What's Next?

It is the beginning of November and wonderful adventures. I flew out to Kansas City Missoura last week to visit my quilt blogging buddy Gail who I met in person last year at Scrub Stitching in Australia. We have been zoom friends for about 4 years. 

She took me to an amazing quilt shop that just had a gzillion new bolts of reproduction. I only had a carryon bag. And we went to Angela Walters shop. That is worthy of a post of its own.

When she asked if I wanted to go to Hamilton, to visit the Missouri Star Quilts well, I just had to say yes. After all, I live in Hamilton, Ontario Canada. We traipesed our way through 14 of the 15 shops. I chose to skip the wool shop. 

It was an amazing 86 F. Not bad, considering we were having daily morning frost back home that week.

It was a quilting kind of visit so I took along 17 Churn Dash blocks to finish sewing together. I had all the hard part done. Just had to sew all the units together. I brought them home and put them all on the big design wall and here they are. Somehow I goofed in the math and made one too many with the white center. So now to locate the rest of the bits and make one more with a coloured center. After that, I can sew them altogether and have a flimsy. 

This is the end of the 2024 chookshed Challenge. I managed to move forward most of the quilts on my list. All except the one I did not want to work on. Serendipity. So, since I did not want to work on it, I pulled out all the project boxes, the pattern binder holding all 100 blocks, and I organized what I still had to do and printed off a couple of FPP papers and now have it ready to focus on the next time I do not want to work on it. I have been playing around with a list for 2025. 

The Chookshed Challenge has us focus on 10 projects, including starting a new one if we want. Well, I want. I want to start at least 7 new quilts. So, I wrote up a list and itemized everything that has to be done in order to be ready to start. That is a lot to do. Before I actually start. Then, because I was challenged to close a few loops, (been reading Redeeming Your Time by J Raynor), I made a brand new list of all the ufo's in my cupboard and alphabetized them in a small notebook, then jotted down all the steps that need doing and some thoughts about moving them forward. I put a 2026 date on several that can wait. 

I have often joined a finish it up challenge with different bloggers hoping to move quilts to the finish line. I do not work well with that kind of pressure. I want to enjoy my quilting, not feel like a failure when I do not. I do have a complete finish I am dying to share but need a couple of tall helpers to photograph the thing. Outside. In the autumn colourfulness. Soon.

I had the second writing workshop here this past Sat and am so excited to now have 10 women who want to write their stories. We will meet again at the end of November to learn how to write a "scene". We all know how to make a scene, well, at least I do. I have had lots of practice. But to write a scene - new learning curve.

My November writing goals are to write something, anything, every single day. Today I have written my morning Pages and the rest of this blog post. Now to document this on one of my tracking sheets. I have several. For writing and for quilting. 

My November OMG quilting goal will be to complete that Churn Dash flimsy. And any other machine sewing I manage to get done. 

Blessings,

Chris

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WIPS-B-GONE 2024

 Leanne at Devoted Quilter has again issued the challenge to complete some projects over the next 61 days. I have chosen to work on the following. 

1. Churn Dash. This was a Chookshed SAL 2 years ago. I am using some old Robin Pandolph fabrics and several creamy solid backgrounds. There will be 63 blocks. This is also my Oct Chookshed Challenge project. 

2. Summer QAL mystery quilt from 2021. I have most of those blocks sewn together. Next will come a couple of borders if I can remember what I had been

thinking last time I worked on it. 

3. Macaron Mystery QAL. I have an oops to figure out before completing the side triangles. Then there will be a 1 inch black border, 3 inch creamy border and possibly 5 inch dark focus fabric border. I think I have enough of the creamy fabric for the backing. If not, I have wide back options. 

4. Wedding Quilt. I had the thing out last week to see what I have to do to get the 3 outside  borders mitered. My hands are not happy working with wonder clips or pins.  This is one of the inner borders that I had to redo. 

5. Dolls of the World jumped off the pile on the table in the corner of the Blue Room and said. "Hey! What about me?" So this is on the list. 

Remember the Cherries Quilt? I completed all the hand applique on this 100 inch square quilt from Sentimental Stitches back in 2020. I worked on it for 6 years. I found someone to hand quilt it for me. So excited! I will take it next week for her to get started.  

I have a couple of new projects I want to start. Let's see how long I can last waiting until I get some noticable progress on the above. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Chookshed Challenge Progress

This is as far as I am going with the Macaron Mystery Quilt for now. 

I have all the blocks made and all the sashing strips made and sewn together. I sewed the blocks and sashing together in diagonal rows. My thoughts are to add a 1 inch black border around the center, then a 3 inch border of the creamy background. Then frame the whole thing with that dark focus fabric. I am hoping to have enough for a 5 inch border. We shall see. 

This is the problem I ran into earlier. Those quarter square triangles on the outer triangle units are a bit big. That means the other half of those are all too small. So, I have to figure out how to grow the others so I can complete the rest of the triangle to fill in the outside edges. That is a problem for another day. 

I have a Writing Workshop here this Sat and I need to put away all my quilting toys from the SonRoom to make room for humans who want to learn how to write their stories. I am so excited! 

In the meantime, October will be the final month for the Chookshed Challenge. The last project on my original list is Serendipity and I just do not want to work on that one. Instead, I will work on the Churn Dash SAL Chooky challenged us with 2 years ago. I made a great start then put everything into a project box. I have it down here ready to pick up and play with next week. I am also taking part in Leanne's WIPS-B-GONE challenge. I will have a project list made up for Oct 1 and To-Do Tuesday. How is that for planning ahead? 

Blessings,

Chris

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Almost the End of November

Last week's list:

1. Complete three Lucy sashing strips. I completed 5 and 1 corner square. 
2. Ignore the Wedding Quilt. Tried but failed again. I cut out fabric for foundation piecing but have to put all that aside for now to hem up my son's referee pants. 
3. Work on the Churn Dash blocks. Nothing here. And this is my OMG goal for this month. 
4. Write something. 
1. Morning Pages - a few times but we went away for 5 days and I did no writing then. 
2. Devotions - got a few in. This is the homework I gave my Women's group. I better get mine done. 
3. Manuscript - Nada. But I have a scathingly brilliant idea for yet another new short book. Why are new ideas so much more exciting than old ones?
4. To-Do lists - Every day I write one. Every day I check off some things. 
5. Blog post - Writing it now. 

This week's list:

1. Hem up those referee pants and taper the inseam. I cannot believe how much equipment the hockey referees have to wear to protect themselves. 
2. 
   Hem up a dress. I really do not like sewing with black thread on black fabric, but this is the plan and I said I would do it today. Sigh. I have a luncheon date with my Sweetie then going to visit a friend who bought a cow from us a year ago. It has been exactly a year since the cows were sold and moved off the farm. Life is sweet. 
3. Continue ignoring the Wedding Quilt. I took the blocks off the design wall so I could take them upstairs to check colours. I am about to run out of the one green I have used a lot so far. 
4. About those Churn Dash blocks. 
5. Put away Lucy out of sight, possibly in another building. 
6. Plant those bulbs now that we have had snow and a bit of freeze up. It is supposed to be above freezing for a few days. Now to wait for the ground to thaw enough to put a shovel into the dirt. The squirrels are not going to get my bulbs. 
7. Do not turn on Netflix. I binge watched The Crown Season 5 the other day when my Sweetie went to visit the boys for 4 days. They got serious snow there, like 8-10 inches while we got 3-4. Buffalo, USA, across the river, got a mere 3-4 feet. Nothing new there. Lake effect they call it. That means I got exclusive use of the remote control for 4 whole days. 
   
   
   
8. Get into the hot tub. We had some serious winds over the past few days and the lid blew off several times. We bought the thing a year and a half ago and set it up and filled it a year ago. In August, we drained it and moved it while the patio was being built. Then the contractor insisted on moving it and placing it on point in front of the bathroom window and he filled it. And since he removed several trees and all the sumac, there is a wind tunnel through the back yard now and they sent the wrong lid holder thingy and the new one has not yet arrived. The water dropped to 77F the other day. We have weights on it now. And the water feature? The water is flowing, but rather slowly. 
   
   
   
9. Deadhead the rest of the geraniums and begonias. I brought in some of the planters I bought in the spring for the wedding to over winter. 
   
   
   

Look who snuck in with one of the hanging baskets. 

That should be enough to keep me out of trouble for a few days. 

Blessings,

Chris

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It's Tuesday Again

 Last week's list was to:

1. Write something profound. I wrote fewer days than usual. I try to write Morning Pages - 3 hand written ages of stream of consciousness writing first thing when I crawl out of bed. But then, I slept in several mornings because I was up half the night reading. Then, we impulsively went away for the weekend (5 days) to visit family so I did no writing then either.
2. Do not gloat or boast. So, is it boasting to say I am not boasting? 
   
   
   
3. Complete one Lucy corner square. I completed several sashing units. I also basted piles and piles of white hexies as I joined not one not two but three quilting zoom parties the previous weekend. This past weekend while we were away, I stitched all those white hexies into threes. And I glue basted lots of one-inch squares. But I did not complete a corner unit.  
4. Plant bulbs. Nope. Not yet. The weather is still pretty nice, and I like to plant them just before freeze-up so the squirrels do not dig them up. One time I was out there on New Year's Day planting. Another time, it was Jan 4, and I was out there in my bare feet planting. A week later it was -29C. Freeze-up could come petty soon now. 
   
   
   
5. Ignore the Wedding Quilt.   I succeeded in ignoring - no that is not true - I did no sewing on it but it is in my face all the time. I have it on the big design wall and it is the background for every zoom meeting I am on. I probably should have fixed my hair before taking the picture. 

This week's list:

1. Complete three Lucy sashing strips.
2. Ignore the Wedding Quilt.
3. Work on the Churn Dash blocks. 
4. Write something. 
1. Morning Pages
2. Devotions
3. Manuscript
4. To-Do lists
5. Blog post

That should keep me busy for the coming week.

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Blessings,

Chris

November 2022 OMG Goal

 I did not meet my October goal. Fact is, I hardly even tried. And why?

Besides a long weekend filled with family and people and food, I ended up with covid and lost a week of being productive. Well, that is not entirely true. The week we were sick, my Sweetie and I made not one, not two, but three big pots of soup and two crock pots of stew. Just because we could, and we had a lot of vegetables that needed processing. Like, someone dropped off a half bushel of brussel sprouts so they now live in the deep freezer. So, we now have lots and lots of meals in the freezer in case we get sick and do not want to cook. 

Also, I got a message from my daughter that 6-year-old David was missing me and was snuggling up in a sweater I gave his mom to sleep in because it reminded him of the good memories he had with Gramma. Not sure what was going on in his head, other than I had covid, and so did his dad and mom at the same time. He said the sweater smelled like the farm. How wonderful! So, I went over for a few days to snuggle the boys. 

Alas, I recovered from the covid. It was a mild case, and I was out of it for about 4-5 days, then the nasal congestion. I had to cancel the surgery that I have been waiting 5 months for. It will be sometime next month. Something about anesthetic and congestion not going together. I did get lots of handwork done on Lucy because the prep work and thinking part was done. Just got to sit and stitch my heart away.

I am struggling with using the fancy-dancy laptop that I just had to have. I bought it nearly 2 years ago and do very little writing on it. And why? Because I cannot see the letters on the silver keys. My fingers know where most of the letters are, but they miss often, and I have to continually go back and edit. Hence, I use the desktop which has a black keyboard with white letters. Easy to see. But I still make mistakes. Sheesh. 

I do use it most days in my quilt room, just not for writing. It has a touch screen. I love that. I can take it outside to use, as long as I remember to charge it. Nothing quite like it dying in the middle of a zoom meeting. And I discovered the link to write a new post. So that is why I am writing a new post on the laptop.

I rearranged the quilt room so I could have more table space to work more efficiently. I now have both the 8-foot folding tables set up in the middle of the room. I have my books spread out on one table facing north and the quilting on the other table facing south.

The table lamps are attached to the sides between the 2 tables, so I can easily turn them to whichever table I am working on. All this to say, I have one of the lamps hanging over the top of the laptop, and I can actually now see the keys. 

Since it is Tuesday, I have a To-Do-Tuesday list this week:

1. Write something profound.
2. Do not gloat or boast.
3. Complete one Lucy corner square.
4. Plant bulbs.
5. Ignore the Wedding Quilt.

My OMG for this month will be to complete 8 Churn Dash blocks. I did not get any done in October. I am planning to make 63 blocks and have 25 made so far.  

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Chris 

 

The Boys

 The little boys have been getting quite the education at the farm. They are learning how to drive the golf cart. Bandage bruised knuckles. Smack flies. Put them in water to make sure they are really dead. Collect eggs and leaving one for tomorrow marking it with a face or some such artwork. Sleeping in the same bed. Two blankets work better than one. Eating vegetables with Grampa and ice cream with Gramma. Going on adventures like mini golfing, shopping for new sandals, and taking the garbage out to the end of the road on the golf cart. 

No cows to milk and frequent rain keeping Grampa off the tractor, making more time to play Settlers of Catan and UNO. Watching movies after bedtime and making business propositions to earn some real moneys. A dime for sweeping the kitchen floor and another for straightening all the shoes. And then he discovered that the cleaning lady gets sixty dollars for doing that again. He can count money. 

And didn't one of them ask when they were going to learn how to sew. Sigh. I am not ready for that part of their education. Not yet anyway. 

The boys are now on a cruise ship in the Atlantic going to Bermuda. They return sometime this week. David is going into grade1 and Jonathan into grade 3. Where has the time gone? They were just here 4 days a week while mom went back to school for a year and I changed diapers and snuggled them at the same time. But that was 4 years ago and they are too big to sit on my lap. I tell them that it will soon be my turn to sit on their laps. For snuggles. 

I have 25 Churn Dash SAL blocks made. I think they will look just fine alternating the mirror images. 

Blessings,

Chris 

OMG Completion August 2022

 My OMG goal for August was, again, just having fun and enjoying my stitching without deadlines and pressure. And I succeeded!! 

The Churn Dash SAL asked for 8 blocks for the month. To date, I have completed 16. I used the 8 HST method and had enough to make 2 of each fabric. So I decided to do one mirror image. Will they both be in the same quilt? Who knows! 

I have 10 more ready to sew together. I hope to have them done by the end of the month.

I had an oops moment (for 2 days) when the presser foot on the Jazz slipped so that I could not lift it to put my blocks under to sew them, and I did not know how to fix that. So, today I found the manual and fixed it. I will have to wind bobbins again very soon. This time I plan to do several. 

Last night I found an email from Chooky inviting us to an impromptu zoom party just minutes after it started. So, I quickly got my Lucy stitching box and spent the next 2 hours happily stitching together hexies.

I stitched these hexies together in England last week. Ellyse went with me. We went to the local quilt shop twice, and I bought a bit of yardage. Some I bought 3 years ago and was glad to find more. It is a border print that I plan to use for a border. On some yet to be dreamed up quilt. A small one. 

I still have those 4 corner units to stitch on. Some of the blue balls go up, and some go down. Will I let it bother me? And now to get the dark lines to line up when sewn together without puckering. 

I did baste a whole lot of other hexies that I had cut out last winter. Lots of basic filler colours. Now to find some show-stoppers. 

Blessings,

Chris

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Churn Dash SAL

 I succumbed to Chooky's SAL along with 41 other quilters around the world. What fun. We are making 8 blocks a month for 4 months. A good pace if you are organized. 

A few false starts had me paying attention better. I am using several old collections by Robyn Pandolph from many years ago.

These are my 8 July Churn Dash blocks.

Add them to the 6 I made in June.

 I am using a variety of solid creamy fabrics. This is a bit of a challenge to keep them all straight. I do not want to mix up the backgrounds. I have all the coloured fabrics cut already waiting and as I cut the backgrounds, I put them into nice, neat, organized file folders. Because I can. I have several other projects on the go and want to keep things in order. It is more fun that way, in my head, and definitely more productive. My OMG goal for July was to have fun working on several quilts, and I have done that. 

I have an invitation (summons) for jury duty on Tues. Who knows what I will be up to next week. 

I even got most of my To-To Tuesday goals accomplished in the past 2 weeks. We have a big family event on this weekend so my quilting goals will be minimal this week. 

1. Sew something.
2. Cut a few hexies for Lucy since I finally found the elusive fabric I have been searching for this month.
3. Baste the hexies already clipped and clip some more. 

Blessings,

Chris

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To-Do Tuesday Mid July

Mid-year-check-in with my 2022 quilting goals is an epic fail. I have not completed anything on the list. I started one new project the Churn Dash SAL with Chooky and friends. Then I was carefully ransacking through many of the project boxes looking for a specific fabric for fussy cutting and got thinking about working on a bunch of different ufos, but really was wanting to cut out more hexies for Lucy since I finally took time to prewash a huge pile of fabrics.

And did I complete the Lucy block I was working on last Sunday? NO. But I did get some stitching done the other day, so some progress.  

I got distracted with our son getting married here at the farm in the spring and making a wedding quilt which was on the big ufo list but not on the 2022 goals list. Can I change the list? And what are the chances of me actually completing all 12 projects on the list before the end of this year? Or, better still, completing any of them at the rate I am going?

I have a long to-do list on my desk upstairs that has more than quilting goals for the week. But, alas, we are going on a road trip next week so that will have to be stretched out for another week. This is the road trip we postponed last week because the local expressway is taking a "shortcut" through our heifer field beside the house. At least that is the term our newly married son used to explain all the smelly asphalt in our yard and a newly paved lane down through the field. They are repaving the expressway and we are getting "free" ground-up asphalt delivered for a mere $100 per load ( about 5 loads each of 4-5 nights) plus $1000 per week rental of the roller packer thingy to level it. My Sweetie wanted to be here when all this was going on. And why are we doing this since we sold the cows? Who knows. My Sweetie has to have something to do. We did bale up a field of second-cut hay this weekend. The expressway is 2 km south of us. 

So my official To-DoTuesday list for the next 2 weeks includes:

1. Progress on Biblical Blocks aka the Wedding Quilt.
2. Cut out more backgrounds of Churn Dash. I am using an assortment of cream Bella Solids. The colours are all cut and ready to make a gazillion HSTs. 
3. Complete Lucy #7 block. This is as far as I got so far.
   
   
   
4. Prep and place the corner buds for Ben Biggs. 
5. Prep some handwork to take on the road trip. Stitching together the paper-lined hexies does not go well in the car. I may pull out a couple of Ella applique blocks that have been sitting in a box for more than a year waiting their turn for completion. 

My hands are not working as efficiently as they used to so any progress is slow. My OMG goal for the month is to have fun working on a few different quilt projects and that I am so far. 

Blessings,

Chris

Churn Dash SAL

 

I got 4 of these 6 Churn Dash SAL blocks sewn together early this morning. It is time to figure out how to wind the bobbin in the Jazz sewing machine. I wound it 10 months ago when I set up the new machine and have only just now started using it. 

The goal was to have 8 blocks made for June. Well, I have the next 2 ready to go. I am using several different creamy solid Bella background fabrics. 

I did cut out all the coloured fabrics for the rest of the blocks. I have not yet decided if I will make just the 32 blocks or more. I am using lots of Robyn Pandolph Bed of Roses and Secret Garden prints from 20 years ago. They are so soft and pretty. 

blessings,

Chris

To-Do Tuesday for the End of June

 1. Make progress on the Biblical Blocks Wedding Quilt.

2. Pull out Ben Biggs. 

3. Make a plan to work on Just one block. 

4. Complete the 8 Churn Dash SAL blocks. 

5. Stitch together a few Lucy hexies. 

6. Figure out how to get the date off the pictures on my camera. 

This should keep me busy for the week. We are considering a road trip to Chester County Pennsylvania just have to decide what days would be best. The little boys will be here with their mom for a couple of days this week to celebrate the end of the school year. Six-year-old David wants to run on top of the big bales and visit Great-Grandma's grave. Our daughter-in-law will be here with two 10-year-old boys for a week and the girls are off to camp next week. Basically, it will be a busy family month. The kind I love best. People in and people out. Then more people. By mid-August everyone will be back to their regular lives and ours will calm down a bit. 

I might even get some writing and quilting done. Linking with Linda at to-do-tuesday.

Blessings,

Chris

I Love Blogging

I was reading blogs the other day and Carole from my Carolina home  had some comments about blogging. Which blog platforms are working. Which ones are not. Which ones are user-friendly and which ones are free. Do people still read blogs? Do people still blog and why. And how frequently. 

This all got me thinking. 

I  love blogging. I love reading blogs and seeing what my blogging friends are up to and getting a glimpse into their daily lives. I have blogging friends all around the world. Did I say I love reading blogs? I do. 

I love writing up blog posts. But it takes time. and I have to have something to say. Silly me I always have something to say. And I love saying it with words on a page. And if others read my words that is wonderful. And if they comment on my words, that is icing on the cake. I must remember to respond to all comments. I don't always. I do have ongoing conversations with quite a few bloggers. I did, after all, fly all the way to Australia one time and met a blogging friend.

I love joining my new blogging friends through Chooky's  monthly zoom parties. We are doing a Churn Dash SAL this summer (winter there). Do I need to start a new quilt when I have so many on the go? Absolutely YES I DO.

I have revisited 2 bins of what I call Moda Scraps and have started the cutting process to make however many blocks I need to. I started sewing the first few together on the new Jazz machine I bought in March of last year and this is the first time to use it. I jammed it up pretty good and will need to sit with it for a bit to figure out how to get it going. 

I love just plain talking. I love using words And blogging gives me a place to use words without actually talking out loud. And people read them! And comment. We have great discussions.  

I set up a whole new blog to share my insights on How to Stay Married for 50 Years. I did that back in April but have yet to get the page set up to make me happy. A family wedding here at the farm last month sort of slowed down most everything I was doing. 

I am taking part in a monthly Virtual Writing Retreat this weekend and plan to use all that time on blog post writing and editing and revamping. 

Revamping? you ask. Yes. Carole commented that she edited her blog list and removed the names of people who no longer blog. So this morning I went in and removed about 40 names, leaving me 80 blogs that I follow. Not every one of those 80 posts all the time, but I want access to their old posts about techniques that I want to revisit. 

And pictures. We must have pictures.

I cannot physically tie on my running shoes and go for a hike in the woods or climb a mountain or walk to the end of my lane. But the golf cart has been taken out of winter storage and I can drive that all over the farm if I just get out of the house and do it. That is a great idea. I should do it at least once a day. 

What I especially like reading about is the process of how things are planned and organized and executed. I am a process person rather than a product person. It is nice to see pictures of finished quilts, but I would rather read about how they did what they did. In making the 8 at a time HST, I drew the pencil line diagonally across the background square and then used the 1/4 inch seam guide to follow the pencil line to sew the seam. First time I ever did it this way and I like it. It is more accurate. 

I like linky parties. I like to link my posts so more people will see them and read them. It is all about numbers for me sometimes. Well, most times. I do not like navigating through blogs that have so many ads dancing in and out as I try to read what they are working on, so I don't go there. It is too confusing and too easy to accidentally activate an ad when I try to scroll on down to keep reading. 

So. a few random thoughts. It rained last night so today is a good day to go outside and pull weeds before they realize it rained and start growing again. 

Blessings,

Chris

To-Do Tuesday in Mid June

 Last week's list looked like this:

To-Do Tuesday 

1. I packed a box of Lucy stuff so anticipate making some progress on this handwork. I tried to sew baste and join a few 1-inch squares but that is awkward for my arthritic hands so I may end up using glue on those. Sew basting the hexies works just fine. 
   
   
   
2. Download the pictures I took and post them. Downloaded but not posted.
3. Do a post about the wedding. Soon. 

This week's list will be simpler:

Continue the Biblical Blocks Wedding Quilt.

Cut out the fabric for the Churn Dash SAL. 

I decided to go with 2 bins of Moda scraps from a challenge project about 20 years ago. These are soft colours from some old Robyn Pandolph collections.  

Sew for 15 minutes a day. 

I was dawdling and decided to update my ufo list on the sidebar. Why? Who knows. It was not on my to-do list so I did it. I joined the PHD Challenge at the beginning of the year, but have not done much on any of those quilts. I have, however, been working on a different ufo,  Biblical Blocks as a wedding gift for my son and his wife. I wanted to add it to the list, so I just added it and 19 others. Last fall I donated and gave away quite a few unfinished quilt projects. I might do that again but not too fast. I have wanted to work on a few different quilts than the ones on the list. Am I the only one who does this? Linking with Linda texasquiltgal.to-do-tuesday

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Blessings,

Chris