Wow this month is non stop so far y’all!
My honey made some yummy spaghetti this past week… and last night I heated up some leftovers… even BETTER!!!!
Today is our Molly’s birthday day 17 months ago…
I made this collage… she spent Friday getting groomed while we ran errands around Asheville! She had more fun though 😀
My great friend Jannessa keeps her when she is groomed and Jannessa has a white poodle named Max that is Molly’s good friend too… they love to play and nap together 😀 We are definitely blessed!
As we were leaving… her husband blessed us by sharing some home laid eggs from his chickens too!
I snapped this shot of our back yard…
From “across the pond”! lol
And here is just a small portion of all the limbs we picked up using our golf cart to haul them away! It has been VERY windy and cool here in the mountains of North Carolina!!! But I am loving it and so is my honey 😀
Many of you liked the pattern that came with the fabric… a honey bun and some yardage enough for this pattern. So I designed something similar that would meet our longer length and skinnier width requirements…
I had fun designing it… and have the colors already picked out in my head 🙂 This will be fun… I hope to start on the piecing this week!
I will also be making Jannessa some place mats that are a bit smaller than the traditional placemat and more the size of some I made when we lived in Florida… you will enjoy seeing those come about too I bet…
But for my HQAL friends and for my Slow Sunday Stitching friends… I finally have lots to show this week!
There are 4 rows of swoon blocks on this quilt and I am on the top of the 3rd row!!!
Here I am just starting the outline stitching with regular 28wt Aurifil thread outlining each swoon section that will then get big stitch quilt with Aurifil 12 wt…
Here is a photo showing the stabilizing stitching and the big stitching all done…
Now I am on to the medallion bottom part as I move later on to the 2nd swoon top in this row 😀
While in Asheville Friday… and again last night…
I worked on blanket stitching by hand the crochet thread around a block for my crochet quilt in the slow making progress. This is my long term handie project… all by hand once the squares are closed and the fabric is the same on both sides 😀
Above you can see we were listening to some music, enjoying a soda and stitching as we chatted 😀
Earlier this week I was watching one of my faves on a facebook live chat and she posted this question….
So my challenge this week … as we enter the busy holiday time is to take a breath and a few minutes…
Ponder this question… what are your answers to 5 things you are most thankful for?
Write them down and keep them on the mirror or by your work station… remember what keeps you grounded 😀
I want to shout out to Kathy’s Quilts for the Sunday Slow Stitching link up HERE <<< Come see what all the chatting is about this week including all of Kathy's finished and starting Gail Pan designs!
I also definitely wanna say hello to my slow stitching sisters in the HQAL group too >>>>
Come play along with a link up every 3 weeks … contact Kathy if you are interested … she is the first linker in the list of names 😀
Our colors in the mountains aren’t as brilliant as they were last year because we lacked rain at the end of the summer and into the fall… we are caught up on rain now I think… but that lack of rain made us miss out of leaf looking as we drove to run errands and such.
I hope you each have a great week… I am thinking of 2 of my sons’ having birthdays this weekend <<< One is 29 and one is 25… both are settled and happy so sew am I for them !!!
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