I love your stories and how you are finding quilt blocks or fabric to express them.  

My quilt mojo is still only operating on every third beat or so.  I have made one flimsy this year, that was only because I want the group of ten inch swap square gone.  Jo

That's interesting that you could see the thread better without the "glare" of the direct light. Maybe the shadows were important in this particular combination of thread and quilt?

Part of being successful with Scrabble is the luck of the draw; if  you have a string of bad luck when you pull letter tiles out of the bag then you can't have much fun. Nothing worse than looking at a rack with seven letters like C C I V R R X.  Some people would sit and fume at their bad luck, clever people would dump most of the letters back in the bag and draw new letters thus losing a turn but maybe getting nicer letters to play with the next time.

My quilt mojo will fizzle out once I am done with this Kresge Kid quilt top which might happen pretty soon.

DD is coming to visit this weekend for another look-see at the blocks. I think I have run out of block ideas which means it will be time to rearrange the ones I have on the design wall and then think about how in the dickens I am going to assemble this thing.

I have a nice-sized box of "strings" (mostly jelly roll leftovers) that I can use for spacers, etc. like the original Gypsy Wife pattern ...

Well let me tell you Judy we are not the party animals we used to be. It is a much smaller group this year. I asked about the Zoom and they said there was no TV to use and nobody that had the computer savvy to do it.

Love you stories. I remember having to write sentences like that 100's of times.....all it taught me was that the teacher was mean. Ha!

When I cannot see the quilting I turn off the light and set a shop light to shine very low on the quilt and you can see the shadows of where you quilted.

Sorry there is no  Zoom this year.

Ami_Quilts (sewingupasto) said:

write sentences

I think it did improve my writing.  tho I would always write one word at a time all the way down the page, so I don't think it did much good.

Judy,

You're entertaining me plenty, too!  I love your memories quilt and LOL about your fifth grade teacher story. 

My vendetta was against my 8th grade home ec teacher who made novice sewers (me at the time) pick out everything that wasn't absolutely perfect.  I'm sure there was a special level of hell reserved just for her, and she must certainly be dead by now.  I imagine her being stabbed by demons wielding seam rippers, and I smile.  I attribute the fact that I enjoy sewing to my maternal grandmother who was ever so patient with me.

Knowing you love jigsaw puzzles, it didn't surprise me that you were also a Scrabble player!

Cris in MT

Forgot to mention that I'm still quilting small.  I assembled a chicken pincushion yesterday, a little (4") red hen.  Today's job will be a little brown hen.

In the evenings I've been cross stitching.

Cris in MT

I sure do enjoy reading your stories and seeing the new blocks that you made.  I was wondering if you would do something with Scrabble.  Didn't you make a Scrabble quilt a while back? I have the same puzzle fabric--your block turned out really cute.  You?  Get in trouble and have to write sentences?  I can't imagine that!  I remember my 5th grade teacher.  Total battleax, but I got through without getting in trouble  I thin I was too scared of her to even make a peep.  I swear she was 6 foot tall and 300+ pounds.  Keep the blocks and stories coming!

I have been plugging away with getting my stack of flimsies into finished quilts.  I've gotten quite a few finished and if we get a non windy nice day I'll get some photos.  My current goal is to do something with a drawer full of precuts.  Not sure what possessed me to get them but I have a couple of layer cakes and and jelly rolls that don't even go together.  And so many different charm packs.  What was I thinking?  I am working n one charm pack now by Benartex that is not cut evenly at all and I ended up trimming them all to 4.5".  For what I paid for these precuts, I'm not going to pitch them.  

Me too!   LOL