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Been a while...

I hate when I go to a blog, usually though Pinterest, and when I look to see what they are currently doing their last post from 3 years ago is titled "It's been a while" or something along those lines... I really do think about blogging often but I get easily distracted when I'm online. First I have to get on Pandora (favorite station at the moment) and find some music to listen to. Then I check the rabbit hole, also known as Facebook. I need to stop checking that on my computer, it's too easy to get lead down to watching cute animal videos or recipe tutorials etc. E-mail usually isn't a problem. I look for specific senders and then move on.
I have been pretty busy though, I bought a new sewing machine. A Juki TL2200QVP mini. I love it and have been doing a lot of piecing. I finished a table runner I started years ago that is red, blue and white and I'm glad it was finished before Summer got here. I also finished piecing a quilt top and have it all basted and ready to go I'm still trying to decide how I want to quilt it... I'm not so good at Free motion quilting yet and I really don't want to ruin it. Maybe I'll work on it this weekend. It's the largest quilt I've made to date and I'm pretty happy with it.

I started a Dresden Plate quilt using some vintage reprint fabric. I have all the blades sewn I just need to sew them together and stitch them on their background squares. Haven't decided if I'm going to use sashing in between the rows and columns...

And last in the quilting news department, I joined The Fat Quarter Shop's Mystery Designer Block of the Month Club. I got the block and made it that day! It was so much fun, I can't wait for next month's kit to come!

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