They just keep coming

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… falling from my fingers, a concept I think is attributable to Mo.

This patchplay was inspired by a study Don did for several subsequent pineapple pictures (and yes, that green cloth is only a distant cousin to the green in the painting) …

With details showing how much fun it is to use Deb’s threads …

Then there’s this homage the Michael Kaspareck painting we purchased 20 years ago from A Touch of Earth …

And because WordPress went down earlier today, I had time to stitch this take on the Suzanne Horner painting of the Kit Carson house in New Mexico that we purchased last fall at the Assemblage gallery …

Up next: a look at another mail call (or two, if I’m lucky).

Both sides now

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When Ellis came over last week, she helped me lay out some of the finished blocks on the table cloth … which still has a ways to go (the cloth is this long because the table has another leaf that’s in storage at the moment) …

Over and over E said, “I like this side … this side looks better” … she’s a child after my own heart …

And then there’s this …

Don found it in our daughter‘s garden while he was weeding and brought it home for me.

And thanks to having a refreshed cloth stash, I’m back to making more blocks. This latest is inspired by a painting Don made last year (original post) …

If you look closely, you’ll see it has the cloth that Deb Sposa gifted me …

What a wonderful life.

Mail call and volleyball

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There was much postal coming and going this week. First the arrival of treasures from East Coast Deb and West Coast Deb …

Then preparations for a birthday package heading to our soon-to-be-twenty year old granddaughter, Logan …

And the much-anticipated arrival of Malka’s hand-dyed linen,which I’ve already ripped and pressed …

To top it all off, we took Parker to volleyball practice on Monday … then went to see a University of Texas exhibition game with both Parker and Griffin on Friday …

Go Horns Go!