Hello, and happy Thursday, friends! Can you guess where I am?
Hello, and happy Thursday, friends! Can you guess where I am?
I wasn't sure I could get it done before we left on our trip, but I did! "It" is the next block of Melva's QAL called "Noon and Night." There are a lot of half square triangles in this one - lots of cutting, sewing, and trimming.
I still feel relatively new to the world of cross-stitching, so didn't catch on until just recently that there is a thing called "Sampler September!" Fortunately I was already working on one of the mini samplers that I enjoy inspired by all the bee activity around our newly blooming sunflowers.
I do love fall, and even if it isn't officially here yet, I was happy to dig up some fall fabrics and start working on a patchwork heart. I had a basket of fall prints picked out for Cynthia's block drive earlier in the summer, so I pulled it back out and started sorting.
Good morning! I really enjoy being the first one up most mornings, and starting the day quietly with my coffee, and sometimes a treat. I made some muffins this week using a basic muffin recipe and adding some shredded zucchini and chocolate chips. They were good, but pretty dense. I'm wondering now if they needed more liquid because of the zucchini. Baker friends, what do you think?
I just finished up the next block for Melva's Pieces of My Life QAL, and here it is! I've enjoyed making each block so far, and it was the same for this one. Choosing scraps, figuring out their placement, sewing, pressing, and doing it again until finished - my favorite things to do!
When Mike and I first met, he had just gotten out of the Navy a few months before, and he worked at Kodak in Windsor, Colorado, and lived in an apartment near his work. I was in college at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, so eventually he moved there, so we could be in the same city before we got married. After we were married, in January of 1976, I moved into this cute little place where he had moved in the months prior.