Tulip Swirl Check In!

October is our quarter-year check-in on our one year long Leader & Ender challenge!

This year's challenge is called Tulip Swirl and I know many of you were off to a great start on it.

When it comes to Leader & Ender challenges, I kind of poke along building units on the side and it is usually sometime after January when I finally have enough units to start thinking about layouts.

The one thing to remember about Leader & Ender challenges is that it is not a race. Take your time. Build units on the side in between the lines of chain piecing on your main projects, and just see what you can build over time.

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Obsessed or Infatuated?

I've been on a mission to find out as much as I can find out about the different names of my current Vintage Rose Star project.

That led me to looking up the Oxford Union Old Library (built in 1857 by architect Benjamin Woodward.)  This library is a masterwork of Victorian Gothic architecture, originally built as the society's debating chamber before becoming a library.

Why don't we have libraries like this?!

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Little Time To Sew -

My biggest fear when it comes to writing daily?

Nothing to post about!

And maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Because how can I really write about a morning spent finishing up laundry, folding towel baskets, covering pressing stations, cleaning out fridges and the dishwasher and making 12 beds as if it will hold anyone's interest?

Sometimes that's all a morning can give me.  Not so interesting, but constant.

There is a sense of security in that constant!

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Great Quilting Weather!

I snapped this photo yesterday afternoon after the rain had stopped.

It had come in torrents and buckets overnight.

The rain gauge showed 5.7 inches of rain had fallen during this "event."  We need it so badly, so I wasn't complaining. I was just happy that it slowed down to a bare mist by the time the Muddy Creek Misfits were packing up around 10am yesterday.

This weekend flew by so fast!  And due to the weather, we opted for no over-the-porch-rail photos.

Sometimes we get them, sometimes we don't.

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