I hope you can visualize the video above. It shows the pattern of impacts (real ones, deduced from the crater evidence on the Moon's surface) over time on the Moon's face. I find it fascinating. :)
Today was a gray, heavily overcast, chilly day. Patty and I set out early (for me:) this morning to go to the monthly meeting of Village Quilters in Ellicott City, MD. This meeting had a very full schedule and it was fun! :) There were demos (on the basics of foundation piecing, on machine quilting in a circular pattern and on making great cleaning probes for your machine using bendy straws and pipe cleaner strips) .... the usual freebie table, guild library books to borrow and raffle baskets (three this month) ... show and tell (always the very best part, in my humble opinion:) ... pot luck luncheon ... and, today, a Flea Market by members who had things to sell.
There were lots of good old books to buy, assorted fabrics, stencils, patterns, stamps, hankies (I bought two) ... I even bought a brand new, never-out-of-the-box Go Baby with case. I decided that I wanted a small, portable die cutter to take around the house/to retreats, etc. I bought one book (a copy of Blanche Young's book with Trip Around The World and Blooming Nine Patch quilts) ... and some rubber stamps (seashells and a winged kitty:).
The food, as always, was scrumptious ... ate a to-die-for cake pop that was the second most chocolate-y thing I've ever had. Nom! Patty was on clean up duty today so we had a relaxed going away, too. It was very nice to see all the folks I know and rarely see any more (since I closed my store:).
By the time I took Patty home and dragged myself indoors, I was _tired_ (and stuffed from eating:) so I sat down in a corner of the living room and tried to take a nap (unsuccessfully). Read for a while and sewed two more rows on my Tonga Treat goodie:
I got a nice wool mat in the mail today - I ordered a small one (14" x 24"?) from Quilt In A Day, on sale. I am thinking to put it right beside my sewing machine to use. I did go read about 'good use' tips for it online and found out that one plan I had (to keep it on top of the Omnigrid (?) cutting mat I have in the beside-my-machine spot, now) was a BAD idea. Good thing I checked, eh? :)
Tomorrow is going to be a quiet day. I have nowhere I need to go and it is supposed to be cold and start snowing ... so I think I will go on with my never ending de-cluttering and do some sewing on the side. I'd like to finish piecing the pretty batik goodie above so I can sandwich and quilt it.
:) Linda
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