Commentary about works in progress, design & creativity
For those of you who celebrate, Happy Independence Day! For those of you who do not celebrate, have a great day.
My wish, again, for this 4th is that we practice kindness, civility and work together to make a better future for our children. Let’s try to help others in the ways that we can.
I am taking the day off as it is my birthday! I know I have taken a lot of time off from the blog lately, but this will pretty much be it until Thanksgiving.
Have a great day!
I hope you all have a great day and a wonderful year!
I am taking the day off, but wishing everyone peace in their lives. Have a great day!
As per usual, DH and I are hosting about 1,000 people today. Not really. Somewhere between 25-30. I am not really sure. The result is that I can’t play with fabric.
I hope that you are having a wonderful day and are feeling thankful for the good things in your life. I am very thankful for YOU fabulous readers. I appreciate you joining me on this journey.
Happy Thanksgiving!
My Grama has been on my mind lately. Today would have been her 98th birthday and I just wanted to celebrate her. She is one of the people I always saw doing needlework, so she influenced me greatly.
She mostly did crochet when I knew her. I have a small afghan in a chevron pattern that she made for me. It is super warm. She ran out of yarn. Being young, I didn’t understand about dye lots, so couldn’t understand why she didn’t just go get more yarn.
After her second husband died in around 2004, I started spending a lot more time with her. I went down for a surprise party for her and someone snapped this photo. Her face conveys a lot about her personality.
Happy Birthday, Grama!
For those of you who celebrate, Happy Independence Day! For those of you who do not celebrate, have a great day.
My wish, again, for this 4th is that we return to kindness, civility and working together to make a better future for our children. I have wished this before for various reasons. Post pandemic, I hope it will be easier to incorporate some of these traits into our lives as a society.
I am taking another day off from blogging so I can sew. I hope you have fun sewing today and that your year is wonderful! See you tomorrow!
I am taking the day off to celebrate with my family. For those of you who celebrate, I hope you have great day. For those of you who do not celebrate, I hope you have a peaceful day.
I hope all of you who are celebrating Thanksgiving have a wonderful day. For those of you who don’t celebrate, have a wonderful day as well! One thing for which I am grateful are you, my dear readers. Thank you!
For those of you who celebrate, Happy Independence Day! For those of you who do not celebrate, have a great day.
My wish, again, for this 4th (although it is not a gift giving holiday) is that we return to kindness, civility and working together to make a better future for our children. I have wished this before for various reasons. Post pandemic, I hope it will be easier to incorporate some of these traits into our lives as a society.
My birthday was last week and I received A LOT of gifts. It was so nice of everyone to think of me again.
I also got to go and use a gift card I received in December at Modern Handmade. I haven’t been to a quilt shop in ages and that one is definitely a favorite.
Friend Julie met me there. While we were waiting for the shop to open, Julie gave me a large bag of gifts, which included a Mini Oliso iron and Mini Maker Case!!
She always knows what to get for me. I love the Mini Maker Case, but I am also really excited about the The Elements of Color** book. Johannes Itten is a master of color. I use his color wheel, called the Color Star**, all the time
In the evening, my mom came over and brought a cake (made from the wonderful Alternative Baker** cookbook) along with some of my favorite Jamoca Almond Fudge ice cream. It was great to see her and my stepdad. I don’t get to see them enough with this COVID thing going on. It was great to be able to have a little visit.
UPDATED 2/8/2021:
I got two other gifts after I wrote this post. I want all the gifts to be in one post. I received the 10 inch Clammy**, which means I have a full set. I still have to try them out. After reading the directions, I am pretty excited about trying it. I have long wanted to piece circles into a background. I took a class a long time ago, but I think the Clammy method might be less fiddly. What I also need for my birthday is a quilt patron: someone who will pay me a salary and I can just sew to my heart’s content. A girl can dream, right?
I have a rotating cutting mat, but I don’t really like it because it is square. I frequently get hit in the stomach by one of the corners. It’s not like I get injured or anything, but it is annoying. This new rotating mat**, from my darling YM, is round. I don’t get hit in the stomach, which I like, and I have been trying it out with some of the shapes I am teaching my students lately.
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I thought I would pull out my photo of my beloved Pooh in his Happy New Year gear. Last year my wish was to have another year of exchanging quiltmaking and sewing information. I hope we achieved that. I made my best effort with all of my posting and sewing.
Let’s hope 2021 isn’t quite as crazy as 2020, but that we can still exchange quiltmaking and sewing. I plan to sew a lot.
Best wishes for a great Christmas!
If you don’t celebrate, I hope you have a great day.
I’ll be fortunate to get any sewing in today even though we are only having 4 guests. I’ll let you know tomorrow or this weekend how it all went.
Have a GREAT Thanksgiving!