This shows the front and back of a quilt I made for my grandson, Jack. His room is decorated with a camping and Boy Scout theme. The fabrics I used came from Hannibal, MO, the hometown of Mark Twain. The scenes are of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I will give him the book, Huck Finn with the quilt.

On the back is a print showing Davy Crockett in the wilderness. That’s camping old style.

I made this at the Khaki Quilters retreat this week. We had 2 1/2 days on a tropical island at the Life Enrichment Center. Still smiling.

Today has been a busy day. We played water volleyball, then made a lasagna dinner, and had friends over to eat. Then more friends joined us to play Trivial Pursuit. When I had a few minutes I packed my clothes for a 3 day, 2 night quilters’ getaway. And while I waited for the brownies to bake, I finished the last 8 blocks for my new bed quilt. I still have not packed the sewing things I will take to work on. But my goal was to finish my bed quilt top before I leave. It’s now in 3 pieces, there are 121 blocks. Good enough. Here is a picture of part of it.

I think I have changed in the last couple years. I’m not as good a cook. The lasagna was dry, I didn’t keep it. And I made Ghirardelli brownies, with chopped walnuts on top, but didn’t like them much. Maybe we eat out so much that home cooked food is too bland. Well that is enough resting, now to pack.

Does anyone besides me remember how to spell Hallowe’en? It has an apostrophe in it, because it’s short for All Hallows Evening. I think this has been changed by popular usage. But I like it, I think it looks formal in keeping with the traditional meaning of the holiday.

In any case, I am planning a party, and made some table runners, and a couple table mats. Here are 2 of them.

I was experimenting with a 60* triangle and a kaleidoscope block, which uses a 45* triangle. I think I like the kaleidoscope block better.

Hi, I finally remembered to post. I have a few pictures to show.  A friend came over to make mosaics. We started small, to see if she liked it. We did a couple frames, and both enjoyed working on them. These use preformed glass tiles. If she wants to make more, we’ll use glass and cut it ourselves.