Can't feel my fingers

I have been having so much fun with my sewing machine 

that I forgot about my blog and everyone else's

Please forgive me.

I've spent the last couple of days dragging this everywhere I go....

And since I'm a stubborn fool who hates thimble's

I can't feel my fingers!

I don't normally hand quilt a big quilt like this but the back is minky.

And it's my opinion that the more you stitch minky

the more it loses it's plush.

In other news, I learned that Natalie of Craftin' Mechanic is practically my neighbor!

She's the girl who won last week's goody bag.

So we decided to meet up for breakfast so I could deliver her goods.

And do you know what, she totally spoiled me!

She stubbornly insisted on buying me breakfast 

AND 

she made me these gorgeous green turquoise earrings!

I immediately told her that 

I was the one who was supposed to be doing the spoiling!

Aren't they beautiful and so perfectly simple!?!

I love them and have worn them twice already!

Thanks Natalie!