Heat Wave continues

It has been hot for about 3 weeks and now the heat from the valley has gotten up here on the ridge too.  We had been – last week in the high 80′s while the valley was in the 90′s now today we hit 95 and it was like that all weekend too – and it is supposed to continue through the rest of the month!  I hate it when it gets this hot.

I am still preparing for our trip and keeping busy.  After thinking things over I thought I could use a little more quilting items to take on our 8 week trip.  I know I have a crib quilt to quilt and 3 applique blocks should keep me busy – but one never knows   so I thought instead of machine piecing the medallion blocks this week I will keep cutting and stacking the pieces up and put them in a ziplock bag or two and stick them somewhere also – doesn’t take up much room right – toss in the thread that is needed and I am set.  Half the time depending on the size of the blocks with hand piecing you don’t even need pins.  When I originally tried hand piecing those blocks at first I had a problem with stretch but now that I know the problem I can be more careful so it won’t happen.    Now I will probably come home with the quilt only half quilted and 2 blocks appliqued and only some of the quilt blocks pieced – but I won’t be bored in the down time at the campground!

The organized stack of quilting bags - zipper bag with crib quilt/thread and the hoop on top of it. The other bag has 3 applique blocks, the pencil tin has all of the thread needed for those blocks, I have 3 instruction DVD's to watch on applique (and maybe learn something new?) I will stick a large cosmetic bag in that zipper bag with all the necessary hand tools - needles, thimble, pencil, chalk, scissors ect.

I will look for one more zipper bag to put the hand piecing blocks in and if I can’t find one they will go in one or two large zip locks.  I will possibly take one of my project boxes instead but it isn’t flexible like bags are and I can fit the bags into smaller spaces if necessary.

some of the blocks cut

the pattern for it

As you can tell I am getting excited of getting back on the road.  We tend to get a little antsy if we stay home all the time.  We have been taking vacations as long as I can remember – and most of those vacations were camping – way back when it was always tent camping and then it went to a little camper, then motels for awhile but we didn’t like that as much and now comfortable with the motorhome – not as comfortable as your house of course but then you might just as well stay at home if you want that!  I have been getting my check lists ready and checking things off – we will be really busy this last week so I might not be on here as much but will still try to blog every other day or so – then it will be as often as I can after that when we hit the road.