Hello,

I am enjoying the season and I hope you are too.    The wreath that I was working on last week got finished and is hanging on the front door.    I missed my only zoom meeting with the Pixies this week because I was off at my granddaughter’s college graduation instead.    With the packages wrapped, cards all written and set  and with  all the decoration up , I can listen to Carols and enjoy the merriment all around me.       I have done a lot in the studio and enjoyed every min.

Progress Report: Hand Out This quilt is 38″ X 50 “.  It is made up of left overs from my previous hand studies.       I did lots of hand work one the negative areas of this work and I machine quilted inside the hands .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lap Quilt # 20 I finished the binding on this protect last evening.  There are lots of old experiments in this project.    Printed blocks, painted blocks , and one were I experimented with markers too.     These project’s are a good place to try things our on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lap Quilt #21   This is the next top all assembled and ready for layering and quilting now.

 

 

 

 

 

Ethel Squares  I am working on creating backs from leftovers for this project.   The stack on the right is backs that I have started for the five quilts.

 

Spores     I work on this project  as my handwork while I watch the news at night so it goes forward slowly.

 

  Split  I am ready to add the textured cream units on top now.   .  Then I will begin to quilt it.

 

 

 

 

 

New Work    This project is again my attempt to apply what folks have told me about a new process.    I do enjoy trying out new things.

 

 

 

Pudding  

The years we lived in Columbus Junction I grew from six to eight. I loved the house that my folks and Grandfather Howard built there. Along the east wall of that dwelling was a long row of windows that faced east into a deep gully full of old trees. I enjoyed watching the seasons changes from our dinner table there. One of my favorite desserts was chocklet pudding that Mom would some times make. She served it in yellow Melmack bowls. There was a thick skin on the top of the pudding that I would carefully scoop into along one edge of the bowl to create a little arch that looked like a little head in a dark pudding bonnet. I would then add a bit of milk into that opening and joyously eat my dessert.

Enjoy what you can of this season.

Carol