Sentimental Stitches

Sally Post Floral Sampler Block 31
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We are coming to the end of our Applique in May series of blocks from the Sally Post Floral Sampler. Each day when I post the pattern I am amazed at how beautiful such simple blocks can be. Imagine them in batiks - 1930s solids - hand dyes - even Kaffe Fasset would be fun. [...]

How’s the title of this post for making you wonder if I’ve lost my mind? I’m more than a little tired this morning after a terrible night in the woods. I don’t like things I can’t explain so when Clutch and I got back from Grand Rapids on Tuesday night to find the lamp in [...]

The three position chest x-ray was a piece of cake compared to the hour long MRI. It wasn’t really that bad. There sure was a lot of clanging and banging despite wearing ear plugs. No soothing music for me because of the focus on my head and neck. I probably won’t hear anything for [...]

I had my blood test this morning and right after lunch will be the chest x-ray. The MRI isn’t scheduled until 7 PM tonight so unless they have a cancellation during the day, we’ll be driving back up north in the dark tonight. Good thing I can make the trip on auto pilot.

Today’s [...]

I hope you have a wonderful day today. Please take a moment to say a prayer for all of those who have given their lives protecting our freedom and those serving now in the armed forces. We owe them a debt of gratitude we can never repay.
I’m driving home after work today. Tomorrow I’m scheduled [...]

For as long as I can remember the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend was dedicated to the Indianapolis 500. Growing up we watched television here at the lake via the old fashioned antenna. We did have one of those fancy dials inside the house you could turn to move the antenna and picked up the [...]

Clutch and I worked 12 hours yesterday, came home, crashed into bed and slept in this morning. It’s a positively beautiful day here. Birds are singing, the sun is shining and I have a list a mile long of things I’d like to accomplish. I might settle for a little stitching, putting in one section [...]

This weekend is our official kick off for the “season” as we call it. While we have visitors in Traverse City year round, it’s the time from Memorial Day to Labor Day that is the busiest. Closing time for the store increases from 5 to 6 to 7 on weekdays and 5 to 6 to [...]

Sally Post Floral Sampler Quilt Block 22
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