I made my first art quilt for my daughter for Christmas. It is a likeness of her boon companion Foster Beauregard, an eccentric, slightly OCD but very loveable Australian Shepard. It turned out fairly well, even though my sewing machine had a total breakdown and I had to pull out the old Singer Fashionmate 257 I inherited from my sister. That old Fashionmate freemotion stitches like a dream after a good oiling and a little adjustment. Who would have guessed? Anyway here's a slightly blurry pic I took of it before boxing it up.
