Changing up the Day

I didn't get out into the studio until well after lunch yesterday. We did shopping for food and then by the time we came home and unloaded everything and made and ate lunch, it was well after noon. Jim brought me home a gingerbread house kit from his earlier trip to Lansing on Monday and I constructed that while he was out removing giant chunks of ice from our eaves...

Once that was all constructed and cleanup of said house was finished, I headed out to the studio. Finally.

Here's what I'll be working on today...

Look at all those HST's!!!

I have an idea on how the HST's are going to be quilted in my head. I have to get my preview paper out this morning to make sure it's going to flow correctly before I start this though. This quilt was made by a LQS to honor our country's 250th birthday. How cool is that?

Once I fiddled around on Bernie and got this on, I moved over to DW and removed the table runner quilted the previous night, made the binding and got it finished. It's ready to head to under the tree.

I did not feel like working on the Alaska quilt and DW had an empty frame. I noticed something I gridded out earlier this fall and decided to find a back for it (and I did), pieced said back, and started loading for the project I've been wanting to do for some time now. Do these look familiar?

Petals for the upcoming DW project

If (and this is a big if) this works out, it's going to be pretty cool. I got the idea from another long armer out there who not only quilts quilts on her machine, but uses it in other useful ways as well. I'm thinking, if she can do it, I can too. 

One customer expected today for pick up and Christmas is less than a week away. I have a LOT to do around here for gifting so I better get to work.