Election Day

 Please use your voice and vote today! I voted early and my ballot has been counted. Do your research and vote on what matters to you.

We have always had fair and honest elections. Let us hope that it is a peaceful transfer of power like it has been since the beginning of this country.

It is another crazy week in my household with lots of various timed pick ups and drop offs. One is heading on a field trip for Civil Rights this week to Alabama and Georgia. Hopefully the hurricane will veer west and not affect their studies in Selma, Montgomery, Birmingham and Atlanta. That means we have to actually drop the girl to school again in the morning! This is an optional trip ($215 and $115 goes to the kids for food at stops) through their Cambridge AICE program. 

I have been thinking of what will be the next hand quilting project. I have narrowed it down to these 2 options. I am staying away from blue... since the last few have been blue, and I wanted a change of color.  Excuse the mess in the backgrounds.

This one is about 72 inches square. I got a pretty purple floral backing that fits this size. I think it needs to be bigger though..... and I do have extra of the two purple fabrics. I'm thinking a 2 or 2.5 inch lighter purple then a 5 inch darker purple? I have the quilting thread for this - dark purple and a darker tan.

This one just needs a 5 inch black butterfly print border added to it. Each of the hexagons are on a 6 inch black block. I have a handful of colorful threads to quilt this one with.

I think I'll add the borders to both of them and then decide.

Yesterday at lunch, I prepped some more hexagons. It is looking a little like Christmas in this photo! Maybe I'll pop some cheerful Christmas music on while I work today. I have 3 more purple ones to stitch this week at lunches before I will get to these later this week. One a day is keeping this one moving along.