Sew, this is meant to be a blog about my learning to quilt so I'd better get on with it. This is a picture of me with my first pieced baby quilt I made and machine quilted using a straight stitch. I made it for my grandson Jacob in January. Quilting has always been in my mind as something I wanted to learn since I was a teenager learning to sew. But I always thought it would be later, when I got older and less busy. Well I'm older and we can argue about the less busy part. When we moved here last year it was to the perfect place because my neighbor happens to have a quilt shop in her basement and the rest is history. I am hooked or should I say pinned. I started going over while everyone else were quilting and I would work on the quiet books that I was making for my grandkids last Christmas. Then my neighbor had a class to learn to make a top for a Christmas quilt. This is the top we made.

I finally finished piecing it in Feb. and then in May I free motion quilted it. That was hard and I am not very good at it. At some point I will try it again. That's all for now. More to come.