Yes, you're in the right place...don't click back!I've been working behind the scenes to work on this site, and there are changes here (and more coming...it's a process).  But in keeping with my commitment to post weekly, I can tell you that there's more 'secret stuff'' coming in the near future.  If you saw my Facebook post the other day about walking a project back from Plan B to Plan A - thanks to a shipping notice from Missouri Star, I got started on Plan A this afternoon.  Remember balance? I sometimes need to take a break  from coding and widgets to let my creative side play. It's just another kind of work.  So let me tell you a bit about what Plan B/A is...and why I'm excited about the possibilities of it.  For one thing, I see a lot of quilters on my feeds are playing with new Kaffe projects this year...and I am one of them. My project isn't for a challenge, but for an independent study project...and that's all I can tell you for now.  But it's the technique that I want to share with you this morning.I've been working for months now on being able to use my Cricut Explore to cut quilting fabric. In the picture to the right, I am using a piece of my Kaffe (purchased at a guild show last fall, and coveted over the holidays) which has been prepared with fabric stabilizer with my cricut.  This isn't a sponsored post, but I linked to the machine I have (still on the Cricut site) for clarification  because there are several machines out there.  It is very important when using fabric with the machine to use the appropriate mat - they come in various levels of sticky - and this one is made for use with fabric.  I found out early on that if you don't have a mat which is sticky enough...the fabric will pull off during the cutting, and you'll have a mess on your hands. The fabric stabilizer that I use is a spray on product called Terial Magic, which I first saw introduced at Quilt Market a year ago. By spraying the product on the fabric, you give the fabric a texture similar to paper...it becomes very stiff indeed. It also washes out when you are done using it, so you don't have to worry about your finished piece.  While I was putting this post together earlier this week, I was pleased to see a good friend, Eye of the Beholder Quilts, mention the product in this week's blog post...sometimes, it's funny how things come together. I have found that I am more impatient than Margaret - I tend to saturate the fabric with the product, and then iron it with a dry iron to dry the fabric out.I have found that I love using the Cricut with my quilting fabric opens the door to many possibilities - whether I'm using Cricut's proprietary software package, a prepurchased svg file, a copyright free image from google images, or something I've hand sketched and scanned in for using my quilting fabric.It's absolutely fabulous for working with text to personalize something - he's a photo of something that I made for my grandson earlier this year, three different images - the hearts, the elephants and the lettering were elements that I  found online.There's more coming on this project next week, but in the meantime, here's a quick video of what happened to the Kaffe fabric once I finished the cuts...[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wf6sUWjg6uo[/embed]Enjoy the day...