January in pink

I'm working on two pink baby quilts for a friend's daughter who is having twin baby girls.
Sewing is not something I hurry through. The babies are due in February and I began the quilts in December. I kept the design simple and limited the quilting detail to the border areas. I had personal doubts that I would finish these quilts before the babies were born but planned my sewing time a bit better than I normally do and finished with a month to spare! I hope the new mother and babies will enjoy these quilts as much as I enjoyed making them.

Quilting is a process. Through the process you always learn something new that you didn't know when you finished the previous quilt. While making one of my quilts I discovered my sewing machine had a feature that made free motion quilting much easier and the results were much improved. How could I have not read the sewing machine manual and used that feature five quilts ago? Simply because I like to sew now and read later.

Our printer recently broke and it had to be replaced. I envisioned plugging that printer in and Wola! I would be ready to print, scan, and email with a new printer.

Hours later after reading the instructions numerous times, I finally called the tech for the printer manufacturer. (I also read the manual before installing, so the read first doesn't always prove to be success at first try. After an hour with the tech on the phone we were successful in installing a new printer.

I am now learning to set up and write a blog. I saw some instructions in the log in page and I definitely need to read it before I go any further with this blog.