This & That-Found Fabrics and Blue Jean Quilt

   Good evening,

  Hoping those of you that celebrated Father's Day enjoyed a good day today.  I can relate to some of the things my Mother had said (years ago now) that as we get older we lose special family and friends especially our parents.

 We both have lost our parents years ago now, so I do think of them but no longer celebrate the day.

  Last night I decided to work on my slow mail cards to celebrate our nation's 250th birthday.  My craft room is on the side of the house close to one of our neighbors that seemed to have lots of family visiting for several days now. They partied loudly til after 11 pm including very loud fireworks that just make those loud booms nothing else. Also not like them-very loud music as well.  So turned out to be a good day for that project. Ha Ha.  We have a couple neighbors that do not fire off pretty fireworks only those that are loud  that go boom-that's it  don't like those at all  Oh well there will be total craziness here at the lake on the July 4th weekend for sure.  I do enjoy fireworks just not those.

  I didn't sleep well last night at all-but ended up getting lots accomplished today-lots of laundry caught up especially.

 This afternoon, I decided to go through some books that I had bought but never got around to reading. I saved out some of those and started boxing up the rest to take to the animal shelter's resale shop this week.  I also discovered a big tub under a cabinet in my craft room-opening it up-Wow big surprise-full of quilting fabrics and at least 90% of it is more civil war era reproduction prints.  I knew that I had collected those over a few years planning to make a quilt or two-I may just make a simple quilt design with these-something I would enjoy as I love this period of fabrics-very earthy.

 The reproduction fabrics are mostly upper left and in the middle-there is a lot of yardage here

  I also took a photo of my huge patriotic rag quilt 

     Larry never liked this one as it is Very heavy. There is batting  inside each square and the backing squares are flannel.  I also had hand embroidered some of these squares as well, the stars are more jean material sewn on.  This ended up being huge around a king I think-I have it draped over the back of the couch to enjoy.  I t was quite the challenge at the time to get this heaviness into the sewing machine.

   We did get a bunch of rain during the morning hours but no storms thankfully.  I am off to refill the nectar feeders. We still have orioles here the one pair of hummingbirds and several other birds that are enjoying the nectar as well.

  Oh and I wanted to share a jam I found that is soooo delicious. 

     I am not a jam or jelly person at all, but I look for nicer preserves-jams for Larry as he likes it in his Greek yogurt or with peanut butter sandwiches on cinnamon raison toast.  When I went shopping last week at the family grocery store I found this Jam. This is soooo delicious and Not sweet like most are. I will be buying more for sure.

Found this photo on Amazon   

Happy new week