Quilting like a Maniac- Relaxing through Quilting.

Have you ever seen the book "Urban Country Quilts" by Jeanne Large & Shelley Wicks. I'm loving it. Made three quilts with it so far, two with pictures, one I gave away before I took a picture of it. They're simpler then you think yet are gorgeous when done. The first was with fabric I had saved for three years and finally found what pattern I loved. I made a queen size quilt. I haven't sandwiched it yet, thinking of double stacking it (using two cotton quilt fillings in it) but if I do that I'll need to have it professionally quilted, and it's a queen size. My machine is just not up to it. If I only use a single layer, I could do an easy stitch in a ditch, but wouldn't a butterfly design with a long arm just look great? Any suggestions? The second one out of the book is a table top but big enough for a lap. The colours are gorgeous, with me using dual side interfacing to attach all appliqué. I didn't satin stitch it, inst

OK, so last year I was such a workaholic that my mom said "You NEED to relax, why aren't you doing something artistic".  You see my mom is an artist, my sister is an artist, but' I don't paint or draw as nice as them so I didn't want to go there But what I can do is sew and quilt.  So that's what I decided.  I'll quilt and do crafts to relax In order to stop working so hard and to start relaxing I had to challenge myself, push myself to get off the computer (I'm a computer teacher and repairs computers at our school). Considering I'm OCD and ADHD (come on now, look these up on Wikipedia) I made a challenge to myself that I would make a quilt a month. In between I woul do other crafts as well. Well, when I do something, I don't do it halfway. So now I've been told to post it, start a journal of what I've done, and record what I'm doing. So here it is, my record to date. Not all quilts have a photograph (that's why my m