I’m Having a Stitchy Day

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I’ve been trying to get back into the groove since vacation.  We had a great trip, lots of sunshine.  While we were gone, we had some rooms in our house painted.  So fun to come home to!  But it’s taken all week to get everything back in place.  I’ve been squeezing stitching time in whenever I can between work at the gallery and putting our home back together.  Don’t you just love the smell of fresh paint?  Mmmm, I do. 

Anyway, I’ve loaded a new page from my stitch journal.  A little treat from me to you.  Just click “My Stitch Journal” in the nav bar above, and you’ll go right to it.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Channeling Dad

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This is my family.  The photo was taken about 6 years ago, at Cindy’s 50th birthday party.  What a fun bash!  It’s actually the last photo of my family that I have with my folks in it.  As many of you know, I lost them very close together that year.  I miss them both every single day, but it’s not always sad, you know?  In fact, a lot of times it will be a funny story, or a mannerism I’ve inherited, that makes me giggle out loud (which often gets a few stares from people around me, if I happen to be by myself in the grocery store or on the bus – haha).  Like today.  Robert Frost’s famous poem popped into my pea brain this morning, and it always makes me think of my dapper dad (wasn’t he, though?  I mean, just look at that guy – far right, grey beard, next to my mama – they’re both in yellow – that happened a lot – by accident).  But I digress…here’s Mr. Frost’s words…such a lovely diversion from the everyday path.  xo

The Road Not Taken        
 
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;         5
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,         10
 
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.         15
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Hey, where did I go?

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 (I’m in Mexico this week – una mas, por favor! – but I’ve scheduled a few little ditties so you won’t miss me too much.  Here’s one of my favorite sunshine songs.  See you back here next week!)

Brown Eyed Girl, by Van Morrison

Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playin’ a new game

Laughin’ and a-runnin’, hey hey
Skippin’ and a-jumpin’
In the misty mornin’ fog
With our, our hearts a-thumpin’

And you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

And whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down the old mine
With a transistor radio

Standin’ in the sunlight laughin’
Hidin’ behind a rainbow’s wall
Slippin’ and a-slidin’
All along the waterfall

With you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when
We used to sing?
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
Just like that
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
La te da

So hard to find my way
Now that I’m all on my own
I saw you just the other day
My, how you have grown

Cast my memory back there Lord
Sometimes I’m overcome thinkin’ ’bout it
Makin’ love in the green grass
Behind the stadium
With you, my brown eyed girl
You my brown eyed girl

Do you remember when
We used to sing?
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
(Lyin’ in the green grass!)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
(Bit by bit by bit by bit by bit by bit)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da
(Sha la la la la, la la la la, la te da, la te da, la te da, da da da)
Sha la la, la la, la la, la la, l-la te da

Log Cabin Chicklets

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Oh my nerves, how cute are these?  And they are so fun (and super easy) to make!  What?  You don’t know where to start?  Well, step right up, friend. 

Announcing the second workshop in my online workshop series, Soul Food Take-Out.  This one is called Log Cabin Chicklets.  In this one lesson workshop, we’ll create these a.dor.a.ble little pin cushion-y, bean bag-gy chickens from tiny log cabin quilt blocks.  Too.much.fun!

I have a whole flock of these in my sewing room.  I love their chubby little shape and funny faces.  They make me smile every time I glance at them.  

Registration for Log Cabin Chicklets will begin on April 1st (no foolin’!), and the workshop will be open on April 7th.  I hope you’ll fly the coop and join me (hahaha).

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

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Thanks for all the great reviews of my interview with the fabulously talented Jennifer Paganelli!  Such fun to know there are so many Jen-o-files out there!!

I like to do this the old fashioned way, so I took all of your comments, printed them out, and threw them in a (very cute) hat.  I’ve drawn two lucky winners who will receive a bundle of Sis Boom fat quarters and my Sis Boom quilt pattern.  Drum roll, please….

I’m looking for “Joan and Kevin” and for “Kathleen”.  If you posted either of these two comments, please email your contact information and mailing address, and I will get these little bundles out to you!  Thanks.

And thanks for everyone who came by to visit.  I hope you’ll join me again next month for my next interview.