It's finally windows-open weather! This summer has been strange. I am loving listening to the crickets in the trees; it reminds me of growing up in the days before air conditioning. I have been spending the afternoon and evening sitting at my sewing machine. I am midway through my Mill Girls quilt, making the inner border around the center medallion. I had to cut out 208 two-inch squares, and then sew them together into two-sies and then four-sies. I just finished the four-pack blocks, and darn if there isn't one two-patch left over! When I sewed the two-patch blocks I initially had three extra dark squares, and not enough light squares. Soon will be the moment of truth in counting out how many four-patches I have. The magic number is 52, that I ought to have.

I went to the Lake Norman Quilt Guild show yesterday, and saw some amazing quilts. I am very inspired to work on my quilts now! My kids have been playing at "starching" the scraps in their fabric stashes with spray bottles of water, that I then iron dry for them.

It's funny that my other hobby, canning, had international Can-It-Forward Day yesterday. It completely slipped my mind and I spent the day quilting. I suppose I spent enough time cheating on quilting to do canning in July that it evens out.