Packing

I am starting to pack my bags for a family visit first to England then to Poland. My sister in China will be spending Christmas in Poland this year. She will arrive after I leave. I will be there earlier for our aunt's 90th birthday. Looking forward to that. My  younger sister lived in the very hot and dry Middle East for 4 years and left her very warm and heavy winter coat she used in her years in Mongolia at my house. So now my task is to get the coat to her. I can do  that. I thought about just wearing it, but alas, she is a couple of sizes smaller than me, so will have to pack it or carry it.

I have prepped 2 more Morrell blocks for applique. I plan to do the Broderie Perse by machine. I have a glossy cream thread to satin stitch the edges with. Well, I will try it out and see if I like it, but not this month. I also have 3 BTCT blocks that I have been carrying around with me for a while. All those circles. Many still to do.  But I have got the grape vine done. This was no easy task. They wind over and under each other. Some of my bias strips were too short to wind too far so had to do it in parts. But it is now done. I thought I had figured out the round circle thing. But those tiny ones are not so round. I finally drew circles on top to help. There will be still more after I complete these. There are about 28-30 per cluster. My goodness! I just realized that I have been eating a lot of grapes lately! Wonder why?

 I started two of the Morrell applique blocks. This is another that is similar to the CCCQ blocks so no thinking necessary. I hope.

 This is another Morrell applique block. It will have a saw-tooth border, but I will do that later by machine. So far I am using all French General fabrics including the creamy background.

Two more Antique Wedding Sampler blocks arrived in today's mail. Maybe next year. Blocks 24 and 25 of the Ben Biggs quilt were released today. I printed them off and filed them for now. I had a letter from my publisher today. It looks like 3-4 months once I submit the revised edited manuscript again. I will have 3 whole weeks over Christmas to do that. I am tempted to look at my 2015 goals list and see what I have accomplished but then I would be tempted to write one up for 2016, but I have a plane to catch in less than 4 days. There is still one bag of apples to make into applesauce and we had the water off all day to get the well cleaned out. First they took out the new pump and pipes, then they vacuumed out nearly twenty feet of sand. After that, the plumbers put the pump back in. The cows got some water before it quit, so the plumbers came back and finally called an electrician. I am glad I will be gone before all those bills arrive, because, I have a plane to catch. Come to think of it, I will have all those hours in the air where I cannot sleep to write all the lists I want. Or not. Might watch movies. But not taking any textbooks this time.

Blessings,
Chris