'round midnight

that's when i caved and signed off chooky's zoom party last night...i spent the time doing applique on 'midnight at the oasis' and got it finished!

photo sub-optimal but you get the idea....really perks up the viney border i think....next border is checkerboard...

ooh i feel a flimsy coming sooon!  ***  in the Plan B department, laid out the scrappy DWR to baste and realized the backing was wrong size....oh noooo not again!  turns out it was the backing for s'mores, so off came DWR and on went s'mores....now to baste....

still have antennae to embroider, made more blocks for secret project....hand quilting on wall UFO almost done, doing the border now....respite from boring rainy weekend TV thanks to the library....

next up in the hoop is the 'batik splash' as it's headed to dear daughter's when finished....and speaking of my only child, tickets on board for 'downton abbey: a new era'....so traveling east next week for a girls day out and a side trip to trader joe's...the muggies are on the way so will be cranking up A/C, first time this year...102 days to the beach vacay!

tuesday already?

for someone who doesn't do very much, the days still manage to fly by somehow...so i try and keep busy doing fun things...few and far between these days. 

years ago made this purse for my mom....she has used it a lot and on my recent visit, replaced zipper but noticed it was nearly on life support...faded and fraying....so a new one is in the works using these fabrics...

shape is the same but design a bit different...the two are a perfect visual of how my style has evolved...and basting blitz continues but not at lightning speed.....the scrappy DWR is next with plenty of projects waiting for quilting ....

may is warming up here in the old line state...finally!  it's the month i miss my house the most because of all the flowers that bloomed in my yard....

dear daughter came monday for belated mother's day lunch and brought me a sweet figurine to express her devotion....nagging regrets of motherhood failures that would like to haunt me were derailed for the reality of being human and overwhelming pride in the woman she has become...

this week's plan?  more blocks for the secret project, the DWR baste, the antennae on the butterflies so that can be basted, the exercise and finally shorts all week!

A Legacy of Mothers

Yesterday as I was doing nothing special, pondered about the women whose shoes I now fill and how they shaped my life...Quilters?  I've got some including Josie (gr-grandmother) ...

and there's Mary (gr-grandmother)....

I made cinnamon rolls for breakfast channeling my legacy baker, Mabel, a grandmother who was the pastry cook at a small hospital....

my education legacy, grandmother Grace, first in her family to graduate high school....sadly, I never knew her as she died when my mother was a toddler....

and my own mother....faith teacher, guide, nurturer, friend, confidante...still youthful twinkle in her eyes at 95...introduced me to a sewing machine at age 8, sparking a life-long passion...

so there they are...no olympic athletes, no Rhodes scholars, no rocket scientists, just pretty ordinary people of strong mind, faith, integrity and wise beyond their years....pretty lucky eh?