This is the view as seen by my knees, he WAS looking out the window contently listening to the lull of the machine but I had to go and mess up my tension and disturb his daydreaming.  He loves when mamma gets out the camera!  He smiles and crawls to grab it so I have to be QUICK!

If there is any wonder why projects progress at a snail’s pace around here, this should clear it up!

A few of you have asked me these past weeks about what the heck stippling is!  Well, in short it is free motion quilting in a meandering style, like doodling on a piece of paper.  Free motion means the sewing machine is not pulling the fabric through, you have to guide it.  Imagine a pen and paper, normally we write with a pen on a stationary piece of paper, well with free motion quilting you move the “paper,” and the needle is the pen.  Make sense?  True stippling means that lines CANNOT cross or touch.  Here is a little you tube video if you are more of a visual person!  I need to get some of those gloves!  Evidently there is a better solution than using my yellow dish gloves! Ha!

…but before you ooohhh & ahhh too much I must confess that the middle six squares are a cheater quilt panel from Denyse Schmidt’s Country Fair line from Pink Chalk Fabrics.  Nonetheless, I LOVE it.  The catch is that I have no idea how to quilt it, nor do I know how to bind it, and I have little clue what the back is going to look like or where I am going to find fabric to do it, AND I haven’t sorted out what I want the batting to be either! HA! But it is a start and something to learn some new skills with!  I am not committing to any time frame for this to be complete, so don’t hold your breath to see the finished results, but I really have enjoyed doing something on this scale– more than I thought.  The final measurements are set to be 66″x75″, apparently a great “family” sized quilt.

yes, those are cut band-aids!

…wait until you see what I have planned for this guy!