New Machine

This past fall I bought a new machine, and it really is a NEW machine, not just new to me, but new to being used!

I bought a Husqvarna Viking Ruby 90.  Here she is straight out of the box.  I will probably use her mainly for embroidery, and the occasional zig zag stitch (since none of my singers have a zig zag stitch)

I don't really have a lot of room to keep her in my sewing room, but I made room.  I am just using a fold up table.  

I love that I can sew & embroider at the same time.  I love having it set up! 

I have wanted an embroidery machine FOREVER! When I was in high school they had one (and Husqvarna Viking) that I could use, and I learned how to use it, I think I knew it better than the teacher ;) 

I have already done a lot with my machine, labels for my quilts, Christmas gifts, and more! I can't wait to share it all!

Design Wall Monday

Here is what is up on my design wall, they are blocks I am doing as a scrap buster challenge.  It's definitely helped me cut into my scraps!

 

I am trying not to finish this all at once, I am not using it as a leader/ender, but every once in a while I make a few blocks.  I think I will make a total of 120 blocks and then finish the quilt.  I am 1/10th of the way there with 13 blocks!

Here's hoping this one doesn't turn into a UFO by the end of the year ;)

Finished Friday!

 Well I have my first finish of the year!  It is actually a quilt I started in 2013.  It was a black & white log cabin.  You can see the progression of it here.    

I quilted this quilt at some point, but it doesn't look like I took pictures of it.  It has been sitting quilted in my closet for years.  I don't know why I didn't just bind it (as an aside that has been my issue since getting my long arm, I finish quilting but don't finish the quilts as much, which is crazy since I have my accuquilt I have cut out so much binding!).  

It's not super big.  But I think it will be perfect for the recipient.  One of my husband's cousins recently adopted, and rather than get him a toy, we decided a quilt would be better.  And I remembered I had this one.  I thought it would be perfect for a little boy.  

So maybe that's why I didn't finish this quilt all the way, I hadn't found a recipient for it yet :)

Of course now I want to make another log cabin! I love how fun and simple they are

All people quilt January

Every year All people quilt does a UFO* challenge where you list out 12 UFOs you have, they give you a number each month and you work on that quilt.  I tried to do it in 2021, but moving half way during the year put a damper on getting that done.  I knew I wanted to do it again in 2023.  

So I put together a list of all the quilts I had that still need to be finished.  And January's number was 3, and my number 3 was my pinwheel quilt a long, that I started in 2010.  

I am excited to have the top done.  I knew I wanted to add borders, the issue was, I did not have a lot of the fabrics left.  I like how the borders turns out.

I am not 100% done with it, as I need to quilt it, but I think I have some fabric that will work nicely for the backing, once there's a nice weather day, I think I will be going to the garage to quit this.

* UFO - Unfinished Object - can be a quilt that you started, that you haven't even cut, but it's a project that isn't done!