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Ihr Lieben,

Heute ist unsere Kurs-Auszeit-Kombination, die am Donnerstag begonnen hat, schon wieder zu Ende gegangen – und ich frage mich wirklich, wo die Zeit geblieben ist.

Es waren vier wundervolle Tage voller Kreativität, guter Gespräche, gemeinsamer Nähmomente und ganz viel Freude. Es sind traumhaft schöne Kaleidoskop-Quilts entstanden, aber auch viele weitere wunderschöne Projekte. Einige Teilnehmerinnen waren sogar so inspiriert, dass sie direkt ein zweites Kaleidoskop begonnen haben. Genau das liebe ich an diesen Tagen: Die Ideen sprudeln, man steckt sich gegenseitig mit der Begeisterung an und am Ende möchte eigentlich niemand so richtig aufhören.

Ich bin jedes Mal aufs ...

My newest top. I slapped on a blue border and called it done. 

Good morning, my friends. It ended up being kind of a slow day here. The weather never really cleared up, and so I was deterred from going for a walk. Instead, I decided to stay at home and work with the macro function of my new camera. First, I picked the day's blueberry harvest, and then I just walked around taking close-up shots of things. I have a lot of pictures to show you today.

So...remember all the flowers on the Stargazer lily? Here's a photo I took last week.

Good morning, my friends. It ended up being kind of a slow day here. The weather never really cleared up, and so I was deterred from going for a walk. Instead, I decided to stay at home and work with the macro function of my new camera. First, I picked the day's blueberry harvest, and then I just walked around taking close-up shots of things. I have a lot of pictures to show you today.

So...remember all the flowers on the Stargazer lily? Here's a photo I took last week.

 Hello Everyone,

It's been ages since my last post so I will try to get you caught up on what is going on at Wilder's Last Resort.

I've been working on a prototype for a new block for a quilt I'm calling Timeless Ruffles using my Timeless Stitches fabric line.  I made a block, then 'framed' it with a striped, applique frame. It's very easy applique without any small pieces or sharp points and it could easily be stitched using a decorative stitch on your sewing machine.

While I've been going through my scraps for components for that block, I've been pulling out pieces that are square or able to be turned into small squares for my growing collection

usually I keep scraps by color no matter size or shape,

this is the aqua scrap bin plus yardage from my stash

 I got myself all tucked into bed Saturday night and realized I forgot to write the Oh Scrap! post.

See how important all of you are to me?....

I didn't really do any scrap quilting this week so I guess you will have to settle on seeing some scrappy quilt tops sent in by others.

OK -- so what happened? It's freezing this morning! Of course, the temperature is only 17 and feels like 17, and with the windows open, it's cool in the house. It's crazy weather! 

When I was in the Wal-Mart the other day, I spotted this in the yarn section: Faux Leather. What the heck would you do with that? Yes -- it's long and stringy, just like yarn. WAIT a minute—now that I see this again, I want some! 

A skein of Faux Leather

Time again to talk about books! This month had a couple of good ones, and a couple not so much. Amazon links provided for your convenience. See my Legal Stuff page for disclosures. Thank you for using my links when you can.

Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse O. Sutanto – A 63-year old trophy wife of a very wealthy man is stunned to learn he is running off with their personal chef. Her idea to get him back is to enroll in cooking school so she can cook for him. Packing suitcases of designer clothes, shoes ...

No change in the numbers.

Work continues on the Paint Chip Challenge.  I’ve completed three more squares.

I decided to jump around a bit and see how that goes. 

Fabric Added: 13.125

Fabric Used:  6.5 yards

Net Fabric Added:  6.625 yards

How did you do this week?

I've spent a little time stitching around a tuatara on my New Zealand panel.  I've been lucky enough to hold one of these rather special creatures.  Those spines on the head and back are not sharp, but rather feel rubbery - yes, I had to touch and see for myself.

It was a fairly quiet week for a change.  I had an endodontist appointment on Monday to check if my tooth problem needed a root canal. Nope, I just have a really bad sinus infection. After round three of antibiotics, I'm hoping that issue is resolved. Other than my PT appointments, I was free to make progress in the sewing room.  

• 15 minute days/week = 7/7 days
• 15 minute days/July = 11/11 days
• 15 minute days/2026 = 188/192
• Success rate = 97.92%

I was able to attend the Stafford quilt show on Friday. It’s about a 110 mile drive for me, so I was pretty beat when I got back. I have never minded driving, but it does tire me out a lot more than it used to. I wasn’t able to get the pictures posted to my blog yesterday as I wanted to do a little editing to correct the backgrounds and the lighting. When there are a lot of people looking at the quilts you are trying to photograph, you have to get the shot pretty quickly instead ...

Ray just doesn’t quit. He has two more quilts to share with us today. Here is the 3rd of 3 quilts that Karen H. in KS assembled for me from blocks that Anne F, in Ga sent to me. Karen did a great job taking someone else’s blocks and creating a top with them. Great …

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 This morning, both Patrick and I tired. Patrick was on the couch when I got up. Played on the tablet and was falling asleep. So, he went to the bedroom, and I went on the couch. Neither one of us was up before 11 am. I had showered but just couldn't stay awake. Patrick wasn't feeling well, so he slept as well.

I had my game at 1 pm. Then we went downstairs to clean up my QOV room. 

I had him cut the batting and backing for 3 quilts. They are waiting for them to be washed ...

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