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Ridgebacks are pretty neat dogs!  Good luck with the puppy days….lol!

I am at dads a few days while my sister is away.  Really, really dry here in KS.  But getting showers this morning…,so much for yard work this AM.  Lol.

Very nice!  I really like the colorful clamshells.  I vote for the black border, but you are probably already done with it.   I’ll have to read ahead to see what you have done.   

I like the design with the animal prints!  Nice Job!  

Is your Tree of life quilt the one you were working on at retreat?  That one was sure an outstanding piece of art.  I hear you on back issues.   We need an ergonomic cushy chair that we can move in different positions to take the pressure off our backs while working on our projects. Leaning forward isn’t the best on our backs.   And a design surface that works with the chair.  

The movie night sounds like fun with the Star Wars Geeks.  I haven’t been to a theatre in way too long.  I watched a little bit of the coronation in the afternoon.  Yes, it sounds like you are living it up. Ha ha!   

Wow, I clicked on the link and that quilt is gorgeous.  Good job on your progress so far.   I have a (hexagon quilt top) a work in progress it’s probably 2/3’s finished, that I haven’t picked up in years.  Partially because it is red fabrics with cream colored centers and some of the red fabrics bled.  I was afraid to finish it and then have it bleed throughout the quilt.  I have more confidence now that I can finish it and get the staining out with the encouragement from some of my quilt friends.  This pattern makes me wish I had waited the 23 years to start one.  Ha ha, yes I started that quilt in 2000, it was my traveling quilt project.  I’m too far along to stop now, so maybe when fall or winter rolls around again, I can pick it back up.   For summer I hope to work on some small projects. 

First your sewing room looks amazing!  Bravo!  Ditto what Pirate said, about your injuries and moving everything.   That’s a lot of work, I know I moved in late 2021.   We hired a moving service to move the big stuff, but I filled a lot of boxes with the help from my good friend.  I purged a lot which helped too.  You can collect a lot of stuff in 17 years.  I’m a really good collector.  :)

I had a sew day with 5 ladies at my house yesterday to start on the raffle quilt I am coordinating for one of my guilds.  We got about a fourth of the blocks done and learned a lot about how to organize this process.  I had tried using a new to me ruler for making folded corners (called Simple Folded Corners ruler).  It involves cutting away the waste triangle BEFORE sewing.  But a couple people definitely had trouble keeping their seam allowance at 1/4" all the way from end to end.  One lady in particular tended to veer over 1/4" at the end of the seam.  Which caused problems with some of the pieces.  So I think next time I'm going to have them mark the line and sew on that instead.  It's not a big deal - the result was some floating points which isn't too bad.  But sometimes the pieces were too small and had to be resewn.   And I definitely want to be the person doing most of the trimming, gives me a chance to check for problems before they are sewn into the block.  Overall it went very well, and the new room arrangement worked great.