Okay I have been really bad at posting but no time like the present to catch up!

I finished this quilt last fall and it is my first attempt at quilt-making since I took the habit back up after an extremely long hiatus.  Like 15 years or so..... 

Way back in the 70's I had bought a Singer Creative touch machine and it was a nightmare. Between my inexperience and the shops lack of assistance I hated the machine. I think they were glad to get my money and that was as far as I was going to go. I would tell them the machine would sew and there would be all kinds of loops and thread on the bottom the my stitching and they would service it for 20 bucks and tell me it needed it every 30 days and offer no assistance. Why a sewing machine should need servicing every 30 days is beyond me. I fought with that machine for years! I will never buy another Singer. 

All those evil people at that shop had to have told tell me was that the presser foot had to be in the up position when threading the machine! I even brought them samples. I finally read an article on Ebay, of all places, about fixing old sewing machines that explained my problem. Boy did I feel stupid!

Fast forward to last fall and I had given my sewing machine away to a brave relative and I sneaked into Hancocks and bought a Janome 8050. What an difference! It sews like a dream and is quiet and I don't have some arrogant shop keeper telling me that I have to keep paying monthly just to keep my machine working. But..... I do make sure the presser foot is always raised when I thread the machine. Got to Make sure the thread travels thru the tension disks. Okay maybe I have forgotten a couple of times, but I always know how to fix it.

Anyway, I found this Bali pop package in a shop in Evanston, Il and I thought they were the prettiest combination of colors I had seen in a while. This pattern I used is from "Two for One Jelly Roll Quilts" by Pam Lintott and Nicky Lintott. I still have enough strips for another quilt! The lesson I learned on this quilt is to always cut the border along the selvages or in other words along the straight of the grain (the non-stretchy side). I cut my borders crossways and my borders got kind of wavy especially after free motion quilting. Well, you live and learn. I's still pretty and only another quilter will notice my borders, I hope.....