy but warm.

Bit of Boo done

I embroidered the centers in Halloween fashion. The alternate squares have green fabric with owls. Shocking owls, right? So a little bit of wonky log cabins, a little framed squares quilted in a fun free wild way.

Wonky Horse Quilt done

I do so love this quilt. It was very fun to put together and once I got a sewing machine that worked it went quite smoothly.

This is the back and I am proud to say that I used up all the fabric left overs from the front. I didn't have to buy anything more and I love the scrappy puzzle piece feel it has.

Kitty Fun

What is it Jack sees outside the window??

The neighbors cats playing with Queen 1 while she waits for the bus. Pumpkin and Little black

Pumpkin is a snuggler.

I got a new machine

Isn't it beautiful? It has more bells and whistles than I know what to do with but I can grow into it. I love the quilting table extension.

These are the blocks that I did to try out the machine and get to where I could do a straight stitch. It has over 75 stitches on the machine so finding the basic one took me some time.

I finially bit the bullet and started quilting the horse quilt. I have three more to do after this one and I was making a list of all the ones I want to do and it numbered nine. Yikes!!!