Stitchin’ With Sadie Jane

I’m making progress on Jason’s hexie quilt.

I have quilted the center star, outlined by the row of white hexies..and am now up to the diamonds surrounding the star.

This quilt is being quilted from the center out.  It’s a lot of quilt wrangling as the sides of each hexie are only 3/4’’ and I can fit about 5 stitches per side an approximate 1/4’’ in from each edge.

I’m really enjoying stitching to some Amazon Prime, and am discovering series that I didn’t know about before.  Night before last I settled in and watched the whole mini-series of Doctor Thorne hosted by Julian Fellowes, the genius who brought us Downton Abbey.

Last night I started in on Cranford – I love Judy Dench!  This one started about 10 years ago, why I never heard of it I’ll never know.  It’s perfect for stitching to if you like period drama, and I do. Cranford has 2 seasons.

Close up!

I am loving my YLI hand quilting thread.  What you see on the outside is a thread net, available from longarm quilting suppliers for keeping cone thread from misbehaving.  I just cut it to the size I need and it stops the thread from springing forth out of control.

Sadie has been singing her sad song, but she is getting a bit better every day.  This was yesterday –

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She finally let me show her hind quarter!

Awww mom!  A shirt?  REALLY?!

She started to lick at her belly stitches, and she can’t wear a cone (inflatable or otherwise) due to the incision on her neck so we have improvised a t-shirt.  If she starts to lick her leg, we’ll have to tape it up.  So far she has left it alone.

This morning’s clip.  Click to play:

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She’s been a good companion while Jeff and I work on getting all of these ruler orders out! We added the Simple Folded Corners rulers suggested for this year’s On Ringo Lake mystery to the store just yesterday – 400 of them.  And there are only 126 left.  You are keeping us busy as we work to get these out to you as quickly as possible.

Another batch of 400 arrives next week.

Tomorrow afternoon we are headed up to the cabin Virginia for a long weekend and will be back at it again on Monday.

What do you see here?

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This image was sent in by a reader yesterday who looked up the Wallburg Post Office on google.  Whose van do you see pulling into the lot (likely at break neck speeds just before closing time?!)  LOL!

The photo was taken by google in October of 2016.  That is me and my van MOBY pulling in for our daily drop off!  HYSTERICAL!  Moby!  You are famous!

Not only that, but that sunny October day looks mightily inviting.  It was 22 this morning when taking Sadie out for her walk.  Brrrrr!

And yes, this is the post office that holds mail for me when it has no street address! LOL!  Thank you for the wonderfully thoughtful Christmas card!

Today you’ll find me and Jeff doing our order stuffing thing up until Post Office closing time.  And then it is back to my desk here to put the final touches on this book manuscript stuff and get it OFF my plate.  I’m close to being done.  All that is left really are the pressing diagrams.  I want this sent off before Christmas so I can just relax and not worry about it.

Quiltville Quote of the Day!

Thank you Martin Luther King, jr.!

I also love this Irish chain variation. I feel the need to hit the strip bins!

Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!