Happy Sunday! Today – May 17, 2020 – marks 3 years now we have owned our Cassie (Nissan Rogue)… and later this week I will celebrate 9 years as a blogger here too!!!
So smile and grab a cuppa and see what all has been going on around here this week 💖
Last weekend after blogging and reflecting I quilted on Appalachian Delight… I will share that in just a bit 🙂
First I wanna share photos I got last Sunday from a couple of my kids…
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| Brandi – My Darling Daughter |
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| Mike (my youngest son) with his fiance Kristen |
I am soooo happy to have heard from these 2 precious people!!!
So I used my new seam ripper from Holli Jo and…
Removed the top piano key border and repinned each intersection and sewed it back on….
Ta dah!!!! Now it is off to Jannessa’s to be quilted with her talent. 🙂 I will bind it in the dark red I used for the diamonds… all this was an old kit Jannessa was destashing… so I took … SCORE!!!
I managed to get the right outer border done after rolling the quilt last weekend…
Here is another sashing picture…
And a cool view I caught for all of us to enjoy…
Time to Roll!!!!
And progress is being made from the left side of the quilt to the right side now!!
Left outer border and inner border are done… and a sashing is done too!
And this is what waits for me today to work on….
I am linking this great progress on slow stitching this week to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching Linky Party HERE… come see what I am talking about if you haven’t visited Kathy before!!!!
I am also linking with my HQAL group that has some new members since my last posting with them 3 weeks ago…
One thing I enjoy doing while slow stitching all those stitches is listen to audio books and boy did I just finish a GREAT book that kept me on the edge of my seat… And it has a twist at the end… giving it a unexpected happy ending too ❤ I love that!
Look into a audio book service called Chirp… it is an app for your phone, pad, or tablet.. They run sales all the time on audio books so you can get great books for inexpensive then … and you OWN them!
I did buy a paperback book on embroidery stitches… to expand my use on the red work I am working on … while I was perusing my purchase my honey brought in some fresh roses from our yard and presented them to me with water and a sweet vase my bestie gifted me in the past…
Flanked by my magnetic pin dish… my newest addition a felt and wool pin cushion Jannessa made me… my snip scissors with fob I love… and that awesome sharp and easy to use seam ripper!!!!
Thanks to my super sweet friend Holli Jo… I got an infusion of fabric this week…
I spent most of the day yesterday figuring out how to cut out the fabric to make this rag animal…
It is for my grand on her upcoming 1st birthday so I need figure this out 🙂 Have you ever made a rag animal like this?? I can’t find any help online for the process and patterns like this are much different from quilting patterns for sure!!!
During our separation from others we have….
Loved on Molly…
And repotted the daisy we bought… with 4 or blooms showing…
Look how pretty they look post planting…
Above you can see that rock building… that is our local post office! 🙂 Between us and the post office is a river and a railroad tracks too!!!
Here is a photo of that Gerber Daisy showing 7 or 8 blooms now… I took this yesterday using portait mode on my camera and love the colors better I think! 🙂
How are you spending your days as we isolate more to let the virus die down?? I would love to hear… in the mean time try this in the mornings…
And remember… life is what you choose to make of it ❤ Make it GREAT!
And I hope you enjoy the blog header and colors I went with for this coming blog writing year 🙂
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