Dan's Parents

I'm so glad I got lots of cleaning and quilting done last weekend, so I could spend time with Ed and Marilyn this week. They've been visiting from Boulder, Colorado and I'm just amazed at how many good friends they still have here in Lafayette. I even got Marilyn to run Mabel this morning, but Dan has the pics on his camera and he's dozing right now. We have enjoyed their visit so much and it's going to be hard to say goodbye tomorrow morning.



Don't they look great? I hope I look as good in 25 years.

Happy Birthday Mabel!

Mabel is 4 years old. I can't believe it's been that long, and how well she has behaved for these past 4 years. She's all paid for so I may think about getting her some nice new accessory. She has quilted 397 quilts and if I had known that before right now, I probably would have quilted 3 more just to make it 400. That's one quilt every 2.7 days, which is pretty good considering I have an 8-5 job. Her timer has turned over at the 250 hours mark 2 times and is at 99+ hours right now, which is an average of 1.5 hours of stitching time per quilt.

All in all, a very wise investment for me. Happy Birthday Mabel!

Mabel is back in business!

Dan and I attached my new zippered leaders last night and I was surprised at how easy it was.

I loaded both pink baby quilts and got about half way finished. I'm feeling a bit behind right now on customer quilts, but hope to get a couple finished this weekend.

Oh No....Mabel is Sick!

I'm not sure what happened, but I was stitching along just fine and I got to a stopping point and pushed the stop button and she kept taking very slow stitches, like I was pressing the single stitch button.

Now the stop/start button doesn't work and the single stitch button causes her to stitch and stitch and stitch.

Any Gammill experts out there care to take a guess.