Slow stitching.

My little bit of hand stitching yesterday was making my hexagon and then I did add a little stitching on the Hand Pieced Quilt Along quilt quilt last night. 

I finally finished up a knitted dish cloth on Friday. It just stays in my 'busy bag' and I felt like knitting instead of hand stitching on Friday while Emily was riding. I just do a simple knit pattern for mine after casting on 4 stitches. Knit a row. Knit 2, yarn over, then knit to the end. I do this until there are about 49 or 50 stitches on the needles. Then I knit one, knit 2 together, yarn over, knit 2 together and knit to the end... until I get down to about 4 stitches.... or 7 like Friday when I had just enough yarn to finish it off at that point! I don't think the dishes will mind!

Linking up with the Sunday Slow Stitchers. I plan to prep some Harmony pieces for hand piecing, a few more hexagons for the week and then maybe some hand quilting today.

Instead of stitching on International Quilt Day yesterday, the kids and I went for a kayak paddle down the Rainbow River in Dunnellon Florida. It is crystal clear and fed by natural springs with a current that brings you down (minimal paddling needed!). We found a company that you park and they shuttle you a few miles up river with kayak, life vest, and paddle and let you go. You make your way back to their business where you are pulled up the bank and helped out and then you are at your car to continue your day! We went at 1PM (ok, there were 2 companies with similar names and we might have gone to the other one first... since I had a reservation I left there and went to the place I had called. I liked the idea of when you get back you are at your car option!). We arrived back at our car around 4PM. We decided to paddle up river a bit to see a couple of islands, but there were some people on jetski's with really loud music playing. We decided to turn around and let the current take us down the river while enjoying some beautiful scenery, nature and lots of birds and ducks. Oh to own a house on this river would be awesome! 

Someone might have forgotten to add sunscreen and wear a hat! I think Greg and the kids both walked by me last night and mentioned - boy, you really got a lot of sun! The polite way of saying you are red as a lobster and burnt to a crisp!