Too busy to sew, too busy to write. I have had a wild several months, but have finally returned to my needle and threads. It has been strange not to sew, but I have not been idle.
Our summer panned out as follows:
10 days in June traveling to and from Southern CA for the wedding of our granddaughter.
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| Photo by Summer Rae |
....and hiking a slot canyon along the way. So cool!
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| Little Wild Horse Canyon, UT |
10 days to get things done at home, mostly fertilize the iris and clean house.
2 weeks in MN to help a daughter pack up her home for a big move.
1 week (left the dog in MN) for a family reunion in TN and lovely drives through the Great Smokey NP. Then back to MN for a day to pick up the dog.
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| Dixie (photo by S. Mattson) |
Home. Two days after our arrival the first wave of guests arrived for 2 weeks. The day after they left the next round of guests arrived for 1 week. Same day they left the third round of guests arrived for 2 weeks. All family and wonderful to have them here, but busy for everyone. Our son-in-law built new steps outside our kitchen door and what a joy they are.
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| Steps by SIL. Stonework by yours truly. |
That took care of the summer. I did not take my machine to MN knowing it would be in the way of packing boxes. However, I did take a chair to replace the cane seat just to have something to do during downtime. Over the summer I managed to cane four dining room chairs and one big desk chair.
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| Desk chair with new cane seat and back. |
Now that we have already had our first snow, I am sewing again. Back at work on the endless quilting of the same quilt I have been working on for almost 3 years now. Talk about quilting a quilt to death! When I sat down to quilt again I started on a scrap just to make sure that I hadn't forgotten everything I had previously perfected. It is like riding a bike. After you have done a lot of FMG the technique comes back quickly. I will be glad to get this quilt done though. I am ready to move on to new things, but still have quite a bit of work ahead of me before it is dead.
Sew some happy seams this week. I hope you all had a wonderful summer.
