Where was I?

When I put more food on my plate than I could possibly eat, my mom would say, "your eyes are bigger than your belly".  I haven't changed much - I pack for quilt retreats that way.  Project after project goes into the suitcase, just in case something changes and there are more than 24 hours in a day.

Once I arrived at the hotel, I took off for the nearest quilt store because I had learned that they carried Floriani stabilizers.  Eureka!  The Yankee Quilter, had the elusive water soluble fusible I needed for the Joseph's Coat. Now I could relax and settle in at my worktable and start sewing. Something else.

Something Else was finishing the graduation present for MB before another year passed. I needed to fill in the blanks by cutting the setting and corner triangles so I could sew the diagonal rows of alternating nine-patches and rail fence blocks together.

My friend Micki's Quilt is Missing Pieces too.

My constant companion, the incredible SmartPhone has a handy ap because now I don't have to bring quilting books on retreat too. Which leaves valuable real estate for packing still more projects.

If you don't own a smartphone, another trick is to take a photo with your digital camera of pages from books you own and keep them on the memory card. You can zoom in to read the fine print.

I sewed and sewed and ripped and gabbed and took a hike and photos and gabbed and sewed and finished

the Top!

And Nothing Else.