It's the Bee's Knees

Thought since I was in the mood to share some stuff, I would show you a recent finished project. I bought a roll of "Sweet Sixteens" at a wonderful quilt shop in Bradley, Illinois, B &J sewing center, while down caring for my mom. I had never seen one before and was so attracted to the primary colors and old look to them. A sweet sixteen is a 5x11 inch roll of fabric squares from a company line. I bought the book "More Nickle Quilts" which use 5x5 squares and came up with this:
Now the thing that I am most proud of with this particular one is the fact that I machine quilted it. Now I have done small things like purses, and tote bags and table runners but have very little confidence, especially when I see some of the things that people produce!!! I bought two books on machine quilting, a cheater panel to practice, etc, but my friend told me to stop reading and just start doing....So I did. I began by doing a meander over 1/4 of it and hated it, so took about 16 hours and ripped it all out. Instead, I did a loop de loop on the diagonal and in the striped border and then meandered in the outer border. I used a primary color verigated thread and if you are running by or have bad vision, you can't see all of the mistakes that I made.
Done is good, right? Small group is tonight, which is a group that has been meeting in my house for 7 years studying God's Word together.
Have a lovely night....