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:

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Finishing Number Twelve.

This is me, this is now!

Here I am at my desk in the basement studio, and my attention is being valiantly fought for by miss Emmy Lou who seems to think that petting HER is much more important than typing.

Oh sister, you are so precious.  She’s 17.  I often refer to her as “The Last Cat Standing” because out of all of the cats we’ve had over the years, she is the one I didn’t expect would make it this far.

She is just sweet and easy –has never been a bother.  She doesn’t scratch things, tear up things, jump at design walls, eat thread or pins – she just naps and observes.

She is also a touch-activated purr box, and my snuggle love when it is time to go to bed for the night.  She will come down here…meow at me to let me know “It’s time!” and she waits for me to crawl into bed and adjust the covers so she can curl up right against my right side.  In the morning, it’s her nudges and purrs and gentle chirps I wake to.

She knows how to get front and center and demand attention!

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Quilt-Cam! 10/5/2017

We had some fun last night!

What’s not to like?  An evening to be home, a clean studio to stitch in (yes, that took most of the day for quite a bit of DEEP cleaning and it looks great in here!) and precious blocks to stitch.

This project has become my “pure pleasure” time.  There is just something about working with these recycled bits of fabric, and including gifted pieces has been fun as well!

It was just a great way to end the day yesterday, and I surely enjoyed seeing what you had to share with me!

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Trimming, Binding and All.

You know that feeling you get when things work out JUST as planned?

Okay, so there were a few “Oh, no!” moments along the way – like the moment I found that “shift happened” and a seam allowance was a hair too shy (more like non-existent) and I had to do a seam repair by hand while the quilt was in the machine half-way quilted.

Someone made a comment on my Facebook recently in regards to something I was sharing that went something like “I could never live with a mistake like that, I’d have to take it out and fix it!”

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