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I was searching for a binding tutorial for a friend and came across this free motion quilting tutorial and thought it was worth sharing.

http://sewinspired.blogspot.com/2007/09/free-motion-machine-quilting-tutorial.html

I have yet to try free motion quilting. I guess I am worried that I will really suck at it. LOL. Most of my quilts get straight line quilted with my walking foot. It is safe I know.

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Here are 4 more post card quilts that I made for swaps this week. They are in the mail. So keep your eyes peeled girls.

Yesterday I got the goose creek quilt back in the mail. I had sent it to my mother in-law Judy to quilt it. She has a long arm quilt machine. It turned out beautifully. I love it so much I don’t want to give it over to the person I made it for. Now i can officially cross it off the UFO list. YEAH.

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Tops- Need to be sandwiched and quilted

1. 30’s Baby quilt
2. Cowboy baby quilt
3. R/W/Blue mini bow tie wall hanging
4. Gingerbread man wall hanging
5. 2007 BOM quilt
6. Broken dishes baby quilt
7. Blue snowball quilt
8. Red & Yellow floral Zig Zag quilt
9. Goose Creek Civil War

Blocks Done- Need to be sewn into tops

1. Dutchman civil war
2. Prairie Queen
3. Pink and White 9 patch
4. Batik Churn Dash
5. Blue and Cream Civil war sampler
6. Bright Quilt
7. Halloween Quilt
8. Red/White/Black quilt
9. Fish block top
10. Balkan puzzle
11. Grannie’s Floral garden
12. Floral log cabin
13. Red Anvil
14. Floral Shoo-fly
15. Orange and green Snowball
16. Autumn trails
17. 9 Patch Cream

WIP- Need more blocks to complete

1. Bow Tie
2. 2006 BOM
3. Baby buds
4. White and cream log cabin
5. Sunbonnet Sue
6. Butterfly Shoo-fly
7. Heart Crazy Quilt
8. Lily wall hanging
9. 30’s Churn Dash
10. 2008 BOM
11. Scrappy Block
12. Friendship Star
13. 25 patch Star wall hanging
14. Double friendship star
15. Blue and white Star

I added two more to the list so that makes 41.

Through my blog hopping adventures I have seen many quilters who have listed their UFO’s. I thought I should do that some day. I haven’t really had the time. Today while I was sitting around and feeling some what better I decided to actually list and count my projects. I am ashamed to admit that I have only been sewing and making quilts for 4 1/2 years and I have accumulated 39 UFO’s. 8 are complete tops. 16 are projects that all the blocks are made they just need to be made into tops. And 15 are WIP. These numbers are crazy to me. I thought I had about 20. Never close to 40. So can you tell where my ADD takes over during the quilt making process. It seems that I like to make  a lot of blocks and worry about tops later. I am still amazed at my lack of commitment when it comes to finishing a project. So now I have to convince myself not to start any new projects until I finish some of my UFO’S.

I haven’t had time to post sense Friday. I really haven’t had time to sew either. My oldest son was out of school on Monday and Tuesday. He had a friend spend the night. You would think that having two 13 year olds here that they would be able to keep an eye out for the 5 year old. No such luck. I was a ref for most of the time. Mom they won’t let me play too. Mom Josh won’t leave us alone. And so on and so forth. Last night I did get to sew a block once diner was over with. Then my 13 year old son reminded me he needed a book for school. So I had to go to books a million in hopes that they still had some of the books left. Luckily they had 3 left. I browsed around for a few minutes and found tons of books I would love to buy but didn’t. Gotta save up for baby things. The little bugger is down right expensive.

This morning I went over and picked up my four year old niece Emily. I called yesterday hoping if she was here maybe her and Joshua would play nice and I might be able to get some sewing done. My plan worked. They haven’t played together in a little over a week and were ready for each others company. Don’t get me wrong, there have been a few tears over toys and TV shows. But for the most part they have been wonderful.

So here are some pictures of blocks I made today for some swaps I am in.

Last week I got some red, white, and blue mini bow ties in the mail from a swap. There were enough 6 1/2 inch blocks to make 9 12 1/2 inch blocks. I whipped them together today. I thought about making more. Then thought hey this will be a cute wall hanging for one of my many bare walls. I still haven’t taken the time to hang up pictures. Woe is me. I have some red, white, and blue paisley material I think I will use for a border and call it finished.

Okay, so i finally got around to taking a picture of the beautiful baby quilt my mother in-law sent us.

Isn’t it adorable. Too cute to use, right? Here are some close ups.

I just love the bears dancing and the one holding a hot pie. She is so clever.

I just finished sewing all the strips together. Whew. I was half way done. Once I started the second half it went by in a breeze. I am so excited about this top. I love antique looking quilts. And now I am in love with the scrappy look. It isn’t 100% scrappy. I couldn’t possible bring myself to by hundreds of different civil war fabrics. It is just too expensive. So I did my best trying to keep like patterns away from each other. There is only one problem. I love it so much I don’t want to give it up. BOO HOO. Maybe someday I can make myself one. It looks mighty nice on my bed though. LOL.