Hi Everyone!
I hope all is well in your world. We have a little touch of Fall in the air today but are in great need of rain as you can tell by this photo of my car. We live on a dirt road. Washing my poor car will not help right now. 
It has been another non-stop week and my brain is tired, but I will try to share what I can.
I finally finished my dress last week. Pictures will come later, but the pattern is called the Fen Dress by Fancy Tiger Crafts and I absolutely loved how it turned out. If I had realized how simple the pattern was I would have finished it during one of my insomnia nights. There will be more made. Next one will be in a plaid flannel I think for winter.
Knitting has been my sanity saver the past few months since I do not have the time or space to drag out my paints. Here is my next luscious skein of yarn for my next pair of socks. 
This hand dyed yarn is from On The Round in Maine.
Next week should be slower and I plan to possibly finish my daughter’s logo for her blog, Body By Nutrition, then start on a drawing commission.
In the never-ending process of cleaning out three, sometimes four, generations of stuff from my husband’s family I have discovered what talented ladies his Mother and Grandmother were. Both were excellent seamstresses who made most of their own clothes as well as their family’s.
I think there is a future post on all those unfinished projects we crafty/artsy folk have laying around and tucked into corners of closets. Here are a couple that I found. I think the finished star was made by D’s Grandmother and the partially pieced one made by his Mother. I found the lovely old needle case in with some of these. It contains all sizes of needles including old, tiny beading needles. 
Hopefully in the not so far future, I can finish the quilt squares. There are not enough for a quilt (unless I unearth some more), but probably some pillow tops for the family.
In other news, those of you who know Miss L. will notice her sporting new glasses soon. She had mentioned she lost some glasses this past winter. I don’t know what made me schedule her an eye appointment before other doctor appointments that she needs since she never complained about headaches or difficulty seeing, but I did. Boy, am I glad. She has 20/300 vision! The doctor made her pinky swear that she will wear her glasses all the time in an attempt to correct her vision at least to a better point than where she is. Seems there is a limited age range where this particular problem can be corrected and she is right at that limit. So if you see her without them on…remind her! Those pinky swears are serious stuff!
I gotta go get some more work done. I have no affiliate advertising on this blog. Any businesses mentioned here I share in case you want to check them out.
Have an awesome week! I will be MIA next week. We are escaping for some much needed R&R to a secret location. All I can tell you is that there is an ocean nearby. YEAH!
Photos by Christel Huttar
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