Thanks!!

It's been quite a week. 

 I've just had to keep 

pushing forward.

A little bit of stitching,
a little bit of cooking + harvesting
and a lot of Nana duty.

Hanging out with my 16 month old grandson, Weston.

Chasing bubbles and
playing with wrenches to
help Papa put together the

new honey extractor.

Thanks Weston for keeping me
on my toes and hopefully young at heart.💙

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That extractor, of course, lead to actually harvesting
some honey from our very productive hive.

Pardon the cliche,

but they have been very busy bees!

3.5 gallons of honey from 8 frames

with plenty left in the hive for the bees

to survive through the winter.

Thank you bees! 🐝

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We have one small peach tree

that literally went crazy this year.

bending it's branches 

nearly to the ground. 

We picked well over 500 peaches

Lots have been frozen, shared and eaten!

That's been along with a couple of bushels

of apples;

Thank you fruit trees

for being so generous this year.

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The tomatoes?

Well, enough for 

a couple of tomato pies

and being able to enjoying the simple BLT's.

Thanks tomatoes for giving 

a good effort.

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The stitching has been minimal.

I've been working on the next border 

on my Di Ford Sutton Grange quilt.

 4 petals are being machine appliqued to a square.

I opted to sew the background squares together first,

 add the borders to the quilt,

and then applique the petals to squares.

The reason was because that I KNEW I won't be able 

to place and stitch those 4 petals properly.

I knew some would probably get sewn into the seam allowances.

There's no way I could have gotten all those

points to have come together as well as they did 

if I was concerned about the seam allowances.

Yes, it's a bit awkward handling this 

much fabric while machine appliqueing,

but for me, the results are well worth it.

Not all of them came out perfectly anyway,

but most did!

The good news is the pattern actually

has an appliqued circle over the centers.

Any issues will vanish!

Thanks, Di.  

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Thanks to all of you

💗🧡❤️💙 

for taking the time

to read my blog and 

to leave a comment or two.

I appreciate it very much.

Until Next Time

Kyle