Written in early April...
I cannot believe this is the beginning of April!! We have had a busy beginning to 2025. After the holidays, we had planned to take off for six weeks and head South. First major problem was we couldn't get our cars worked on so that we could use them. The result was we had to spend $2000 on a car rental before we even left home. Bummer.
While we were gone, we made a stop in Paducah, Kentucky, east coast quilt haven. From the outside, it is not very impressive. We were there on a Sunday while it was closed. Always closed on Sunday, so we continued on to Nashville, our primary destination. Finding Nashville limited for us, we drove back out to Paducah. It was a 4 hour round trip. When I first walked inside, I was over whelmed by the amount of fabric that was for sale. We had just started meandering when we found a door into a smaller section that housed precuts from 2-1/2" squares all the way up to 3 yard cuts for backing. We wondered back out to the main displays. Everything was by designers. When I shop I am looking for colors. My only option was the solids, Kona solids. They were beautiful, but I don's use many solids, BUT I did pick up an off white, red and baby blue, all with a purpose for projects coming up.
This is May 1st. I have completed the quilting on "Hexi 1968" and finished off "59/40 or Fight Star" also started years ago, maybe cir. 2010-12. I will eventually ad pictures.
As of today, I am healing from a back strain from trying to move Hexi '68 as I finished quilting the edge in which the moving of the quilt did me in. But it ready to bind. I am looking for a small piece of fabric for one repair along the edge. I know I have many old hexagons, but I can't remember where I put them before we traveled south for a month earlier this year.
I've also rearranged my up stairs quilting room. I got my Gem Gold manual machine set up in there to work on smaller projects while the cellar was cold during the winter and still cool now. I did set up and clean my Juki TL98 that is in the cellar studio yesterday. I did a little FMQ on a small Sue Spargo style wall hanging. Hope to complete it soon.
I want to post this, so this is it for now.
As always, counting my blessings,
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