I did 4 of these dish towel, one is sent off in the mail already but these are a fun project, I learned to do sewing machine caligraphy a couple months ago and thought these dish towels would be a lot of fun as  Christmas gifts.  I use vintage linens and counted cross stitch that if find treasure hunting at thrift shops and garage sales.  I just can't pass up a project that someone spent hours on and someone else just discarded, I just have to give them a new home.  Fabreann is my daughter, Jeannie is my daughter-in-law and Julie is my dear quilting friend.  Merry

Hi everyone---how are you all doing with getting Christmas done?  I'm almost done just a bit more to bake and then we can DO Christmas.  I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy Quilting in 2013

Hi---it's time to load the latest quilt--so fun---Olivia (my Irish E-Pal) sent me oriental fabric for Christmas last year so I found this pattern that was just perfect---then we had a class on sewing machine calography at our guild meeting so I tried it out on this quilt, with practice I will get better but am pretty happy with the way it came out.  The Japanese symbol means "Spring".  This is not a real big quilt 60 X70 which is a small one in my book but I'm getting old so my quilts may start getting smaller??????

sewing machine caligraphy

This is way fun, so easy and sure does add to any project.The Japanese symbol means "Spring"

Beautiful pictures of home & Kick Ass sewing room

Summer has been so hot as of today we have had 26 days above 90 degrees, last year we had 6, I'm so lucky because my sewing room is in my basement and with the air conditioner on the cool air sinks to the basement and I'm in 7th quilters heaven.  Just loaded a whole cloth quilt into my frame and started it today, this one will take me quite a while as it has a lot of stitches to be had.  Something to do while watching and listening to TV.  Hope your summer is going great and all of you are quilting up a storm.  pb