At least it will be a purse soon! My daughter gave me this scrumptious Vogue pattern and several delightful prints and I have been busy doing the crazy-quilt thing. I tried taking the easy way out and doing machine embroidery, but I have an older machine and the choices just didn't make me happy, so...
I've been embroidering the edges by hand. Much slower, but much more satisfactory! I had sort of forgotten how much fun this can be. (Thanks, Deb!) The piece that looks like Chinese writing in the upper left is what I will be using for the lining. I'll post pictures when I'm done.
Topaz has discovered the delights of sleeping on the top of my pillow-back chair. So comfy!!
Since I started off with a winter picture from my back porch, I wanted to share a summer picture. It's really pretty wild out there...especially with bugs that want to be in here! But we've had deer, a mother red fox and kits, possums, many bunnies, lots of birds, and a racoon that was trying hard to walk in my storm door! I live on the very east edge of St. Joseph, MO. Just east is the acreage that belongs to MWSU campus, with lots of undeveloped land. Much wildlife, and some of it spills over this way.
