Thanksgiving: What are you thankful for this year

I would like to see everyone write a post on what you are thankful for this past year.

I am thankful  that I have a roof over my head

I am thankful that I have my family here with me.

I am thankful that I live in the USA.

I am thankful that I have a job.

I am thankful for my sons

I am thankful for a loving husband

and I thank God for all that I have

on the lighter side:.....

I  am thankful that I have a fabric stash so that I can continue to quit.

I am thankful that I have two groups of quilting friends.  (all of you at QCA and My ladies in Patches and peace makers)

May God bless each and every one of you this holiday season.

scrappy quilt gift

I have a neat story to share with you all tonight:

We have a lady in our quilt group. Her name is Kay.

She makes scrappy quilts on her serger. She doesn't use her sewing machine except for binding. and her long arm for quilting. she has made hundreds of these quilts.  she has been with us a little over a year and I know that she has made15 scene then.  She had mentioned one night that she was reaching the end of her scrapes. I got to thinking about all the scraps that I have. Now those of you who know me,know that I will never use my them.  I went to the storage shed(yes everything is still in storage) and brought her one of the very large totes of scraps.  she was so excited.  Tonight at our monthly meeting during show and tell, She showed a lap size quilt made out of some of the scraps that I had given her.  After showing it to everyone, she brought it to me and said. "this is for you so that you will have a memory of all the quilts you have made.  I darn near burst into tears. It is wonderful. And I will use it well.

Mystery quilt #6

This is  another mystery quilt that we did at  Quilters club of America . It is the first quilt that I have actualy made and finished whithout starting something else before finishing it.  It is also the first quilt that I quilted on my new Janome 1600p-DBX.  I am realy going to like this machine.

missing in action

Sorry I have been gone for so long. We had a family member who was ill and passed away. Hopefuly things will calm down now and I can get back to this blog.

EQ7 tutorials

I have added a new page called EQ7 tutorials:
The first one is on designing a Bargello quilt using EQ7 software.
I hope that you find this tutorial helpful if you are trying to figure out how to design a Bargello quilt using EQ software.

secret sister quilt

This was a block of the month... sort of. Five years ago we got tired of doing the same old thing with our secret sisters. We decided to fill out a paper that told our favorite colors and what we would like to get from our secret sister. There were several diferent catigories to choose from. I chose to receive a block patern and material to go with it each month. My dearest friend shawntell drew my name. When I filled out the paper work I put that I was an advanced quilter. Well that was a mistake. She thought that it would be real cute to give me a strip of paper each month with a picture of a block on it and the size of the block. The rest was up to me to figure out. Each instruction strip came with enough fat quarters to construct the block. This is the finished quilt from that year. It is machine pieced and hand quilted. I tried to take a close up of the quilting on the individual blocks for you all to see, but the lighting isn't right.

My Christmas EyeCandy

Here is all the wonderful things I got for Christmas and my Birthday

 This is my mini floor frame, It is awasome

These two fabrics I purchased with a gift card

Connecting thread had a great sale on these two colections

Because I have pneumonia and can't do much I spent the day on EQ7 This is the patter from the Feb issue of APWQ the one on the cover. These are the drawings of the quilt using the fabrics purchased from Connecting Threads.