Slow to start... apropos for a Slow Sunday...right?

 Hello ... as  titled  "slow to start" describes the past  week ... I have the desire to do lots and lots of things... and I plot and I ponder and I plan them out in my head... but getting my body to cooperate and get started and get the project completed, well, that another story. It has been one of those weeks where my mind says I'm 40 and my body says "you are nuts"... my knees are hurting... sometimes the left, sometimes the right and sometimes both of them in concert.  I have an appointment tomorrow afternoon with the orthopedic doctor. When I made the appointment I was complaining about my right knee which up to this point has not had a shot of anything... but as of today my left knee is my problem child.. and according to my calendar I can get another gel shot till  the end of this month... and having my knees hurt has curtailed the decorating I've wanted to do.  I can NOT carry my bins of decorative goodies up and down the stairs the way I packed them... meaning they are stuffed to the gills and heavy heavy heavy ... thank goodness Nick totes things up and down and back and forth... I could not do it without him. 

I wanted to have my patriotic stuff out by Memorial Day... didn't happen... but as of writing this, the Spring stuff has been returned to the basement and the patriotic bins are upstairs and some things have been unpacked. It is fun to open the bins ... there is always a surprise as I've forgotten something I stitched or purchased... and no matter how much seasonal stuff I have for a holiday I always wish I had a bit more... another cross stitch piece, another knickknack... a little something new. Now I do have 3 new crossstitch pieces I can FFO and add to my displays and I'm working on a fourth piece... and perhaps one more piece might get stitched... gotta look to see what is in my stash of patterns. 

Last week I showed the one Americana strawberry I had stitched... and I had started another... however it is in timeout because even though it was an incredibly simple repeat pattern I messed it up... frogging will occur... later... so instead I started another little saltbox house from Melisa at Pinker n Punkin.. this one is Freedom House and you can find it here...

again I changed it to a yellow house because it makes me happy... I want this FFO'd along with the other one I did, this week. They are going to be the stars of my tier tray... and while I do have a nice collection of patriotic pieces, deep breath... I want more!!  I've watched 4 videos this week that are compilations of wonderful patriotic patterns... the gal that does them is Briana Lentz... here's a link to her youtube...I'm blown away by her research and was surprised how many charts she showed that I hadn't seen before... several are going to end up in my stash... and I saw where Teresa Kogut is going to have a new booklet out the end of June with patriotic patterns... there is a BIG one that blew me away...I think it would be a good project for next year... always thinking ahead...LOL

And last week I also showed all the Carriage House Sampling  stocking charts I purchased... and I said I wanted to start one but I had no business starting one... but there are lots of things in life I had no business doing... but I did... and so I started the Pennsylvania German Sampler... and I LOVE it!

Here's a pic of the linen I started with... 

I used a new to me color from Rit Dye called Sage...now I think of sage as a more greeny gray color but this one is more turquoisey... and while I didn't start out thinking this would be an ombre kinda piece, that's how it turned out... the gradation is more visible in real life... anyway, I started with the sage and then wanted it a bit darker and added a dollop of teal... and then painted some more an added more teal... I like it... the linen is about 28" long... I may have cut it a bit short but when I get to the bottom I'll figure out how many funky birds will fit. 

As for sewing not much happened again this week... I did get a new quilt cut out... a flag quilt... the pattern is a free one you can see here from Amy Smart... now I'm just doing squares and cut mine 6".... all of the fabrics are Debbie Mumm and all of my patriotic quilts are Debbie Mumm prints... nice and scrappy... Debbie did great patriotic... 

and while pulling out fabrics for this I discovered a project I started 10 years ago... it was for the last sewing retreat I attended... here it is all nice and neatly stacked in its plastic prison, I mean bin...

the pattern is called Picnic and it is on the cover of  the Kim Brackett book called ScrapBasket Sensations...  here's link.. whoa... I didn't realize it is out of print...  anyway, there was a cryptic note in the box ... I think I planned on making this big enough for my bed and I have written down 121 blocks... and every one of them is a different  Debbie Mumm fabric... I want to play with this ... it just involves some connector corners so it would be good sewing for when Elliott is here. 

And speaking of my bed, nice segue... lol.. I changed the quilts in my bedroom again... years and years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I just started quilting my goal was to have a different quilt for my bed for each month of the year... I've gone waaaay past that and anymore I like to change things up more often so I can enjoy some of the oldie but goodies... and this one is an oldie...started in 2010, finished in 2011... it was a QAL with Amanda Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts... there are 362 different yellow prints in my quilt... and here's a pic of my design wall back in 2010 when I had 242 squares cut out...and yes Amanda wasn't the only crazy mom...LOL

And here is the finished quilt on my bed...

and at the end of the bed is another yellow charm quilt... that one is a 2 x 4 quilt from Film in the Fridge which you can find here.  And here is a larger pic of this quilt...

This one has 80 different yellows paired with 80 different low volumes... but the same little red polka dotted chicken found it's way into both quilt...  glad it hung around 10 years ... LOL.

Polka Dot Chicken in center of quilt on bed...

Polka Dot Chicken in quilt on end of bed...

And looking at these two quilts has me wanting to make another yellow charm quilt... perhaps not bed size... but I have a couple of yards of a great background fabric I could use... it has yellow push pins on it... I think with was from Benartex... gotta dig it out...

The gardens are doing pretty good... we've had rain several days so I haven't had to water a ton which is good... my electric bill was high enough, don't need a huge water bill too ... and the mail also brought the property tax bill yesterday... oh joy... here's a pic of my favorite planter right now...

the peachy verbena is  a Proven Winner appropriately  called Peachy Keen... I planted some reddish coleus behind them and at the back some Proven Winner Amazel Basil ... my hope was the the smell of the basil would keep the deer and the squirrels away... so far so good. 

So my plans for the upcoming week involve a couple of doctor's appointments... how do they all end up in the same week??  Ortho on Monday,  primary on Wednesday and eye clinic on Thursday... right now the forecast for Thursday is cloudy and rainy which would be great as I have to have my eyes dilated...  I'd like to get the flag quilt sewn together and the little Saltbox houses from Pinker n Punkin FFO'd... and I want to finish up my patriotic displays... it all sound doable as I type this but we shall have to see if the mind and the body coordinate for completion.

I 'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and Quilting is More Fun than Housework   .... with several appointments on my agenda I should get some knitting done... always lots of waiting at the eye clinic.... and hopefully I'll come home and get some other things done. Hope you week is a good one ...and not filled with doctor appointments!!

happy stitching-

carol fun 

New charts and a bit of stitching on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello... how was your week?  I don't know where I got the idea that being retired would give me all the time in the world to do what I want to do... because it doesn't!  Last week was a blur and some productive activities did occur... but I didn't do them.   I've been putting off the inevitable replacement of the central AC for my house... it is pushing 18 years and I've had it looked on a couple of occasions and knew it was running on borrowed time. And we've already had some very hot days and it is only May...  I don't want to think what July and August will bring ... so I bit the bullet and had a new AC installed... and perhaps it is just wishful thinking but the house seems noticeably cooler... and after weeks of waiting for Dan my handyman, he had  some time to give me and he got several projects taken care of... along with those things happening, throw in watching Elliott and an afternoon with friends and I was pooped with little to show for the time... oh well. 

The weather has been a pendulum... hot one day, rainy the next... it has cut back on my watering a bit but I find the weatherman predictions about rain to be as spotty as the showers we got... days that I thought were going to be a wash out, turned out not bad at all... and other days I thought would be lovely turned out waaay too hot... 

Now I started last Sunday off with a bang... went shopping for plants... I DON'T NEED ANYMORE PLANTS... but that's never stopped me....really gardening is just a continuation of decorating for me... I decorate inside, I decorate outside... I love making displays of stitching and quilts and knickknacks inside ... and outside it is all kinds of plants.   Anyway I hit 3 of my favorite plant places on Sunday and somehow came home with 24 2.5 qt plants... and yes these plants use to be in gallon pots, but to keep the prices down a bit they are smaller plants... for basically the same price... but I got some lovely stuff... lavender and blanket flowers and tickseed and other stuff I can't remember. Shopping is FUN!!  Planting on the other hand when it is 86 degrees with 95% humidity is quite exhausting... but I got everything in the ground ... yeah me!!  That day of activity was followed up with a round or two of ibuprofen and sitting on my butt. I had a nice conversation with my dear friend in Florida and said I wasn't going to buy anymore plants... she quipped "I don't believe you"... and you know what?  I don't believe me either... LOL

I got very little sewing done this week as Elliott had no interest in going to the basement to play... I gifted him a new transformer robot that was waaaay too complicated but it kept him entertained for a long time trying to figure out how to totally transform it from a robot to a plane...

I did get a bit of stitching done... I finished up the flag strawberry from Prairie Schooler American Strawberries...

and I started this one... more flags!

Then I decided I needed to do another house from Melisa at Pinker 'n Punkin so I started Sarah Jane's 1776 Saltbox.... you can find the chart here...

as with the other 2 I've done this year I made this one a yellow house too... this one closely resembles the color  of the brick on my house... this is on 16 ct Aida I painted with Rit Evening Blue dye...  these are such fun to stitch... comfort stitching like Prairie Schoolers.

It was a very good week for new charts sneaking in the house... now I think we all can agree that stitching cross stitch charts and collecting cross stitch charts are two separate and equally enjoyable hobbies... and I LOVE both of them!!  I ordered a bunch of stuff from The Shakespeare's Peddler...aka Kittenstitcher and was not disappointed... first I got 3 new charts from With Thy Needle & Thread...

Grand Old Flag II - great little smalls ....

Summer's Swan... I think I'm going to leave off the flag and use it in my Spring and bird displays...

The Coleus and the Pear...I love the format of this one... was going to order all the flosses but in looking more closely I have concerns about how much contrast there is between Crescent Colors Poblano Pear and Weeks Dove... in the pic they look turquoise but the Weeks Dove in my stash is kinda gray... may have to do my own conversion on these. 

and then I went down a rabbit hole of older charts, specifically stockings from Carriage House Samplings and Kathy Barrick, and these beauties appeared...

The Embroideress Stocking

The Quaker Stocking

The Sampler Stocking

Truth & Virtue Stocking

Pennsylvania German Stocking

Now I'm not going to stitch any of these as a stocking ... I'm going to re-arrange the design, move the stuff in the toe over underneath the rest of the chart and make them a looooong narrow sampler ... or I'm going to ignore the toe part of the chart... and I'm itching to start one ... or two ... or more of these... which I have no business doing as that would make the third or fourth or fifth BIG project I've started this year... you can see my feeble starts on Teresa Kogut's Faith Hope Love and Peace  here... and WTNT Summer Schoolhouse  here...  I'm a very good starter... finishing is another skill set I need to work on... 

So which to start first?? I'm really leaning toward the Pennsylvania  German Stocking... lots of funky birds and Lemoyne stars and I fell in love with the color of the linen... in the chart pic it is a beautiful soft dusty turquoise and it only uses 4 flosses... and rather than dye my own fabric I thought I'd splurge and buy this linen... so I googled it and what a surprise... the called for linen is Green Slate from Lakeside Linen and in real life it isn't turquoise at all... it is a very deep olive green... comparable to DMC 934... here's screen shot I took...

well that's going to give this an entirely different look... and I'm undecided which way to go... I know I can duplicate the dark olive green ... the turquoise would be a bit more experimenting... but I think that no matter what I am going to paint or dye the linen myself. 

I'm trying to get up the energy to put my Spring stuff away and get out my patriotic stuff... a couple of weeks ago I thought I'd do this before Memorial Day but it hasn't happened... maybe later this week... I don't like to have my bins of stuff out when Elliott is here... too much temptation  to "help"... LOL

Do you have any plans for Memorial Day?  We've got a forecast for rain on an off so I'll be happy to stay inside....looks like some cooler temps next week... I'm good with that... only appointment so far on my calendar is for a hair cut and get my roots touched up... I'm sure the week will fill up but I'd be very happy to have a couple of quiet days at home. 

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today... gonna read a bunch of blogs and then watch a bunch of YouTube videos and stitch or maybe go to the basement and sew a bit...and reflect on how lucky I am to live in the US ...the land of the free because of the sacrifice of the brave...

happy stitching-

carol fun 

A bit of this and a bit of that on a Slow Sunday...

 Hello -- well I knew last week was going to be busy and it certainly was... lunch and a trip to see Delinda to pick up quilts and drop off tops filled up Monday... Tuesdays are dedicated to Elliott... Wednesday my quilty friends got together for lunch and the back to my house to eat pie  (Marie Callendar Key Lime Pie...very yummy) and chitchat and then Nick & I met with some friends for dinner after that... it was Thursday before I felt I had any time to be crafty... and happily the last couple of days have been crafty.

Let's see where to start... okay let's revisit the bow tie blocks... I was looking at other bow tie quilts and realized I like this layout much more than the one I had on the wall...

this one will have to be a even number of blocks in both directions... my plan right now is 8 x 8 so 64 different blocks... and I have 32 done....however this layout doesn't lend itself to incorporating the little bow ties... so I'm gonna make a separate small quilt of little bow ties... have no idea how many  at the moment.

Here they are set straight... and yes the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle is my fav!

And here is the circle layout... I'm liking it here too...

Some of these little ones are the same as the larger bow ties ... and some have came from my scrap bin...

I got this at Hobby Lobby years ago and I love it! 

As for the Tilda spool blocks... I got background fabric and spool ends fabric cut but didn't get any more sewn... should be a good project for Tuesday when Elliott is playing with the Legos.

I did get the binding put on  these 2 quilts which was satisfying... this is the Kaffe Spools... I'm really into the greens right now...

and here is the Carrie Bloomston panel that I bought back in 2015... it's finally seeing the light of day as it graces my back hallway...

I'm really liking this format of doing a panel for the back hallway... there is no work on my part other than a binding and a sleeve... I like that...LOL... I've been on a hunt for other panels... I'd like one for Fall and Halloween... most are printed 40-ish inches wide... I have to be able to cut them down to 32" as that is all the space between the light switch and the back door jam... I've seen a couple of Halloween one but so far they are all too spooky for my taste... I'll keep looking. 

As for cross stitch... well I didn't get far on my Mother's Day start... I was treated to a lovely brunch along with my daughter-in-law and her mother and her grandmother... quite a spread... French toast,cinnamon rolls, bagels, quiche, an egg bake with sausage, bacon, fruit, yogurt and a cheese pocket... my favorite coffee cake... think a  BIG cheese danish, heavy on the cheese filling... turns out it is Elliott's favorite too! Oh where was I ... anyway I sat around for a couple of hours talking with everyone and when I came home I took a nap... didn't pick up my needle to late in the evening and this is all I have to show...

oh well... any stitch is one more than I had before... and I'm really liking this palette of colors... I have another sampler in my stash that I'm looking for a different group of colors than what it is charted for and this may be it... gotta go look at it again...

Now I did get the Double Eagle Sampler from Prairie Schooler American Primitives done... this is much brighter yellow in real life but the lighting was awful when I took this pic... not sure how I'm gonna FFO it...

happy with this... and that lead me down the path of wanting to do some more patriotic stuff as I'd like to change to that decor around the end of the month ...which will be hear very soon... I'm thinking  I should stick with some smalls and with that in mind I started this ... 

it is from Prairie Schooler No. 100 American Strawberries... I've never done a strawberry before but it shouldn't be too hard to finish... and on another tangent... if you are looking for older Prairie Schooler charts you will find prices are all over the place... when I googled this one to find a link I found this chart listed for as much as $49.95 on an ebay listing to $7 for a cardstock copy... which is the link I used. And I saw the other day where some other older ones are being re-released for about $12 a chart... I'm okay with that. 

On the gardening front I didn't do much... spread some seeds which seem to be sprouting and got a few more annuals in the ground... think I'll pot up a what I've got left but between being busy and the rain... it rained T/W/F/S  my motivation to plant did not align with the weather... but I did get my first open dahlia bloom... It think this is the earliest I've ever had a dahlia bloom!  This one is planted right by the foundation of the house under a window box... pretty protected from the elements... and I have several other dahlias that are just going gangbusters... tall and full and getting buds... can't wait for the blooms!

However I did get some new flowers for Mother's Day... glass flowers to display in my garden... here they are out of the box...  they are glass plates and bowls that have been glued together to form flowers...

they were gifts from Chris, Nick and Elliott... I wasn't expecting 3 but I do love them. And here's where I displayed them...this one matches the flowers I had already planted int his pot... the petunia is a PW called Coraline... 

and I'm going to  add some purple flowers to this pot... I have to remember what garden place I saw the purple Angelonia... I have some cannas planted toward the back of the pot ...fingers crossed they grow as this pot needs something tall in the back. 

and this one is keeping company with one I bought for myself earlier this year...

fancy schmancy aren't they? I love knickknacks ... both indoors and outdoors!

As for indoor decor, I did freshen up a bit...not a totally re-do but I changed out the yellow quilts for green ones...

and changed the table runner on my dining room table and went with some different silk flowers... it isn't a lot but it makes me happy to see other stuff I've stitched.

Here's a look at my large display...

on top is the  Sunnyside  Sampler by The Drawn Thread...

below is Garden Friends from the BBD book Sewing Club and Funky Bird from Barbara Ana Designs... got the plates this year from Hobby Lobby... I like the shape and the floral designs.

below that is a couple of snippets from  the border of Shakespeare's Peddler  A Saviour's Praise...  the Spring  chart from the book Seasons of the Heart by With Thy Needle & Thread and another BBD piece that I can't remember the name of...

and on the bottom I couldn't put away the bunny from Not Forgotten Farm... I just love an animal that's all dressed up ... and keeping the quilts company my favorite bird cookie jar...

Oh and here is a small vignette with Spring From Prairie Schooler  No. 50 Prairie Seasons... 

This is the last one of the set that I've completed... I do love stitching Prairie Schoolers!

I'm going to concentrate on patriotic stitching this week... I always feel like I'm chasing the holidays where stitching is concerned....I have a bag full of patriotic charts and there are a couple of things in it that are partially done... maybe I can get them finished... but there are also a couple of new charts I downloaded the other day I'd like to do... they are small which is good... and I'd like to do one of Melisa's (Pinker'nPunkinQuilting)  patriotic houses... there is just sooooo much good stuff out there!

Well looking at the calendar I see there is Elliott and 2 appointments... hmmm... one of those I might re-schedule... lately I just want to stay home as much as I can... I've got so much here that keeps me entertained... and it makes me happy!

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts and with Quilting is More Fun than Housework... they motivate me to waste less time on the internet and to have something to show for my time... hope you have  time this week to do what you want to do!!

happy stitching-

carol fun 

Happy Mother's Day on this Slow Sunday...

 Hello - Happy Mother's Day to all of you lovely ladies!  I hope that you get to spend the day exactly as you wish. I'll be going to my older son's home... he coordinates the event with a brunch spread from a local restaurant so that his wife and mother of their child, and her mother and her grandmother and me can enjoy the day... it will be lovely...

And afterwards I intend to come home and plop myself in my comfy chair out on the sunroom porch and stitch on my selection for my guilt free Mother's Day start...which until about 10 pm last night I thought was going to be this piece... Live Simply by With Thy Needle & Thread...

And I will get to it... but I was watching Flosstube videos as I was sewing last night and this chart popped onto the TV and I HAD TO HAVE IT! Well my first Google search for it had it at 123 Stitch, my fav online store, but then I found it as a PDF from the designer, which you can see here...

 it is stitched  all in DMC which I have... and I found this piece of bluey-greeny linen in my stash... now I'll only have an 1" margin on 2 sides but I can make that work... this one just struck a chord in my heart. Lately I've had lots of cardinals at my bird feeders which I watch while I sit in my chair on the sunroom porch... and when I see them I think of my departed family members and say a prayer for them... for the male cardinals I think of my Dad and my brother, James... for the females I think of my Mom and my Grandma... I saw a video on IG yesterday and the lady was asked what she wanted for Mother's Day and she replied, "I'd like one more hour with my Mom"... oh my, oh my goodness... wouldn't that be WONDERFUL??  So I'm gonna stitch on the fancy schmancy redbird and think of my loved ones.... 

Okay ... a change of mood...Didn't get as much cross stitching done this week as I had hoped... made some progress on the Double Eagle Sampler from Prairie Schooler No. 8 American Primitive...

I have every intention to finish this up before the week is over. 

Did get a bit of sewing done... finished this top which I'm taking to Delinda for quilting tomorrow...

I am very happy with how this turned out...although I might  re-do those side borders and make them a bit shorter... they went on really easy but  I didn't expect that much waviness. Anyway I'm  proud of myself for fulfilling my objective of doing something with all the Tilda fabrics I have... The spool block is from the Sew Emma Book Simply Jelly Rolls. This is a charm quilt in that every piece in the spools is a different fabric. I think I did a pretty good job in getting  a gradation in each spool... here's some close ups of the blocks...

And since I had my Tilda stash strewn all over my sewing room  I got an idea for another quilt project using this same spool blocks... but this time I'm going to use the layout for the Biscuit quilt which used this block. here's how that looks...

But instead of doing strips in the center I'm just going to use one piece of fabric... it is a great opportunity to show off some of the larger prints... I'm going to do this one with a Grunge background in the Chiffon colorway as I have about 5 yds in my stash (I really like this color... LOL) ... the plan is to make it big enough for my full size bed.  Here are some of the fabrics I cut and I'm going to pay attention and have the fabrics for the  vertical and the horizontal spools be orientated in the  right direction... there's a bit of an optical illusion in the pic below ... it looks like the spool is yellow and the background is the taupe... but in fact it will be just the opposite... hopefully by next week I'll have more blocks made and you'll see what it more clearly... it will definitely read as a yellow quilt... my fav!!

And I played around with the bow tie blocks and did a unit made up of 4 smaller sized bow ties... I picked these fabrics from bits in my scrap bin ...

I like the one with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... both of my boys were fans of that show and now Elliott likes it too. Who would have thought it would be a classic?  I can still sing the theme song as I've heard it a million times...LOL

I'm going to add more units like this to the quilt... making the little ones is fun but I don't want to commit to an entire quilt of 4" bow tie blocks... at least not at the moment... but it could happen... some day... 

More gardening was done... more pain was inflicted...thanks goodness for ibuprofen...  Things are shaping up and I'm feeling good about how much has been accomplished.... last Sunday Nick helped me plant over 100 little zinnias... and we did about 25 cleome and I want to get more of them... we did  about 8 one gallon perennials and an assortment of dahlias and other bulbs and tubers I picked up at Costco and bought online... now I will say that I was disappointed in some of the tubers I bought online and at Costco... I ordered stuff early in January because of FOMO... and I got delivery like in the beginning of April which was waaay too early to plant dahlias... and  when I went to plant them several had no discernible eyes, so I doubt they will grow... and lately I've been getting tons of emails that all the companies I ordered from still had stock and the prices are reduced and you get delivery in a couple of days... so I succumbed and ordered some more tubers.... and now I'm thinking next year I should just wait to order... I'm not real picky about specific varieties as there are so many I like... at the beginning I was big into the dinner plate ones but now I'm a bit fonder of the pompom varieties... oh well live and learn. 

Speaking of dahlias... the ones I left in the ground seem to overwinter very well... lots of them are over a foot and half tall and this one has several buds and will be my first bloom of the season... probably by mid week. I don't think I've ever had dahlias bloom this early. 

I'm still battling with the squirrels... resorted to putting cayenne pepper in my window boxes which will hopefully deter the little varmints from digging up the geraniums... the boxes are just starting to fill out...

and then I spotted this guy in my neighbors back yard... watched him hop over their chain link fence effortlessly...

so I proceeded to spray the nasty smelling deer repellent on anything I thought they might feast on... 

Nick helped me attack a big issue in my garden... I've had this grass plant for years... it has gotten HUGE... I referred to it as Cousin It and thought it was cute... but this year about 2/3 of it decided to die... so from the driveway side it looks okay, but from the yard it looks bad... I came up with the idea of placing a tall pot there to divert your attention... and it is working well as you can see below... however before I could stage it there the dead parts needed to be dug up and it was one hell of a job... I could not have done it without  Nick... luckily the day we attacked it the ground was super soft from all the rain we had and the temperature was a breezy 60 degrees...  we added some top soil to fill up the resulting hole and here is the pot...

and a close up of what I planted... I think the purples contrast nicely with the green grass plant ... and isn't the little guy adorable? I got him last year when the garden center marked him down 20%...

I got the  pot locally at Natorp's Outlet... it was the only one they had like this, it's resin and I was told they weren't getting in any more like it ...however it was gray... not my color, but no problem... I have spray paint... and I'm happy that it  now coordinates with my other brown pots. 

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Next week is busy... going to see Delinda on Monday,  spend the day with Elliott on Tuesday and my quilty lady friends are coming on Wednesday... we are hoping to sit out on my covered patio and have lunch there if the weather cooperates... forecast at the moment  varies depending on what website you look at... one has 72 degrees and an 8% chance of rain... I like that one... but another has 68 degrees with a 50% chance of rain... guess will have to wait till that morning to make a decision.  Last Tuesday there were tornadoes not too far north of me... scary stuff... and I've become a weather junkie... I watch a lot of guys on Youtube who do forecasts for the US going out a week or so... they are predicting an active weather pattern for the Spring and Summer... and then I found guys who do storm chasing... I find it very interesting and it since they live stream you feel like you are in the car with them... kinda like someone taking you for a drive... LOL... I like that as in real life, I'm almost always the driver, and its nice to have someone else do the driving ,now and then....I can watch/listen and stitch... which I couldn't do if I was actually in the car... and yes this is crazy old lady territory... but I'm fine with that.

I'll link up with Kathy's Quilts today and with Quilting is more fun than housework,  to share my quilting projects... I hope that today and every day is a good one for all of you!

happy stitching-

carol fun