Yes and No

 Yes, I did some quilting. No, I didn't finish it.

But I did make a second beautician's tote bag 

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and I did do some stitching on Moe ( my mid arm for those who haven't heard him called by name before). I'm adding chenille stripes to the borders of the duck baby quilt. The chenille stripes  will only go on three borders and I'm thinking of using it to stitch around the ducks bodies. I don't want to deal with stops and starts around the ducks.

I also recently found some blocks that I bought the first year I went on quilt retreat up to Roscommon. There are twelve blocks with teddy bears printed on them. I embroidered on them and for some reason, put them away. 

Now that they've resurfaced, I'm determined to put them into a quilt top. Each teddy bear has some sort of accessory with it - a bow around its neck or a horn it's blowing, etc and I've decided to use my intense pencils to color in the bears and their accessories. I have the bow around the neck, the bears nose and the little butterfly who sits on bears nose colored in...I like it so far...think it's going to turn out cute. 

I'm thinking that I should put something between each block...but not dark brown which I was going to use for sashing...and I still might use it between the rows, I haven't decided yet. I just know that I'm going to audition some bright colored fabrics to see how they would work as alternate blocks.

Anyway, that's it for this week..... 

oh wait! I forgot to tell you my great granddaughter who's 19 said that she'd love for me to make her a cosmetology bag, too...and is willing to wait a couple of months while I get the baby quilt and a couple of other things done.

OK, that's it for sure this time...although I got a message from granddaughter in Georgia saying that her soon to be 7 yr old son told her that he misses his Grandma Carol and that he loves her/ me. It's been about a year and a half since we've seen each other...such a sweet boy. 

Ok... ENOUGH

goodbye for this week