It’s the last Friday of July! What does that mean? It’s time to show your projects. Finished or Not! I’m linking up with Alycia at Quilty Girl for her round up of finishes.
This little Princess Jasmine quilt is all ready to await the arrival of her brother ( Eat My Dust) in the donation box.
You can read more about this quilt and the pattern in my post about my One Monthly Goal.
And it’s bound! In lavender. Go me!
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You can read about my July OMG here!
And check on other OMGers at Stories from the Sewing Room. Finally an OMG Finish!
Princess Jasmine is quilted and trimmed. Awaiting my decision on a binding fabric and a small label. It will be donated along with its brother, Eat My Dust!
The pattern, called Back and Forth, was designed by Sarah Goer and donated as a prize in Project Quilting 15! I was a lucky winner of one of Sarah’s patterns during week 15.4.
It’s fun to use up these novelty pieces that were donated to me by the family of a friend after her passing.
A photo of the back of the quilt. In the shade on the back deck. Some more donation fabric from my friend!
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Every once in a while, something shows up on Facebook that makes you sit up and take notice! In a good way! I wasn’t familiar with the name John Ortberg, so I looked him up. There is some controversy in his personal life. But I still think this quote is worth thinking about.
John Carl Ortberg Jr. (born May 5, 1957) is an American evangelicalChristian author, speaker, and the former senior pastor of Menlo Church[1] in Menlo Park, California, an ECO Presbyterian church with more than 4,000 members.
Gratitude is difficult for me. It shouldn’t be!
It’s been hazy and very smoky lately. It seems the whole continent is on fire. The sun was bright red-orange as it was setting on Sunday evening.this photo doesn’t do it justice at all. I tried.
The leftovers made chicken salad for lunch the next day.
My tomato plants are beginning to make tomatoes! That always makes me happy!
LeeAnna asked this question today!
do you like roadtrips in the summer? tell us about one you've taken
We used to take lots of road trips. After our kids were adults and had moved out of the house we bought a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle. We had the best times on that Honda. We traveled around the US. Lots of states we missed, but we were in Glacier National Park in Montana, Spokane WA, Albuquerque NM, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. We traveled to Niagara Falls, took a ferry across Lake Michigan, all over most of South Dakota and Wyoming. Several years we rode with a group to Medora, North Dakota to attend the Medora Musical. If you get a chance to do that, do it! So I told you about lots of trips, not just one. 🤣
Guess I’ve bent your ear long enough. Go to Not Afraid of Color to see other I Like Thursday posts.
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Come join us with some quiet easy slow stitching at Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching
New start: last week I hinted at a new start. I took the fabric , the thread, the chart to my stitching group. It may have been a mistake. I’m a stitcher who almost always starts in the middle. I found the horizontal middle of the fabric. Then the vertical middle. Perfect! Right? The first motif I stitched , an acorn, I stitched 4 rows instead of three. I decided not to unstitch, but to make an adjustment later if it needs to be.
The circled in green area is where my mistake is. The are 4 thread color changes there. I think I can make it work. It not, I’ll unstitch it later. I was visiting instead of counting! 🤨
This is the week that has the 25th in it. Therefore, I’ll stitch on this Winter SAL….MAYBE THE winter like images will make me feel cooler
I really want to make progress on this! Wish me luck.
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This will link you to Angela’s home page. As soon as I see that she has posted her Linky Party , I’ll correct the link! It’s early here and I have watering and dead heading to do before it gets hot!🥵😀
The last 2 zipper blocks. Total of 5.
I’ve been sewing other aqua but you will have to wait for Table Scraps Challenge reveal. It’s not quite finished!
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There were scraps made into zipper blocks, and scraps turned into crumb blocks.
We lit the deck fire table ! It was a beautiful evening, the only thing missing was a glass of wine. I was not prepared. 😉🍷
We watched a good movie on Netflix.
have you ever gone to an outdoor play? tell us about it.... Or a concert? do you like outdoor performances?
My favorite recollection was seeing the outdoor production of The Passion Play with Josef Meier in Spearfish South Dakota. That was a long time ago and Mr Meier is deceased. But it was very impressive. The real people, the outdoor venue. I hadn’t been exposed to much theater!
Because we lived in the Black Hills of South Dakota and much family visited. We attended The Passion Play every year. Below is a link to an article if you are interested.
Article from the South Dakota Magazine
The closest I’ve come to an outdoor concert was “Concerts in the Park”. Local talent in our City Park on Summer Thursdays. Families and couples on blankets or lawn chairs on the grass. Very enjoyable. I’d love to go again, but Mr Busy is a curmudgeon about all the people and I’m unsteady on my feet lately, so that’s out!
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