I'm Home!

After a fantastic experience, my perspectives have changed, and I am home again to appreciate its comforts.

My flowers...

My gladiolas started to bloom this week, and my day lilies are continuing to make new blooms!

And, big surprise, I am thinking of what fabric I have that I could use to capture their color...

Pictures of Home

I've gathered pictures of home to take with me, including my quilt of Tucker. As I drive around I savor what is important to me; sunsets, sunrises, a loud purr, my home. I know I will miss these...

Mowing the lawn

While mowing the lawn yesterday I broke the rules of lawn mower use. I didn't mow in straight lines, but in concentric shapes around my trees and odd shaped flower beds that I have planted in my yard. Much like the rings of quilting around a Hawaiian appliqué quilt. My head really is in quilting most of the time...

This is someone else's work, but illustrates what I was doing to my lawn:

Gingher Over-Loved

I must get my favorite Ginghers sharpened. A year ago I chomped a pin in half. I remember clearly what I was doing when I did it. I was making some pillows out of left over decorator fabric and was trimming the edge of one side. "Boy is this decorator fabric thick, I can barely cut through it" I said to myself as I leaned into it. Finally the scissor blades met and a piece of pin went shooting off of my work table.
Whoops....
{click, undo, undo, undo} ... oh, real life, can't do that ... drat!
So now I have this lovely little chip in the upper part of the blade and I've known ever since that I need to get it sharpened. I just hope it won't be to hard for the blade to be repaired.

Good news, recently I found out the best thing to do for sharpening Ginghers is to send it to the manufacture. I am going to do just that since I won't be cutting any fabric for most of June. It takes 3-4 four weeks and they still only charge $7.50 for US customers! I'm in!

Gingher