*My HQ Story Winner: Shantel Schow
Our little family...
I had been eyeing an HQ machine for a long time. I would drag my poor husband to every long arm show held at the expo center, so that I could dream. I always told him the someday I wanted one, so that my quilts could be mine from start to finish. Well that is where the story begins. A while after the show, my husband started acting wierd and I kept catching him in some lies. I couldn't figure out what the deal was, I was getting frustrated, and asked him if he had a girlfriend. He about died, and told me he was trying to take care of some buisness. One day he sent me off to do my errands, he wanted to know where all I was going, how long I would be, and what time I planned on being home. This is not like my husband at all, so I thought it was strange, but blew it off, and went about my errands. When I got home there was a large blue van in my driveway. And when I went inside, my husband was standing at the door, with a sly smile on his face, and told me to go meet his "girlfriend." I had a million thoughts running through my head. And when I went into the back room, one of my good friends was back there with her boss, setting up MY HQ. I about died. They all quickly started to tell me the whole story, of all the hoops they had to jump through to keep it a secret, and make everything work. My husband told me to stop being so paranoid and nosy, so he could try to surprise me without being accused of such crazy things as a girlfriend. Needless to say he now refers to the HQ as my "boyfriend" because I am always spending my spare time with it, trying new things. I have loved my HQ and have had so much fun trying, and learning new techniques. And even though my husband says I am in the back room too much, him and my son have enjoyed all of the fun quilts I have made for them. And my son has enjoyed playing cars and trains, under the table while I quilt away.

I own the following HQ machine: HQ Sixteen