I have had the above quilt top finished for a while now...it has one more border than is shown here.  I pinbasted it last week but have not been able to decide how to quilt it.  It is for a childhood friend of Sarah's.  For her little boy.   I have about come to the conclusion that just meandering is the safest thing for me to do.  Still not set in stone.

I made a small quilt sandwich this afternoon to practice on and to see if the machine needed any adjustments.

This is the back...I considered quilting like this but just not so sure.  I am afraid on the actual quilt it will draw the attention to the quilting rather than the cute kitties.

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When I was sitting up my sewing machine for quilting, I gave myself a scare.  I put on the free-motion foot, and proceeded to wind a couple bobbins of thread after I made my thread choice.  Well, I took the first one off and put it in, while the other one wound.  So, I started to drop the needle down to pull the bobbin thread up.  I was first using the button that will either drop the needle down in or pull it up...it wouldn't work.  So I reached for the flywheel and tried to turn it forward.  It would not turn!  My heart just dropped...then I happened to notice that I had not taken the bobbin off...there is a little 'bar' that you push in in order to fill a bobbin and it was still pushed in.  When I pulled it out back, the machine worked fine.
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I am getting ready to post more of these over at my other blog...I took them within the past week or so.  It is from the same place as the other photos I showed a bit back...I don't know if it is part of the same group or not...I tend to think it is.  This time there were only 4...last time there were 9...and they all have beards about this long.

A few little things...

The Michigan Murders: The True Stories of the Ypsilanti Ripper's Reign of Terror  
by Edward Keys is my current read.   I was lucky enough to get it on sale for 99 cents.  I don't want a steady diet of true crime books, but I do read a few along.
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We had dreary, drizzly day.  Not one bit of sunshine.  And according to the weatherman we won't have any sun for the next few days, plus we will have more snow.  The main roads are now clear, but the side roads still have slick spots.

I record a lot of music shows...one of our favorites is Songs from the Center.  It is only a half hour show, but it will have singer songwrites...most I have not heard of.  Tonight we heard the one below...



On the show it was just Thor Platter and his guitar:  I liked it better but have not found that version.  He wrote this song when he was younger, but he did not say how young he was when he wrote it.

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We are watching the first episode of the new season of Victoria....so I best get off here and concentrate!

Decisions...

Forgive me if I have posted this before...I am thinking about making a bunch of these for a sew along I joined.  Funny how I joined it, and thought maybe it would inspire me to get something done but now it is just one more thing to try to do.  But maybe with time I will be more into it.  There is another option that I think I will do...maybe...
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We happened to come across a Matchbox 20 concert on TV the other night and I heard this song. It is new to me...but we both really liked it.



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