Juki Goes Around The World and Quilts

Not quite around the world but the little Juki mid-arm quilting machine has done a bit of traveling!  About four years ago, we purchased a Juki sewing machine mounted on a Grace frame—it’s called a mid-arm instead of longarm due to the reduced space available for moving the quilt machine around—the Juki set up has about nine inches of quilting space, my longarm has 26 inches.  Well, it didn’t take me long to figure out I really didn’t need two quilting machines and I sold the Juki to my friend Mary.  She too decided to buy a longarm—with my encouragement! --and our friend Jeane bought the Juki.  A couple weeks ago Jeane sold the Juki to a young woman in Billings.

Tuesday Jeane and I headed to Billings to see if we could get the machine set-up completed for Katie—her husband had given up.  Well, Jeane and I struggled without the cowboy but we did make progress—just not quite perfect yet.  The cowboy gave us some advice once I got home and hopefully Katie has her new sewing machine up and running now.

Jeane and I had a great lunch at a Thai restaurant—somewhere neither of our husbands would think of going!  We visited a couple quilt shops and Costco before getting back to Big Timber.

As for the quilt part of the blog title—I’ve been trying very hard to make a dent in my customer quilt pile and two of the finished ones belonged to Jeane.  I also finished another one today—one of those “thorny rose quilts.”

Every time I use this pantograph—Square Spirals, I love it more and more—I really like the texture it creates. 

The trees finally have a few leaves, the grass is green—spring may finally be here!  Yesterday and today were gorgeous days.  We’ve about finished up all the repair work on the truck camper—roof vent covers replaced, paint, cushions shampooed, it’s looking great!