Sunbonnet Sue and a pretty beetle

Here is the Sunbonnet Sue quilt.


And here is the back:


OK. I quilted these blocks one at a time for a couple of reasons.

1. I wanted a portable project
2. I didn't want to baste it

You can't really tell from the pic, but there are about a billion pins in the back of this. I hate pins!!! But how else do you put these together??? Sewing the fronts of the blocks together by machine wasn't so bad in spite of having to negotiate the batting and backing. But then trimming the batting to match exactly, whipping it together and folding the backing down was a huge pain! And I think the front has buckled a bit despite my efforts to pull it out as I was working on the back. Moral of this story - basting is not so bad!

So working a block at a time is not so much fun. Actually, quilting a block at a time is, I just haven't figured out a satisfactory way to join them that I can enjoy. I'll have to keep working on that.

Not so quilty but very fun - check out this way cool bug my way cool kid found on the way home from school! Isn't he pretty? See his monster horn??? He's about the size of a dime. We looked him up on the web and he's a rainbow scarab. Cool, huh?