It's a finish!
Happy Scribbles
42.5 x 59.5
I had a few different crayon fabrics to use as Happy Block centers.
I quilted it on my sewing machine with some scribbles...
...in a variegated thread...
...on a gray backing.
And sew on...
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I finished a book! I've Got A New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters by Laurie Notaro. I was looking for some light reading that might make me smile. It wasn't a laugh out loud book but it did make me smile some.
Other things that made me smile the last couple of weeks...
- I am the historian, record keeper, genealogist for John's family. John's brother wanted to know if I had his dad's recipe for Tomato Jelly. Yes, I do.
- I always have to laugh when someone says "that's a nice quilt for a man". What? Men don't like flowers? Maybe watch a few episodes of Gardner's World. And that reminds me...one time when we were at Walmart (I think) John saw a fabric I just had to buy for a quilt for him. He said it reminded him of his grandmother. Well, it was what I would consider a pretty darned ugly old lady type floral but to each his own. I did buy it and I did make him a quilt. I used it as the center string in a string quilt where it fit right in. He used his "grandma comfort" for years.
- I always have to laugh when someone thinks it is work to do a few loads of laundry. I have a wringer washer - two tubs with a wringer in between. And my dryer is a clothesline outside or drying rack and clothesline in the basement. (I gave up on washers and dryers because my basement is too damp for the electronic components they put in them nowadays.)
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Oh joy! I received a surprise package of goodies from Karen Z. with batting pieces for Frankenbatts as well as some scraps. It was indeed a surprise...her sister Sandi told her about me, the collector of comfort quilt fodder. And Sherron who is a blog reader started it all when she sent me some beautiful appliqued blocks and then told her friend Sandi about me. How nice. Karen wondered if what she sent might have some pieces that are too small. Nope...I use anything down to 1.5 inch squares and go down to one inch if it is a strip. Every little bit counts!
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Happy Scribbles and 11 other quilts are now boxed up and I will drop off at UPS Friday morning. They are going to
Oglala Sioux Head Start at Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, SD. According to the Sew For Kids website Headstart is looking for 300 Blankets – For naptime, Children were given their blankets to take home at the end of last year. (Blankets aren't their only needs).
It has been raining every day for about a week now so I've been unable to get out to the gardens. I know there will be bucket and wheelbarrows full of weeds to pull! More rain in the forecast through Sunday. Guess I'll go sew.
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