I think the mother and child are living in the woods for sure LOL – every afternoon late around 3-4 PM you can view the little family grazing.
We should get the lawn mower back today – thank goodness – as soon as he is able Mike said he will be mowing grass – it is horribly long, grew like crazy while we were waiting our turn to have them look at it and pronounce what was wrong with it, get it serviced while it was there and get it fixed.
Quilting on the Carpenter’s Wheel from Wednesday night
I did make it to the sewing machine for a little bit and got the two NYB blocks and parts seamed – more today! I’m hoping to get it finished by Monday.
A little more work on Noriko’s Star – I would have finished the top two rows but I stopped to removed one hexie and change out for a different piece as all of a sudden I had too many alike hexies in a row matching up. I had jostled the board a few days ago and didn’t look closely enough when I put them back in place. Linking to Alycia’s Quilts Finish or Not —
The Fat Quarter Shop had posted a book on Instagram early today and I was thinking oh that looks like a good book to have and I looked at it several times and all of a sudden a light bulb goes off in the head – “I think I have that book” where oh where – I searched the shelves and sure enough tucked in and pushed back a little bit by accident there it was. The book is Lori Holt’s “Scrappiness is Happiness” I’m not sure when I got it LOL. I was just looking through it last night and realized it got put on the shelf before I even looked it over good – must have been in a cleaning frenzy. There are a lot of good patterns to use up my scraps with it. This book is very much a “shop your stash” book – look at all those scraps and get busy – yes me too as soon as I get caught up (do you get caught up lol)
I like that is is spiral bound. I don’t always like the wasteful cutting directions but one can work around that and substitute Accuquilt Dies – you just have to think about it a little bit.
That looks like a great book! Will have to look into it further.
Since it cooled off for a bit, the grass went to town around here. Sounds like mom deer found a safe place to raise her little one. So glad you are back to the stitching by hand and machine. I have several Lori Holt books, but I don’t think I have that one. Is your next quilt project coming from there? She has some fun patterns.
Too funny, as I was looking at your deer photo my hubby says we have a doe and fawn in the front yard!
That mother and fawn are so beautiful, and they must feel safe in your space. That is funny about already having the book, I have done the same exact thing – lol! I am not a fan of Lori’s pattern instructions, but I do love her books.
What a sweet sight to view so often – the mama and baby! I agree with Linda – they must feel safe there. I’ve seen other bloggers mention that book recently – there must be some fun designs in it. I’m not sure we quilters are ever caught up – we just keep wanting to make more!
Sweet pic of the little deer family! I get it about the book. I think I have doubles of a few LOL Hope you are feeling better. Have a great weekend.
That book looks like a fun one. Funny you already had it! Sweet little deer.
Ha! That does look like a good book. The little bees are so cute!
Caught up? I am not familiar with that phrase. It looks like a lovely book, though.
You are getting a little done on all of your projects. Lori’s ideas are all so cute. I have 3 of her books.
I think the deer are trying to help you keeping the lawn looking tidy with their grazing — nature’s lawn mowers! Unfortunately they can also be flower mowers etc… ;-). Too funny about the book but glad you caught it before you purchased a duplicate. Question for you: You are doing EPP for Noriko Star, right? Are you using the AccuQuilt EPP dies to cut your fabrics and your paper templates, using Inklingo to print on your fabric, see-through acrylic templates or something else? I have a hankering to start a new portable stitching project, first I was thinking that Seven Sisters might be fun as a RSC project, or maybe one of those Brimfield EPP blocks — but my stalled applique projects are telling me that I need this next project to be as minimal prep work ahead of stitching as possible. I think that Inklingo looks slick for hand piecing 7 Sisters, even if only for the background fabric since I want the stars to be scrappy, but I don’t think we own an inkjet printer anymore. I did see that the Brimfield people have some Hexiflex leave-in EPP papers on their web site, and now I’m wondering whether those are like the leave-in stabilizer type products that some quilters use for turned edge applique templates?? Picking your brain, because you know All the Good Stuff. :-). I hope you’re feeling a lot better, BTW.
I saw a deer near our house the other night. They are so beautiful. Hope you feel better soon…sinus infections are no fun.
Oh the deer family!!! how sweet!
You have made great progress on a lot of projects – what fun.
and the book looks cool!