Lucy, Cookie, Ethel

I had a massage Friday morning (8/26) and it was AWESOME. I was starving when I came home, so I started to sew the binding on another quilt (which I never got back to until Sunday!!):

while my honey made me breakfast:

Michael headed out on errands after that, while I headed downstairs. In trying to finish laying out the blues chandelier quilt, I discovered that my directions definitely need tweaking, so that took awhile to figure out! I didn’t account for having to add all of the background squares around the outside bottom and right side of the quilt:

I found some additional tone on tone white…and got most of the squares done, but I still need 5 more and I want to look through my scraps to try to make them.

After that I got a bit of cutting done for my Arizona Mary quilt:

I had soup for dinner (I put Mexican Chicken Soup in the crockpot in the morning for eventual delivery to a friend), while Micahel had leftover pizza. AND….I’m very jealous….friend BG is going to MSQC (Missouri Star Quilt Company) tomorrow!!!

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Michael left before 8 AM on Saturday morning (8/27), although I chased after him to bring him his phone. I got sucked into a new library book all morning :~(.

I headed out around lunchtime with Paula to deliver soup to a friend who just had surgery, then got to see Paula’s fabric that she is thinking of using for the mystery quilt we are doing at Scrap Happy. She had a really good idea about my recently finished 3 men’s quilts. She suggested that I only donate 2 of them for dialysis…and keep the 3rd one for a few months, in case I hear of someone else who needs one. I like that idea considering how frantic I’ve been in the past when I heard of a need for a man’s quilt…and I had nothing to give…and so set about whipping some out!

When I got home my honey was there….with a score of 87 and a birdie. We talked as he cooled down, then he took a shower and headed out on errands (a new toilet seat as ours broke, and the bird store to pick up our cleaned bird feeders) and I finally made it back to my studio. I got my customer quilt basted:

and set up the program, got my bobbins wound and kicked everything off.

Lucy was with me….sleeping on the one remaining quilt needing to be bound:

Michael stopped at the new PEACH COBBLER store on the way home…so that was our dinner!

He came downstairs to do his emails....so of course Cookie:

and Ethel:

joined us.

We played a rousing game of cribbage after dinner, where as usual, he had a come from behind victory, and then we settled in with popcorn to watch the totally campy

SHARKNADO 5.

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