Hankies Again!

 There's more paper to shred/sort. But I also got one done!

I washed and  pressed a pile of hankies from My Mom's dresser. There were quite a few of them. I swear none of them are square and they all have crooked hems.

I spray basted them  to a nice neutral colored white 12 1/2" squares. Then I found I needed a couple more so I added a few from my stash. 

And loaded it up on Freddie. I couldn't decide on a design, but finally went with a basic leaf design.

It stitched out really nicely. I ordered some sale fabric from Brooklyn Fabric Company, it has little birds on it for the back. 

And here it is on a fall windy day!

There are a lot of stains and discolorations on these hankies. Some of them had little stickers on them-they had never been used and some were clearly well used. I wonder if these were the same hankies Mom would tie a quarter in the corner of for offering and send us off to Sunday School.

And here's the back with little Robins on the fabric.

It came together quickly and I love it! I think I'll send it off with my sister. 

I think she'll be surprised! 

Here's the one I made back in 2018. It was much more colorful.

And sad news....

My favorite daily driver has gone to the shop-error message won't clear and I can't turn the hand wheel. I was sewing the long seam of the backing for this quilt when it locked up. 

So I had to bring out my little Brother. It's very small compared to the baby Lock, but it sews like a champ! The repair shop says it will be about 4 weeks  before I get her back.

Paper, Paper, Paper

 I just love this picture I took of Dilly when he was riding his bike in the driveway. Dimple SMILE!

It's been paper shredding time! With Mom's death, we are clearing out the excess paper items that she stored. I've shredded a large grocery bag of bank statements from the 90's, and I fell down the bunny trail with check book registers. 

The 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's and 20's-so many check book registers-some folks of a certain age won't even know what these are!!

Google says to shred them...OK, I will but it's such a cool little time capsule kind of thing.  Who could possibly have food at Country Kitchen for $7.69??? And do you remember Jack & Jill? 

Mom Wrote checks for everything and she was diligent about balancing her check book. I can remember her at the kitchen counter searching for the 3 cents she was off compared to the bank statement. 

Spurgeon's! Oh what a memory-it was a local department store, I can remember going there when I was a little kid.  Seberg's was the pharmacy, I wonder if that was a prescription for $2?

She must have had some serious sewing planned here, she went to So Fro, JoAnn's and Mary Lynn's! 

3 fabric stores-what a great day!!

On to more paper Continuing Education Certificates-Mom was a nurse and they are required to have a certain number of continuing education credits each year and keep the certificates for 7 years. Mom was an over achiever on that 7 year thing! And I came across some insurance papers that we'll need to check into to make sure they have been properly recorded or redeemed.  So much paper-it's making me much more conscious about the paper I keep!

The Plumber came for the annual inspection-I don't need to keep this paper!! They did put in a new anode rod, but here's the nice thing about the blog here!

Borealis Is Done

So remember I started this quilt? 

I did the paper piecing with the freezer paper method.

It works well. Nothing looks more perfect than paper piecing. 

I got it loaded on Frcddie, and chose a loopy easy design.

And here it is! All done!

I added borders instead of doing the odd edge layout the patter has. 

It's not a very big quilt-only about 62" square

I love those jagged shark tooth looking bits.

And while it's not exactly a pretty quilt, it is very interesting.  And it will still be cozy and cuddly as the cool weather moves our way.

And here's the back with some stash fabric.

So that's it for Borealis. 20years after getting the pattern, it's done!

TVs, Donuts and Progress

 So another one bites the dust. Dilly smacked it with a lunch box, TV number 3.

Deep Sigh......

Off to the next project! We're making donut holes.

He's not a terrible helper-if he could keep the ingrdiants in the bowl!!

First batch is in, and I have him set up to sprinkle the sugar & cinnamon....HEY, he's resting on the job!

I'm making progress on borealis.....DD says it's ugly.

She may be right, we'll see about it when it's done.

I need to add some borders because I don't like the way the pattern makes it have un aligned edges. 

An Ending and Dilly Pedals On!

 Well, it was a lovely funeral. The flowers were just beautiful!

We had a very nice group of friends and relatives who came to celebrate Mom.  She had a lot of the arrangements already prepared, and the plot in Rose Hill was all ready. Mitchell Family Funeral Home was very helpful. Here's a link to her obituary, with the photo slideshow. Mitchell Family Funeral Home

We had pie at Perkins after the cemetery. Mom & Dad always enjoy Perkins-the servers know them and have their orders memorized.  So it only seemed fitting to have pie for everyone. 

Tomorrow I'll have Dilly back, and the fun will begin again!

Dilly has the hang of riding his bike now. 

And he needs some boundaries on the driveway-I live in fear that he'll ride right out into the traffic on our busy street.

We tried the stop LINE......

And we also put up a stop sign-that was good for a little bit-until he took it down and rode on!

Biking     And more biking

And riding a bike makes you hungry, so it's good to have ice cream....

And share it with Ringo too.