A Question for Scandinavian Quilters

I had so many visitors to my blog  Sunday night to Monday night from Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Estonia that I must ask why?  I have feedjit on the sidebar which shows the world map and where you all come from to visit.  I tracked it back to a Scandinavian Yahoo group but I wondered what was on there that made you all come visit!  Please tell me I am curious

I love having visitors from all over the world and that is one thing that I love about blogging is making “friends” with all of you from around the world.  It is fun getting e mails from so many people and comments about quilting.  I like to go see your blog sites and see what you are working on.  If you come visit please leave a comment and if you have a blog leave me a link so I can see what you do too.  When I first starting blogging about 2 1/2 years ago I had no idea I would become so addicted to it.

I have made progress on the Christmas Baltimore Album and while I should be sewing right now to finish putting the blocks together I am blogging instead.  It is coming along really well and I  should finish putting this part together tomorrow – now the question is “will I?”

Don’t you just hate it when you get a pattern and the directions aren’t clear?  It did not give the measurements for the triangles.  Math is not my strong suit – when it says long side of triangle is — I’m thinking – what about the other sides – you mean I have to figure this out myself!!  As you can see I did figure it out and I’m really shocked that it didn’t take me all night to do it and that I didn’t ruin any fabric due to not cutting it the right size!

I also made a little progress on “Insanity Revisited” yippee!  I have not worked much on it lately.  I did a block on Sunday and another almost finished today – maybe I will quickly finish that one tonight and get done with it.  I am working on Row G – the 7th row out of the 13 needed – so I am about half way done with the blocks!!  This photo on the right is G8 and the one on the left in progress is G9

I had a good visit with my mom yesterday.  It was a tiring day partly because it was so hot and also because my mom is 84 years old and physically frail (her mind is great).  She is in a wheelchair due to Rheumatoid Arthritis which has pretty much made it so that she can no longer walk – she can stand briefly but not walk.  To take her to lunch and shopping I have to constantly assist her into the car, then fold the chair and lift it into the back of the car – and then get out all over again, and again and again!  It is a workout!  We met my little sister and her little girl for lunch and shopping.  Coming from a large family we have a bit of overlap in generations.  My sister’s little girl is 2 weeks older than my granddaughter (they will both be 7 at the beginning of fall) (my little sis is 13 years younger than I).   We enjoyed ourselves and mom enjoyed getting out even though it was hot.

Look forward to a giveaway from me soon — so many people have give aways and I never have had one and it is about time I think.  I have so many regular readers that I need to do a thank-you.   I will look things over and decide what to give away – I think there will be at least 2 winners and I hope to have it planned by the end of the week.  I have recently won a give away myself from Deb – Quilt Gal – in Canada, I will put a photo on here of my gift when I get it.