Woo...end of the week

 That means Saturday.  

I slept till almost 6.  Could this be a new beginning?  Probably not. I hit the sewing machine running and added two more to the stash.  Cute fabric with fishing worms, bugs, and bees.  I hope there's a mother with a sense of humor? 




Breakfast and off to Saturday Soup Kitchen although we never make soup.  Maybe a new name is needed, you think?  It was a very busy morning with more preparation than usual. And we were short three people.  So NO sit-down time this Saturday.  The new take-home option from Second Helpings was not up to our liking but we give what we get.  

Heidi was back from a Colorado skiing trip so we did some Lenten talk catching her up on with the what's going on thing at North Church in the coming weeks.  I added some ideas about a May church Sunday with Ukraine in mind. 

The afternoon was nap time as usual and then mostly getting bib parts ready to start sewing again next week.  There are stacks of lined fabric to get all the strip quilting sewn straight.  Stacks of absorbent fleece blanket fabric cut for the inside and tomorrow I do stacks of backing fabric.  When that's all finished it's ready, set, go! 

The gray fabric is a lightweight blanket from Goodwill 3.99 and the white is a cut-up tablecloth from somewhere!  The strips of fabric will be sewn to the white fabric following the lines that keep everything straight.  The gray fabric backs the white fabric.  It's quite a process. 

                                      A bib in progress with the soft gray fleece blanket backing.  


I watched a little Arkansaw, Alabama basketball.  And that was about it for the day.  It was one of those afternoons with the keep it a simple Sat. label.  Woo...B and B is an energy zapper. At least this one was. Purdue plays I U tonight.  It should be a great game.  Fingers Crossed!!!!  (IU WON!)

One thing that makes Carmel unique is more than 125 Round-Abouts throughout the city.  There is one roundabout we often pass through with a huge art form at least 25 feet tall of a beautifully lighted Queen Anne's Lace sculpture in the middle of a large flowerbed. There are quite a number of clumps of jonquils in full bloom in that bed.  It's February!  Michigan Jared is expecting the second storm of 8 inches of snow on Monday. Two 8-inch storms in less than a week 300 miles north. Keep that tractor at the ready JB.  

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