Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

There is so much to be thankful for.  Family, friends, things large and small. Everyday miracles.

Thank You

to those who have served and are currently serving in our armed forces.  And a big thank you as well to their families.  

Our lives would be very different without your service.  I am eternally grateful.

The Names Have Been Changed

to protect the guilty.  Could this be you?

Yes, it's time for a reminder to clean your machines.  They work hard for us and ask so little.  A bit of canned air, a little oil, some lubricant, a new needle, a gentle wiping off of dust.  

I'm hoping that this is not what you find when you open the bottom....

Yes, that is an enormous amount of lint and a ... what the!?!? ... PIN!

Even lint around the gears at the other side of the machine.

Oh, MY!!!!  In the owner's defense, she had just acquired the machine and she was as shocked as the rest of us.  

In the end, this machine was spic and span inside and out and ran like a top.  She breathed a sigh of relief that she was now in good hands that would not let this happen again.

The moral of the story?  A little TLC and maintenance go a long way to keeping that machine humming along.  

Optical Illusion

Doesn't this look like smoke coming out of these trees?  Lucky for us, it is just a cloud formation.

Good Things Come...

to those who persevere!  Here are two ladies with proof!

Joanne finished Bliss Doubled recently.  The center is all hand pieced and appliqued.  Don't you love the border stripe!  Absolutely stunning, Joanne!

And Judy E (you can just see her lovely hair above the quilt) finished Monthly Bliss 3.  The blocks are all hand pieced.  Check out those points!  That's Karen H standing at the left--she's our "Quilt Vanna"!  Soft, serene, breathtaking...ahhhh, it's a beautiful quilt.  

I am so proud of these ladies.  Have pictures of your Sharon Stroud projects, flimsies or finished?  I'd love to share them here.  

Happy November!  Just regular rain today.