Birthday quilting!

Tuesday was my birthday, and I took some time for quilting.  I had wanted to quilt my jelly roll race quilt, but first I wanted to try out the quilting design, so I made the first block for my machine quilting sampler.  It's not perfect - it looks better in the photos than in person, but I think it's good enough (especially if you don't look too closely). 

I'm so excited to have started this quilt!  And I'm so looking forward to quilting a whole quilt, which now seems achievable!