I'm back from a little break. We took off the last week of the kids' summer vacation to embark on an almost 1,000 mile road trip through Northern California. We visited a couple of colleges my son is interested in attending next year and saw a play at the Ashland Shakespeare festival in So. Oregon. All in all, it was a good trip.
I prepped a little hand applique project to take along with me on the trip (pictured above), but I didn't make much progress. However, I just finished block #111 on my Farmer's Sampler his weekend! I'm SO excited and in a little disbelief that I made all of those blocks. I have a couple of minor piecing "mistakes" to fix, but I don't intend on remaking any of the blocks. This project has been a journey, and I want to look at my quilt in the years to come and enjoy the full span of blocks from beginning to end, even with some of the "funky" fabric choices and less than perfect piecing.
Pretty cool, huh? I bought the sashing fabric at Beverley's this morning. I have a fat quarter of a yellow print I'd love to use for the cornerstones but I only have the 1 FQ and I haven't been able to identify the print. I wasn't able to find something similar at Beverly's so I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I will try to find something this week. We'll see.
Here's a few pictures of my goofy kiddos from our trip:
