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Saturday, April 29, 2017

Another top for H2H and I have a new toy!


“Life is a game. It is up to you to be a toy or become a player”  Prabakaran Thirumalai



Awhile back I bought a pre-printed fabric Thomas the Train book that I intended to cut into blocks to make a quilt for my grandson, who was head over heels in love with Thomas........
Well, time flies and now he is into Poke'mon so I decided to finish the idea and donate it to Hands to Help instead..........I had used the Attic Window design before and really liked it so I did it again for Thomas and Friends............



This is the top.......when I get it finished I will send this together with the Bingo quilt I showed you on my last post to Happy Chemo............. I'm linking up today with Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict for Hands to Help.......I invite you to go check out the other linkups!

Now to the second part of my post..........My sis and I had been wanting to move up to a larger hoop embroidery machine for some time now........I knew exactly what I could do with my little 4x4 hoop first machine so I took it in and had it cleaned and re-aligned so it is now good as new to give to my son for his birthday......he is as excited about that as I am with my new Innov-is! 



I embroidered 11 logos on some t-shirt material for a t-shirt memory quilt I'm working on and it went so fast!  Today I am going to try some "in the hoop" Japanese fans......oh, and, um......I may have "made" my sister, Irene, move up to a 5x7 hoop machine too.......




8 comments:

Missy Shay said...

Congrats on your new machine! I would like to get a simple embroidery machine at some point.

Anonymous said...

lol love this post,Ida,you and your sister will have so much fun with your new machines,love the quilt too,you are very clever my friend xx

Needled Mom said...

LOL!!!! Glad you MADE your sister do something like that. I know you will love it.

Your Thomas quilt is just fabulous. That turned out so cute. Some little guy is going to be so thrilled with it.

Helen said...

Love your Thomas the tank quilt looks fabulous congrats on your new machine and the old one stays in the family how good is that :)

Anthea said...

Wow, enjoy your new Toy, Ida... you are going to have so much fun with it I'm sure!

Koala Sez said...

That ROCKS!!!! Have fun :)
Your old bud Di <3

Hilachas said...

Cute, cute Thomas the Train quillt. I know someone from "Hands2Help" will love it. Oh, and speaking of "loving something," yes, I love love my new 5x7 embroidery machine. Glad you talked me into it.

Janet said...

Exciting new machine! It is wonderful that your son wants the old one too. Does he have some specific thing he wants to do with it or is he just into making tea towels and embellishing his shirts and stuff? Thomas the Train is super cute. Good for you for making quilts for donation!!