Some cook, I sew and write: creativity brings joy

So much has happened in the last month!  How about a quick update? Starting with non-quilting activities: I spent four days prepping our house in Missouri for more open houses.  In the process, I found a boxful of pencils to bring home for my husband.  There's probably a quilt in this somewhere! We took our visiting German student Laura to the Newport Aquarium the first day after she arrived. My daughter hosted her annual Young Women's Halloween party.  This is after the party with her and our German student.  Next year she's thinking she'll probably invite her whole early morning Bible-study class since it will be her last year home. On to the quilting-related activities although not actually quilting, I finally splurged for a sewing machine case.  I have a Janome Skyline S5 so it isn't a small (or light) machine, and I almost damaged it on a trip outside the house.  I finally found a Tutto case on Walmart.com for ...

April 18 saw my first Instagram picture of my Hunter's Star quilt so I guess that was close to when I began it.  I cut the layer cake into 4 squares as of that date. Now I have the pieced part DONE! And um, it feels like I've been working on this forever.  Can I hear Celebrate! now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GwjfUFyY6M The back isn't pretty, the 1/4" seams are far from perfect, the seams aren't always pressed to one side, and the seams didn't always nestle together because they had to go the same direction, but it's DONE and it actually looks pretty. Miracles happen.  Every day.