copper paint, tested on a yellow scrap, perfect! Dab paint on with sea sponge

then went over with gold paint on the test scrap... maybe... I like stenciling a lot

these blocks are paper pieced (foundation) from this book

 so stenciling was easy with the paper backing. Iron when dry makes it permanent. I also shaded that one with brown prisma color pencil

the four colors ...

I’ve been busy every day trying to stay caught up. I got my county taxes done and filed. In my county, businesses are taxed every year on all the business inventory, equipment, and furnishings. It may be like that everywhere, but I don’t know. 

I needed to get prizes for Monday night’s bunco, and they are supposed to be $5 prizes. Hmmm, that kind of limits what you can find that is still nice. I went to Walmart and got some hand lotion, dish towels, and these:

All is back to normal here at home.  Thanks for those that reached out and wanted to know if we had water damage from the water pipe – no it was all outside thank goodness but the water needed to be shut off until the repair was done.  You never know how much you depend […]

 It's time for a little yellow sewing - according to the RSC rules, yellow is the colour of the month.  I'm stitching several Rainbow Scrap Challenge projects, so out came the bags.  First up were the pirate blocks.  These aren't going to be done in every colour of the rainbow.  Rather, I'm picking out several colours which are featured in  the pirate fabric, and so far have done green and red.  This month is yellow, and I have light and dark blue to go, when their turn arrives.  That was easy.  

Three pirate blocks

Also easy was ...

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Brings May Flowers EQ8 Tutorial

I've been sharing a fun EQ project - April Showers Brings May flowers.  This week we will finish up the quilt.   Over the last two weeks, I shared drafting umbrella blocks along with raindrop blocks (for the April Showers) part of the design. In this tutorial, I have a bonus project focused just on the May Flowers block option.  Tutorial for Umbrella Block and Quilt Tutorial for Raindrop Block and Quilt

April Showers Brings May Flowers Quilt ...

We recorded Best Bites and just watched it (10 pm). Cooper and Oscar were asleep on my lap and I squealed when they won. Poor puppies. I scared them half to death. We went to Ghetto Tacos on Tuesday but now I want to go tomorrow. We won’t but maybe one day next week! I...

This morning we were able to sleep in, but of course, I couldn't. I let Patrick sleep in though. Then I played on my games. 

I received a call from St. Pete's regarding a referral for me to go through rehab. I chatted with the gal and said I could try it for a week, but didn't think I needed it. Around 11 am we headed back up to Olympia. Had to stop at St. Pete's to get an X-ray. The gal was awesome! She let me see my X-ray. It was interesting to see the ...

I have been very busy this past week. It was a good week, just busy. I started and finished a custom quilting job, but it’s going to a guild challenge, so can’t share just yet, tho I doubt any of the guild members are reading this. Probably better safe than sorry. I started yet another… Continue reading The Highlight of my Week