I’m pulling fabric from my stash and I ordered some for my next quilt. Haven’t decided on the design yet but I do know it will be a very happy project! And I have all the fabric before I start! Well, at least for the top!

I LOVE gingham. It’s so summery and happy. Just makes me want to go on a picnic! Hoping to have enough fabric from this quilt to recover my favorite nap pillow in the family room. I need some summer vibes in there.

While I have declared that 2022 is the year that I am NOT doing a quilt-a-long, I plan to make a Norah Quilt with Sunny Day Supply. It’s not really a “QAL”, there’s no sign up, no weekly blocks, no deadlines, no mystery. It’s just a giant log cabin. I did it in 2020. I used long strips of some of my favorite fabrics. Plan to do it again. This Norah starts around Memorial Day. But I’m doing it whenever I feel like it. Fun times!

Here’s the one I did in 2020. I actually hand quilted it. A new experience. Took forever but I enjoyed it!

I even hand embroidered the label and did big stitch quilting on the binding.

Thought I’d throw in some snaps of my blooms. April and May are good with flowers in Florida. After that it gets a quite humid and hot and the flowers get tired. (Me Too!)

On another subject….

My first dog I ever had was when I was a young adult. Angie was a cocka-poo which would probably be called some kind of doodle now. Best dog ever. She loved me more than anything in the world until Jessica was born and then my little girl was her favorite. Angie passed too soon.

Next up was Maggie. She was a big part of my life and traveled all through the country with Terry and me. Quite often in first class. She lived a very long life and left us when she was 18 years and 5 months old.

Now for sadness. I hesitated to post about this but I shared my joy with having a cat and posted about her several times. I have lost Miss Kitty. She came to me a little over a year ago. Skinny but loveable and sweet. I was so happy she found me. After living with us for six months she was happy, fat, and floofie. We adored each other. But that wasn’t to last. We discovered she had cancer and a few weeks ago she joined Angie and Maggie over the rainbow bridge.

I miss all three of them so much.