This & That

Will it ever quit raining?   I shouldn't complain because we've at least been spared the violent storms that have passed through the Midwest on more than one day this week.  Yesterday morning an EF1 tornado took out several businesses in the town of Monett where my son Mark and his wife Stephanie work. Tornado season is only getting started!  Here in Pittsburg we just keep getting rain.  And I had to turn the furnace back on!  My circulation is lousy and this cool, damp weather makes me ache all over.

On to more pleasant topics.

I received a new siggie this week from Leontien in The Netherlands

And made two more Dutch Treat blocks

Clasp

and Clowns

Tom picked up a kit for a community quilt at our Joplin guild meeting last month and pieced it this week. He did all the piecing and I quilted and bound it.

When he realized how simple this one was to put together he agreed to do the piecing for another baby quilt for a friend. He almost got it done yesterday.

 
And I finally got the 4 blocks sewn together to make up the upper left quadrant of my Exploding Star started in Tea Mahone's workshop.  I had the four blocks done shortly after the workshop, but then my hand started giving me fits and I couldn't piece it together.  These squares finish 1" but Tea makes constructing the blocks really simple with her good instructions.

I'm 2 weeks behind working on Lyn Brown's Baltimore BOM and there is going to be a wonderful new block tomorrow.  I've  finished a large special project so maybe now I can get back to this applique project.  I feel like I've got too many balls in the air at the moment!