Flowers and A New Sewing Machine

Now, what could be better than flowers and a new sewing machine. I don't know. My husband showed up this afternoon with a bouquet of flowers for me. There wasn't any special occasion or anything. He just wanted to say he loves me. That's so sweat. After 13 years of marriage, it's nice to have those little reminders.

And then I bought a new sewing machine. It's just a basic machine. But I can do free motion quilting with it. I'm very excited about that. I bought the foot to do it. So now I have to practice, before I actually do it on one of my big quilts. My old machine did it's job. It didn't always work. I couldn't touch the tension or the thread would get all bunched up. I'm going to keep it though. My daughter can use it to practice. Well, I hope everyone has a great day!

Happy Stitching!

Ariane

My finished Top!!! Yeah!!!

I just added the last border. That's it for the top. Yeah!!

Finished Pieced Border

I finally finished the pieced border for my son's quilt. It was very difficult for me. I had to rip it apart 4 times because it didn't fit the quilt. I had to make an adjustment block for the top and bottom because the border was short one inch. The two long sides had the same amount of blocks but were different lenghts. It took me forever and really tried my patience. I'm just a beginner and probably should not have taken on such a difficult border. But I did it. It's not perfect. It still looks really good. I'm proud of myself for not quiting all together. I still have to put a small border on the outer edge of the pieced border, but then I can put the quilt together. Yeah!!! My son keeps asking me when it will be done. Well, he can't say I haven't been working hard at it. I don't think it helps that I haven't slept well the last four nights. Well, I'm just happy that I got this done. We had a snow day today. The kids got to stay home from school. We are having a big snow storm. It was a good thing it was my regular day off, otherwise I would have had to take the day off work. Well, I hope everyone had a good day.

Happy Stitching!

Ariane

Pieced Border in progress

Hi everyone, I showed you a picture earlier today of the first border I put on my son's quilt. I have been working on a pieces border to add to it. I have done a bit of it and thought I should show you. I'm really excited to get it done now that I've seen how it will look. This is my first time putting more detail into a border. I really like it. I still have a ways to go, but it's a start.

Ariane