Some of This; Some of That

Back to the destashing.  In trying to empty some boxes filled with quilty stuff, I found 4.5 yards of fabric I am liberating from storage and to perhaps find its way into a project with another quilter.
That and the 1.41 yds from the start of a new baby quilt, 1 block and the back of another baby quilt gives me a YTD total of 46.51 yds destashed out of the 62 yards I need at this time to meet my year-end goal.  That's what happens when one spends over 2 months with little sewing and quilting.

Here's the block I made as mentioned above.  It is for my NSO (newly started object as of January) called Meadow by Michelle McKillop of the Jen Kenwell Designs Collective. 

I now have a corner's worth.

Along with another one, I  have 4 of 24 applique blocks done.  What I do is make a copy of the template page and then cut out the pieces leaving the outline of the shape as my placing guide.  Here's a sample:

Makes it easy to assemble the block.

Off to prep a block from Anna's Garden.  That one is hand appliqued so I'll be working on it today.  Don't think I"ll get much more than start it.  I'm off to Colorado for another short trip to visit DS#2.
I'll try not to forget my smart phone this time so I can post a photo now and then.

I'm happy to report the temps are near normal again for a little while ( 98- 104 degrees).  So much better. I'll be linking to BOMs Away, Slow Sunday Stitching, Sunday Stash, Moving it Forward, and Main Crush Monday
Blessings to you all.

Quilted, Bound and Delivered

This Friday finish began as a baby quilt top made by my Mom.  I quilted it

Bound it by bringing the back forward

Then delivered it to our church group at our monthly meeting.

Quilt all from leftovers.  I'm linking to Myra's Finished or Not Fridays, Let's Make Baby Quilts, Can I have a Whoop, Whoop? and others.  Happy quilting this weekend.

I Like Thursdays

It has been a different kind of week. I got back from my visit to Vancouver Aug 1st.  I liked my visit - a little shopping, a little sight seeing and a lot of family time.  Here's DGD#1 at Target where we were buying new kitchen curtains and school supplies. They have a Starbucks in the one they go to. Cute and yummy cookie.

Once home, it took me a couple of days to get back into some of my routine, and the weather didn't relent.  Monday was 110, Tuesday - 107 - today 99.  Under 100 you say? But not for a good reason.

The Holy Fire (named because it started in Holy Jim Canyon in the Cleveland National Forest) started three days ago in the early afternoon. This is about 30 miles South of us.  When my husband and I first saw the plume it looked like a mushroom cloud from an atom bomb.  You can see the winds here keeping the smoke to the right (West to us).  

The smoke didn't affect us that day, but as it moved northwest, it blocked the sun and the temperture dropped 2 degrees in a matter of minutes. Here's the sun behind the dense smoke.  You can see the sun's halo.  So it was dark way sooner than normal and then once the sun got under the smoke we had a normal sunset. By the end of the day our sky was mostly normal as the smoke was west of us.

Tuesday there was a bit of smoke still moving northwest, but this morning the smoke was back with the wind change. My husband found ashes on his truck and I have a fine dusting on my car which is in a carport. So now besides an excessive heat advisory, we have a smoke advisory.  All throughout the day the sunlight had an eerie color to it - like a muted peach color instead of a bright and sunny look. Don't know what tomorrow will bring - depends on any winds. Approaching from the south Hurricane John may bring us humidity (no rain) which the firefighters need to fight this fire - no containment, still going strong as of this evening. I pray for their safety.  Again, not close to us except for the smoke.

In the meantime - I go out in the early mornings - the only time it's cool and in the 70s and walk among the cactus.  Here's one I found and liked.

I'm going over to LeeAnna's I Like Thursdays - see you there.