OH DEAR, ME--

 I can't believe it's been nearly 10 days or so since my last post-

I assure you I  have been stitching though--

I think the first -show and tell-is--

Last months--June's purple heart design--though it mostly looks like blues here--it is really all shades of purple!!!

At the first of the month I did alot of tracing of 2 bom's that I was behind on--

This is from Joy's blogsite--I am doing my coloring in crayon--(her's are only embroidered)-

and I got one of these blocks done yesterday--

The next set was these--

From Jenny's blog site--and those little applique pieces are only about a 1" or so in size!!

and here these 3 are finished--

I added tiny lace edging on two of them--

And everyday I am hand quilting on the Christmas quilt--so that accounts for a couple hours or so each day--

I received a late Birthday gift from my blog friend Alice ( I will accept gifts any time--no matter how late!!)

This was the card---I just love 3-d cards--and this one is so cute--it will stay out!!

the money is for chocolate--it's too hot this time of the year to mail any!!

Can you tell the theme here??????  And what pretty fabrics--!!

Thank you Alice very much!!!

I also got the Flamingo Counted Cross stitch piece done--

This was a fun project--

And this months number for the dirty dozen is #3-

and my list said--Butterflies--

I thought it meant these 3--

But when I went looking in the tote--it is really this set--

There is '30' blocks here and they were made in 2019-- I believe as the color of the month!!

So the plan is to finish up both sets--time will tell!!!

I did go to my son's and his girl friends-- on July 4th for a cook out--

Just about the time they went out to grill --we had a huge thunderstorm hit--lots of lightning and heavy rain--but their patio area is all under cover and so they just went ahead and grilled--these ducks smelled the food and came running up from the pond in their back yard--it did stop storming when it was time to eat and we ate on the patio--later we played Rack-O-- and I got to 400 points first--yea--for the old lady!!!

PLEASE BE CAREFUL--COVID IS STILL VERY MUCH ALIVE YET--YES EVEN IF YOU HAVE HAD YOUR 'SHOTS'--YOU CAN GET AND SPREAD COVID!!

HUGS, DI