She does not adhere to the Birthday Week idea, yet. I gave her a fancy box that will hold blocks andthings needed for a quilt all in one place. It was filled with all sorts of little things, like a ceramic knife and a gift card for an outfit for a cruise she will be going on shortly.
While we worked in the morning I got another quilt finished to the top stage. It is called Machine. And, silly me, all it needed was the outside borders! I washed the backing last night, something I generally do not do, but it felt stiff with that sizing. It came from Connecting Threads so I am not really sure why that was.
So it will go into the to be quilted pile. And what in the world would you do? Maybe a quilting path like Krista does? That might be the only way to go on this one.

The rest of the machine is fabric from my stash. Although she does sell kits.
I was going to present this as a mystery quilt. It would have been a fabulous one!
I used to follow her blog daily but now that she started doing patterns/books and fabric all she wants to do is sell you stuff. She no longer posts casually and friendly like. It is all business.
I miss that. Now I am just a consumer to her.
(Geez, I must be having a bad week or something!)
I guess it is obvious I have nothing to sell to you. If I did, I might present this blog in a totally different way.
I am still working on my word for this year. Now I am thinking it might just be "sock it to 'em with Honesty".
So it you want to hear it straight.......give me a call.