Remember that fabric I showed you a few weeks ago? Look at what it has become:

The second one is a bit blurry, but we've been overcast for the past few days. I'll get a better picture when I get a chance. But the big point here is that during the making of these quilts, no one died, or threw a hissy fit, and no sewing machines were damaged or pitched off the roof of our house. I think that the machine and I actually came to an agreement on how to work together. And! The walking foot! I ordered the right one, attached it properly, and used it. 

I am a genius.

The hardest part of the whole thing was getting the entire quilt through the machine on the longest passes; you think it is no big deal, but then you try wrestling with five feet of batting and fabric through a machine while you're trying to steer it down a rather narrow line, and then get back to me. We'll chat. I took breaks during the quilting and managed to knock out four squares for a baby blanket, knit in good ol' boring stockingette, but they are finished and blocking as I type this and will be mailed off next week. I'm on a freakin' roll, y'all.  Up next: I'm tackling the Forest Path Stole, which I'm currently up to the second tier on, and pushing through the cross stitch stocking that will end up being my daughter's for Christmas. And somewhere in there I'll manage to go to school, work, and take care of my family. When I can fit it in.