When we were in Baltimore last week I spotted these guys. There is a move on in Baltimore to beautify the city with art.

That poor woman is walking right into the toothy mouth of an alligator! Oh no! And the car below is about to be swallowed…

I have a Babylock/Brother Quilter's Choice Professional that I bought in May of 2003 that needs a new home. I rarely sewed on this machine because I only have room for one machine at a time in my sewing table. I realized too late that I don't like to take the time to switch out machines unless I absolutely have to. I have 3 other machines and have simply run out of room for this one.

This machine goes forward and backward only – no zigzag. It is designed for both free-motion and walking foot quilting. The opening is 8 1/2". It has a knee lift.

Here are the feet I have for it.

I have no idea what this machine might be worth so I'm happy to take offers. I can ship it to you! I'm not sure what shipping will be, but I would guess it would be under $50 – maybe under $30. If you are interested, please leave a comment. If you aren't interested but have an idea of what this machine might be worth, please share that info too. I appreciate any help that you can give!

And here are two more images from the folks at ninephotography from the day of the wedding. The green wool tomato is a pin cushion I made from the big wool beads. These photographers are really imaginative!

It's finished and I think my quilt is a contender to win the 1st ever Alzheimer's Art Quilt Smackdown (are you listening Hollis, Sue, and John!) It is up to all of you to bid the price of my quilt into a first place win. Ami hasn't given us a date yet, but I'll let you know more as I know more. For now, here's a detail shot of my (winning) quilt. The block is 5" x 5", hand appliqued and machine quilted.

Here is one in place. I’d share a photo of the whole room, ready to go, but I didn’t get a good photo of that.

The acrylic “diamonds” on the mirror added some nice bling. We put a tiny battery-powered light in the marbles in all of the round vases for an added glow. It was fun!

(FYI – Those of you who attend fall quilt market will see them in our booth if you look close.)

Have you found TED? Here is what their website says: TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started
out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three
worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since
then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED
Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in
Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open
Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's
TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

What I can tell you is that I've had mind-expanding insights while listening to TED talks. The one below is by Alain de Botton whose book, The Art of Travel, is one of my very favorite reads. In this talk he made me re-examine what I think about success.

I took a lot of pictures of the yard and one of them was of this lovely, red zinnia. I grew a whole lot of them from seeds and I'm going to remember to do that every year from now on.

I thought I would crop the image to see if it was better. What do you think?

Doesn't this make you wonder about cropping your quilt blocks!