Interesting that the raccoons are so destructive. We just had to clear some out of my mom's attic space. A female climbed a tree to get on the roof and then ripped up the vent cover to get in. What a mess and a lot of damage.

Congrats on the Libby projects--the quilts are wonderful.

You just expressed my sentiments Lois for the house and taking guardianship of all those amazing quilts. Clara enjoy both

Good to hear from you, Clara, Congratulations on a wonderfully awesome project. I use awesome in the true sense of the word. I am sure that project is a lot of work but the side benefit is that you can touch and feel all those wonderful quilts. I loved hearing that you are in the process of healing your home. Blessings on you and your family.

Clara, I wish you luck with your project too. It's an awesome idea to help Libby, whom we all love.

Clara, Good news about your renovations. I was just talking to my brother tonight about what difficult animals raccoons are to deal with. He has to lock his doors at night to keep them from opening the doors to come in! I can hardly wait to see all the quilts for the Libby Lehman project. I have been fascinated to see the videos showing some of them. Clearly they are magnificent. Good wishes for the project!

Hey everyone. Haven't posted in a while too. Kinda weird. Check all the time. Gotta due something about that.

Been busy working on a lot of quilts for family. Working on much needed renovations on our house. Our old wooden siding was bowed so bad the boards were popping off. Raccoons had easy access to our attic and used it. I've caught 10 to date. Replacing that with Hardie boards, massive insulation and replacing a ton of rotten wood, then paint and new roof. We are so excited. It feels like we are healing our house and it's a huge positive move for our family.

I've also been working on a special project. It's a fund raiser for Libby Lehman and her family. You may have seen some videos of some quilts that other artists are doing. Well it's going to be an exhibit of 30 artists all doing quilts that are 30x30 that will be on display in Houston and in Paducah. They will go up for auction (online) while the Houston show is happening. More to be announced on that on TQS of course. The quilts are done by award winning artists and teachers. The collection is breathtaking. Haven't received all of them yet, but most have arrived. Wish me luck with this project.

Clara

I had both eyes done some years ago and colours are so much brighter.
Good luck with your surgery
Anne

Great to see what others are up to. Dawn your quilt is just lovely. Joan I hope you get the surgery soon, you won't recognize yourself afterwards!

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I'm sure you have lots of company!

Thank you, all, for your kind words about my quilt. How could I go wrong with Caryl's own hand dyed fabrics? She did all of the color gradations for me; all I had to do was sew them all together. But, I have to say, once I got my graduated strips all cut and laid out in the converging design, I realized every horizontal seam I needed to sew was on the bias! Not fun.

BTW, I got onto my BIG computer and found my profile photo was sideways. Sorry about that! I took a selfie on my phone, sent it to my IPad, and posted it there. On am right-side-up on my IPad, but had no idea I had fallen over sideways on a laptop. My big computer has lost it's ability to download photos from my camera, or attach them to emails, etc. and DH has been so involved with work, that I hated to bother him with it. When he comes home this week, maybe I can get him to work on that for me. Then I won't look like I've had one too many!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

Hi Everybody I have not been following very much, I have been waiting for an appointment to have cataracts removed I waited too long it is difficult to read, busy with UFO's there are way too many, I am working on BOM a little behind I haven't started June yet. I promised a quilt to my DIL working in it hope by her birthday in Oct. Enjoy the summer stay well, SEE you in Aug, Joan

Some clever patching and wonderful mix of colours Dawn love it

That's a beautiful quilt Dawn. Taking a class with Caryl is in my bucket list.

Gorgeous, Dawn!! Nice to see what you are working on.