Oh man--I love those Lindor chocolates; but, here is what I usually eat with my stress (and yes, this IS the size bag I get):



I did manage to get the four quilts done before August so that was an accomplishment. This was the last one that was giving me all the trouble:




AND apparently, still giving me trouble
Baby day is on the 13th of August so we will be heading down for that very soon. Kathy, this first visit will be with DH so I won't see you this time but I will be back down to help with the babies for a bit and I will try to meet up with you then.

I'm sitting in the dr. office waiting to see what will be done with my torn rotator cuff...hopefully just a simple procedure

I love mint and chocolate, pictures of flowers, and mini hexies if I don't have to make them. I may have some snickerdoodles to share later today. My first time to make them from a box (Krusteaz) instead of from scratch. My treat for spending time in the dentist chair today.

The spring rains brought lots of sunflowers and also an abundance of crickets. They keep finding their way into the house. They would be safer outside, or at least food for birds, etc. instead of being swept up and thrown away. The barrel in the middle of the picture was washed in with the flash flood in May. It will probably stay there until time to plow the field for the fall hay crop. The barrel reminds me of the lazy summer days of my childhood. What fun we had standing and rolling on a barrel (not quite that big), twirling pails with a little water in them, and so many other things you do for entertainment when you live on a farm and there is no TV, no internet, no cell phones, no air conditioning, and the list goes on.



My last 5 red and white wall hangings are designed. Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel slowed me down some but I should still finish before the end of the month. The next one I make will have 3 large duck and duckling blocks with sashing (inspired by the 8 ducklings that hatched in the shop building behind the retreat center, or the 3 that didn't survive the wild so far), a bargello with 8 fabrics and 3" finished strips for something that will be fast and easy, hexagons with 2" sides with alternating vertical rows of light and dark, a double wedding ring with 3 blocks (pattern from A Very Special Collection, with blocks enlarged to 15"), and the last will be a New York Beauty unless I decide to do something easier by then. The ones that didn't get made were redwork, embroidery, applique, school house, oak leaf and more. The school house may replace the New York Beauty. I'm quilting all of them the same with a simple meander. Now to get busy.

Lotti - awesome hexies, I especially enjoy your batik fabric I do recall your traveling handwork.
Rosemary - please pass the mint M&M's!

Barb

Lotti I 'm loving your hexies and the Lindor chocolates. Hi Linda nice to meet you and welcome. I'm still FMQing my TQS 2014 BOM, I'm slow so I will take a while with this and hope to get it finished in my lifetime. I have just made my Grandson a quillow; he's almost 3; I let him choose the fabrics, I'll be polite and say the colours are bright (or hideous). One side of fabric is cartoon snakes in primary colours and the other side of the quillow is fleece multi coloured frogs He loves it. My new book arrived last week from America, DAR "Eye on Elegance", I saw a trailer on TQS for the exhibition. It's the most beautiful eye candy and a fascinating read - the postage was an eye watering $39. Present from my DH.
Best Wishes Pam

Amazing hexies Lotti

ha, sorry luann, but i won't bite...
some of the hexies were actually fussycut... but I've found that with that many it just doesn't really show. as each hexie starts with a 2-inch piece of fabric or a scrap a bit smaller than that - i havn't started piecing those - and as i don't want machine sewn bits... not really an option
will keep you posted...

lotti wrote:
Lotti,
When you finish it send it to me for ironing! Oh, but I suppose you'd expect to get it returned,,, foiled again! I do like it a lot. Have you ever tried doing fussy cutting for hexies, or this idea of paper piecing your individual hexies from other fabrics, I think they call it millefiori hexies. I'm impressed with the original type, and blown away by all the work to get those done, can't imagine how long and how dedicated one must be to do a full quilt. I'm thinking perhaps a journal cover?? That's about how long my endurance would last. But I will certainly enjoy watching your 'garden' grow!

Belated Happy Birthday to Switzerland, Lotti! Love your batiks - never see batiks in the two quilt shops I can get to without driving for hours and hours :: so thank you for the eye candy AND the Lindor chocs you added to our stash. Wish I still had easy access to Neuhaus chocs! Love your hexi quilt.
Dorothy, thanks for the info re tie de-construction. I'm sure you will have a great looking bag that will be very, very special.
Margarita, looking forward to seeing the baby quilt - good to hear your are slowly getting better!
Terrie looking forward to seeing the charity quilt
Hi Linda, welcome! I'm trying very hard to just use my stash but it always come up short so I have to do a bit of shopping
Ooooh Rosemary, mint M&Ms! You'll have to move the bowl out of my reach now because I love, love, love mint chocolate. Good luck with the mini this week - keeping my fingers crossed!
Managed to make a t-shirt yesterday so am off on my August list - now to keep the wheels rolling
Marianne

like your garden Luann, yup the kind I can live with.
gotta try those mint m&m's, rosemary, might be a chocolate i like
think i should iron that quilt one day - might actually see what it will look like - and not lay it out on an old quilt to photograph...

Lotti...love the hexis!
I've never tried the mint m&ms...love mint chocolate though the minstrels look good..yum!
Welcome to the retreat Linda!
Dorothy

Rosemary,
I gotta find me some of those minstrels, and mint dark chocolate M&Ms wow, I've not seen those!
Off to do some chocolate shopping, perhaps I could catch a few groceries at the same time, nah he
Luann

Love how your hexi quilt is coming along, Lotti! I also love chaotic color so it really appeals to me.

In York with Izzy last week and found some m&m's for real! and thoroughtly enjoying them

Here have a few.

Only problem is they are a bit small compared to my usual candy coated chocolates - Minstrels.


So I will see you a couple of m&m's and raise you a couple of Minstrels....

Welcome to the forum & the retreat Linda.