Ta-Da Kolby's Trip Around the World One Last Time

Took the final stitches on Sunday.

It's been washed and dried.

I'll be taking it to him soon.

Hope he likes it!

Brayden's trip is nearing completed flimsy.

Ethan's is cut out ready for making blocks.

Ryan's is being cut-think I'll need more green for that one.

Nora's Granny is still waiting.

In other news, 

I beta read 

Maren Ferguson's (aka Suzie O'Connell) new novel (The Driftwood Promise) last night

Delightful!

I've been Beta reading for Suzie for a while now-nagging her as well.

The nagging is fun and she actually looks forward to it!

I've been getting my spine stretched to hopefully help the compressed disc.

I have a kidney stone, sigh.

Working on getting that resolved before it becomes an emergency.

Like a crazy woman I put a jigsaw puzzle up on the table.

I shouldn't have done that!

Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

A day of feasting and enjoying family!

Gotta go,

Much to do!

November blahs!

When my children were small we had a few of the volumes of a Sesame Street book set.

  I have no idea at this point what they were called and this is WAY before Elmo! 

 In the "D" book there was  a story called Darling Dora and the Dazzling Diamond D which my children LOVED!

The jist of it is that Dora's Daddy, the King, gave her a Dazzling Diamond D necklace which was stolen by a Dragon.  After the Dragon was captured and the necklace returned the Dragon was sent to the Deep, Dark, Damp, Dreary Dungeon.

That phrase-Deep, Dark, Damp, Dreary, Dungeon-became part of our family language.

I am currently living in a November that feels like that dungeon!

Projects of any kind are moving at a snails pace.

I have a deadline next week.

Well, two really.

A mailing deadline 

and Thanksgiving.

I'm getting somewhat tense.

That isn't helped by the Deep, Dark, Damp, Dreary weather.

BIG SIGH!

Fabric Expeditions

This is the current state of Brayden's Trip around the world.

I was so thrilled last week to find the piece of fabric I knew I was seriously short of!

Then when I finished Part 3 and began laying out Part 4 I realized I had three other colors I wasn't going to have enough of! URGH!

(I have to say that using up my stash requires the purchasing of so much more fabric!)

So.

I headed east to a quilt shop about 30 minutes east of here as I knew they carried

Stonehenge fabrics.

No luck.

I did buy some green for another project and some dark that I could  use if I had to.

On the way home I stopped of at Cockrell Mercantile.

I had read about the shops in that "I'll have to go there one day, it's close" sort of way.

Anyway, I decided that the time had come!

Such a fun place.

Much kitchen stuff.

A whole shop of fiesta ware! (Bri you should check it out!)

While there I happened across this fellow!

Adding him to my Santa Collection-he's rather unique.

After wandering about 4 cottages FILLED with lovely things I headed home.

MY mind was occupied with what I was going to do about the quilt.

Then I remembered!

I had cut the selvages off and kept them. 

I'm not planning any projects out of them but I've needed some in the past and had to cut them off stash pieces!

I wondered if the selvages had the numbers for the design on them.

After the usual- Hey Quinn I'm home!

I headed to the studio to look.

I found two of them.

Googled Stonehenge Gradients Bright and one of the numbers and 

found a shop called

1000's of bolts and 1 Nut!

They had ALL 3 fabrics I needed!

Ordered.

They've been shipped so I'll soon be ready to work on that one again!

In the meantime, I'm cutting Ethan's (guess what I need more red fabric!), quilting Kolby's and working on Secrets