Mothers & daughters.
Sisters & cousins.
Long time friends on a 6 hour road trip to Anderson, South Carolina from WAY SOUTH Georgia..
We had it all in yesterday’s workshop with the Prickly Fingers Quilt Guild and friends!
And yes, it was pouring buckets outside – but we were inside the beautiful Anderson County library in a big and brightly lit beautiful space just sewing away to our heart’s content.
Isn’t there just something that touches your heart when mother’s & daughters come and sew together, building memories?
It just tugs all of my heartstrings at once, in all of the right ways.
Did you think I’d forgotten??
I’ve been home since late late Friday night (well, okay – technically early early Saturday morning) and I didn’t post the fabulous quilts that were brought to our workshop and lecture events while visiting the three Florida guilds.
It’s been one scheduled post after another and since Monday was our last Link-Up day for On Ringo Lake (Have you checked the shares there?!) and since Jeff really DID deserve his own post yesterday all about the gifted machine, Show and share falls to TODAY!
And it will be worth the wait, I promise you!
Florida is a land of many wonders, including MANY great quilt shops. You know what they say about the heat of a Florida summer? It’s a “reverse winter.” Too hot to be out, so quilters stay in and sew.
There is beautiful sunshine outside the comfort of the air-conditioning! But the best part? Unlike snow, you don’t have to shovel it.
Just deal with a hurricane aftermath every once in a while.
Isn’t Terri’s On Ringo Lake GORGEOUS?! It was wonderful to see the many finishes popping up all over the place.
This happened on Saturday.
With the new postal increases and changes, it was also time to change some things in our mail order processing at home.
Oh, it’s still taking place between the stock room which is off the Hubster’s office and the dining room table, but now that Jeff is working for me part-time, we needed this to flow a bit better.
We’ve got it down to a system!
And the new Zebra thermal printer spits out mailing labels complete with tracking info at a rapid fire pace – no more printing on plain paper, folding and taping it to the package. Whoowhooo!
It’s the little things, and from the way I look at it – a continuation of the 56 days of Birthday Celebration!
And it continues, there is more!
Upon picking me up at the airport Friday night, my sweet son was so pleased with himself that he could hardly contain his excitement, nor keep his secret until we got home.
“I have something for you.”
“Oh, really? What is it?”
“It’s in the basement!”
He scarcely gave me time to bring in the bags (It was nearing 1am by this time we crossed the threshold) before we were clambering down the basement stairs and into my studio.
I am just blown away at the wonderful inventive On Ringo Lake finishes that are happening from all over this wonderful world of ours.
I LOVE to see you your vision.
I love it when you use my designs as a jumping off spot and let your own creative muse direct you to the finish you see dancing in your head.
I am honored and humbled that you have walked this exciting mystery journey with me for yet another year, and I hope there will be many, many to come!
If you are on Instagram, I hope you have been following along with our hash tags #onringolakequilt and #quiltvillemystery. There is a “new” feature in instagram that allows you to keep up with the other posts using these tags, and they appear right in your news feed, so instead of trying to remember to click a hash tag to see what else has been posted, BAM! There they are! And I have gotten to know so many of you and follow along with what you are doing because you are in my feed by hash tag default. Love it!
