Quilt top finish and other WIPs

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Row B 6 upside down. The final row of this quilt!

I have yet to snap a photo of the Mr. Carter Heart EPP quilt top, but I will. In a few days. After our youngest daughter and her boys have visited. They are on their way, but I have time to wax a little poetically. Or something like that.

Finishing that quilt top happened last night, kind of by accident. I was tired. The San Francisco Giants were losing to the Cleveland Guardians. While sewing, I realized I was nearly done with the project, but constant yawns made me wonder if I'd have the gumption to complete it. Plus all the needles I had threaded were running out, and while it wasn't dark where I was sitting, the light was growing dim. Even so close to the solstice, eventually evening wins out.

The Giants didn't win, but that was after I went to bed. After I threaded ONE MORE NEEDLE (using my reading glasses, which are stronger than my prescription lenses, ahem), I sewed the final side of a heart block, then stared at the seam. I had taken pictures a couple of days ago, when lining up the last row, for this very post. But I didn't think I'd have finished the quilt before this particular entry was written.

Yet sometimes life is like that. It's not spoilers really, more of, "Oh this TRULY COOL THING happened and, well, yeah."

Yeah. I finished that beautiful pattern, having used gorgeously warm prints, and in a few days I'll hang it on the line, take the appropriate photographs, and VOILA, another quilt top is DONE.

Clover clipping the row to the quilt. Now all that sewing is a memory.

Lots of ALL CAPS in this post, sorry! I don't mean to shout, but DANG it's nice to have that completed. It's really awesome to have family on their way, also sweet to squeeze in this entry, lol. LOL! Um, yeah, lol. It's also BITCHIN' to have six chapters written, LOL! Lots of laughing out loud, especially since the Giants won TODAY, hahaha. Writing didn't happen this morning, trying to prep the house for guests, but I read over Chapter 6 and am pretty happy. Happy to be writing, happy with WHAT I'm writing, LOL.

LOL.

Uh yeah, it's that kind of post.

Anyways.... I made Jello for my husband, who is still recovering, and the kitchen smells like red sweet, um, sweetness. It's strawberry flavour (the Jello, not the kitchen), but I highly doubt it tastes like strawberry, just red. And sweet.

LOL.

Beds are made, the house bathroom mucked off, dining table adorned with new summer placemats. I could have swept, but my right knee is achy. Earlier today the meniscus went TWING while I was merely walking. Getting old isn't easy, but it's better than not aging.

ANYWAYS.... That's the latest here. Happy Juneteenth! Happy red sweet smelling Jello! Happy six chapters and VERY HAPPY quilt top finish!

(Meh meniscus notwithstanding....) 

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