I worked today and am off tomorrow, which is swapped from normal this week. I am going to ride tomorrow at noon. The kids are technically off school, teacher work day to finalize the first quarter. Emily has marching band practice 9-4 and Aidan has an annual Dr appt at 1. Saturday - Emily has an all day competition about 1.5-2 hours away towards the Tampa area. Aidan has the UCF Engineering day at school 10-4. It's also a F1 race/sprint weekend, so he will be watching that after he gets home Saturday. I expect to be exhausted on Sunday... with a 1AMish pick up of Ms. Emily from School. Tired yet? I'm so happy one of them drives themselves! It makes life so much easier.
Oh, tonight is a makeup football game for their Homecoming with the dance to follow after. It is outside in their courtyard and it is going to be down in the 50's tonight! Florida people are used to temps in the mid 70's overnight this time of the year, so I expect lots of chilly kids... including my girl. She is a midnight pickup.
Wednesday, I had time after work to sew 7 potato chip blocks together! Then I made the butternut squash, brussel sprout in bacon meal Aidan and I like. Greg was on his own, and Emily was at school for their first practice as a group before their symphonic band concert. They sounded really good. We heard the big band as well and they played some rocking tunes.
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Nice finish on your expanded quilt, Deb!! Boy talk about a busy week--and I am tired just reading about it !!
I still haven't gotten my quilting mojo back--altho' I did layer my Pink Ojos and two place mats made from left over legos pieces...
Tomorrow is my 6 mo eye exam and I know my eyes will remain blurry for most of the afternoon...so no quilting then...
Hugs, Julierose
You guys are getting Colorado weather! Of course, we're also cooling down into the 50s for daytime highs tomorrow and for the weekend. Your kids are in lots of great activities - someday you'll miss this! Love your potato chip quilt and that Christmas tree design is really neat, too! I think that would definitely be easy to figure out.
the quilt laying out in the sun looks great and that Xmas one shown last reminds me of a small wall hanging I did years ago with smaller pieces - I believe Melanie has that one - I must have made it 25 years ago.
Love how that potato chip block quilt turned out. So uplifting. I've lost Christmas tree quilt to time. Actually, I made two of them. Not quite the pattern you found. Mine was an Eleanor Burns pattern from the late 1980's. It was an "advanced" log cabin assemblage. So much fun to decorate with quilts for the holidays.
The Fat Quarter Shop has a pattern for a very similar quilt which I made a few years ago. I made mine two rows longer. If yo U start there LL you need to do is draft in the stars. I saved the picture too. I plan on making one on the future.
Congrats on getting your Spud Chip quilt top together, Deb! Hoping you get some rest tomorrow, as it sounds like you've been super busy.
Whew! What a week! Glad you had some time to expand and finish up your quilt. It's a beauty! I've enjoyed watching you sew these Potato Chip blocks. Hope you had a chance to catch your breath today!
Very pretty quilt finish - in between all the kid activities. Good job! I remember fondly, all the running around with the kids' school activities. And must admit sometimes I miss those days, although now the grandkids are in that busy phase.
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