Sunday Morning!

All I want to do is sit in my recliner, binge on Outlander and get this border length attached to the eternal hexie project!

Is that too much to ask?

The second long border is well enough under way that I don’t need this one as a template any more, and I want to see it ON the top.

It’s my last day home before flying to New York tomorrow.  I am so excited to meet the Snow Country Quilters in Remsen, NY and then on to the Genesee Valley Quilt Club of Rochester, NY.

The Genesee Valley Quilters founded their group in 1936!!  No, that is not a typo.  January of 1936 was their first meeting.  SO COOL!

I’ve got my fingers crossed that leaves are turning gorgeous colors and are not all on the ground yet, and that snow has not yet fallen.

Packing is in progress – but I better double check the weather before I zip that suitcase closed!

Yesterday was an errands running day – the Indigo 9 patch and snowball quilt was dropped at Fedex and is on its way to California.  There was a run to Harbor Freight and Lowes for much needed supplies -

This finally happened yesterday:

Hooray!

It might seem like a small thing to most – this is the vintage machine storage and fabric hoarding side of the basement studio.  Remember the leaky pipe fiasco we had a few months back? (Yes, evidenced by the shiny white new y join to the main stack you see in front of you.) We needed a weekend when we would all be here to get this taken care of.  We supplied the needed equipment and a take-out rib lunch for his efforts, and son Jeff went to town with his mad drywall skills and got this trimmed out, filled, tapped, mudded – whatever else is part of the process and now it is just waiting to dry so it can be sanded and finally repainted.

This is 100 times better than seeing naked pipes, icky insulation and cinder block brick through a big hole every time I go down there.  Carpet tiles were pulled up and also need replacing, but that can wait for now.

And there is another reason why holes need to be patched up.  Those holes provide easy access and hiding places for critters like this:

DUDE!  Where do you think you are going?

It’s a harmless and helpful black snake, but I don’t want him in my basement!

Click to play the video clip:

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The clip ends after 1 minute, but the Hubster did get him all the way down to the creek on the shovel and dropped him off there unharmed.  Black snakes also keep the copperhead population down, so he will do much better down by the creek than up in my basement!

And here you thought that wildlife happened only at the cabin?  HA!

All I want to do is sit and sew these too!

The eggplant colored plaid?

That was my grandpa’s shirt.

There wasn’t much of it left, just enough to do this one block, but isn’t it amazing how fabric has MEMORY?  As I stitched this block he stayed on my mind.  I talked to him.  I was sure I could see him smiling. Grandpa was MY dentist while growing up. I learned to trust kind and sure hands because of him.

“So, Grandpa –we’ve had these dental nightmares recently.  Did you know I am a tooth grinder?  What would you say about that?  And yes, the gold crown is back in place.  I’m sure you’d nod and tell me that every princess deserves a gold crown, especially your oldest grandchild.  And that whole implant technology – did you know?  I’m on to my second one, and things have advanced so much in the 10 years in between this one and the first one that the first one is now considered “old school!”  This time they were able to pull the tooth and do the bone graft with implant the SAME DAY!  The tooth will be added later after the bone graft has taken hold – but can you imagine, Grandpa? and you should SEE the panoramic CT scan.  So cool!”

As I pressed the block, and held it to my chest, I could swear I could feel his warm hug around me as well.

I’m treating myself to a massage this morning.  I’ll be back by lunch time to finish up the packing and desk work and then the rest of the day will be mine to continue working on these blocks.  One batch at a time will get them done.  I can’t explain the urgency I feel with this quilt.  Not even sure why – but it just demands to be made.  Do projects do that to you sometimes, too?

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

1880s tumbler quilt.

It's got to happen right where you are, right now. Not when things are different or better.

Choose happiness right now. 

Have a beautiful Sunday, everyone!