I have not been quilting; but I have been working on a quilt-related activity. I have been trying to trouble shoot what is going wrong with my long arm. I am getting thread breakage and bird’s nests on the back of my current project. What takes me minutes to stitch is taking hours to frog. I have about 5 rows left to complete on a queen size quilt for a customer and I would just like to get the job finished!

After work tonight I am going to try again to figure out what is going wrong. Wish me luck!

Evelyn, aka Starfishy asked, “Do you have a “landmark” that marks your return home? Evelyn showed us a picture of the harbor near her home. Then Dot of Rantala Rags responded by posting a picture of her landmark; a “Welcome to Montana” sign.

What landmarks stand out from your part of the world?

This is a picture of the mountain that I see from my living room window. (The picture was not taken from my living room window though–I headed to the outskirts of town to get a picture with nothing distracting in the foreground.)

The patch of snow in the middle of the mountain represents an angel. (If you look closely you can see her head, body, and wings.) When the snow melts from this mountain in the spring, this patch of snow is left. This mountain with the angel is definitely something that identifies my town.

I have added a world map to the left hand side of my blog. This map tracks the location of visitors to my blog and plots those locations on a world map. I can not see details of who you are or what your city is; I can just see the map with the pin points representing the home of each of the visitors to this site.

It appears that there are visitors from Australia, South Africa, Norway, Ireland, France, the United States, and Canada.

It struck me today while I was checking the map, just how small this world is. The World Wide Web or WWW has shrunk this great big planet. We can now communicate and exchange information with people anywhere in the world in seconds. Blogging has become a fabulous method of “getting the message out.”

I know that the visitors here include relatives who check in periodically to see what the “latest catch is”, family members who suffer from insomnia and use their inability to get a good nights sleep to check this blog in the middle of the night, members of my own quilt guild who don’t leave comments on the blog but when I see them at guild meetings remind me that I have not posted recently, friends that I used to see on a daily basis who have moved to other parts of the world, including Arizona, Ontario, and Italy, and there are my new friends–the Stash Quilters who track the feeds from my blog using Bloglines so they can read the “latest”as soon as it is posted. To all of you, I say, “Welcome to my small spot on this planet. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you continue to visit.”

No quilting for me today. I went to work and on the way home, I stopped at Craft Night at In-SHUCK-ch. I didn’t take any projects to work on because I knew I would be busy visiting. I was right. Lots of yaking and and laughing–not too much in the way of completion of projects! It was good to see everyone again.

When I got home, I decided to check Bloglines to see if any of the blogs I regularly read had been updated. As I was reading through my favorites, my daughter shouts from the living room, “Dad is home! And he has a fish!” I called back to my husband, what is it? (Meaning what type of Salmon.) And he calls back, “Blog material!” So you heard it, it is a Salmon of the Blog Material variety, also known as a Spring Salmon.

Finally! Here it is–my Bricks and Stepping Stones quilt–completed to the flimsy stage. Now it is ready for quilting.

I stayed up until 11:30 last night putting the borders on. I was afraid if I stopped, I might not finish it the next day. When you are on a role sometimes you need to keep pushing forward.

Today, I had two quilt holders. This quilt is large, 87″ x 107″. However, my helpers are different heights so one corner is folded over at the top. This quilt top is square, it is just too large and cumbersome to get a good picture of it at this stage.