And the little one that was this:
Became this:
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
AUG OMG - DONE!
I completed my goal of taking apart my UFO and re-sewing it. Now it looks like this:
And the little one that was this:
Became this:
Linking back to our host: Elm Street Quilts
And the little one that was this:
Became this:
Linking back to our host: Elm Street Quilts
Thursday, August 10, 2017
13 years
Today marks my 13th year in the Air Force. Only 7 more years to go until I can be the crazy cat lady that I have always wanted to be!
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
33 and 1/3
Today I am 33 and 1/3 years old.
I "started" this blog in September of 2013 to document my second tour to Korea. My family and my heart stayed in California that long year. I think I had posted maybe twice that year... I was scared it was not going to come out "right". So I deleted those posts. Silly me. Now I do not remember the details of what it was like, to be there alone. I recall staring at the wall a lot, at the pattern on the door. I made it into a mini quilt I gave to my Grandma!
I "started" this blog in September of 2013 to document my second tour to Korea. My family and my heart stayed in California that long year. I think I had posted maybe twice that year... I was scared it was not going to come out "right". So I deleted those posts. Silly me. Now I do not remember the details of what it was like, to be there alone. I recall staring at the wall a lot, at the pattern on the door. I made it into a mini quilt I gave to my Grandma!
I named my blog after the song from "Rent" that goes like this:
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure - measure a year?
In daylights- in sunsets
In midnights- in cups of coffee
In inches- in miles
In laughter- in strife
I like coffee. I like lattes even more - vanilla, extra hot! Cups of coffee seems like a pretty good way to measure things, huh? But I also like sewing and playing with yarn - all the pretty colors! I want to be better at taking all the ideas I have bouncing around my head, and actually creating something.
I do not want to waste another day, or 1/3 year*, or 525,600 minutes. "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."
*Seriously, I need to get ready now for Christmas because I get so easily distracted. :P I only mailed 6 out of the 20 cards I made for New Year's 2017. And that was in April...!
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Aug OMG - UFO from 1997
20 years ago (way back in the summer of 1997!) when I was 13, we moved from CA to CT. We stayed with my grandparents while my newly-retired from the Marines father and mother looked for a new home for us. I missed CA, but I enjoyed that summer because I got to sleep in my Grandma Taylor's sewing room!
I made this not-quite-square block:
And this dinky (4.5" ish x 3.25") little fussy-cut piece:
My seams were not even or straight...
Still, I like the colors I used. These are scraps from Grandma! My favorite is the one with those purple, green and yellow flowers. <3
My OMG is to take this apart and straighten it out. ((extra credit: add border and turn into a wall hanging)) Linking back to our host: Elm Street Quilts
I made this not-quite-square block:
 |
| 8.5" ish |
My seams were not even or straight...
Still, I like the colors I used. These are scraps from Grandma! My favorite is the one with those purple, green and yellow flowers. <3
My OMG is to take this apart and straighten it out. ((extra credit: add border and turn into a wall hanging)) Linking back to our host: Elm Street Quilts
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