Happy and Healthy and Busy

You'd think I could take a few minutes to update this blog. I love having it and keeping track of Oz and the quilting world, but life seems to have gotten in the way. It's hard to complain when both of us are employed and have careers we have invested in for all of these years. Allen has been home lots for several months, and that is just wonderful. We had a fun evening with some of his Denver colleagues a couple of weeks ago.



We've been gone from home three weekends in a row. Weekend #1: Paducah, Kentucky - beginning of my Fall Break - fabric and fun.

Weekend #2 - Knoxville - Bernina class. Great food and a side trip to Smokey Mountain Knife Works for Allen. I have been sewing for how long?? And I have learned tons from the first four machine mastery classes. Probably the biggest thing I've learned is that I have lots to learn. I suppose you can teach an old dog new tricks. Are you listening, Oz?

Weekend #3 - Knoxville - Two Bernina classes. And again - great food and a trip for Allen (during my classes) to the knife store. Seriously, that store is what they call "destination shopping."  Any time you have a waterwheel and waterfall and 55,000 square feet of shopping, museum, displays, and trophy wildlife, it's something to see.

Meanwhile, yes, I've been sewing. I have finished a couple of projects. One that I really like is a triangle quilt that I quilted with my new BSR using spiral triangles.



I've never made a quilt with anything but a straight border, so that was new too.

I've made a couple of Schnibbles quilts. Carrie Nelson is the designer of Schnibbles -- little quilts with little pieces. I think they go together beautifully, but they are still a challenge, especially while I am still a novice at the quilting end of the process. The one on the right is my favorite -- it is called Short Story, and I used a Moda fabric charm pack called Kashmir.



I've also made another project, but that one is not here. I did it for Shannon for her work, and I will post that one later. To market, to market...

Between Alabama football and real work (school is moving along - yearbook is getting going, and the first nine weeks has ended), weekend trips, and lots of sewing, I haven't blogged. Oh -- we did contract to have our master bath redone. That will be an interesting process, I'm sure. Happy and healthy and busy. What else could we wish for?