Catalicious Quilt Stitch In Block 3

Whew! This was the most intense one so far. But it's also my favorite so far. I just love Bronwyn's designs. I haven't even started my Gifts of Grace one but I did get it copied onto fabric yesterday and hopefully it will only take a couple of days. I love the mixed applique/embroidery component of that one.

I made placemats and coasters for the bazaar next weekend. And I'm reading a new book (see side margin) called Three Day Road. It is SO good. It's Canadian but that's okay. It's about 2 Cree men (boys) who are sent to fight in WWI. The world of the white man is strange enough for them without mixing it with a war. The book starts when one of them arrives home missing a leg and addicted to morphine. The other one died in battle. It's stories told by his aunt of times when she was a girl combined with stories of the war told by him. It's an interesting mixture to have 2 first person components in one book. I have to have it read by May 8 cause I've joined a book club and that's the book they're doing right now. Not a problem. I'm a fast reader and I'm addicted to reading as well.

And this morning I went to a meeting for women who are volunteering to make caps for soldiers to wear under their helmets when they are on watch in Afghanistan. It gets really cold and a lot of them just stuff socks in their helmets. The woman who organized this is amazing. People back East who are making these buy their own wool. They have to be real wool so they'll be warm enough. She started this knitting group at a local coffee shop and when they moved from making personal stuff to making the caps a lot of the local merchants offered to donate towards the price of the wool. The woman at the wool shop sells it to the group at cost plus freight. And the Legions got involved with fundraising too. So she has enough wool to make over 500 of these. There are only 100 more needed. There must have been 25 women at the meeting and she was going somewhere else this afternoon so she'll have her 100 caps in no time. So I'll be trying my hand at knitting again. I've lost my skills but the only way to get them back is to use them.

This meeting is at my old church. I haven't visited there for 15 years now and it was interesting to see who is still there and who is new. They have a large women's group.

And, yes, I'm still playing with Farmville but I have another confession. 2 years ago my husband gave me a Nintendo DS for Christmas. It was my daughter's idea. She knows about my addiction. She was playing Animal Crossing and needed someone else who had the game so she could visit my town and get something she needed for her town. Not as complicated as it sounds. But now I noticed they've come out with a Super Mario game.. as in the old fashioned jumping Mario. How could I resist that? I remember sneaking in and playing that game years ago when it first came out on my kids Nintendo when they were at school. I played so much I injured the muscles in my thumb. I called in Nintendonitis *LOL*

I'm such a mess... I need an addicted to life stuff meeting *LOL*

AND I'm going to pull the wallpaper off the office wall so we can finally paint in here. It may mean no computer for a couple of days but it needs to be painted.