On the sea again!

Well I will be. Sunday morning bright and early Dad and I fly to Ft Lauderdale.  The cruise does not start until Monday at 5:00pm.  I had been so paranoid about the weather, that instead of flying the day of the cruise, I thought it would be better to go the day before.  We have had a lot of snow in March, who knew it would be 60 up here! 

That is okay. We are going to meet up with Matt and Lisa.  Matt is grandson, nephew to Dad and I. Lisa will soon be a niece.  We will get the chance to hear about all the wedding details first hand.  It is always fun to catchup with family.

This time Dad and I will be cruising in the Eastern Caribbean for 11 days.  We will be stopping at Half Moon Cay, Bahamas, which is Holland America's own island.  Then on to St Croix, St Kitts, (where Caribelle Batik Studio is), St. Vincent, Barbados, St Lucia, and St Maarten. These are all islands I have not been to.  Eleven days of warmth and hopefully sun.  I have definitely set up an excursion to the Caribelle Batik Studio. Fabric!! I see there may be a fabric store on St. Maartin, too.  Dad may not go on an excursion on each island, but I hope I can.  Once we get on board ship I can find out more of the details for Dad.  He has a cart walker, and medications I have to take into consideration.  For 91 he does like to keep going.

I have been getting some projects to take along to work on.  I set up this Bunny pattern I got from Carroll at the "Attic Window Quilt Shop".  I am going to do it in wool. I got my threads pulled yesterday. I will take along hexagons to play with too.  I have picked out a couple of good books to take, too.

Remember I Made this in February?  I was trying to design a shamrock using the Lil Twister tool. This was okay.  When you look at a shamrock the petals have a dip in them like a heart.  This just did not quite do the job. My family liked the green!

Well on Sunday I fixed it. Fixing a "Lil Twister" is not the easiest.  It basically took me all afternoon. I think this one represents a shamrock much better.

Then for fun and giggles I decided to put this together.  I have been making hexagon flowers and been appliqueing them on to background squares.  Now to work on borders. I have fabric for one border, but think it will need one small inside before the last one.

Tomorrow is Thursday sew. Would like to put the last border on the Dresden plate quilt. Then on to the backing.

Friday evening going to help set up the quilt show for "Pride of the Prairie" show Saturday and Sunday, at Richland Grade School, 1919 Caton Farm Road, Cresthill, Illinois. 

Today I need to work on packing, and hope to get in some sewing. It is not like I have nothing to do.

Have a great rest of the week. Happy Quilting.

Mary