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Continue reading →: More bears and a walkWe’ve had a couple of rainy days over the weekend but we’re not complaining. It beats the weather at home and it was perfect for watching football Sunday. Yesterday we went for a short hike in Saguaro National Park. The East Park has some great flat trails for gimpy hikers,…
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Continue reading →: Two bears!I finally got started sewing on Monty yesterday. The first bear took over an hour and involved a lot of unsewing but the second one went much faster. I think it’s going to be a really cute quilt. I also went to a sale and lecture on Navajo rugs. It…
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Continue reading →: Bears are cut outI don’t have a lot to share today. We’ve ben relaxing and hanging out with friends. We have friends from Charlottesville who spend all winter here. Bill and Laurie are the ones who introduced us to Tucson. But this week some other friends from DC, Matt and Anne have been…
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Continue reading →: A little sewing time.The weather here has been great so we’ve spent as much time outside as possible. That means that I haven’t done much sewing. But I did make a little progress yesterday. I got half of the HSTs opened and I got the background pieces for the bear blocks. I found…
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Continue reading →: A finished scarf!It was another beautiful day in Tucson. We spent most of it outside. Chris took a long walk while I exercised. Then we spent about 45 minutes by the pool. In the late afternoon I put on my hiking boots and we tested my ankle on a short hike with…
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Continue reading →: We’ve settled inOur last day of driving, Saturday, was a lot of this but the landscape picked up the farther South we got in New Mexico. A friend recommended a stop at the Bernardo Wildlife Area, south of Albuquerque. It did not disappoint! We saw thousands of Sandhill cranes. There’s a 3…
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Continue reading →: Almost thereWe spent the last 2 days driving from Nashville to Albuquerque. We spent one night in Oklahoma City and, this morning we awoke in Albuquerque. The driving was pretty easy I’m told. Being a passenger was a breeze. We got to Albuquerque in time to spend a couple of hours…
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Continue reading →: On the roadWe’re on our way and, aside from some rain, it’s been wonderfully uneventful. Our route takes us through Oklahoma so we’re listening to a book called Boom Town, about the history of Oklahoma City. But before we left, I had a few minutes of sewing time. I spotted a stack…
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Continue reading →: Preparing for the driveWe will leave Wednesday and I’m mostly packed because I thought we were leaving Tuesday! 🤣🤣🤣 It’s more than a joke around here that I don’t pay any attention to the calendar. Now I have an extra day and I have an idea of which project I might work on…
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Continue reading →: Last 2 veterans quilts and Laura’s projectsHow about this for a happy quilt? Peg made both of today’s quilts. When she fave me this one, I knew that I could use orange thread on both of them. I love how they turned out. She’s coming to get them sometime today. Ian and Laura left us today.…
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I’m Vicki
I’m Vicki Welsh and I’ve been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I’m into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here.
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