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I was able to sneak into the sewing room once this week. I initially thought I would get a couple days in the sewing room but that didn’t happen. We had the grandkids last week three different times. On top of that, we are still sorting through Rick’s things that we moved. We’re getting some …

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Family history tells us that this Rolling Stone quilt may have been made by the owner's great -grandmother.

I'd date most of the quilt top fabrics to the 19-teens to 1920s, with some c. 1900 and possibly some early 1930s fabrics included. 

This quilt holds a couple of surprises.  The back and binding fabrics and strips added to the long sides, however, are c. 1940.  This suggests that the top was enlarged a bit and then quilted a while after the top was made.

Another fun tidbit is some older patching.  I always enjoy seeing a quilt that ...

Wildflowers at Pine Dunes (Saturday) and Ethel's Woods (Sunday).  Top: monarda (bee balm), purple coneflower, pickerel weed. Center: compass plant, Queen Anne's lace, false sunflower.  Bottom: butterfly weed, Culver's root, swamp milkweed.

I decided to mainly use my aqua/turquoise scraps  for this, with lavendar, lime, fuchia mixed in

After all the time I spent on my watercolor quilt, I thought, I should gather some other sized squares from the color bins, to organize some scraps by size and shape not colors

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a mish-mash of a day. Things seemed out of order, and not everything was accomplished. It hardly matters. My calendar is flexible. 

The only sewing I did yesterday was slow sewing. I finished the upper right corner section, and now I’ve moved my hoop down to capture the “LOVE” section.

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a mish-mash of a day. Things seemed out of order, and not everything was accomplished. It hardly matters. My calendar is flexible. 

The only sewing I did yesterday was slow sewing. I finished the upper right corner section, and now I’ve moved my hoop down to capture the “LOVE” section.

 I purchased the Bomb Pop pattern and fabric at Primitive Gatherings in June so I'd have something to stitch in the evenings when I wasn't working on retreat projects like Grand Old Flag and Forever USA.  I pieced Bomb Pop in an evening and a morning, then basted it while I had those big, beautiful, free-of-clutter tables in the Gathering retreat center.  I jumped right into machine quilting it when I got home.

 I didn't get as much time at the sewing machine as I had hoped for this weekend.  Between catching up on summertime chores during the intense temperatures and humidity, and enjoying family time over the 4th of July, my energy for other projects was limited.  But I’m grateful to have made at least a little progress on these blocks.

Let's get back to the T-shirt quilt. All the shirts are cut up and hanging on the wall.

The first part of the T-shirts

Make that two walls. This second wall also includes the backs of the T-shirts, and thankfully there were only seven of those. There are 44 T-shirt fronts and seven backs. 

The second wall of T-shirts

I sent a note to Dillon to ask how to proceed, as they will not all fit on one quilt unless we make a giant quilt, and I'm happy to do that if that's what he wants. 

Let ...

It was a quiet weekend. Busy but quiet. I didn’t have a lot of human interaction, other than Sunday. I went to church, then went out to eat with my church friends. One of the sales ladies from Dillard had called me on Saturday to let me know they were having one of their semi-annual Lancôme sales. Spend $75 and get the free gifts. Okay, I do like the free gifts! I don’t use much makeup, but I use quite a bit of the skin care. The free ones are the perfect travel size! Anyway, I went to ...

Last week, especially last weekend, didn't go exactly to plan. It was a good thing I set yesterday's Stitching Stuff post to automatically upload before we went to dinner on Saturday.  We beat the storm home by less than an hour.  Radar clocked the straight line wind speed at 80+ mph just north of where we live. The force of those straight line winds across the windows on the north side of the house was pretty scary. We lost a few shingles from the roof, but it was already scheduled for a new roof this year, we'll ...

 I mentioned before that I wanted to make a quilt celebrating 250 America. After I found fabric at Michaels and a local quilt shop, this is what I ended up making.

I didn't mention on yesterday's post that after getting 8.25" of rain in 3 days I had water seeping in along my south basement wall.  I mopped up some Saturday night and then checked it again yesterday morning.  There was more.  I started working on it, making a little progress.  My son and daughter-in-law stopped by to drop of my 5 gallon water bottle and I asked my son to ...

 Happy 6th of July everyone!  

The 4th was pretty quiet around my house, but we did have some excitement the day before.  Hubby got a hole in one on the golf course!  We have been celebrating his celebrity status ever since.  Pretty good for an 84 year old!

I finished the America 250 doll quilt in time for the fourth.  It measures 12” by 16”.