Another book

This one is for my neice (Jilly, if you are reading this, email me with your new address so I can send this to you!). She is very tactile, so every page has something to touch on it. I have a few little things I want to write in it and then it will be ready to go.
Elephants. Remember the Sesame Street song, "There's a Bird On Me?" I love that song! This page reminds me of that.

A goose and a shark. The goose is safe - the shark is swimming the other direction. Phew!

Kitties and a fancy frog. I love those kitties! I have a lot of them. I may get around to making a book of just kitties.

A boo-boo bear and a bunny. My lovely assistant loves her boo boo bear page, so I added one for cousin, too.

And a chicken. Chickens are just too cool. Have you ever noticed how many chickens there are on Sesame Street? Hmmmm....

Quilting machine update: the machine is home again! And it seems to be sewing much better. It still wants to break cotton thread, but the tension is good. I'm OK with poly thread. Today I did a lot of practicing with a cotton wrapped polyester and it didn't break at all! That felt good. I have a lot more practicing to do, but it sure is easier when I don't have to stop every 30 seconds to rethread the machine! I have several other threads to test, too. Maybe in a week or so I will be ready to do an actual quilt! I'll take some pics of my practice soon and post them.