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Buddy and Buddy’s Buddy

August 24, 2018

This is my doggie nephew Buddy. He’s a beautiful Border Collie that my sister Ramey adopted a couple of years ago. He’s such a sweetie. He now has his own possum. He found the possum in the woods behind Ramey’s house and brought him up on the deck. Ramey took the possum away from Buddy (he had not hurt it) and made Buddy go in the house. The next night the possum was at the back door asking Ramey if Buddy could come out and play.

Buddy’s Buddy

Note: I don’t know what that thing is above the possum. Ramey took this photo. Looks like a UFO or the moon. But there’s nothing in that space behind her deck except tall tall trees.

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On 08/25/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

Awwww, how sweet!

We once had a blackbird get into our attic and it somehow fell thru the wall space and into the basement. Our dog went bonkers but by the time we found the bird to let it out, only a few hours had passed. That night, the bird came to the window sill outside and the dog sat on the window edge inside and they had a visit! Go figure.

Hugs!
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For Kathryn

August 23, 2018

My DIL, Kathryn, goes by the nickname of Spooky. I don’t know why. That’s just what Cait has always called her. She is also an avid cat person. She and Cait have two beautiful kitties, Selwyn and Lydia. When I first saw this cute Halloween pattern, I immediately thought of Kathryn, downloaded the pattern, and went to work on it for her. This morning, I got the kitty and the letters fused. All that is left to finish is outline stitch the appliques, either quilt it myself or have Lena quilt it, and put on some binding and a label. That’s a lot for me, so I hope to get it done by Christmas to give to her. If a miracle happens and I finish before Christmas, I might even give it to her early. I’m very anxious for her to see it. I don’t think she reads my blog very often, so I’m not much worried about her seeing it here.

Today’s the day that Clue 2 of the Halloween Mystery Quilt is to be posted. So I’m going now to download it and work for a little while longer in the sewing room. Skipper is being a very good dog and not fussing at me to come downstairs. So I’m making hay while the dog doesn’t bark, so to speak.

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On 08/23/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

How cute!!!!!!!!!!! Well done, Susan.

Hugs!
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Clue 1 Complete

August 20, 2018

Here are photos of the results of Clue 1 Instructions for The Quilting Company’s Halloween Mystery Quilt. This clue produced twelve blocks, six with red backgrounds and six with black print backgrounds. The next set of instructions will come with Clue 2 on Thursday.

As I said, this is the first mystery quilt challenge I’ve done. It’s quite different working on a project when you don’t know what it is. Makes me a little nervous. It makes me wonder how I might do things diffently (e.g., different fabrics) if I’d known what I was making.

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On 08/20/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

Might you think trekkie thought as you sew and Boldly Go?! Looks interesting! If you like scrappy, you might use different fabrics for Llue 2.

Hugs!

On 08/23/2018, Pat said ...

Very pretty. I like red/black/white combo. Can't wait to see it. I always think I want to do a mystery but it overwhelms me.
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In the Mood for Autumn

August 18, 2018

I saw the first Little Yellow Butterfly of the season before August even arrived, so I know Autumn is on the way--which puts me in the mood to make autumny quilts--especially halloween ones.

I’ve had the pattern in the photo above for a while now and decided I would whip it out yesterday. Well, it refused to whip. For some reason, the instructions confused me. I had to recut a couple of pieces and finally got the first section to fit together this morning.

But even before I got to the sewing room this morning, while I was having my coffee and cruising around on the internet, I found this (above). I have never participated in a Mystery Quilt Challenge before, but this one tweaked my interest. So I committed. I’m off now to work on Clue 1.

If you are interested in joining the challenge go to The Quilting Company website and check it out. You might have to cut and paste. Either I have forgot the code for inserting links, or the links just don’t want to work on this computer, so here’s the website:

https://www.quiltingcompany.com/mystery-quilt-mystery-of-halloween-introduction/?utm_content=buffer49524&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=tqc-csi-fb

Or if you don’t want to cut and paste, just google The Quilting Company.

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On 08/19/2018, Joanne said ...

I love all the Halloween quilts and fabrics!
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Witchy Fabric

August 16, 2018

Look at the fun fabric I found at JoAnn's Fabric to back my little "Witch Hunt" quilt. Don't you just love it? I bought just a yard, which is more than enough to back the quilt. But I'm wishing now I had bought enough to also make me a pair of pj/lounge pants. I might look online and see if I find it and order some more.

I also bought a yard of this spider fabric with no plan in mind as to how I'll use it. But I'm sure it will find a home in a project eventually.

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On 08/16/2018, Deb Price said ...

Pajama pants would be adorable in that fabric!
I do love your haircut. I also liked your hair long. When I grew my hair long several years ago, I loved it, even had bangs cut, which I always had wanted. Yet, due to how sensitive my skin is because of my fibro, I always had to clip my hair up or I would get welts on my neck from the friction of my hair moving! I think I may try to grow it just to my shoulders this winter. Hopefully that will not bother my neck.

On 08/16/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

Love the witchy fabric and that black fabric with the colorful eyes behind it. Hope you don't use the spider fabric for pj pants! Shudder! :)

When I made DS1 and his sweetie a Halloween wall quilt several years ago, I used a spider web with large spiders fabric as the outer border. They like skulls and skeletons but found that fabric creepy. Whodothunk it?

Hugs!
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The Long and the Short of It

August 14, 2018

Some of you posed the question about my hair being so long in the bee pictures, so I thought I would update you. I’ve had some bad ideas in my life, but the hair thing was one of the baddest. Sometime last year, I decided I wanted to grow my hair long and wear it either piled on top of my head of with a long braid down my back. I think I made this decision after hot weather had gone away.

This summer, the longer my hair got, the more miserable I was--until finally this week, I decided I’d had all I could take. Yesterday I got it cut. It was still not long enough for a braid or to pile up. That would have likely taken another year. I just felt like I didn’t have another year to devote to hair growing.

I feel so much better now. The photo is not very good. I’m awful at taking selfies. My hand shakes and I forget to smile, as you can see. I look a little peaked, partially because I had already begun sweating with all the monkeying with my cell phone trying to get it to take a photo that didn’t have a flash right in my face.

Gotta go now. I’m due at book club meeting in just a few and have to pick my sisters up on the way. We’re discussing Jodi Picoult’s Leaving Time, a marvelous book, btw.

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On 08/14/2018, LaVoice said ...

What a difference in your hair. Really looks good. I am going to get mine cut too as long hair makes us look older. Yours look very nice.

On 08/14/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

Looking good!! Short hair becomes you as doe the length it is on the left side of your blog!

Hugs!

On 08/15/2018, Pat said ...

Your haircut is wonderful! You look so much younger. I’ve read Leaving Time-really good book.
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Made It to Bee Just Before Monday Swooped By

August 08, 2018

I cannot believe how fast time is flying these days. I can still remember as a child how it seems that summer was almost never-ending-- to the point that we were all excited when school started. And the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas was a long time. A week felt like a week. A year felt like an eternity. But now? Shoot! June had barely started when all of a sudden it’s August. I’ve read books about this phenomenon, how time speeds up as we age. But I still don’t understand. Oh well.

I made it to the August meeting of my quilting bee on Monday. I didn’t take any photos, but my friend Cyndi did, and I have copies. So here we go.

That’s me, showing and telling about “The Bow Wow Bunch.” Everyone loved it. My friend Doris spotted Sophie right away. She’s the black dog in the top row sporting the red collar.

Here I am again, showing “Witch Hunt: No Collusion.”

Rita show us her sweet children’s quilt, featuring some adorable squares.

This is Rita with her in-progress pumpkin wallhanging.

Here’s Nancy with her charming tumbler quilt. You can find the free pattern for this one at Accuquilt.com.

Martha turns out another beautiful cuddle quilt.

Mary showed us her little flower bouquet quiltlet, made with hexies. I fell in love with this one and plan to make a similar piece using some of the English paper piecing hexies that I made a few years ago. Mary used prequilted fabric for her background. On the way home from bee, I stopped by JoAnn’s Fabrics and picked up a couple of prequilted pieces, a pink and a tan print.

Mary also showed us some little dresses she made for her granddaughter. This is one of them.

For the first time in quite a while, we had 100% attendance. Everyone was there. So we took the opportunity to shoot a picture to send our dear friend and former member Mary Grace, who moved to Colorado to be near her children.

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On 08/08/2018, Debbie Price said ...

You are so lucky to have a group of women that get together and talk about/show their quilts!
All of them are works of art! I love the hexie wall hanging and how the stems hang beyond the end!
Love that group picture! When did your hair get so long?
Hugs 💖

On 08/08/2018, Barbara Anne said ...

Love the quilts and the smiling faces in the group photo!!! Mary Grace will be thrilled to get this picture.

When DID your hair get so long?

My dad used to say that by the time he was 70, time whizzed by without even a blink.

Hugs!

On 08/09/2018, Pat said ...

Beautiful quilts! Glad you felt like going! I know what you mean about time speeding up as we age! It’s amazing!

On 08/09/2018, Pat said ...

I also love the group photo!
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