no more baby blues

SSBOM Hot Flashes for july ... the block is called no more baby blues...

mine

and, once again, no blue in a block named after the blues...

Auntia's

when we went to the meeting on the first saturday of july, Sheri the Shop Owner had the demonstration board all set up for the SS Neutral BOM which everyone knows is the second saturday of the month ... that was a short meeting, lemmetellya ... no demonstration and no sample block and the Shades fabric strips weren't in their cute little plastic bags ... both of us decided to use just the dark green Shade strip instead of the lime green strip...

Sheri the Shop Owner's

i'm not sure about the modulation of the phrase ... is it supposed to be

no more baby blues ?

or should it be

no more baby blues ?

and, seriously, shouldn't there be just a smidgen of blue in the block?!? i'm just sayin...

male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. with female menopause you gain wait and get hot flashes. male menopause - you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

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good golly

ms. molly ... those paper-pieced leaves really DO exist...

leaf fall! we have leaf fall! 35 minutes past the hour!

and their little acorns, too ... they were in bits and pieces in little ziploc bags till i had a marathon git-er-done session a week or two ago ... and now they are in a bigger ziploc bag, waiting patiently for me to get back to them and theirs...

say what?!?

last night was FNSI...

i embroidered...

the left side of the top embroidery for Over the River and Through the Woods

i can't believe that i signed up for more trees - you'd think i'd have learned my lesson with HPV not the virus...

i am changing the pattern a bit is anyone in shock?!? 

i didn't want it to be a winter scene, so i traced it with lines that are not drifted with snow...

we don't need no stinking snow drifts

and i replaced the horse-drawn sleigh with a truck from Snow Days another Crab-apple Hill pattern...

 does this fender make my butt look big?!?

the truck was too small and was facing the wrong way, so i traced it ... and reversed it ... and then Auntia enlarged it for me

 instead of black floss, i'm using DMC #154 very dark grape for most of the stitching ... and a little bit of Wildflowers #077 royal jewels for what should have been fields of snow, but is gonna be strewn leaves instead i was gonna write leaf fall, but Auntia says it's strewn leaves... 

and the background fabric is not what i originally chose last year ... i didn't buy enough background fabric for the embroidery and the paper-pieced leaves ... so i ordered what i thought was the same fabric, but was actually a bit more gold and more than a bit darker ... which meant that i still didn't have enough of either fabric for the embroidery and the paper-pieced leaves ... so i used both fabrics randomly shudder for the paper-pieced leaves... 

i dunno ... i think it will work ... maybe in a year or ten i will have a thanksgiving quilt...

Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants.

Kevin James  

a to z

you gotta go check out what Auntia has on the design floor ... go ahead - i'll wait

is that not awesome?!? she finished embroidering the candy cane letters on friday night (after stalling on the letter "P" for months and months) and sewed the sashing on each of them last night ... i think it is absolutely amazing!!!

we took a little break and went to see Transformers: Dark of the Moon this afternoon ... my arm is bruised from being squished every time Bumblebee was on screen ... and Sam Witwicky wasn't the only one in tears when it looked like the big yellow guy was gonna be assassinated, lemmetellya ... i'm just happy to finally know the REAL reason for the Race to the Moon...

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the Earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

 Frank Borman

incentive

in·cen·tive

n.

Something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, that induces action or motivates effort.

adj.

Serving to induce or motivate: an incentive bonus for high productivity.

this is a little stack of incentive...

and none of it is for me

for Auntia to work on the rest of her PPSSBOM blocks ... after i showed her the candy cane fabric, she  finished the last three paper-pieced blocks and embroidered for a few hours on her candy cane letters ... so i ordered the rest of what she needed for her quilt top ... washed it ... dried it ... folded it...

 

my work here is done...

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. 

Robert Frost