Wedding Gift/Quilt update


     Just a tad over two months until "W" Day.Thankfully the injured
thumb has returned as close to normal as I think it ever will so
quilting is much easier. Also the weather has remained cool (and rainy)
which also helps. Ten of the blocks are quilted, five more backs are
cut, ready for the sandwich process. I am using a white chalky pencil
for marking the quilt pattern and the darn thing is happiest breaking
off in little chunks.
       The crafting project is nearing completion, I think. Three of the
four boxes are done...maybe...and I have a good start on the fourth.
But I feel something is missing, so they may not be finished until I
have to wrap them.
      Took a day to make "Happy Summer" cards for the grandkids. Folded
a piece of lightweight cardstock, left over from another card project,
in half pattern side in. Collaged beach scene/summer/fun stuff on the
front. Inside another biggish picture and the words happy summer (
alphabet stickers and whole words). The back has another small summer
picture.


         For this kind of card making and box decorating you need a
stash of  paper/picture/words. Find a box or three and start tearing
and clipping from magazines, newspapers, sale fliers, old books, etc.
Throw into another box ticket stubs, travel/tourist broucheres, old
buttons and sundry bits and pieces of stuff that just has to have some
use someday. Be careful, these boxes can mutliply like rabbits.

                      

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