Sooo — counted cross stitch no longer rules my heart (and I guess I should change the name of this blog. . . )

Quilting has been calling to me for more than two years and I’ve decided to heed the call. After much research I purchased a Singer Quantum Stylist 9960. It doesn’t do embroidery stitches but it does do fancy stitches (600 or so (!) ). The first picture is the machine and the second is a randomly chosen group of stitches.

I’m sure that it will take me a while to get used to the machine, so my first project will be one very simple placemat. I’ll be quilting the placemat and that will give me a chance to get used to the machine and practice some simple quilting.