Hi all -- I was surprised to suddenly hear from so many of you -- I thought I was the only one on this board and it was lonely!!! I have been practising on my hand quilting and still have a long way to go!!! I love it still and hope that one day I will be able to make it as natural as some play the piano!!! he he! right now the piano (of course) needs tuning!
You may have heard about the trouble in West Texas with a Mormon group that practices polygamy and had it's children removed -- one of the ladies in our town had the ambition to get us all together to make a quilt for each of the children and I have been tying quilts like crazy!!! it's much easier than hand quilting!!! We still haven't completed the goal but will continue working on it until we do -- I think it's 306 quilts!!! It's been fun and challenging!!!
We had rain over the weekend and everything looks green! We have had Hot and Hotter weather so it was a nice relief!!! I hope that I can get back to my own projects which I have decided to make a double wedding ring quilt!!!! I have all sorts of ideas but this is the one that keeps coming up!!!
I am also working on my Dear Jane but it's a lot of work for those 4 inch blocks!!! I enjoy it and may take it on as a hand pieced project that I can take with me and work on when I have to wait.
Gas prices and fabric prices are going up and I will be spending more time at home -- I will enjoy that part -- but one can only eat so much peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!!! Hopefully I will be so caught up in my sewing it won't matter!!! I ordered some thread from an on-line source and I got it today!!! I am getting prepared for the days that all I have is time and no money -- which will be ..... NOW!!!
good to hear from you all -- let me know how you are and what u are up to !!! I will get some pictures up of the homefront and of some of the quilts we have completed and some of the WIP!
prickly!