Today was a much needed quiet day all to myself.
My morning started off with cutting out a new upcycling project inspired by a FB Post and class announcement from a distant quilt shop that I follow. It took a little while, but I actually drafted my own pattern template a couple of weeks ago. The jeans are an old worn-out pair of mine. Contrasting fabric will be a Liberty print thrifted from an estate sale. Embroidery hoop, floss and other embellishments are already pulled. We’ll see if my CRAFTLab kiddos are interested in a smaller version.
Some time was spent checking my credit reports with the Big 3 to make sure my credit freeze was still intact. I received a letter from Conduent about a massive healthcare data breach. Good grief. This would certainly explain the recent rise in spam emails and robocalls. I also made a note to carefully monitor credit card and banking activity over the next few months. What else can you do when everything is now digital? Yes, it’s more convenient, but sometimes I do miss the analog days.
Big Girl and I took a late morning nap and followed up with a leisurely walk at one of our favorite parks. Sadie’s library needs periodic refreshing of the books we offer for our youngest READers to read to Sadie. We visited a Goodwill store off the Marietta Square near the park to see what books were available. Seven nearly new books for the price of one brand new one. Score!
Classes for the June 2026 Road 2 Virginia and A Mountain Quiltfest dropped this week. New classes were also added to the April Quilt! Knit! Stitch! event in St. Louis. I took a few minutes to peruse the listings. Plenty of offerings, but nothing really caught my eye. That’s how it works sometimes. It’s probably for the best, however. Any travel later this year depends on some other things going on at the moment. The Great Wisconsin Quilt Show in early September is the other quilty travel destination on my 2026 list. Here’s hoping I’ll be able to make it and some tentative travel itineraries with hubby in the fall.
Today’s mental challenge came in the form of figuring out how to make the 2 extra blocks that are part of every shop’s Middle Georgia Shop Hop sample quilt, but not available separately for purchase. You are required to buy a finishing kit from one of the participating shops to get the instructions. Said finishing kits range in price from $65 to $110. No thanks. I worked out the cutting measurements and found fabric similar enough in my stash to make the extra two blocks. I may also have found enough fabric to make the specialty sashing and outer border as the one sample quilt I really liked. We’ll see!
Finally, a random FB retirement post from a former co-worker brought closure to something I’d wondered about since my own retirement. One of the pictures in the post provided the missing puzzle piece that allowed everything to finally click into place for me. Turns out I wasn’t crazy after all!
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