The quilt sandwich is complete and the whole thing is pinned. Now I need to figure out just how I'm going to quilt this thing. Usually, I make/design a quilt that is easily quilted with a walking foot. There are exceptions, of course, like the houses quilt, that really need special quilting that you can only get with free-motion quilting. This time, I know what I'm going to do with the whilte background, but I'm unsure of how to quilt inside the blocks. I'm leaning toward outlining the black borders in black and then just long lines in the color of each block. I'm going to sleep on it tonight and see if something better occurs to me. Suggestions are welcome.
I went with a friend to visit a new-to-me bulk food store that also specializes in emergency preparedness. The owners were a husband and wife team. As he was ringing up my purchases, I noticed that the husband was openly wearing a gun. I had no idea you could do that in Michigan. I told him the only people I'd ever seen wearing a gun were cops. He then asked me if I had one, which I don't. Guns scare the crap out of me. He encouraged me to learn to shoot one and to visit a local gun range. I admit, I'm curious. Preparing for the zombie apocalypse is all well and good but all it takes is one person at your door with a gun and you're in trouble. I'll think about it for a while but things in our country will have to get a lot worse before I go out and buy a gun. I've already been warned that if I go out and buy a gun, my friends will stage an intervention to let me know that the preparations for an emergency have gone a bit too far. Don't worry guys, I'm not there yet.
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