Wow!  These quilts are wonderful!

After I finished DGS book quilt I wasn't sure what quilt project I was going to start.  I was putting things away in my sewing room when "that little voice" yelled you have to get that string quilt done now.  So I pulled out the string blocks, thinking about doing something fancy but decided to keep it simple.  I finished it and took it to my mom's this past weekend so I could get a picture of her with it, left it for her to give to my sister.  Now all of my siblings have a lap quilt with string blocks made by my mom between 2014 and 2017.  There is still enough blocks to make a quilt for myself, but I will need to resew some of them.

Jo

Looks like you had a very productive weekend. I did or agonize stuff in my sewing room but am now back in Colorado. Next trip is a month away and I hope to continue organizing stuff, almost there.

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

I did or agonize stuff

Oh, Ami, what a typographic error!  "Or agonize"!  That is priceless. 

So many of us "or agonize" in our sewing rooms as we dig stuff out and then dread putting it away.

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

or agonize stuff

talk about a Freudian slip!

Those must be such special quilts for your siblings.  Now you need to get busy on your own special quilt.

judyinohio said:

So many of us "or agonize" in our sewing rooms as we dig stuff out and then dread putting it away.

You got that right!

I'm not in a hurry to make mine, but I do need to make myself a table runner from the squares she hand embroidered.  But I keep thinking if I can get her to do more I could have a quilt.

Her eyes are bad so she needs simple patterns to hand embroider, so I used a transfer pencil and traced flowers out of an applique book, ironed them on squares of fabric.  Now she's saying no more, the pink is to hard to see.  So now I need to try to find something else to do the tracing with, which will probably mean tracing each square individually.

Jo

thanks

re roomba, I wasn't sure how well it did with lots of carpet and dog hair.  And vacuuming and walking the occasional stairs at work is about all the exercise I get - 

It does fine on carpet, realizing that it is a surface cleaner not a deep cleaner like a vacuum.  I don't know how it does on pet hair but I can't believe how much human hair it finds in my bedroom.

Jo