What's it like to spend your birthday on retreat?
Fantastic of course! All of your best quilty mates around you to help celebrate, and eat your cake.
And yes, there was ice cream as well.
I love to spend my own birthday doing something I love (In somewhere far away from here) and it tickles me that folks will plan their retreats around their birthday month so they can continue to celebrate all month long.
Blow out the candles!
Here's to another year around the sun!
The quilting continued through the weekend -
Bigger projects taking over design floor space.
Diving into some small pixel projects -
cute cute cute!
The great thing about these little kits is that you can try on a small project before you decide if a large project is what you really want to do.
Pushing up Daisies is coming along!
This is a sample of different smocking techniques.
Fun textures!
Extra Lupine & Laughter blocks are becoming a small lap-sized quilt.
And you've just got to love a very rainy Lazy Sunday afternoon where you can step away from the machines and set up for Mahjong in the foyer *game room!*
It was also a great weekend to get this little piece quilted up.
I chose Heart to Heart by Patricia E. Ritter and OESD. as the pantograph, and used a taupe thread.
The texture turned out so great -
And yes, I march it straight over the embroidery. It doesn't interfere with anything.
I repeated the black stripe for binding.
Now waiting for some hand-stitching down time.
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Monday is starting as Monday is often do.
Did anyone see where I put my...
FR2-3436 the FR is for “Frontier”, we were waaay out of town. Of course, now it is waaay in town! Happy Monday!
ReplyDeleteI indeed remember my childhood phone number as my nearly 90 yo mother still has the same number!
ReplyDeleteIn 1955 my phone number was 3011. I was in 1st grade and we had to draw a picture of our house and put our phone number on it. Cindy E
ReplyDeleteMy mom had 3 sewing rules: No sewing red at night, no sewing black at night, and no sewing stripes at night. You're going to be such a rule breaker if you sew that black binding down onto stripes at night! (Just think of my mom as you do. She sewed before there were Ott lights.) Becky
ReplyDeleteI still know my childhood number because my 94 year old mother is in the same house. I have three seam rippers, do you think I know where they are…
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Hopkins 9-6525 was our phone. We were on a party line until I was in 2nd grade.
ReplyDeleteJU6-6403 West Bridgewater, MA
ReplyDeleteI can only remember the exchange 477, but not the last four numbers. I do know where the seam rippers are. Yes, there are multiples.
ReplyDelete4197, when the city got larger, it was Juniper64197. Can remember that, know where half of my seam rippers are, that's why I buy so many, but I still haven't remembered the phone number to my new house.{It's been 6 years, but I never call myself}
ReplyDeleteHello Hello! We haven't seen any photos from Flash in a while. Is he ok?
ReplyDeleteLove this blog.
Oh, to have a retreat during my birthday month - December. Won't happen! I will have to create one in another month and plan for cake and ice cream.
ReplyDeleteCute quote today!! I remember my phone very well, it had a bunch of 6's ,7's & 3's! HAHA!!
ReplyDeleteI started a scrappy pineapple this weekend. I am using my Creative Grids Pineapple Trim Tool ruler. Absolutely love it!!
I also love the little project you stitched up! Sew cute!! :-)
It's the basis of most of my passwords! My friends and I were discussing this the other day. My theory is that your phone number was critical to your survival as a kid (when you'd walk to school, and a policeman was your savior in times of trouble), so the reptilian part of your brain clutched that information as tightly as it could!
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Love your new quilt. Since mom(101) still sewing and making blue quilt, asking me for scrapes, still going strong, still has my childhood phone number, It is not hard to forget the number. She says she is out of blue scrapes. I think she just wants more fabric.
ReplyDeleteI remember my childhood phone number. We were on a party line with an exchange called Woodwood the a 5 digit phone number. Anyone on the exchange could pick up their phone and hear anyone having a conversation. So you had to be careful what you said. Sometimes people would be on the phone for hours. If you needed to make a call or were expecting a call, you could ask them to hang up so you could make/take your call. In an emergency, we just dialed 0 for the operator. You also had to go through the operator to make a long distance call. By the time I reached my teens, phone service had evolved to no longer having party lines, to individual lines and then came the longer 7-digit phone number. Also, the Woodwood prefix was replaced by the area code. Of course the phones were black rotary dial phones. A lot sure has changed since then!
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