Happy Anniversary, Sister Blog

Got this notice from the wordpress.com folks:

This is either the quiltr.com blog which is self-hosted, as they say, or the mbquilts.wordpress.com blog which is the one with the birthday. That’s the one that I’ve recently started cross-posting from here to there and I’ve met lots of interesting bloggers and found some followers – thank you all!

I have been blogging since early 2001 but signed up for wordpress.com in order to understand how it works. As they say: Code is Poetry!

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Chasing Clouds

I was driving towards these towering plops of whipped cream-ish clouds with darkness below on the way home. And by whipped cream I mean when you whip cream and then keep whipping until it’s almost just about to begin thinking about becoming butter…

They were to the east and north and it became obvious that I should scope out some clear views in that direction. Oh well, I did find some new pokestops etc.

clouds 22 July 2016

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#bobbincount 2 plus 10

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Paint before Thread

I needed a transition when I got home so I did these two small watercolor experiments. I left these wet downstairs. I kept with the mantra – more water! bigger brush! Then I went upstairs and cleaned and oiled the machine and got down to the work.

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#bobbincount (11), unexpected cheer and stuff

I plowed along tonight, listening to The Silmarillion and to music and enjoying the temperate temperature. 70’s is much nicer for quilting in than 90’s.

Bobbin count for tonight is 11, and I actually quilted 2/3 of another one, but you’ll hear more about that one tomorrow no doubt.

Last night I went down to get the laundry out of the dryer. It was late and I was just going to put it away and go to bed. As I came up the stairs my eye was caught something in the pantry-way along the cellar stairs – could it be? was there really a bottle of Moscato there? This was what greeted me when I took off the wrapper.

And this was the other end of the cork:

Hard not to be happy about that!

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