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Missing In Action! That would be an appropriate statement. I have not done a lot of sewing lately. It seems like I have lost my sewing Mo-Jo. I don’t know. I’m easy distracted, I guess. Last week I even CLOSED the door on my sewing room. But it made the hallway too dark for me to feel comfortable, so I opened it back up. I have a lot going on at my day time job. You know…If you can’t say anything nice, say nothing at all….It’s stressful not knowing where your “job” is going to take you or where the powers that be are going to stick you. So I’ll say nothing more on that subject. I have resurrected an old project. Bought fabric for a new project and got frustrated on a different project. So…one at a time. The resurrected project: Ocean Waves. I started an Ocean Waves quilt in (let’s be conservative here) in 2005, maybe 2006. I used a Bonnie Hunter free pattern. My intention was to make 2. One with blue field & 1 with red. I finished 1 – the blue , cost me my right arm to have it quilted by 3 Sisters Quilting. I love it. It’s so beautiful. The red fabric was been gracefully aging in my stash. Took me 4 days to find where I put it away too! So I dug out the HST’s & started working on them. Washed the red fabric TWICE to make sure it won’t bleed. (normally I do not prewash fabric, but I don’t want pink HST’s !) This time I’m using a Edyta Sitar pattern – well actually I’m just using a PHOTO of her Ocean Waves quilt from her Instagram page. I only need about 3000 HST’s. Each HST finishes at 1.5”. Glutton. That’s it. I’m a glutton for punishment. Bought fabric for a new quilt. I bought 25 fat quarters in Kona Cotton solids to make a Bjorn Bear Quilt. Pattern by Elizabeth Hartman. I think I have had the pattern a year? Maybe longer. Not sure. I have several of her patterns, I like bears best. MAYBE I’ll get it cut out. All I have to do is find a good background color. I was thinking of using a gray, but several of the Kona fat quarters are gray. So…I don’t know now. Maybe a tan? Not muslin. But a Kona tan color? I’ll make a test block & see. Lastly my frustrated project. I bought an embroidery pattern to make a quilt on my embroidery machine. Well….my machine is not cooperating! Not one bit. I’ve made every adjustment I can think of & it won’t play nice. Changed thread, cleaned best I could. It embroiders great on the top, terrible on the bottom. The pattern is from Hoop Sisters & it’s the Jacobean Journey faux whole cloth quilt. Beautiful. I want it! But I can’t have it with a non-cooperating machine! Heavy Sigh….Oh Well.