Back to business....

Whew....my old laptop has been on "bed rest" since last week sometime! It decided it didn't want to fire up after its trip from home to the store and back one evening. Not a good thing. So, after we got it up and running at home and made sure we had backups of EVERYTHING, we put it on bed rest until its replacement arrived earlier this week. But now I am back in business and ready to catch up on my posts. I am going to play "catch up" in chronological order.

First, I promised a picture of Tracey's Amish quilt from the "Bits and Pieces" book. Isn't it wonderful? She hand quilted it, and as I said before, even cut her own stencil for the border design. It doesn't show up that great here - you'll have to stop by and see it at the store. (And did you know that you can "click" on any of the pictures in the blog and then see them lots bigger?!?) She kindly let me hang it here for a while. She taught her Beginning Paper Piecing class today - it was GREAT. I still have the sample for the class hanging on the design wall....maybe we could convince her to teach it again?

And next, is the Moda Valentine panel that Jan and I collaborated on. Isn't it bright and fun? Jan did all of the hard work of quilting, and I sewed the binding on. Wouldn't it look good hanging some place at your house or as a gift for someone to brighten up a spot for Valentine's Day? It's really pretty fast to do this way, or you could build around it and make it bigger if you'd like.

Okay...enough for today. Tomorrow, I'll have two great pictures of a very fun jacket that Marilyn made! And then we'll almost be caught up, at least until we get another project ready for the next picture. Hope you all have a great Saturday! We'll be hosting the Applique Society in the morning tomorrow, and then Jan's Beginning Needleturn Applique Class in the afternoon.