I can explain....

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I know what you're thinking.....
Is anyone out there????

I promise that I have some really good excuses as to why I haven't been around this past month.
Let's begin...

We drove 1600 miles round trip and attended my daugher's college graduation in Logan, Utah (yay, Nat!) and helped her pack up and move out of Cache Valley FOREVER, and....
I frolicked for 10 glorious days with my darling eldest daughter and her 2 year old son (aka, Grandma's Boy) while they were here visiting and....
I prepared and delivered a presentation to DUP (Daughers of the Utah Pioneers), and....
I added a day of work each week to my fun little quilt shop job, and....
I drove over 1,000 miles to and from Sacramento to visit my dear mother, and....
We enjoyed a calorie laden Memorial Day BBQ with friends... and
I attended my son's seminary graduation last night (I just randomly threw that one in).

Just so you don't doubt me, I'm going to give you some proof  ...

My girls on the Quad at Utah State University.

Graduation dinner at Texas Roadhouse.  Nat rode the "celebration saddle" while we all sang to her.  Perfect for the Equine Science graduate!

No trip to Utah is complete without feasting at Chuck-A-Rama.

Our day at Disneyland was SO STINKIN' HOT!  Evan's face says it all.

Jealous? You can't help it!

We stayed three glorious nights here at the Wyndam Resort (thanks MOM!)

A completion of four long years of EARLY morning religion classes. My son is second from the left.

People.
I missed three weeks of quilting class.  Ultimate proof that I was busy!!!

But today was the day that I dusted off my abandoned sewing machine and reacquainted myself with a needle and thread.

First, I finished the last of my broken dishes blocks.  These were made from a 10" stacker of Riley Blake's Seaside fabric.  I had cut each square into four 5" blocks and then using this method, made half-square triangles.  I had then sewed four HST's of the same fabric into one broken dishes block. After all 100 small blocks were made, I then combined four random blocks together to make 25 large blocks.

And here I've stopped. I'm not quite sure what I'm doing next (any suggestions??).
This dilema is a hazard of starting a project without a clear sense of direction.
For now, the blocks simply exist to make me happy.

ON to my next accomplishment:
These three quilts are donation quilts for Project Linus that someone had dropped off at the shop where I work.  They were unbound, so I volunteered to finish them up.  It's funny how I had just been thinking that I would like to do something service oriented using my quilting know-how when these magically appeared. No coincidence here, I think.

As you can see, I used a couple of baskets in my "photography" (term used loosely!).  That is so when my husband looks at the stacks of baskets I have stored in the garage and asks, "Do you really ever use these?" I can answer, "Oh, yes I do!"