Is it Fall Yet?

Are we there yet? Is it autumn? Oh, wait … summer just started a couple weeks ago. Shucks! Being forced indoors by the extreme heat here in the Western United States is like enduring Pandemic 2.0. (But seriously, if the unvaccinated peeps don’t get their arms under a needle soon, the Delta variant will be forcing the real Pandemic 2.0 on us this winter. But I digress… ) Back to the heat. This born-and-bred California girl is officially stating for the record that I no longer have any desire to return to California. The “good old days” are gone. A summer at the beach and Disneyland don’t hold the appeal they did decades ago, especially when things are burning up around you and water sources are drying up. Oh my, I digressed again. Let’s just move on to something more pleasant, shall we? But first, share a chuckle with me.

Ok, so the best way I’ve found to stay cool is to stay indoors with the air conditioning running, sipping lots of Fresca mixed with Cran-Raspberry juice and sewing in my basement studio. That’s because I don’t fit in the refrigerator, and standing in front of it with the door open wastes energy. So, I sewed. And sewed. And sewed some more. In fact, I sewed so much that I’m going to save some of it (38 string blocks and counting) until next week.

But I do have two Spring Star blocks to share.

And a dark blue mama cat and her litter of five kittens.

And another quilt top from scraps that just needs two side borders sewn on. You can see the orange strips there, pinned along the sides. 

This was a fun little quilt to puzzle out with the scraps that I had. You may remember that these scraps are what I started with.

The plan for the coming week is to get this quilt top and the first scrappy blues quilt top (no picture except last week’s in-process photo) basted, quilted and bound this week. Then I can begin on the next set of scraps, the “bricks”.  I’ll also be sewing up more dark blue blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge’s color of the month. So there should be plenty to share next week. I just need to remember to photograph everything. I think my brain has melted in the heat.....

So I’ll sign off with this picture of Emily and the grands, Deacon, Gunner and Abbie. Emily’s husband Chad had to stay behind in Idaho because their air conditioning went out and he was waiting for the contractors to come to fix it. Hopefully he’ll be joining them later either this trip or another one later in the summer. We haven’t seen him in ages!

Have a good week and stay cool (or warm if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, LOL). Life is good.