I have a new studio mate

We've brought a new friend in. This is Pepper and we collected her this am from a family that was "fostering" her. She's an outdoor cat, but needs a few weeks to set her kitty GPS, so she's sharing my studio with me until she's ready. She's not full grown, but she is super friendly and even in the first few hours, she's already coming out when we call her.
Mimi is in heaven.

Just more pics from San Diego and Coronado

Trip to San Diego

Jay whisked me away this weekend to San Diego for a final summer fling before school starts. The kids were with his parents and we got to enjoy an Amtrak ride from LA to SD and stayed at a sheeshee hotel in downtown.
We ate a restaurant the first night that was so good we returned there again the second night.
We also rented bikes and took the ferry to Coronado Island (a second post of those pics coming).
We are kind of sold on train travel after this...

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"Just sitting on the back porch, sewing..."

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Bee-hind in my bee squares - catching up with Nicole

Miss April in my bee (Nicole) was neglected for months as I packed and moved. I'm glad we are a close knit bunch, all fully aware of each others' lives... No one has yet expressed any anger at my bee-ing months bee-hind. (ok, no more puns)
Tonight, however, was the first day of being able to use my studio. Our open house was yesterday and here was my chance.... I spent the night playing with Nicole's great palette of shot cottons and striped linens to deliver her a huge Gee's Bend inspired blocks.
Nicole and I started quilting together about 4 years ago - so I think she especially will appreciate how far I've come. :) and for her part, I know the quilts of Gee's Bend are what inspired her to start quilting, so her quilt is going to be phenomenal.
As she requested, all of the scraps went back to her, but those tiniest "unusable" ones are the ones I always try to play with at the end... I added this funny crooked strip to some Essex Linen and made a little project bag to go with.
...a great first night, indeed!...
(this bodes well)

Amy's baby quilt

I had such a great time making this quilt for Amy's baby girl.... I made the top a few months ago before I had to pack the sewing machines up for the move... Which meant I had to hand quilt it finding random moments during the move. (as if I minded!)
It was so fun to give this to Amy. She and her husband are world travelers and she and I giggled as we realized that most of the places on the fabric were places that we had been together over our 15 years of being friends.
I love that her baby in all her world travels will get to have this little token of love to begin her life!

Hosting a baby shower in the new house.

My BFF lives in Thailand. Ironically, I see her more than most of my friends who live out of state. It's a luxury to live in LA, which everyone seems to pass through at some point or another.
A few years ago I posted about Amy's wedding... I showed you all the fun pics Jay took and all the wild creative projects she put me in charge of... Forest photo booth, flowers, after party outfit.... it was a fun chance for me to be a part of a DIY wedding - mine wasn't too DIY... It was a mega- 400 person wedding, 12 years ago, before I had a lot of the skills I have now. So I got to get my kicks out with hers.
Well, now Amy is having a baby and she was passing through LA on her way home to Oregon to have her baby, so I got to throw her a shower as she passed through town. That was some big incentive to get the house presentable ASAP!
The shower was small and casual, and I had a lot of fun dragging out my hostess stuff... It had been a while since we've hosted parties... Fostering and anxiety took out a lot of our energy for hosting.
So we inaugurated the house. And had a great time doing it.

Tea Party

Mimi and I went to a tea party today with Meema (my mom) at her church. It was so fun to dress up and wear hats and eat fancy foods. We already drink a lot of tea around here from fancy teacups, now we've decided there need to be more fancy tea parties in our life.

Pic for the day

Guess whose house is nearly unpacked? (expect blog posts to start up again)
In the meantime, I love this street artist - Morley - every time I see one of his posters, I stop to take photos of his work. I debated tearing this poster down today to take home, I must admit. But then I realized someone else may need to read this and a picture will do just fine. This photo will likely end up framed in my house.

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"The new couches are in the house and the patchwork one heads to the garage. First stop: driveway. Makes me think of my college days where we would move my couches to the deck with my roommates to stare at the stars."

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