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I'm BAAAA-ACK!

The very clever of you will notice I was gone for my birthday. Well, I spent it in the best way possible, in my bathing suit at the beach with my darling GD. This photo was taken at Paradise Cove in Malibu California.

And lemme tell ya, NOTHING surprises a person like a six layer leaning tower of CAKE! I laughed the whole time they were bringing it over and singing. We did NOT eat all of it, but it was quite delicious. I ended up getting THREE cakes, but more on those later. I have been up since "O-dark thirty" and I am one tired Memere.

One more:

Here is my darling son with his daughter and his favorite quilt that I made. It is Magic Carpet and it is (believe it or not) a scrap quilt (but only in the broadest definition of the word.)

Okay!

More later, a gal of my advanced years needs a lot of sleep to catch up from all the excitement!

Giggles

 I decided the next word should be GIGGLES. It's fun and silly.

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I knew where I wanted to go with the word, but it wasn't until I tilted the letters that I really started loving it.

 I think the fabric I is perfect, and the dino dot is the bomb!.

 

I'm not quite sure about the L, but overall I am pleased.

Of course, looking at it now I think the third G needs to be a bit bigger.  I want to make a pink butterfly as a companion to this word.

If you want to know how to make letters, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop. My letters are made without patterns or templates and they are NOT paper pieced.

JOY *

 

 Here is today's word, Joy.

Here is an asterisk. 

I've decided to use the fabric from the leftover triangles in these letters.

These letters are not paper pieced. They are "improvisationally" pieced. They are made without templates or patterns. If you want to know how to make them, you can get my tutorial here, on my Etsy shop.

 

 

Hope This Finds You Well

 There was an article in the New York Times about that phrase, "Hope this finds you well," that we have all been using when we check in on each other. 2020 will undoubtedly be the strangest year most of us will ever live through. It hasn't been easy for many of us, and downright disastrous for far too many.

I live alone, so it's up to me to keep myself involved. I usually have the TV on when I work in the studio. I'm used to watching the big sporting events - The Kentucky Derby, The Masters, The Indianapolis 500, The French Open, Wimbledon, and so on. Those have been cancelled or postponed, or run without spectators, as you can see from the photo of the Indy 500 race above.

I've got one more quilt to bind, but I wanted something to keep my brain occupied. My pal Julie said she was going to make something pink, because we all need more pink in our lives.

Hmmm, I replied. Maybe I need words. Fun, happy words. We need happy. Maybe something with birds, hearts, asterisk flowers. "Yes, yes, yes" Julie texted back. "Hope."

Flowers, happy, joy, fun, laugh...

"Sparkle"

It should be cuckoo like the chicken, with upside down words, vertical words, silly spelling. And it should have images... sailboats, cats, cake. Butterflies

"Sunshine"

It should have white on white backgrounds...

"Duh!"

OK! I'm going to get my notebook and start writing this stuff down...

Kites, smiles,

Thus inspired, I went into the studio to make some

The plan is to make a word a day, and also some "thing" else - here it is a heart. I want lots of other stuff in addition to the words. I want a quilt of happy. We'll see how this goes. Regular readers know I often get started with less than a complete idea, but that as I work other ideas will pop up, things will change, and after a bit, I'll figure it out, and then I'll be off to the races.

 

These letters are not paper pieced. They are "improvisationally" pieced. They are made without templates or patterns. If you want to know how to make them, you can get my tutorial here, on my Etsy shop.

HEY: https://squamish.arcteryxacademy.com/films, check out the film, FREE AS CAN BE. That old guy is my brother Mark. Yeah, it's rock climbing on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley, but hey, it's my brother!

Spring is Coming, Eventually...

Last week it was warm and sunny. This week we have had snow and wet weather. I bought this Stargazer Lily so I could enjoy it while it blooms. When the weather gets warmer, I'll plant it in the garden outside. In the meantime, it's a real treat.

Of course, so is this!!! (My DIL & future grandbaby!)