Simple Woman's Daybook

Joining others at The Simple Woman's Daybook.
Posting on Saturdays, linking on Mondays.

Outside my window...
Rain, soggy, soaking rain for a couple of days now. Landslide near the airport, crushing a church and evacuating some homes.  

Thinking...
About my dad's doctor visit today.

Thankful...
For the good health he's had for 88 years.

The fruit of my hands...
Finished True Blue by Kim Diehl this week. Posted about it yesterday.   

Reading....
Seeing With New Eyes by David Powlison.

Looking forward to...

Getting major fix-ups taken care of around the house so we can put the house on the market for our upcoming move.

Learning…

That when people show off their knowledge as if others of us have no clue about anything, just swallow my pride, listen and maybe learn something.

Pondering…
Wondering how a couple of old homeschooling friends are doing these days. Don't get to see them much now that our paths don't cross. Thinking about contacting them to get together over lunch sometime soon.

Around the house...
Not much going on of my doing, but My Beloved is mostly finished patching the ceiling from the leaky shower.

A Peek Into My Week...
A lot of sewing and not much tidiness, trying to get a couple of projects finished before the grands come this next weekend. 

From the Sewing Room ~ True Blue

True Blue by Kim Diehl is finally finished!

I think it turned out rather nicely.

I even have a little pitcher that matches. :-) 

True Blue is 23.5 x 23.5, with 6-inch blocks.

I could also use it as a small wall quilt, and I probably will.

 I don't like the thought of all that work getting soiled!

I quilted a simple all over meandering design.

The focus is the piecing and not the quilting. 

I had planned to use just a solid backing, but decided to go with one of the fabrics in the collection so I could use either side if I wanted to use it as a decorative table quilt. 

Two small quilts for the work of one! 

The Simple Whatnots Club meets a couple of times a month, with a new quilt each month. True Blue is the third quilt in Kim's Simple Whatnot Club that I've completed. I have a couple of the others cut out and partially sewn, but I've been working on other projects, too, and haven't gotten back to the Whatnots yet. I gifted Sunday Supper (13 x 16), but here's Widdly Tinks (12 x 14).

I'm learning things as I go along, and one thing I've learned is that I don't care for spending so much time on such small projects. I hung Widdly Tinks on the bathroom wall, and it is cute, though. Kim suggests rolling up small quilting projects and putting them in a clear jar, like a bouquet. What?! Roll up all that work and stick them in a jar??? Well, to each his own.