Rambling

Devan and I had a chat about possible quilt projects. She tells me she likes the Flowers for my Wedding Ring but thinks it would be easier to make the Bali Wedding Star. It has to do with the applique. So we pulled out a tutorial for a Jelly Roll Race quilt by Jordan Fabrics.

We may start here. It will have to wait until the end of the month. She likes the autumn coloured roll and the brown batik. So what does that mean for Gramma and her great ideas? The Quiltworx quilts will have to wait. For now. I am okay with that. 

I took all the geraniums outside for the summer. It had been raining for a couple of days. Great time to take them out so they can get all wet and hydrated before getting too much summer sun. That will come later. But where is my good new shovel to dig the holes? I finally found it put away nicely in the drive shed. But not where it had ever been before. Now it is on my porch, close at hand. Speaking of hands, mine are feeling pretty good right now. I will try my hands at pie making tonight. It is rhubarb season and we really like rhubarb custard meringue pie. 

I bought a Majestic Palm at the local grocery store last week. Couldn't pass that up. $22 and 7 feet tall. There were dozens to chose from so I took the tallest one. It looks amazing in the SonRoom. I have already repotted it since the roots were quite potbound. Some 50 years ago my Sweetie and I had gone to visit an elderly neighbour of his who was living with her daughter in a highrise apartment in town. It was her 97th birthday and we took her a handful of tiny pink wild flowers. She hugged them close and smelled them. They were called hipaticus. I had never met anyone so old before. I have known a lot of them since. Anyway, they had a Majestic Palm in the living room touching the ceiling. It intrigued me. I wanted one. Now I have one. Some things are worth waiting for. Now to keep the thing alive until I am 97.  

The consensus for my leader ender project is to start with Trail Mix. No Y-seams. No triangles. No curves. No designated background. I bought a new 60mm blade for my large cutter. Do they really cost $21 for one blade? And is it true that cutting paper dulls the blade? And I have never yet tried to cut through twelve, yes 12 layers of fabric at the same time. That is in the instructions on the Quiltworx pattern. Otherwise, I would have to print off more newsprint templates. So I bought a new blade. Actually, I bought not one but 2 new rotary cutters. Someone wrote about them so I checked them out. Amazon delivers to my SonRoom door quite regularly. I also ordered the Creative Grid Double Wedding Ring Template set. I have been watching various tutorials about the Quiltworx process. Good thing there are so many. I am learning how to read their patterns. No simple feat. I am learning how to prepare to get ready to start one of the quilts. It may take me a while to get out of the starting gate. But I will be ready when that time comes. 

I have a plane to catch Tues and have not yet started packing. Going on my first ever cruise. With my duaghter. To Norway. Plan on visiting with Hanne while we are there. And Katherine's, the only quilt store in Oslo, is walking distance from our hotel. How cool is that? And it is just as warm there as it is here so I will not be taking my winter coat after all. My computer will not download photos off my camera and I do not know how to get pictures off my phone to my blog. Another new thing for this Gramma to learn. But that is what keeps us going isn't it? 

Blessings,

Chris