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I finally finished machine quilting, binding & labeling a wallhanging that was part of a round robin I participated in in 2007. The center block is the Switzerland Star from Carol Doak's book "Mariner's Compass Stars". I liked every block in that book so I had my dh choose his favorite. This quilt has been a bit of a challenge for me to quilt as I don't feel I am all that good at machine quilting, but I must say that when it was all done I was very pleased with it. We need to learn not to be… Continue

I noticed yesterday that when I posted to the blog it came up twice so thought I had done something wrong. However, I see this is continuing to happen. I just went back & deleted the 2nd one, but guess there is a glitch some where in the system.

As I was sitting here reading the kind thoughts that are sent to members who are in need of a cyber-hug as well as other blogs it occurred to me that we sure are a wonderful huge "family" here on the Connecting Threads forum!!! This past year and a half has been very hard on me due to my husband losing his job in Las Vegas and then moving to Missouri for a job that was no longer available after we got here! However, I have to remind myself that at least we have still had enough money coming in t… Continue

My son Corey was at a 7-11 with his 2 kids getting ready to put gas in his car. Just as he was reaching to unscrew the gas cap, a drunk man, driving about 50 mph through the parking lot, hit the front quarter panel of his car & turned it completely side ways! It just makes me shudder to think how much worse this situation could have been had he been pumping the gas! Now the man is sitting in jail, but at least he did have car insurance! My grandies were shook up (they are 10 & 5), but ot… Continue

At the request of some of the other members I have set up a group for those of us who quilt using our own domestic (home) machines instead of a mid-arm or longarm machine or quilter. I'm hoping to get a good list of members who can help pass around any helpful hints & other info they have acquired over the years as well as members who are hoping to improve their machine quilting skills such as I am.