This and That

The new sewing table is officially broken in, a glorious, colorful mess adorning the top!

I'm trying to get the houses and skeleton border finished for the Dia de los Muertos quilt.

That zebra bag is filled to the rim with scraps!

Bulletin Board

And here's my Thanksgiving crew in the goofy picture, the whole gang except my husband who was the photographer.  We are having another lower key family dinner this afternoon with my lovely mother-in-law. 

Wow, that weekend sure went quickly.

HEXIE'S

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Here's an update on the last Hexie Update...  In the prior post, I decided to go with the diamond pattern, and now have pieced together a few of the diamonds.  I have 15 diamonds made... there are 25 Hexie's in each diamond... 15 x 25 plus white hexie's... it is beyond me!   Many more to come, these Hexie's are quite the project.

I added a purple diamond last evening.

Here's the back, a labor of love for sure.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I am off to shop and begin preparing the big feast for tommorrow.  We will have all of our children in the same house for the meal tomorrow for the first time in four years.  Our 19 year old arrived home from college last night, and the rest of our children are now local... at least for the time being.  My parents will be joining us for dinner as well, and we'll get to visit with my mother-in-law over the weekend.  So all in all a big family weekend, (no pun intended), just as Thanksgiving should be.  I'm sure to throw some sewing in there at some point.  Happy holidays.



Virtues of a new sewing machine

About a month ago I made the big purchase, and retired my little old Singer (don't worry I haven't completely forgotten her!) and bought a new machine.  My criteria was the ability to FMQ, a long neck for quilting and a simple machine.  Although there is quite a learning curve with a new machine, all in all I am quite pleased.

My quilt wrestling days are over, PHEW!

Although I mostly FMQed on the cow quilt, I did outline the words with the built in walking foot.  When the sales lady told me about the built in walking foot I kind of blew it off, but I love, love, love this feature.

As you can see, no neat folding or clipping while quilting, I find just smunching the quilt up works best for me.

My only real complaint about the new machine is that the instruction manual has no instructions!  Thankfully, the shop has been great about answering my questions.

Granddaughter Nadin with her Uncle Cort. 

In case you are wondering, Nadin is my new granddaughter, Cort my youngest son.  This was taken last weekend up at our cabin, really this was one of the only patches of snow around and it was unseasonably warm.  Nadin really wanted to wear her snow suit.

Have a great day!

Making Fabric

Hi all, good to be back after a little break for real life, :).  I have been making green fabric this week as the background for my Cow Quilt, which is my first "story quilt."  I sort my scraps by color, (ok sometimes I sort them, usually I stuff them in the drawer and son Cort sorts them for me) so I pulled out the green bag and just start sewing them together.  I also add from stashed fabric and bought a few new greens too just for fun!  Here we go!

I can tell you story quilts are FUN, endless possibilities.

Also visited my 18 year old son Niles last weekend at the USAFA where he is a freshman...  needless to say, I am one proud mama.

Cort, Niles, Kat

Here's to Friday nights and the upcoming weekend!