Popping in to let you all know that I am honored and super excited to be a guest on Pat Sloan's American Patchwork and Quilting Podcast this coming Monday, August 24th. The show airs at 4:00 pm EST and you can listen to it live by clicking this link. I hope you tune it!
In other news: both girls are back in school! I'm taking some time to get into some kind of a routine and hope to be back here next week with some pretty things to show and tell. Have a great weekend!
Stopping by quickly to let you know that I restocked my little shop with scrap bags. Again, I have sorted them by size - Large bags have medium to large scraps that will be great to cut up and use in patchwork of all kinds. They each have 1 1/2 yards of fabric by weight (8 to 9 oz.) and have been sorted by cool colors, warm colors and mixed colors (warm & cool). The small bags have little scraps that work well in scrappy log cabins, English paper piecing, applique accents, etc. They are also sorted by color and contain 1/2 yard by weight (2.5 to 3 oz.). AND there are a few camera straps which I have marked down if you are so inclined.
Back to sewing...the perfect opportunity to make more scraps!
Summer. So lovely and bright, but so hard to get a hold of, if that makes any sense.
Fatty and I went to Switzerland! It was amazing - full of good food, good people, amazing scenery. It was a fast week, full to the brim with fun, but re-entry is always hard. Schools starts next week. Books are purchased, along with new uniforms, a fancy graphing calculator and 14 sewing machines for the arts elective that my friend, Jill, and I teach. Exciting stuff! There have been volleyball tryouts and auditions for the school play are next week. Summer reading is almost complete! It doesn't seem like time to go back, but I can tell that in some ways, we are all ready.
It's been quiet on the sewing front, or I should say, on the show-and-tell sewing front. I did a little secret sewing for my friend, Kim, and her new fabric line, Good Hair Day. More details on that in the next month or two. The studio is getting cleaned out. Scrap bags and a fabric destash coming up soon! Otherwise, I've been lying low. I picked up a stomach bug somewhere along the way and am still battling it a bit, hopeful that it is almost gone.
I have found myself reaching for my big camera instead of my iphone more these days. There is something about the light that makes me want to capture it as best as I can. Turns out, I had missed using it. I am happy to be doing something about that.
Reading. Always. Loved The Vacationers and The Rocks (affiliate links). Both are set in Mallorca - I had no idea so that was a fun coincidence. Anything you care to recommend?
