I like to listen to
the news as I get meseff all fixed up purty in the morning. Several days
last week, an excerpt from some remarks by somebody important was played – I
think she’s maybe a senator, I never quite catch that part. Anyway, it
drives me plumb berserk, because she says, in her grating, screechy voice, “It’s
really, really impor-unt that we do our due diligence, blah blah blah and etc.
blah blah.” ‘Impor-unt.’ ‘Do our due diligence.’ 🤪 Turn it off!
I think my wrist/thumb
is getting better. About the time I think that, I bend it wrong and make
my hair stand up on end. I’ve got some super-duty hairspray on now, so
maybe that problem is fixed. 😆
I carefully
curl my hair these days, trying to keep my thumb tucked in, and not making any
sudden moves or twisting my hand the ‘wrong’ way. Can’t curl it at all with the splint on.
As Bobby’s
great-grandmother used to say, “What a time we have, just trying to live!”
Last Tuesday, I entered
online all the things I plan to take to the State Fair. The items need to be delivered to the Exhibit
Halls August 16th. The Fair
runs from August 24th to September 3rd.
Ohhh, pretty –
there’s a female cardinal at the feeders.
Their subtle buff-and-rose coloring really is lovely.
Wednesday, I put the
borders and cornerstones on the rooster quilt, cut the backing... and then loaded
it on my frame. By the time for church,
I’d finished the quilting, removed it
from the frame, trimmed it, and cut and sewn the binding together. When we
got back home, I put the binding on, and then it was done. More photos here.
Quilting Treasures, the manufacturer of the fabric panel, Rooster Royale,
should pay me royalties, because so many people on various quilting groups
asked where they could get it, and I gave them a link! 😊
Thursday, after
mailing the little quilt to my friends, I
headed to my quilting studio to start pulling out fabric for the Sunbonnet Sue
quilt. The Sunbonnet Sue blocks were made by my maternal grandmother and
great-grandmother, several aunts and great-aunts, some of their teachers,
neighbors, and high school friends. They all embroidered their names on
the bottom edge of Sunbonnet Sue’s skirts. One of my aunts also
embroidered the year: 1936. See the blocks and the names of the
stitchers here. This will be a quilt I can enter in the ‘Vintage’
category at our County Fair next year.
This is one of my favorite parts of quilting – choosing
fabrics. I had already purchased a piece for the background that blends
well with the fabrics onto which the Sues were appliquéd.
I discovered,
whilst a-tryin’ to get some fabric bins down from high shelves, that the
African ladies aren’t so silly, using their heads to carry stuff! I
caaaaarefully slid a heavy bin over to the edge of the shelf... walked under
it... slid it a liiiiiittttle bit farther... until it was resting on my head. Then I walked over to the bed in that room,
scrunched down as low as I could, and let the bin slide off my head and land on
the bed. I’m sooo clever. heh
Since the Sunbonnet
Sue blocks were stained here and there, I washed them in my washing machine on
Handwash with Resolve and Woolite. Half an hour later, I had all 18
blocks lopped over my quilting frame, and soon they were dry. They’re clean now, but there are still a few
stains on them. I shall ignore them. 😉
The blocks range in
size from 16” down to 10 ½”. The blocks need to be 12 ½” unfinished to
fit in the pattern as I designed it in EQ8.
So... I’ll cut them down (removing a few more stains in the process)...
then add borders to make them all the same size. It’s been 3 ½ years since my
sister gave me these blocks! Time to get
this quilt put together.
I got the larger colored squares and the strips all
cut that day. There were 18 large
squares and 48 strips. Each of the
strips would make 65 small squares; I would cut them after sewing colored
strips to background strips.
I folded the colored fabric, put it back into bins,
and put the bins away, with some difficulty.
Heavy things come down easier
than they go up, ever notice that?
Before heading to the feathers, I checked my email
and read some responses to the pictures of the quilt I had posted. I found this request: “Would you please cut me a pattern of
Sunbonnet Sue, and send it me, please. I’ve
been looking everywhere and I can’t find it..
I will pay for it..”
I wonder where she looked? There are many free Sunbonnet Sue patterns on
the web, and many books and patterns for purchasing. Here are a few links, for
any of you who might also like them:
There are many, many more, in many different
styles. All you have to do is type “Sunbonnet
Sue pattern” into Google, and you’ll find... hmmmm... let me look... 2,740,000
results.
The reversed
Sue was made by my great-grandmother. I’d
love to know if she did it on purpose. We’ll never know... but I can
say that my ancestors were not known for doing things ‘by accident’. 😉
Friday, Maria
posted this picture and wrote, “Zucchini egg muffins, so delicious and healthy
and easy to make!”
That day, I sewed
colored strips to background strips, cut them into double squares, and then
made four-patches. There are six
four-patches in each of these stacks.
And then Maria made
another post: Sadie, looking as sheepish
as only a Boxer can look, with the caption, “This little dog just got up on the
counter and ate all the rest of the zucchini egg muffins I made this morning. 😟”
I happened to look
out the window shortly after 8:30 p.m., and discovered that the setting sun was
illuminating the tall lavender phlox -- so I grabbed my camera and dashed
downstairs and out the front door. By the time I took the last shot, the
sun had already sunk enough that the lower flower clusters were in shadow.
I put together one entire block for the Sunbonnet Sue quilt, and called
it quits for the day.
That evening, Loren
and Norma were parked with their camper at a pretty spot near Sherman
Reservoir. Then they discovered that bad
weather, including hail and a tornado, were heading their direction, and they
decided they’d better get out of there.
They left, planning
on taking a turn on a certain route that they thought would take them away from
the storm.
They missed the
turn.
They drove through
hail, but it was soft, and neither truck nor camper were damaged. It rained so hard they had trouble
seeing. They pulled into a farmer’s
drive that had big trees over the lane, shielding them a bit. The rain slackened after a while, and the
farmer came to see if they needed anything.
They related their story, and he told them that it was a good thing they’d missed the turn, as that
would have put them directly in the path of the tornado!
They went on to
Ansley, 23 miles to the west, filled with fuel, and asked the owner of the
station if they could park behind the store and sleep for the night. She said yes, of course they could – and
since she was ready to close up, she gave them all the rest of the coffee in
the pot to fill their thermoses.
They came home Saturday
– and Larry wound up following them part of the way home, as he was driving the
boom truck back to Columbus after a job out that way.
Norma wants to go
to Yellowstone National Park... Loren thinks maybe Norma wouldn’t be able to
travel that far. She thinks they could
just take it easy... but he doesn’t want to leave his yard that long. Reckon they’ll find a compromise for this
dilemma? 😃
When Larry came
home from work, he brought in the mail – including my new Gingher embroidery
scissors. Very nice scissors; Gingher is
one of the best.
I sewed all day,
finishing twelve
more Irish Chain blocks for the Sunbonnet Sue quilt. That made a total of thirteen. There
are five more to go. It takes about 20
minutes for each block.
I laid the blocks on the twin bed in the little
library upstairs to take pictures of them, and, as you can see, the Americana
Eagle quilt that’s under them is doing competition. 😏 These blocks would make a fine
quilt all by themselves, wouldn’t they?
If you’re wondering about my choice of background
fabric for these blocks, I chose a mottled cream color that was as close as I
could get to the color of the background of the Sunbonnet Sue blocks, some of
which are stained. The mottled cream background will hopefully make it
all blend together, and cause those stains to be less noticeable.
I’ve made it up to
Daniel 7 in listening to the King James Version Bible on BibleGateway.com. I’ve read
the Bible all the way through a few times, but at a much slower pace than I am
able to listen to it. I’ve discovered that there are many things
one notices when one hears it like this, straight through, chapter after
chapter, that escape one when reading at a slower pace. Maybe because, as one is listening to Jeremy,
Isaiah, and Ezekiel, one well remembers what one heard from I and II Samuel,
the Kings, and the Chronicles, since, after all, one just listened to them a
few days ago... whereas, when one is reading,
because of time constraints, it takes many
days to get from the Kings to the prophets.
I keep the page with
the text up at BibleGateway, too, so that if I miss a word, or wonder what was
said, I can quickly look at it. For
instance, I thought I knew what ‘brigandine’
meant, but I looked it up, just to be sure.
It meant what I thought it did: a
coat of mail. Betcha I won’t wonder
about it again!
Yesterday my nephew,
our pastor, Robert, was asked to preach at Victory Baptist in Kansas City. So Bobby and his brother Stephen preached at
our church, one in the morning, one in the evening.
Oops, I just wrote
to a friend and mentioned our online quilting group, typing the initials ‘CQ’,
which stands for ‘Cyber Quilters’. BUT!
– I have my computer set up to do all these auto-correct type-outs... for
instance, all I have to type is ‘cn’, space away from it (or put a comma or a
period), and my computer, when using any Microsoft Suite program, throws in ‘Columbus,
NE 68601’. YNP turns into Yellowstone National Park.
Well, I had ‘CQ’ set
up to turn into ‘Crazy Quilt’, but I’d forgotten that. So it did what I
have it set to do, and I was typing away, looking who-knows-where (certainly
not at the sentence I was typing), and didn’t even notice it did that.
haha Left my friend scratching her head. 😅
One time years ago,
in 1999, to be exact, I knew Teddy was going to use my computer to type up a
report for school. So I quickly put the word ‘the’ into auto-correct, and
fixed it so the Word program would throw in “I’m a dimwitted dodo bird” or
something equally flattering every time he typed the word ‘the’.
He retaliated.
I walked into the
living room later to use my computer – and there was nothing left of my desk
chair but the bottom quadripod and rollers. The seat/back part was gone
entirely.
I found it – under
the grand piano. 😆
I ordered this mug
for Loren, and it just arrived today:
It’s way too
flowery, of course (Hippy Flower Power! – there’s even a peace symbol where the
front camper emblem would normally be), but I gotta give it to him,
nonetheless. 😉 His birthday is August 9.
The last load of clothes
is in the dryer. Now I need to wash some
dishes, pay some bills, and order some groceries. Don’t let me forget to order more Tide!
,,,>^..^<,,, Sarah Lynn ,,,>^..^<,,,
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