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October 1, 2024October 2, 2024 Vicki7 Comments

“I’m going to draw Nona.”

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Hi! I'm Vicki. I began blogging at knitorious in 2004! I knit, sew, dye, garden, and cook. I'm a daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, and grandmother!

It’s all in one piece!! I did it! Borders to determine/do yet, but I am CHUFFED!! Wow. This is the Simply Sampled quilt pattern (+ a few blocks) by In Color Order, a skill-building sampler quilt - and is it ever! I learned so much. Other than the sashing, all the fabric is Kaffe Fassett & Kaffe Fassett Collective from Free Spirit, fat quarters picked up here & there, from Herschnerr’s to Modern Daily Knitting & several points in between. The women at D’Sewist Quilt Shop & More were incredibly helpful - a big shout to Laurie, who taught the class, and all of my classmates. ❤️ Things are progressing. All of the wallpaper is gone (though there still some glue), and painting has commenced. The area around the tub needs to be finished by Monday… the rest can wait until the tub refinisher’s done his thing. 😳😳😳 I guess this is mine. 🤣 It’s raining again (we’ve already surpassed April’s rainfall record… with 15 days yet to go), but I took a walk around the house before it started. Four out of five Hellebores — long coveted, thought lost — have emerged! The beloved🩸hearts are doing their thing (they’re so tiny)! (@annkox there are some to share) The wild phlox/dames rocket 🚀 is emerging. And signs or peonies at Ann’s having survived last year’s brutal excavation! And more! Spring has sprung & it’s so amazingly green. 💚 Started this lovely & overdue job today. Getting that tub refinished next week, I hope, and would like to be as far as possible with the wallpaper removal & repainting — especially in the tub area. My 30yo wallpaper steamer died, so had to go get a new one today. There’s a top layer to the wallpaper that seems easier to peel off first, though, so that’s what I’m doing. Tedious, but doing. Rusty just rebuilt the tub surround & installed new plumbing fixtures. A few finishing details yet to do. 🔨🛀 Spring. 🌱❤️☀️ Spring Election Day is tomorrow. Exercise that muscle & make sure your voice is heard! When the taxes are finished & filed, it’s time to 🎉 . Quiltin’ time! The blocks are all sewn into rows, so I laid it out to see if I even liked the idea of dotty squares for cornerstones (and whether I had enough variety). I did (and I do). So all the sashing/cornerstone rows have been pinned together & marked and sewing up comes next. I have some ideas for what comes after — a few borders, 3 or 4? — but we’ll see what happens! ❤️🥳 Oh, do I HAVE to go to the credit union? 😂 Can I go EVERY day?? There’s an open area between the CU & an apartment building with some trees, water (often, and nearby otherwise) and SANDHILL CRANES! Spotted from the drive-thru, I pulled up to get a better view & they did not flinch. Last year there were two… this year, I think they’re a family. ❤️❤️❤️

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