Tuesday

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Sunday

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Saturday

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Starowka

I'm restless and fussing around for something to distract myself with.  I think I'm going to sew along on Bonnie Hunter's 2024 Quiltville mystery, STAROWKA, scheduled to begin next Friday.   

Here's my fabric pull, subject to change of course.  My reds are pretty light, so I'm going to substitute in yellows for Bonnie's pinks.  Her palette is blue, red, pink, and mine is tentatively blue, red, yellow.  I'm aiming for a springtime quilt.

I have done a number of the Quiltville mysteries in the past but don't always feel up to it every year. Some years I find Bonnie's intensity (and that of her followers) to be a bit too much for me.  Her designs are nice though, and maybe this much 'volume' will fill in the shadowy corners of my brain.

Meanwhile, I'm piddling around with some scrap blocks.  The black fabric tub is spilling out onto the floor, so time for a little stashbusting.  Black and white chunky churns, and eventually some sort of bright sashing -- maybe turquoise, maybe not.

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Thursday

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Washington Whirlwind

 Barbara Brackman's 2024 pieced BOM

WASHINGTON WHIRLWIND

#11 Road to the White House

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Tuesday

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The Spiral Path

 The Spiral Path           

 The path is a spiral.  We go up, but we go in circles. 

 Each time around the view gets a little bit wider.

I am reminded of just how much a spiral the authentic journey is when I get stuck in a set of circumstances from which escape seems impossible.  When this occurs, I need to ask "What's the lesson here, so that I can move on?" 

So I start again.  Begin at the beginning.  Make Gratitude an active rather than a passive prayer, consciously bring Simplicity and Order to my daily round, honor moments of being rather than doing.

Even if I can't change my outside circumstances, I can change how I react to them.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach ~

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The life we want is not merely the one we have chosen and made.  

It is the one we must be choosing and making.

~ Wendell Berry ~

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Sunday

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