So, the last time I turned on my quilting machine was….somewhere around the 18th or 19th of September.  I went off to Seattle to teach, and when I came back — I just got busy with other stuff…and pretty soon I find it’s been nearly a month!

This weekend, I decided it was probably time to clear the junk off the table and just quilt something — anything!

I decided it was time to quilt this top that I blogged about back in August.  It required piecing a back first, but piece it I did, and between Sunday evening and Monday morning this got quilted:

Just a fun freehand feathery, swirly thing.

The thread color is Mother Goose — it’s a little bit dark on the cream fabric on the front, but it’ll do.  It felt good to have something go on and get done quickly and easily — a confidence builder…

I really haven’t done a whole heck of a lot of longarm quilting in the last year, and I feel a bit rusty in some ways.

Now I can add it to my stack of quilts that are waiting for the binding to be hand-stitched to the back.  I think there are 4 quilts in that pile now.  The other night I said to Mark “I should teach you how to hand-stitch bindings.”  You should have SEEN the dirty look I got from him.  I thought it was a good idea — it would help keep him awake when he watches a movie, right?

I guess I’ll just have to rely on my mom and my own two hands to get those bindings finished.

And those two hands are tired and way past due for a trip to bed, so:

TTFN-

Suzanne

p.s.  I think I’m now caught up on all of the blog posts I had thought of while I was without a very good connection.  I may have exaggerated the total in my earlier post, but I’m glad to have all of these things shared with the universe finally.