Mother's Day surprise

What better news to get on Mother's Day than your daughter is pregnant with your first grandchild?

I went to the fabric store to buy fabric for the baby's first quilt. I'm making one quilt now and I'll make another one when we find out if it's a boy or a girl. She is due Dec. 4th. I'm so excited!

I'm working on this quilt now and have put Diamonds and Pearls on the back burner.

Diamonds and Pearls quilt with the Split Rects Ruler

Lovely spring weather has arrived in North Carolina and I want a new quilting project so I turned to youtube to find inspiration.  I stumbled across a tutorial for the Diamonds and Pearls quilt which is made using the Split Rects Ruler.  You can see the quilt in the background.

I used Omnigrid's highlighter tape called Glow line tape on my ruler.  I love this tape, really helps to see the lines on the ruler at a glance. It comes in 3 colors and I found it at JoAnn.

Ode to sewing machines #24

Many of you follow my "Ode to the Sewing Machine" posts.  We've all seen the ads on craigslist, ebay and elsewhere.  The clueless sellers give those of us who sew a belly laugh, or two!

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Rainy days of February

This is a client quilt I've started working on today. Should be done by the weekend!

Is there a better way to spend a Saturday than quilting?

If there is a better way I sure can't think of one!  This is a quilt top I made this week.  It's a freebie pattern from Jordan Fabrics called Ribbon Quilt.  I used a layer cake called La Vie En Rouge by Moda fabrics.

Home-Ec is taught in this school!

In homeschool today my son made his first loaf of bread.  Yes, we used a breadmaker but still, it's a loaf of bread!  We added home-ec to his schedule this month and it's going pretty well.  He wants to make more bread!

My latest quilt

I finished longarming a stipple design and put the binding on yesterday.  It's being shipped out on Monday!

A great buy on a used sewing machine

I decided to buy another Bernina sewing machine to use as a travel machine.  I'd rather not take my regular Bernina to classes, I don't want it to be accidentally damaged.  I found a used Bernina 170 for sale at my local dealer for $500.   It has 12 buttonholes, 128 decorative stitches and so much more.  But it is considered out of date computer-wise so it was very inexpensive.  I only use a sewing machine for straight stitch anyway so being out of date is not a problem!  If you're looking for a Bernina sewing machine I highly recommend looking for one on ebay, facebook markeplace and your local dealer.  You can get some great buys!