I'm on the road again, this time visiting Vanderbilt University in Nashville. While waiting for today's programming to start, I had to wander over to see the Parthenon replica and read about why it is here.
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| Turns out, it was built for Tennessee's Centennial celebration. Cool, but seems pretty random to be plopped down here in the middle of Nashville |
I doubt I'll be stranded here for two extra days like I was during my trip to Washington University in St. Louis last month (knock on wood), but I'm prepared, just in case. In addition to more hexies to stitch together,
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| I only brought 5 flowers worth of hexies to stitch together. I should be able to finish that in a mere evening of watching Heartland on Netflix. |
I brought my current mindless knitting project,
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| Based on the Dourado pattern, but I'm altering it to work with the Katia Ombre yarn that I have. |
as well as three paperback books and three audiobooks. One of them, of course, is a crafty cozy mystery:
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| I've read the first in this series, and was waiting to read this third installation until I had read the second, but it was the smallest paperback on my shelf that I hadn't read, perfect for travel, so the second will have to wait. |
Back home, I've been plugging away at my myriad current projects - hand quilting the quilt for my new niece who arrived on Friday,
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| I still have a long way to go. Not marking, just quilting organically concentric echoes to fill the white spaces. Not sure yet what I'll do with the colored spaces. |
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| My new niece with her older sister and brother. Love fest! |
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| I spent most of Saturday doing just this. |
making more 3" nine patches for my 5" Sister's Choice project,
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| Nine patches are so simple but make me so happy! |
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| Why, oh why, do I love tiny piecing so much??? It's going to take A LOT of blocks to make a useable quilt out of 5" blocks, but I'm not going to think of it that way, just gonna enjoy the process. |
On Ringo Lake has been on the back burner, as has my Flutterby project, but I'm still up to date on my Temperature Quilt. I do like having a choice about what I want to work on every time I sit down at my machine.
I'm linking up with
Oh Scrap and
Monday Making.
