Monday after a Holiday...is always a welcome for me. I love to have special times but I love to return to my normal daily life. I'm catching up on laundry today and we are being blessed with RAIN...yeah! We are in a drought here in the southeast and we sure need it. I won't be able to use my clothes line, but hey, I don't mind the convienence of the drier sometimes.

Yesterday we found a website that had a description for a quilters frame. I'm so excited about that...I've been wanting to finish my queen quilt this fall but hadn't because of the need of a frame. I bought a loop for my lap, but really that would have been difficult to work with on such a large quilt. Here is the site: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Quilting-2339/Frame.htm

We have the supplies we need to make it, but the wood is outside and I'm sure wet so we will wait for it to be dry out.

This quilt has a color theme...of plums and greens, and I'm using the fence post pattern. I think it's pretty, but I have realized I like the older quilts that have no other theme except to keep the children warm. So, the next quilt I make will be just squares of scrape fabric. I'm sure there is a name for those...I'm not really an experienced quilter, but love it and hope to do more of it. Oh yes, I'm saving old blue jeans to make a picnic blanket...one for each of my kids. Maybe useing the red and white check for the backing and just tieing these quilts using red yarn.

This winter I also want to learn to hand spin....I will have to learn on a hand spindle for now. I am hoping to go to a beginners class this month. Maybe a lamb will be added to my goat flock this spring....hehe. Or an angora rabbit...that seems more reasonable for now, but I've always wanted sheep.

we'll see.......