I slept in this morning. After breakfast I took the boys for a two-mile walk in lovely clean and cool air. I saw this gorgeous tree a few blocks from my house. I’ve never noticed it before and I have no idea what it is, but it’s really pretty.
Then I hopped in the car for the 20 minute drive to go play pickleball. It was a great few hours of exercise and fun.
It was around 4:30 when I got home. I took the boys out in the back yard and played a nice rousing game of fetch until I wore them out. Then I came in the house and ordered some takeout rockfish tacos for dinner. They were yummy and just what I needed.
After another two-mile walk completely for the benefit of my boys, I hit my sewing room to get cracking on all the bindings I need for the quilts and backs that are ready for the long arm quilter.
I had made notes on the size of each quilt top so All I had to do was calculate the total inches of the outside edges and divide by 42 to figure out how many strips of fabric I need for each quilt.
Then I set in on pressing all the fabrics and cutting 2.5 inch strips. It was a pretty quick project and now all I have to do is trim off the selvedges, sew the strips together and press.
I feel like this is work and not fun. But it needs to be done. There is some satisfaction in getting these things done. But not much joy.
I hate to see this so soon, but we’ve got some hot weather coming up next week.
That’s just too hot too soon.
When I first moved to Portland 13 years ago it would rain all through May and most of June. they told me that summer here starts on July 4. Well, not any more. It’s getting more an more common to have temps like this in May. It doesn’t bode well for the summer.
I’m off work the next two days. I don’t have any firm plans. Rest and relax is my main activity.
agilejack 
Sounds like you’re getting back to some kind of “normal” after the drive work week. It seems like a pace that can’t be maintained for long. I understand how good it feels to get out and do things outdoors in a relaxed manner.
Just got “Strummin” back from the LAQ and attached binding yesterday. I try to have binding cut and ready to go once the quilt is back from the LAQ. Had musical notes as the pattern for the quilting and it looks great! Now to finish the binding while Stella tries to snuggle in the quilt. 🤣
Looks like Summer is around the corner for you. Still hanging in the 50s here. Could that beautiful tree be a pink crabapple? Whatever it is it is very pretty.
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Wow! That was a fast quilt make! I’m sure he’ll love it!
I’d like a little more spring before summer comes blasting in!!!
Anne
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Hi Ann,
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div>I want to share with you the Algorithm quilt I made inspired by yours. Itâs hanging
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Where’d the Algorithem quilt pattern from?
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It’s from a book called Stripology Squared by GE designs. It’s a great pattern. I’ve made four!
Anne
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I’m not able to see photos when they’re done as comments. You’ll need to email me at anne@agilejack1.com
Anne
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you keep me in awe. you go girl.
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I’ll try! I just need to power through these bindings so I can do something fun!!!
Anne
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Your weather this week will mirror ours down here in SC. The difference is we’ll have that ALL summer🫤! Enjoy your days off!
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Our summers are usually in the low to mid 70s with occasional spikes into the 80s and 90s. . . except for the last few years. We’be seen a lot more hot days in the last few summers. I miss the old lovely summers. Didn’t need AC for the first six years I lived here. Now you need it.
Anne
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How many miles a week do you walk?
Thanks
Theresa
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I try to do five miles a day, so 35 miles a week. sometimes I walk more on the weekends. So maybe 37 or 38 miles a week.
Anne
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Oh that’s way too warm for Portland.
Bindings are my least favorite so when I know up front I make those before starting the quilt. At the beginning of a quilt I’m highly motivated so the binding seems less tedious.
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It’s a good idea to make the bindings first, but I never have an idea what I’m going to use at that point in a project!
I don’t typically make bindings because my regular long arm quilter makes them and finishes them… which is just how I like it!
Anne
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I wonder if that is a flowering crabapple tree. They are common here but I don’t know about your region, Whatever it is, it is pretty.
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Could be. I had a couple flowering crabapple trees in my yard in Salt Lake and they were very different, but I’m sure there’s many varieties. It was very pretty. A lovely shade of pink.
Anne
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You deserve to sleep in!
You got a good work out with pickle ball and all the dog walking. I am sure your binding will be fabulous! Just do it 😆. That tree looks like apple blossoms.
Enjoy your time off 💕
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That tree could be a type of apple tree. I was hoping the homeowner would be concerned that I was taking a photo and would come out to find out what I was doing, then I could ask them!
Anne
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What? No plans? Rico and Bender have no training or farm visits? Well, that bodes well for you getting to do what you want to do; I hope the weather is better than the forecast. It’s getting hot in Ohio and I live in the Ohio River Valley which can be brutally humid as an add-on to the heat. Lucky us, huh? And “they” say that the climate crisis is nothing to worry about…ha!
Thinking about you guys!
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Going to be in the upper 80s each of the next ten days here. When I first moved to Portland we didn’t need AC at all. The summers are very different now than they were ten years ago. Luckily, we don’t have much humidity. I don’t know how people live in really humid climates. Fingers crossed that we won’t be on fire this summer.
Anne
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Luckily I grew up in Illinois, also very humid, so I knew what it would be like before moving here. I am near family for the first time since my early 20’s so I am happy to be here. I worry about fires in California. I lived in Sacramento for 30 years and every fall the rice farmers across the river lit their fields on fire to prepare the space for planting. YIKES! I am thinking of you and the boyz.
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Oh wow! I hope they don’t light their fields on fire these days!
Anne
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When I retired to move to Jamaica in 1999 they were still burning at that time, and when I returned to Sacramento in 2010 for medical reasons, they burned that fall too. Have a great week!
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