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Continue reading →: Indoor dayYesterday it rained all day. It was still beautiful and relaxing but we stayed in all day. I started by making everyone a big pancake breakfast with bacon and fried potatoes. They all enjoyed my gluten-free pancakes so I can highly recommend the King Arthur gluten-free pancake mix. The rest…
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Continue reading →: The day before the rainYesterday was breezy but beautiful. We started the day on my favorite hike. It was too windy to kayak so I got in lots of sewing and crochet before our lobster dinner. It’s such a treat to have access to fresh lobster. I prefer the claw meat so Chris eats…
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Continue reading →: Sunday and MondayMy Fleurette quilt is coming along nicely. I have half of the blocks done! The lighting is not great in this house and it was late in the day when I laid these blocks out. They will not have sashing so the quilt will look very much like this. I’m…
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Continue reading →: August Accomplishments and September GoalsAugust is vacation month and we’ve been having quite a wonderful vacation but I had a week before we left to finish up several projects. First, six more veterans quilts got quilted Then I finished 48 potholders. Some were started in July but most were finished in August the week…
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Continue reading →: August AudiobooksVacation month is always a hard month for reading, especially when we have guests around. I socialize instead of read and that’s absolutely OK! I don’t have a lot of great recommendations this month. Ms Mebel…..was my favorite book of the month by far. The Janus Stone cones in second.…
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Continue reading →: The last two daysThe great vacation continues. Friday was a pretty quiet day. It was foggy and a bit dreary so we headed into Bar Harbor to do some shopping and walking. Today, on the other hand, was spectacular. I got in a long kayak session in the morning and about an hour…
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Continue reading →: New quilt startedYesterday was too breezy for being on the water so Chris, Ian and I headed out for a hike. But I’ll start with the afternoon because I finally got started on the feedsack quilt blocks. Here are the first 2. They aren’t pressed yet but I think they turned out…
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Continue reading →: Another day in paradiseWe had a beautiful day yesterday. Chris and Win left very early for a fishing trip, we’ll before the rest of us were up. Ian and I mustered around 8 for a 2 and a half hour kayaking trip to the end of the lake and back. We were the…
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Continue reading →: Settled in
My blog posting is going to be erratic this week. We have an additional guest and are doing more things. The week started overcast and rainy. We didn’t mind. Laura and I did a little shopping. We both got some fabric and she bought yarn for to knit a new…
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Continue reading →: A finished blanketWe are settled on Mount Desert Island. This is truly our happy place and we are excited to have our friends from England here with us. It was overcast and cloudy today but we got a hike in before the rain started. We have a tradition of starting with a…
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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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