occurred to me the other day that I make one large project a year (at least). Last year, it was the Zoo Family Portrait. The year before that, it was my beautiful Half Square Triangle Trip Around the World. This year, I’m going to do a block of the month (BOM) from The Quilt Show, called Garden Party Down Under.

When I first learned how to machine quilt several years ago, it was because I knew I couldn’t make as many quilts that I wanted to with just hand quilting. I had so many ideas, so many designs. Machine quilting made quilting faster.