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Quilting Time!

I have actually had some time this week to quilt! I got the Halloween pinwheel quilt done except for the binding. I found these cute spiders to add to the spiderweb that I quilted on each block. So cute!

I have also been working on a Christmas quilt using a jelly roll.

A little quilting progress

I finally started quilting this quilt. I chose to do a loop design. I made the loops pretty small so it is slow going.

I needed a break from this quilt and found this cute Halloween fabric.

And spent the day making a tablerunner. And eating some ice cream.

My husband took the boys to Grandma's for a few hours so I had some quiet time all to myself! Pure heaven.

He also said I could buy a new sewing machine! Not sure what kind to get. Time to do some research :)

Back to reality

This is where I have spent the last 5 days. Pure heaven! We went to the Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota for...  

Beautiful sunsets

Lots of fishing

Wonderful water views

The boys loved the sand, kayaks and being able to just drop your pole into the water to get fish. It was a great trip!

While we were there I was able to finish all of my hexagons. Now I need to decide what to do with them.

I was also able to stop by Country Fabrics and Quilting in Brainerd. They won 1st place in the Quilt Minnesota Store Display sponsored by Moda. This was a wonderful store. A great mixture of fabrics - batiks, Moda, Amy Butler, wool, flannels. I walked away with some Hope Valley by Densye Schmidt and some Amy Butler - I think from her Midwest Modern line but not positive.

My current project

This is what I was working on before my basement flooded. I was so close to having the final borders on.

I had originally stitched this small floral.

But then decided to use the same large floral of the appliqued flowers.

I am hoping to find some time the next couple nights to finish the borders, then I need to pick a quilting pattern. I would like to try something new. Any ideas?

What a wet and tiring weekend

This is what I have been looking at all weekend! We have had so much rain here in Iowa - now I have a wet basement. We had to move everything to a storage bin and tear out the carpet and padding - which is now on my driveway drying out.

This was my sewing corner of the basement. I picked 5 projects to keep at the house and the rest went to storage. We are going to make me a corner in the living room, so I don't go insane the next few months as we are putting things back together.
Not sure when I will have more quilting projects to show. But now I have a chance to play around with EQ7. I loaded that on my computer this afternoon.

Look what I got!!!

Look what I bought myself! I am sooooo excited! Not sure when I will have time to load it and play around. But I can't wait!

Is anyone else using EQ7?