Morning all,
I see QuiltE is back. Good to hear from you again.
fmhall2 - the totes and purse sound great. Anything goes. Even the interpretation of patriotic is rather loose around here. Whatever makes you feel proud of your country.
Muv - we are so proud of you. Congratulations on having your hard work displayed in such a "pub"lic location. Waiting impatiently for pics.
MaryKatherine - gorgeous. Are more coming for thios year? When were those ones made?
YukonViv - We'll be here when ever you and QuiltE and anyone else are ready to roll.
Thanks for the patterns.
Got most of the quilting done on Canada D'Eh but life interfered so had to do family stuff instead. Decided to use a different decorative stitch on each border strip. The first strip took 50 minutes for a less than 40 inch border and that was just light meandering, no heavy stitching! I tried to speed up the stitiching but broke the thread. Now I remember why I switched from Mettler thread to Gutermann. I noticed it as soon as I threaded my machine, the Mettler was thin and broke fairly easily. But, I was in a hurry when I bought the red so didn't shop around. Live and learn, and hopefully remember next time. (There's now a note on my bulletin board above the sewing machine.)
The decorative star stitching looks pretty darn cool, though.