Summer finally arrived!!
Well, maybe it is Indian Summer - but today is the most gorgeous day we’ve had in Months!! It wasn’t humid, it wasn’t horridly hot, it was really perfect - hopefully tomorrow will be nice for our family get together, but I’m taking what I can get here. We went out to the fall festival in town today. It’s a little tiny town with a little festival - but it is fun to go and check out the craft tents and watch the people and listen to the music and eat a little of whatever they are offering. And the very best part is that I could WALK it this year. We haven’t gone - or even considered going - in several years because of my knee - well it was wonderful to be able to walk. I am grateful for the gift of walking and believe me when I say that I will never take that ability for granted again.
My book list for August is:
Even CatSitters Get the Blues by Blaze Clement
Eggs Benedict Arnold by Laura Child
Norma Rose and The Root of all Evil by Norma Tadlock Johnson
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen
Black Hills by Nora Roberts
I know it’s not the normal length - got no idea why as I certainly had the time to read. The only new to me author on the list is Rhoda Janzen and her “Mennonite in a Little Black Dress” and yes I loved the book. It was funny, it hit home more than I wanted it to, and she had some really good and meaningful things to say that seemed pointed straight at me. As for the other books, I love Blaze Clement and her Pet Sitter books - they are great. Anything by Laura Child I love and “Black Hills” was a great story. And of course Norma Rose - you have to love her even when you want to shake her - LOL.
I promised you quilt pictures so here are two of the quilts I completed this summer - I have two more but they aren’t bound yet so I’ll save them for another day.

This quilt is done with English Paper Piecing shaped as hexagons. The same shape to make a Grandmother’s flower garden - the quilt I swore I would never make another one. Well this was easier with the paper Piecing. The decorations are antique and art buttons and strung beads. It is actually a wall hanging for the wall in my hallway.

This quilt started out as a block of the month, but I didn’t like the way it was supposed to go together, so I tossed the star blocks in the corner for about 4 years. The pumpkin center is my own design and is appliqued by machine. This is a table topper for - hopefully my dining room table this fall.
All quilting on both quilts is done by hand.















