back at ya!

whew....it's been a looooong 11 days without internet access but thankfully the drought is over!  if you got a strange text or email from me, it was my fat fingers on the tiny phone keyboard...and what--you might ask--have I been doing instead of surfing???   here's an update.....

first, started hand sewing the setting triangles and squares for 'wildest dreams'....just to get an idea how easy it would be and what kind of time it would take....have decided to assemble the 8 diamonds by machine and hand sew the pink squares and triangles....plan is to make all the scrappy stars first and then put together a portable sewing project for the finishes...and more diamond units got pieced as well...

i'm getting better at points, hoping not to sacrifice too many...lol!

then this small piece of diamonds got sewn by hand, borders to be added and then bound for a very small finish.....it's a betsy chutchian pattern originally done in her book with repros, but I had this paisley that was begging to be used....and lastly

have finally reached the border of flying geese on the blue and white....one side and part of another is done.....might not be finished by march's arrival but not too soon after...all this sewing plus exercise time and the cooking of cardiac-friendly dishes have kept me occupied...finally, happy to say my dear mum celebrated another birthday a few days ago....God has blessed our gang of four with her wisdom, love, nurture, humor, caring and presence for many years--me the oldest for 70--and wish it could be 70 more....

glad to be back to blogland!