Hi Everyone!

           Well, it's 6:30 in the morning and 69 degrees here....I can live with that!  Working on my first cuppa joe and enjoying the coolness while it's cool.  Supposed to be around 88 today...still better than the 104 from yesterday afternoon.  My boss even closed down shop early and we all went home to our semi-cool houses.  This is one of the many reasons I'm looking forward to our move to the mountains.  Idyllwild will, of course, have heat.  It will just be a prettier heat!  LOL....

         Anyhooooo......look what arrived yesterday!











So NOW... I can combine these little beauties with this...... and I'm set for the afternoon!

I do have a few appliques to put into the shop, and then I'm FREE!  I think the first thing I will do with these new toys is paint a block from my own pattern collection.  I have a set of four patterns for applique that I drew myself, and they will soon be in the shop.  I've always appliqued them, and they work up well that way, but I think I'm going to paint a few blocks to see how well I can do this.

Here's a sneak peek of the patterns.  They'll be packaged with instruction sheets and full color pictures of a finished block.  I call them my Breezy Blossoms because they look like flowers in a stiff breeze!  So....the last picture here is one of the Breezy Blossom patterns done up as raw edge applique.  Well, it's just been applied with Wonder Under, so it's ready to "finish."  It's not a good shot, but it serves it's purpose!  LOL!

Anyhow, I'm going to try to be strong this morning and put my new paints aside so I can work on this.  It's a bit wrinkled.  Noticed that AFTER I took the picture!

 

It's a small wall hanging, and I want to do the quilting with the white crochet thread.  I made up about 5 of these tops a while back---why, I don't remember.  Probably to sell.  Well, they didn't all sell.  So I had a few left over.  One is finished and in the shop and this one will get put together today...I hope.....the paints!  They're whispering my name!   "Come to us!  Come to us!"  I'm the only one that can hear them.

 I better go before I begin answering them.  My boys will just run for it.  My husband will just sigh and make me another cup of coffee.  Blessings, everyone!