First Project Done!

I quilted my first quilt on my new HQ 16 sit-down machine. I started it last night and finished it up this afternoon, and sewed the binding and label on tonight. It was a pleasant experience with one exception. The quilt was my son's college T-Shirt quilt which was much heavier than a regular quilt, so moving it around under the needle to sew even a simple large meander was hurting my shoulders- especially the left shoulder I had rotator cuff surgery on a year ago. But, other than that, the quilting was so much easier having a much deeper machine throat to manipulate the quilt through.

I really like the way it turned out. I like it without sashing.

I used a modernistic stripe for the binding.

I used the leftover parts of the

t-shirts to make three throw pillows.

I think they look so fun!