I wound some more warp this afternoon. This makes 2/3 of it wound now. I have to get it finished so that I can put the warping wheel away while we are gone. Pieced some more blocks for Arty's quilt and I have another half a postage stamp block pieced. Why did I decide to do it in 1.25 blocks instead of 1.5 I wonder. It was so long ago that I cut the pieces for it I don't remember, but this first one will hardly make a dent in the ones I have cut. I wonder if I could use them for hexagons when I get done with the postage stamp quilt? The last hexagon quilt I made was almost 30 years ago, and that is dating myself since I only own up to being 29 years old. May be I could allow my self to be a year older this year and be 30 for the next ten years.

This was the 1st quilt off the frame this spring. I like the strong visual stripes in it from the distance even better than up close, although one can't see the fussy cut kitties in the centers very well. It is a large crib size made for my youngest grandson Wyatt. I think that we are going to have to work on our photography skills in the future, but it was a lot of fun.
2 weeks from tomorrow we leave for our long trip.

Kael's quilt out on the porch rail looks pretty good. Maybe a little like a swastika, I'm afraid, but the pattern name is rail fence. I will bring it in before meeting tonight and wash it then get the rest of the paper I used for the quilting pattern off, I hope. Well I learned what NOT  to do, and I guess that's as important as learning WHAT to do. When I figure out how I will post pictures of the finished quilt, maybe some pictures of some of the others I have done. I always hang them from the porch or clothesline, depending on what house we are living in, for a day as a sort of "Look, see what I did" sort of thing since a lot of time, materials and energy go into the finished product.

I am trying to wind warp for the coverlet, but the weather has been so bad since I started feeling better and I have the warping wheel under the back porch out in the back of the house so I can't really wind when it is wet out. The goal is to get the six warp sections wound before we leave for Washington in three weeks so it is ready for me to dress the loom as soon as we get back. Getting exciting around here!

Bye for now.

I finished Kael's quilt this morning. Tomorrow I will hang it on the porch to take a picture of it, and if I can figure out how I will put it here on the blog. Taught a class on colored pencil drawing. Yoiks. I suppose if I teach a class at a mental health center I can expect crazy people to be there. Fortunately the two troublemakers got up and left at the beginning, in a huff because I wouldn't share the expensive colored pencils of my own. I tried to explain, but they didn't want to here 'excuses', I said good we don't need that kind of an attitude around here, maybe a little too direct, but I was nervous as had never taught colored pencil techniques before. Every one else was very nice and attentive so it wasn't too bad after that. I am really tired now. I was hoping to wind some more warp, but I am too tired, so I will try for tomorrow. Three weeks until we leave.

A couple of days later, been sick a couple of days. Can hear everyone upstairs getting ready to go camping. I won't go out until Wednesday, I have a couple of appointments this week. I should be getting the information about the dentist today. Imagine getting excited about going to the dentist! Going to go up and do my quilting for the day, only two more rows on Kael's quilt but I won't put another one on the frame until we get back from Washington, don't want it to fade in the hot SD sun. Gotta run bye.

June 14th already we leave in a little over two weeks, I am viewing it with some trepidation. I have finished quilting Kael's quilt and have the binding on one side on. It will go fast. When I get some pictures I will post them here along with some of the other stuff I am doing. I am just getting over that flu that is going around and I still don't feel very good but at least I am not running up two flights of stairs to the bathroom.

I still have some sewing to do before we go, a skirt to hem and two tablet covers to mend. I think that I will figure out how to post from my tablet on the trip. I have that seminar that  I am supposed to do with Greg at the mental health center on colored pencils. It should be interesting. Time to go do a couple of things that need done, I have to leave our rooms clean while we are gone, and also my sewing corner.

well, who would ever guess that I am starting to blog. Ten years ago I was just getting good on playing solitare on the computer. Now here I am writing a blog. of course I will probably mess it up somehow, but nothing ventured nothing gained. Today I emptied the kiln, everything turned out very good, I took a bowl upstairs to use for a pin bowl in my sewing corner because I broke the last one, and guess what, I broke the new one, had only been out of the kiln a couple of hours. Think I will make a couple of pin cushions. Malachi, 6 year old grandson, followed me down to the basement and we started working on a jump ring necklace for the other grandmamma. He does it all by himself, I showed him a couple of times how to open and close the rings and he is doing the rest, he's going to run me out of rings. well ta ta  for now, don't know if I will keep this up but it is interesting if I do it right