Michael and I were up and out early on Friday (6/7) for NATIONAL DONUT DAY!!! We headed to SWEET DOUGH in Fort Mill and came home with a variety of goodies….then spent a leisurely hour or so at the breakfast table, having breakfast and reading.
I got some laundry thrown in and read my book a bit, waiting for Pat to stop by for a visit:
Check this out:
notice her right arm??? That’s not dirt…that’s a BRUISE!!!! An errant softball got through her glove and hit her ungloved hand…..yikes!!! We had a lovely visit, and she shared the news that George will be having a bit of surgery on July 5th. I would appreciate it if you would mark the date and add them both to your prayer lists around that time and for at least a week afterwards to make sure everything is healing A-OK!
I headed to the studio in the early afternoon and decided to concentrate on Teal Splendor…and by dinnertime, I had 2 more columns done:
And remember the sunflower I took a picture of, with Michael for perspective? I think it was 3 - 4 inches shorter than he is:
Well, 4 days later I'm taking other pictures 'cause it's now at least 2 inches taller than he is:
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Michael and I were both up early Saturday morning (6/8)…he had an early morning tee time, and I wanted to get Leila’s quilt basted:
before Diane showed up for breakfast:
Diane offered to swing by Biscuitville to pick up breakfast, but I said ''you know what? I have 2 containers of sausage gravey in the freezer, AND I still have the biscuit mix I got from June as a Christmas gift'' so that's what I made:
Diane and I talked and talked and talked and talked!!!! And Freya was good as gold the entire time Diane was here:
I think we got everything solved :~), and when she left in the early afternoon, I headed to the studio to set up the Leila’s pattern and start quilting….first I had to buy the pattern we agreed on and down load it and then load it into my computer…but finally I was ready:
While it was stitching out, I dropped back to Teal Splendor….I’ve started taking blocks from the right-hand side, to complete the left hand columns:
maybe I’ll see if I can get 12 columns out of what I have already cut and made, instead of 14 columns. I think 12 columns would get me to around 99’’ wide, and it would not be hard to put 10’’ or so borders on either side to get to the 120’’ I think I want. I still have to re-measure our bed and think about longarm shrinkage and laundry shrinkage to determine exactly how wide and how long I want the quilt to be. Of course, as I said to BG when we SKYPE-d Friday afternoon….I’m not sure why I’m resisting making more strata since I have BEAU COUP of each of these fabrics left!!!!
BG and I had seen and rejected a number of patterns before we finally settled on Mirror/Mirror….maybe I’ll have to make one of the ones we rejected :~).
*** Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
Why did you just try singing the two songs above? ***
Great pantograph !
Like you new quilting pattern for Leila's quilt. Do you still have that Cheese It recipe you made 10 years ago? Sounds good and easy.
Quilting pattern for Leila's quilt is perfect!! She is going to be so happy!