It's June and the first day of summer, I've heard. Here's a very June block. I was thinking of all the weddings which take place this month, and the songs written with moon and June rhyming. So I had to include a little romance in this month's block!


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Just in time for this week's posting of the June design, I finished the stitching on the May tree. That was a lot of back stitching!


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The CQ Stash Box finally arrived at my house! Here it is just opened:


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I made a little progress, but can't believe the month is more than half over and I'm not half-way through my stitching! Part of that I am blaming on canning tomatoes and making sourdough cookies and coffee cake. Sourdough muffins are on the menu for this week. And the pot of soup turned out to be huge, so I may can some for later. Part of it I' ( Read more... )

I just came in from taking pictures outside, and my house smells so good! I spent the morning making sourdough coffee cake and sourdough cookies (and that's what I had for lunch, too!), and in addition to delicious goodies, it also produced wonderful smells! Last week, I made two kinds of salsa from about half a bushel of tomatoes from a group ( Read more... )

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Finished as it is going to be for now. When I join blocks, there is going to be more in the corners of all the blocks. There will also be a bit more beading here and there. It was a lot of fun to do some of these seams. Overall, I'm happy with it, though it isn't my favorite one. Too much pink!


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