Gifted Flag Quilt

I forgot I hadn’t posted this, but since it’s especially appropriate today, let’s just say I held it until now on purpose. 😜

This was one of two flag quilts I started in early September (here) and took to my longarmer pal before we left on vacation. (I gave the second one to my Guild for their veteran recognition program.)

Binding and labeling* happened when we got back …

Forgot to get a good pic of the label…

before I passed this on to my friend on October 22…

and she presented it to her 94-year old Korean War vet dad the next day. I think he liked it. 🤩

Happy Veteran’s Day to all who served. 

* I designed the label on my computer, including a flag in the background, and added name, rank, dates and ‘thank you for your service’. Pretty pleased with how it turned out. 

Back To It

What a week. The election, then the Mountain Fire. Marie worked an election site from last Saturday through late Tuesday night, so we planned to have the girls overnighting from Sunday to Wednesday. Then Wednesday the Mountain Fire started - fortunately on another side of town and blowing away from us - and  smoke was impacting their apartment … and Marie got called in to work/volunteer doing traffic control for the sheriff’s department… plus schools were closed … so we got to keep them the rest of the week. 

Highly recommend the free app Watch Duty. They had the most current info during the fire.

Matt’s house had the power turned off Wednesday due to the fire (it came back on Friday night), so they’ve been hanging out here in the evenings to shower and recharge batteries (people and i-gadgets). 

 Home-made cheese puffs. So good!

Apparently, I’m too old for 24/7 fun and excitement anymore … so tired. Hoping to get back to a regular schedule when the kids go back to school…. Wednesday? Very grateful the fire wasn’t closer to us and incredibly sad for everyone who lost their home. I haven’t heard of any lives lost, which is a miracle - the fire was huge and moving soooo fast. 

P.s. can you tell that Jac cut the cheese puff dough? Gave her the pizza cutter and let her go. 😂