So how do you keep cool? The swimming pool feels like warm bathwater and you hope there is a slight breeze to cool the droplets on your skin. Or you towel off and go inside to air conditioned coolness. In my case, I work during the day in 68-degree-Fahrenheit air.
Anyway, the weather isn't the only hotness around here. My sewing machine and fingers are hot from finishing up a variety of projects.
First, my longarmer finished custom quilting Mesa Valley and it turned out fantastic! I am nearly finished hand stitching on a wider-than-normal teal binding. This one will hopefully grab a shiny ribbon in the next quilt show.
Second, I free-motion-quilted a tablerunner and finished hand-stitching on its binding.
I even added some stitch-in-the-ditch lines on a table runner from a couple years ago (*now* it is finished). This is a Connecting Threads kit.
Third, ummm....I started two new projects. Yeah, I know. I have plenty of UFOs that I need to concentrate on completing. But both of these called so strongly to me. While searching for images of a different quilt block, I came across an image from a completely different quilt. It was a quilt someone had made from blocks received in a block exchange. I had participated in that exchange, hoping so hard that I would be the winner. Alas, I didn't win, but the idea of making my own set of blocks had been percolating in my mind. Seeing that example was the inspiration to finally make my own. I now have eight blocks for the planned 20-block setting, all from my own stash. It's so nice to shop your own stash!
The other new project is from a recent Sew Sampler box. My daughter's boyfriend really liked the quilt pattern. I figured it might be one more incentive for him to stick around for a while if I made this quilt (lol-if my daughter is reading this post, maybe you could curb your morning grouchiness so he will stick around longer than your previous boyfriends). I finished cutting the fabric last night. It is an easy pattern so should go together pretty quickly. Last week my hubby and I spent time visiting my parents and helping with home renovations. It was great to see them again, along with my brother and niece. We took a drive around the town and the nearby lakes to check out all the changes that have occurred in our home town over the past few years. It sure was nice to get back home again, though.
Where have you gone on vacation this summer? Or where would you recommend we check out on our next vacation?
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