Happy Birthday to my lil sis today,

Love you, Sessie!

I started this day with nature. gratitude. beauty (go ahead, click on it)

sunrise at my house

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And, I would like to wish my sweet boy Roman a very Happy 2nd Birthday . . .

. . . with lots of love from his Zia!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUE!

I want to wish my BFF, Sue, many happy (hour) returns. She is living the fast life across the pond for a few months and I miss her mucho!

Cheers, Sue!!

Yesterday was gray and stormy. Love that! Perfect sewing day.

So, instead of working on some projects I really need to finish, I went back to my modern quilt block and, using the rest of my scraps, I made a little runner.

what do you think?

I ran into a bit of trouble in the quilting of it. Now, I have sewn into my finger in the past but this time the needle went down into my fingernail and it freaked me out so much I yanked my hand away and, well I'll leave the rest to the imagination but suffice to say the needle broke off. Not pretty.  Much shrieking and hopping about.

No harm done though as I managed to get the blood out of the fabric (use your own saliva - did you know that?) and now I just have to do the binding.

Went down to Spruce Head the other day and snapped this picture. Iconic Maine, right?

I joined the Maine Modern Quilt Guild yesterday, which is part of The Modern Quilt Guild, which is made up of over 150 guilds from across the country and the world.  And for those not in the know, modern quilts are very different from the traditional pieced quilt. They utilize improvisational piecing, minimalism and lots of negative space. For someone who has been quilting for many years (like me) it is a challenge to wrap your head around this method. I think my niece, Annie does it instinctively. Bless.

This is Betsy, our leader, and she put us through an exercise of improv quilting. Loved it!  Here's my work in progress.  Cuh-razy!

So after the meeting, I jetted home from the USM campus where the meeting was held to meet up with my friend, Carole and her husband Bob for a little boating with Miss Barbie Dreamboat. LOVE!  Here's Bob driving the boat. He did good and Carole and I got to sit up front and have a little gossip.

It's taken about a week to get myself organized and back in the groove, got my studio somewhat in order and cleaned my house. Still have a bunch of yard work to do this morning before the rain comes but then my plan is to sew baby sew! Will keep you posted.

Each day more beautiful than the one before

and more beautiful in every way.

Feeling such gratitude this morning. My affirmation says Small events can bring great good into my life. Ooooh, I can hardly wait to see what the day brings. First things first though, out for a walk with the girls.

we're ready!