Peacock Quilt

Here is the quilt I just basted:

My mom designed and pieced the quilt; I am quilting it. Isn't it pretty? I think the colors are so striking on the black background.

This is the first quilt I've pin basted in a good long while. Jason helped me lay it out and I tried to spray baste it, but I ran out of the good stuff (on the left).

I'd no idea the bad stuff was bad when I spent $16.99 each on two bottles at JoAnn's (dummy me).

Ah well! Basting done, now I get to learn how to use a giant thing of thread on my machine. 

And I am concurrently still working on the hexie stack and whack:

Now if only I could put down my current novel in the Outlander books long enough to get some sewing or quiltig done!!