THERE IS SQUIRRELS --OR ELSE I JUMP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE--

 I am starting too many 'new' projects--think I need a 12 step program here!!!!   I mean I am retired--and tired--old and creaky--brain fog one minute and brain over drive the next---

So lets see where I am now--

I got the first block of the Polka dot girls all embroidered and have alot done on the second block so on Sunday afternoon I traced off the 3rd block--

Then Melisa has been giving us an embroidery block each month again--I have been 'slow' to the table with this one--thinking I had a full plan for them--I thought they were too small so had enlarged a couple--but there they sat--till--

this little rabbit joined the club--he was Aprils design--I have traced off--Jan, Feb, March, and May's designs--so will be working on those off and on with the Polka dot girls to get caught up!!

I have gotten all of Kathy Schmitz hexie designs that I embroidered all into rows now--

now to stitch these rows together and to add all the sections together!!!

And I know 'orange' was this month's color--but--I just couldn't bring myself to do orange in May--soooo---

I did purple--

And here is a few--fussy cut ones--

Think I did 41 this month with purple--oh see the dragonfly's on the bottom--the darker one is the right side of the fabric and the lighter one is the back--!!!???

I worked on the first of 2 baby quilts I am doing--

I have the fabric for a border ready and the binding fabric--

In cross stitching--

I have kept up with the Summer sampler that Melisa is doing for us--

This block was a quilt block--only--I did one of her earlier ones--the one with the strawberry as a remembrance to my Grandmother--who loved to go wild strawberry picking with us when I was growing up!!  

and here is this months--tiny house--

Again--a change in plans--needed to do a pink house as May is my birthday month and pink is my very favorite color--and I have a problem with tomatoes--so I kept mine all about sewing things and I just loved loved the tiny lamb we did a couple months ago on one--so added one here--I just love making these tiny houses--thanks Melisa--

And now to a Rabbit hole---I found these on the Stoney Creek site as their special pattern for the month of May--each pattern was only $1.50--so $6.00 for the set--I had been kinda looking for a bird pattern--and I have--well--sorta-- have the chickadee and the cardinal (more was done on the cardinal since the photo earlier today--there is one problem I have discovered--they are all sitting on pine greens--and well it does say--ornaments--only I want mine to be year around--so--for now am leaving off the greens till I decide--may come up with nests under them --instead--?????

And here is my new 'squirrel' I am chasing--I have had this pattern for about 10 years or longer--just sitting in the wings waiting--decided it was time when I seen the Brie fabrics from Tilda--I so love me Tilda designs--so I am gonna see if I can applique these letters with the tiny points at the top-- and the bottom photo is the fabrics I found to use for back grounds--

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And of course we have to talk Nascar--

and death of Kyle Busch--totally unbelievable--can't say he was my favorite driver--but when I first started watching Nascar in 2010--I had '3' blog friends and the housekeeper at the senior apartments in NY who were huge--huge Kyle fans--Melinda would even bring her big cardboard display cutout of Kyle and set it up in the second floor hall way every time he won and hand out M&M's to all of us--and back then he won alot--so I was always happy for them--I was probably more of Dale Jr fan back then--actually--I would see who the top 4-5 were at the end and then pick who I wanted to win that race--it would drive my friends crazy cause I didn't have one favorite guy!!!!!!!!  I am heart broken for his family and so so many of his teammates and fans--

SO ONCE AGAIN WE SAY--HUGS THOSE AROUND YOU AND TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THEM--

HUGS TO ALL, DI