Featherstone Quiltworks

a chicken in every pot!!!  No, wait, that’s not what I wanted to say.

I am looking for votes though.  Quilting Gallery runs a contest every week.  This week’s theme is Wind, Earth, Fire & Water.  I thought I would enter my beachy quilted wall hanging, since it’s one of my favorites quilted items I’ve made.

To check out all this week’s entries (and to vote for your two favorites), click HERE.  You will see all the quilts with a short description.  Keep scrolling down, and you will come to a list of just the names of the quilts, and there you can vote on two.

Regardless of whom you vote for, you will enjoy the visit!

–Sue

PS:  Vicki Welsh is a sponsor of this week’s contest and the two winners will received stash packs of some of Vicki’s yummy hand-dyed fabrics.

…of better days to come.  I’m taking it personally!  (My own interpretation having nothing to do with floods caused by rain, but rather a personal flood of needs tugging me this way and that way.  I have to remember that this too will pass!)

–Sue

Due to some family health issues, I have had very little time to sew lately.  I am hoping to have some catch-up time starting in June, though, and that is keeping me going.

I did manage to find some time to make a hat, of all things!  Our church had a gala last Saturday, which was also the day of the Kentucky Derby.  The party had a racino theme, and everyone was invited to wear a hat.

I’ve been fascinated with “fascinators” ever since Princess Beatrice wore the pink toilet-seat fascinator to Prince Harry’s wedding.  So I decided to make one.

I muddled through the directions I could find here and there on line, but I would really love to take a real millinery class.  And I have to say, it was a lot of fun to wear this hat.  It was so lightweight, I would forget I even had it on.  Occasionally I would catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror and scare myself half to death!

–Sue

PS:  If you have some extra time, go to ETSY and search for fascinator.  And PPS:  My hair really isn’t that orange!!!  I can’t get it to photograph right.  My excuse this time is that I took it in “bathroom light”…

Slept in my own bed last night.  What luxury!  There really is no place like home.

Mom moved into assisted living yesterday.  Needless to say — but I’ll say it anyway — it’s been a busy time.  The Hubster did a great job of keeping things going at home without me for those two weeks.  More Mom-related stuff to do…get meds straightened out between nurses and the doc…fill out MORE paperwork…bring up 10 boxes of glassware and trinkets and put away…empty out the other half of her apartment that she couldn’t take with her…sell her car…but as hard as I worked, I gave thanks every day that I could do what needed to be done, that I’m so fortunate to be retired and healthy.

Then I can start thinking about my stuff!  I’ve been keeping a list of some Mom-related tasks just so I can check them off.  Whenever I feel like I’m going nowhere and my list isn’t getting any shorter, I look back at all that’s accomplished.

On a fun note, I’m going to my Aunt Bertha’s quilting get-away in July at Grand Oak Retreat in Alabama.  That’s the fun carrot that’s dangling in front of me.  Can’t wait!  And the way time’s been flying by, it will be here in no time.  (click on the link and prepare to be amazed)

No photos today, but picture me sore and tired, in my circus tent PJs (white & pink striped with fruit on them!), making my first cuppacoffee of the day.

Sue

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I’m so glad I got the Sew Ezi sewing table for my Featherweight.  Doing a little sewing on Mom’s porch, watching the sunrise.