a smattering of sewing

just because i haven't posted recently doesn't mean i've been idle...on the contrary!  remember these?

this week have cut up nearly all the rest needed for this project....it'll be 54" square when done, large enough for a shortie like me....anticipate if the weekend stays calm, should be a flimsy by monday....

and cleared out a UFO drawer by getting this to a flimsy that'll be tied and donated to the guild's second community service project this year...and another will get crossed off!

with that one ready to finish, started on a second....pulled out the 1.5" strip tote--jam packed of course--to get the first block done...there will be 18 blocks in all, 6x3, per specifications of the charity....

and then the new 'quiltmaker' magazine arrived the other day and this little wall quilt caught my eye...with patriotic holidays ahead wanted to get it done by flag day, which would have been my dad's 96th birthday....oh, we still miss him and think of all the family changes since he moved on....

and finally, quilting continues on 'cabana daydreams' that is now about 3/4ths finished....thinking about binding color, but it'll have to be something in the stash....

wasn't certain about using the variegated thread but find that it is just perfect for this....so much so that my orange mod scrappy will be quilted using only the variegated (not green obviously)!  the box of aurifil variegated 12wt was a lucky door prize at one of their presentations at a local quilt shop....the 365 is now basted and ready for quilting once 'cabana' is done.....really delighted that i've made up for the detour of 2018.  the stash is reorganized and healthy, the UFOs are getting done, doing some new things and just plain old having quilty fun to the max!  feel so very blessed....life is VERY good indeed....

celebrate freedom!

regardless of who temporarily lives in the White House, our freedoms can never be taken away without ourselves allowing it to be done....presidents come and go and yet America lives on and, with our determination, will continue to do so.....and on this solemn day, thoughts are filled with names of many and thousands more whose names i'll never know for courageously stepping up and defending OUR America that cannot be erased by one man or one ideology.....