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My plans got completely and totally derailed last night.

I had the post for today already sorted out, I knew what I was writing and what photos I needed to take (it was a pattern for stash busting crochet cushion covers, by the way) when the most terrible, awful thing happened. I can barely speak of it, but I shall attempt to rally myself enough to inform you, dear reader, of my trouble *languishes on the lounge and waves a handkerchief weakly in the air.

I had spent hours, simply hours dear reader! trying out a new amigurumi puzzle ball ...

I love this little quilt with the big stars!  It is quilted, looking for the perfect binding!

I'm still here!   Just been very busy with a lot of personal business and a small writing job. And spending a lot of time with my feet up, due to what I hope is only a heel spur. I've traded many of my morning walks for a 10-13 mile recumbent bike session, which is doing wonders for the way my clothes fit, but I don't seem to be losing weight as fast. Hmmm, adding leg muscle perhaps?

I am trying to get an appointment with the wonderful PT who made my last set of orthotics, I have ...

The good news: There's a once-in-99 years worldwide eclipse tomorrow! 

OK, that's not news, you knew that. What you might not know is that NASA is inviting people to make art quilts based on the event! The agency says, "You have until September 15, 2017 to complete your work, take a picture and upload it ...by using #EclipseArtQuilt."  To learn more about the Eclipse Art Quilt project, go go.nasa.gov/2qoqTis. Submitting is free!

So now you may be thinking about whether you should photograph the eclipse. As a rule, it's a good idea for quilters ...

I've been working on the QST quilt.  Like I mentioned, it's rather repetitive.  However, my bee block is next month, so I started working on that last night.  I actually started working on it a while ago, but once again changed my mind on what I want.

I finally decided on scrappy.  Completely scrappy.  So I've been putting pieces together and it was quite a bit more fun than the QSTs.

It amazes me how often I am able to post and link up with Sunday Stash. I would say, indeed, argue vociferously, that I don't buy that much. It does seem however, that I am link up with worrying regularity. Unfortunately Molli Sparkles doesn't seem to have a link up this week. Not to worry. Here we go anyway.

Last weekend my daughter and I did a trail along the King's Road and made a visit to Peter Jones. John Betjeman once said that he wanted to be in the haberdashery department of Peter Jones at the ...

Free tutorials by Zooty Owl’s Crafty Blog (Seaside Winter Blanket CAL). I’m using Caron Simply Soft and a 3 mm crochet hook.

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Our anniversary is same as Eclipse Day - flowers arrived early, because of all the activity planned tomorrow, big "E" day.  Our little town of 8900 is in the center of the pathway and good grief, so much planned, so many people expected, so many flights in and out and even rumors of a few big name "movie stars"!  We are not accustomed to "traffic" but already 1 day prior to the big "E" day, ... hey, it's a ZOO  out there!  

I found 10 fat quarters for 1.00 at a local flea market.

Yesterday I finished the outline quilting in the Spooky Ride panel blocks and then spent some time on Pinterest looking at ideas for spooky trees. I want to stitch a big tree going up the right side of the quilt in heavy 28 weight thread. I've chosen an orange and a gold from the Mettler silk finish line for the tree.

Here are the trees I liked the best:

Think those give me a framework to start with.

Also got two packages in the mail this week:

One was the Culcita box with the beautiful Lagoon fabrics and a ...