Miscellaneous Happiness...

What a performance. One of the highlights of my LIFE! : )

From last week: (technical difficulties)
So after a series of unfortunate events, I mark today as the first really happy 24-hour period in quite awhile... My son had an absolutely amazing night last night performing with his dance class... Then I had my quilt club this am, where i tried not to get into any fights (you think I'm kidding!), did some gardening, took my son to the carnival, had a nice fire, solved a very exciting technical problem which will save me many moons of tedious labou... ah, this is livin.

enjoying some nice es'cream.

Another section weeded & amended...
Now planted with eggplant and golden beets...

Freshly picked Heirloom Peas from India

A couple new tools. haven't tried the frixion pen yet - this is the one that comes back with cold.

And I needed a new seam ripper. This one is from Fons & Porter. It's supposed to be easy on the hands, but i have to say it's hard to store cause it's so bulky - and the dumb cap doesn't stay on. I'm done messing around - recommendations, anyone?

and a stack of new shirtings... LOVE!

Appomattox Courthouse update

layout of the quilt minus the borders...
Used various shirtings as setting triangles instead
of the same fabric throughout.

the 15 finished squared and trimmed blocks.
I ended up keeping the blocks as-is even though I thought they were too red to
go with the sashing strips and border fabrics. I think it will all work together though.

squaring blocks up... not sure what repercussions this will have on the layout - but I didn't care.
I just went ahead and cut em all down anyway.

My work table. Dedicated a five hour chunk to get this puppy on to the next level...
I work slowly - still a beginner...