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Happy July 4th!  Do you have fun things planned?  We have absolutely nothing special planned - as usual.  I love fireworks so maybe we'll drive over near the lake to see the fireworks display put on by the city.  

Early this week I did a ...

 The Rainbow Scrap Challenge nominated colour for July is teal so I went looking to see what I had tucked away in my bag  making bits of pieces.  Of course there were several pieces of fabric, waiting to be stitched up into bags for foster kids.  I do wonder of I will ever empty this  bag, especially with a few fabric donations coming my way recently.

So I got to work cutting and stitching and made four little draw string bags.  Featuring dolphins, and crickets, and there was enough of the circus animal fabric for two small bags.  With no ...

One of the stacks included this downloaded pattern for Kaffe fabrics.  They are expecting you to buy the fat quarter pack and label the fabrics in the order they are when you receive it.  I would be cutting from stash so mine might look a little different, especially if I used scraps as well as yardage.  This is a free pattern download and they also show it in cool colors.  I ...

 Happy 250th Birthday America! My fervent prayer is that all Americans can put aside their differences and their conflicting political opinions and just celebrate how lucky we are to live in a country where freedom and democracy has been celebrated for 250 years. I pray we have many more years of the same! 

There is a super cute pattern I found for a ...

Happy Independence Day to those who celebrate. Now that Rick and I are officially together, we’re doing a lot of figuring things out. Rick and I have both had other people in our past. We made traditions with them. Now it’s time to start making some traditions for ourselves. So, what did we previously do …

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Rick and I have put on so many miles lately… Last week on Thursday, we met Buck and Lindsay and got Spot. Karl went with us. We met at a Mexican restaurant called Del Rios. It was good. Lindsay and Buck were going to Nashville to see Alan Jackson’s last concert. They needed a dog …

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Welcome to Summer!  We’ve had unusually hot weather for the past week, the same as many of you.  Nothing to do for it but stay inside where it’s cool.

On the sewing and stitching front, July will be a tricky month.  We have a lot going on, and I know my creative time will be limited.  Given everything on the calendar, the best I can do is move something forward.

My current focus quilt is the Paint Chip Challenge.  I filled 8 of the 24 blocks.

I only worked on one this week.

The Challenge is due on ...

Good day everyone. This is my 4th blog post on Sixty+Me. Some of you are likely familiar with my son, Mike’s story.

Schizophrenia is cruel – it sneaks up on its victims with the stealth of a mountain lion – set to pounce on its prey. It is cruel because it attacks in late adolescence just when independence is on the horizon. It strips away one’s confidence, dignity and spirit. Personalities shift – lively, engaging, social people turn into paranoid insomniacs, who crave withdrawal from the world we live in. Personal hygiene is compromised and alcohol and drugs become a ...

 I am seeing space opening up on my shelf of boxes of kits and scraps. That inspires me to look for more to finish up and move out of there. Granted a few are kits to take to the Community Center. 

Several boxes are where I file my scraps by size. I also have a box of scraps of thirtysomething triangle leftovers. Sorting those I came up with the makings of a small quilt. Those can wait as a "kit". There were some where there was some quantity to make a few random blocks for the orphan pile but I ...

You might remember, I've been making Mary's Triangles and sewing them together at social sewing. After assembling the rows on point, I now have a small quilt top. 

Sunrise photo taken at Spring Bluff Forest Preserve, Thursday.

NEWS FLASH!  Easton John DePrez was born at 1:40 this morning.  Mother and baby doing well.  I'm a great-aunt!  

What I made in June

STASH REPORT:  I got a lot of bargains, including a stack of batiks at the ...

Good morning, my friends. There as a change of plans yesterday. Shortly after my morning blog posted, Matthew called to say he'd barely slept the night before. And I'm sympathetic to that. We decided to do our walk on Monday. No worries. I could switch gears. Only...I seemed to be stuck in neutral because I made almost no forward progress during the day. 

There was a little progress to show on the Love Sampler. After stitching these two sections, I moved my hoop to the right. I'll pick it up there this morning, and then continue ...

Good morning, my friends. There as a change of plans yesterday. Shortly after my morning blog posted, Matthew called to say he'd barely slept the night before. And I'm sympathetic to that. We decided to do our walk on Monday. No worries. I could switch gears. Only...I seemed to be stuck in neutral because I made almost no forward progress during the day. 

There was a little progress to show on the Love Sampler. After stitching these two sections, I moved my hoop to the right. I'll pick it up there this morning, and then continue ...

I've spent the week in Texas hanging out with My Girl and her kitty cat.  I brought the sewing machine, but with the schedule we've kept, it has been just easier to work on my embroidery project rather than drag out all the sewing machine stuff.  But one way or the other, I did get my sewing time in. 

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/June = 26/27 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 175/178 days
• Success rate = 98.31%