I miss just being out in public and not being afraid of a virus. I would love to shop again and browse around in a quilt shop and a yarn shop. I would love to see children playing on the school playgrounds again. I truly hope that the world will be a much kinder and thoughtful place.
Not being afraid of the virus...especially if I catch it and was 'lucky enough' not to have the symptoms. My daughter lives with me and on occasion stays with my mom when my sister and hubby need to help out with his dad.
From what I can see, the kids on this fabric are darling! You are going to feel so "virtuous" when you get your bindings all done! You're right....having a "plan" seems to set us in the right direction. I have to write things down in my planner/notebook/calendar (and yes, I do have a lot of arrows from day to day because I don't get to them!) and physically cross them off. I heard a motivational speaker once who said we do it all wrong (especially women) and that we need to sit down at the end of the day and make a list of all the things we DID rather than make the one in the morning. I have to finish a quilt I started for my grandson and also finish one I began in a class last summer.......I cannot make excuses for myself. About the 3rd thing I want to do (because you are so right about seeing the family and the best friend) is to adopt a new dog! We have been without our so loved old girls for over a year and my heart is telling me I need to give it to another furry friend. You can only visit the shelter and animal control by appointment right now and I am going to have to "browse"....which is so hard because I want them all. Ok...I'll get two! I've been hoping a needy stray would just show up in the yard but nothing yet! Love the chats, Anna!
Thank you for your positivity and wisdom. It truly helped me today. 💕 I look forward to taking a drive to a new place on a beautiful day, stopping for lunch and having no worries about being in a public place. Simple pleasures!
Seeing you working on binding and getting quilts completely finished, makes me want to get some of my projects completed. 😀 The beach is where I would go if all was open and good. I have not been to my beach spot in a year and a half. I think it’s gonna be time. Have a blessed stitch week!
Anna, you make me smile and I enjoyed your WIP parade because I have my own collection like that! I'm sitting here cross stitching while you chat about quilt stuff... I have been a crafter for a long time but find myself being frozen where I'm hesitant to try things. Thank goodness for RUclips! There's not much you can't find on there to teach us how to do almost anything! Thanks for being a friend to us all! It would be so great to be able to meet in person... but I live in Pennsylvania so we are very far apart! Our son is in the Army in Arizona so I love hearing about places closer to him!
Anna,you make it all sew real.I have no idea what I would do first!!!Would luv to just relax,be happy and feel safe.You our not alone,reading has been put on hold.Started a book about a month ago have no idea what I read.But gotta say thank you for showing all your projects.Since I have been rethinking what I have,what needs to be quilted,and of course what I want to do.Stay safe,enjoy getting away,and thanks for bringing you into my life.
You are so wise! I enjoy hearing you talk while I work on my quilting. I also realized during this time who my friends are and what kind of friend I would like to be. Also, it was nice to step back and move at a slower pace. It has opened my eyes to what I really want to do! My dream once everything is settled down is to do a rug hooking class!☺
I want to travel again - oh how I miss going anywhere and finding fun shops along the way. I too have difficulty focusing on reading. I think stitching and wool appliqué has been a blessing during this pandemic because we quilters have no shortage of things to do. So enjoy your videos each and every week. Your quilts are really pretty!
I am so glad you do these chats. I’m not a cross stitcher and I still watch your stitch roadie videos. Your kit parade made me laugh, I think many of us were prepared for the pandemic. I still have many projects in my project boxes, but I’m starting new projects. The older ones aren’t going anywhere, and I’ll get to them someday.
Anna I love spending time with you. I just finished Queen Bee and I loved it. It has prompted me to pick up and start a couple more books. Love reading especially in the summer on the deck listening to the birds. After family I would like to drive around the Midwest visiting quilt shops and cross stitch shops. Enjoy your camping trip. I’m sure it will be beautiful. ❤️
Lovely to spend some time with you today! After quarantine, I would like to get together with my embroidery group. We are all quilters who decided we wanted to branch out a bit and do some embroidery. We meet a one friend's house and sit around the dining room table for the afternoon. Not much stitching may get done, but there is lots of talking and laughing. There are six of us and I sorely miss them all. We are all in the same large quilt group but there is something so special about sitting together for the afternoon in a small group.
I am so glad I found quilt Roadies. Am really enjoying it. I also was so glad I went to Road to CA as that was the last quilting event I've been to. Wish I knew you were there. After getting together with family and friends I want to go quilt shopping and to a quilt retreat.
I would just like to go to the grocery store! I miss the ladies in my hand stitch group, they met this past week and FaceTimed me so I could see everyone and their show and tells. It was great. I would love to visit Sue Spargo’s shop for the experience . We are in the same county but I’ve never been there yet although I have made lots of online purchases. Such fast service. I have a ton and a half of quilt shop quilting fabric but I will need some large backings for several king size quilts. Thank you for sharing your time and talents with us.
Thank you Anna for binding with us! I do this with you whenever something comes back from the long arm quilter! I just want my girlfriends to be able to come up to my town, and go for lunch at one of the great little restaurants on our Main Street. I will even go while rockin’ the doo I am stuck with until our salons open again!😂
It was so restful just listening to you chat while rocking away in your rocking chair 🥰 I’ve finished the Gail Pan “Bee Brave” covid 19 hand embroidery free pattern you mentioned on one of your videos. My first hand embroidery and I enjoyed it so much..I changed it a bit to try some fancy stitching like satin stitch and French knots 😂. I’m so pleased with it and I made it into a cushion with a adorable bee fabric. Can’t help thinking of you when I see Bee 🐝 fabric 😂😘💐
I want to take the rv someplace, any place, and enjoy a different view. We watch our grandsons one day a week now and that helps a lot in making life feel more normal. Enjoy visiting yours!!
Amen sister..we are very blessed. The first thing I want to do is travel see something other than my little house in my little town. And get back to sewing with my friends..oh yes! Thanks for the visit..take care.
Enjoyed stitching with you today❤️. I will for sure miss Olde World Quilt Shoppe as I went 4-5 times each time I went down ❤️. I’m looking forward to going to chapters our bookstore here and spending a couple of hours looking through the books for new ones. Midsomer Murders is very addicting but have a look into Murdoch Mysteries as well it is another one of my favourites. Take care and 🐝well
Anna, thank you for the sweet chit chat. Hope you have lots of fun traveling to see your family and the countryside in your future! You are always so much fun to listen to!!
I would love to look forward to the George R Brown Quilt Show in Houston Texas. But most of all to be able to retire just so I can travel to all the quilt shows you talk about. For now I’m happy to see what you do for your viewers by filming all you do. You’re living my dream I use to show my husband RUclips videos how people converted their vans into tiny homes. But the good Lord had other plans for him. He always went out of his way to make me happy. I have great memories he was a good person. Keep doing what you do I watch your videos over all the time and just love them, most of all I enjoy how share your memories and the things you do. You make me laugh when you say it takes along time to see a video cause you always pause just to go shopping. You make me do that a lot and just loving it. I. Work the night shift at a hospital and when I’m off I’m up most of the night watching your videos. Thank you for all you share. Maria
I'm glad I can keep you company...there are several single women traveling in vans like our...check out the Travato facebook group...then we can run into each other at quilt festival!!
Your video today gave me the inspiration to go back to finish a quilt I start for my son but I don't own a sawing machine so I am hand quilting it. Thank you for the motivation!!!!!!!
Anna, you just make my day! There are just some days I start out with great intentions and then it all goes south! I so look forward to both the Stitch and Quilt Roadies Episodes. After visiting with family and my Quilt group, The Treadle Pushers of 22 years together, I can't wait to get back on the road with my hubby and go to some of our favorite campgrounds where we go into the the towns, eat at the local restaurants and if there's a quilt shop in the area, I want to just go and walk around and take in all of the beautiful fabric, patterns and other items it has to offer. Blessings to you and you family, Happy camping and have a great visit with that little one!
I would love to go to Cannon Beach with my hubby, eat a delicious bowl of clam chowder at The Wayfarer, walk through the trees in Ecola State Park, spend some time walking together on the beach, and go shopping at the Center Diamond quilt shop. The Oregon coast is our absolute favorite place to be. 💕 (Sisters is a close second!) 😉
So enjoy your chats, the first thing i want to do is go to Destin Florida and travel to Maine, and go to all my quilt retreats again. I really miss the girls and seeing what everyone's doing.
Another lovely time with you Anna. I have those philosophical thoughts too. I hope a lot of us are. Reading has been a challenge for me too & I really miss it. I just started a new book and have been able to get lost in it for short periods. Thank goodness for our projects! I will hop on an airplane to Sanibel Island, Fl. when this is over, with my stitching of course.
I want to travel to see my friend in Texas. We had to cancel a long-planned visit in late March. And I want to visit every quilt and stitching shop along the way!
You go girl! I knew you could start getting those projects done! One by one! Oh my dream is to go to the quilt shop touch all the fabric and buy, buy, buy!😁 Be safe and well!
I had the same eye opener as your dad. When I had a serious surgery not ONE member of my family that I had always been there for showed up, not ONE phone call. So I stopped showing up for them. Thank God my daughter is always there for me as I am for her.
I love your plan to finish! I just finished hand-quilting and completed binding on the very first wallhanging I made in 1995 first quilt class. I love to see “In the Beginning” hanging in my sewing room. I finished binding four quilts the past two weeks and made three twin quilts for great grandchildren. Get it done!!! Thanks for incentive...
I miss seeing my mom who is now in a nursing home. So I would go see her again. I really enjoy the chat, like another writer wrote, I was disappointed when it was over. I just finished a 12 shift at work, got into my cozy bed was watching you. It is like we were one on one. Nice you did all the talking. I'm talked out.
AQS Quilt Week was cancelled in Paducah this year. I dream of hopping into my VW van and camping my way to the next Paducah Quilt Week. I can’t wait to go to the quilt museum, learn new ideas and see the smiling faces of other quilters.
I shouted "Yes!" when you said you needed more fabrics to add to your stash to make scrappy quilts 😂 I am not alone! I just want to go to a quilt/needlework show/shop without needing Covid rules. To touch fabrics and threads and see the colours and browse. I'm tired of feeling more restless and unsettled as months pass and my stitching is suffering and no longer so therapeutic. I know how blessed I am. (Just hoping my email with address reached you re BB prize - I've found a felted wool supplier online for supplies). Thanks for cheering me up and chat. Keep binding you'll get such satisfaction when some more are fully finished. Framers are going to be so busy when they open aren't they? Thanks Anna
I'm like you Anna, I realistically have nothing to complain about though there are times when I have to shake my head and say to myself " no stinkin thinkin" which is a saying from a very dear friend. Had there been no pandemic this year my hubby and I would be on our way to the Maritimes with many stops along the way and we still plan on doing that when it's safe to do so. Not this year mind you but keep in four fingers crossed for 2021. Travelling now is on the top of our bucket list because soon our age will be against us and we want to experience as much as this world offers while we can. Take care and enjoy finishing those Quilty projects❤️
Thank you Anna for keeping me company and making me chuckle whilst I was stitching my chalk it up by buttermilk basin. I think I am much in the same mind as you, that I would like to do a class of some sort or to visit one of the big quilt shows when this is all over. We are off on our travels next week as we have hired a Motorhome for 2 weeks, first time, newbie .....wonder how that will go x
My dream after visiting with family is to get together with my quilt group to sew and chat and laugh together. To be able to go to a quilt shop with others to enjoy the fondling experience together, to enjoy a meal in a nice restaurant, to be able to travel or go camping out of state. To just be able to go grocery shopping without a mask and the feeling of paranoia . To hug anyone I want. There is nothing like a big hug! To go to Sisters Oregon and sew with you!❣️
Thank you for keeping me connected, Anna. The first thing I would do after visiting with family would be to search for a LNS and join a stitchy group! I have recently begun to cross stitch and would love to make some stitchy friends. You inspire me with all of your stitch and quilt projects. Thank you.
I’m looking forward to the day I can get out n go anywhere. I’ve been house bound since March 8th n haven’t been anywhere other than dr appointments. I enjoy listening to your insights into human nature. I now know who really makes a spot for me n I agree with ur dad. It’s not the friends I thought. Some I only hear from because I initiate the call. It’s really sad but I just can’t get all sad about it or I’d wallow in despair n that’s just not me. I like being happy. Thank you for your videos. 💕 very uplifting n serene. Bless you.
I appreciate you! I’ve been able to see my grandchildren for a few weeks. Indiana has opened gradually and our daughter and her family live only a couple of miles from us. We all usually go to Mackinac Island in early June. Lilac Festival was even cancelled on the Island this year! So I guess, if the pandemic was over, I’d plan that trip! Always fun road trip, and have been so many times, our vehicles just lead the way! I have been making a patriotic quilt and stitching Blackbird Design patriotic. Just heard that fireworks are a go here in Fort Wayne! Have a great week, and glad those bindings are happening! Lynn in Indiana
i love our time spent together, esp since you carry the conversation so well! I'd like to hold a tea party, I'm very good at them! I'd invite you, Ariane , and Sue~ lively conversations, excellent food and tea, and then some intensive stitching! You said we could dream!
I want to go on a road trip to Oregan and visit all the quilt shops!! My husband and I will fly in rent a car and make a list of all the quilt shops with in 150 miles and hit the road. We will shop everything I buy home so it will be there when I get back!! Cant wait and I hope to see you!!
We live in Pa, and our daughter lives in California. She and her Fiance" are closing on their Condo tomorrow. I would love to take a long slow ride out there in our camper, stopping along the way to see some sights we've missed so far. We didn't travel last summer because my mom passed away in April and I was busy settling her estate. We love seeing the beauty of this great country. We usually go for 6 weeks or so, although now we could go for a longer trip. I miss traveling on the road.
Thanks for the chit chat! I've been jumping from cross stitch to quilting all day today while listening to a bunch of floss tubers in the back ground. Now entering dreamland LOL...the first thing I want to do after family is to enjoy a fabulous potluck with my quilting peeps here in NE Ohio. I'm the President of the Lorain County Piecemaker's quild here in NE Ohio. I have taken our membership up to over 80 members, men and women, over the last 3 -4 years. I miss them all and want some hugs!! Social distance be damned LOL. I'm so excited to learn today that we are allowed to meet again in July. I'm going to host a Christmas in July event at the hall were we meet. No potluck and no hugs, but at least I'll get to see their smiling Eyes from a socially distanced, masked six feet. Good times will be had. My NEXT big dream is seeing your smiling face in person July 2021. These dreams will come true, in time. ROFLOL. Sending you virtual hugs.
I was cross stitching while visiting with you! 🙂 Nice to see you have a plan for all your beautiful work! They will soon have a proper finish & home! 🥰 After family, I'd like to go back to traveling! ✈️ God Bless! 🥰🤗🙏
I listen to free audio books or CD' s when I'm stitching and quilting. My eyes tire more quickly now. I do want to go on a small quilt related group tour to England or Ireland. But first, I have always wanted to rent an RV and explore the western states and National Parks and quilt shops, of course. I took a two week group tour to many national parks years ago that made me want to do more traveling. Your travels have given me inspiration about where to go out west. I loved Tuscon 5 years ago as a solo traveler. I am still working fulltime from home since stay at home orders issued in March and will continue as long as possible. Two and a half years until retirement. They are making progress daily with the pandemic. It truly is a war with an unseen enemy that takes its toll. You really do learn who are true friends who keep in touch and you keep in touch with. Take care and happy hugs for grandbaby.
It was wonderful visiting with you. Oh won't it be great when we can get back to a normal of some kind?! I hope and pray we will. After seeing family I want to just get out and do some traveling. Anywhere, lol. God bless.
Love you Anna - you'll get all that binding done before you know it. Have you tried sewing the binding down in the ditch with your sewing machine? I know - it sometimes isn't as nice as hand sewing. I too haven't read a word since a trip I took last January even though I have 4 books downloaded in Kindle. I have to push myself to quilt and longarm and I don't know why but after I start it goes good and I'm glad I did it. I miss my kids but it's good to see them when we video chat. My dream is to be able to go to Hawaii with all my family to celebrate my husband's and my 50th anniversary the end of April, 2022. Hopefully we can look back at all of this and not be so sad but become stronger. We will definitely cherish all of our blessings.
The vampire soap opera during college was probably Dark Shadows. No one scheduled classes during this time and many people gathered at the student union during lunch I love the binding part. I hate the sandwiching and basting. Thanks for the videos😊
I was sad when this video ended😢it was like you were sitting in my sewing room and we were just yakking. Thank you for the visit tho... When life is back to normal, I want to pack up the van...or rent a small RV...and take a trip up to the Northwoods and Lake Superior area. Camping wherever I stop. Doing whatever I want to do. And sketching and painting a LOT. Maybe it’ll be FALL by then and the trees will be gorgeous🥰
i love being in the beehive with you! i was cutting out still more masks from my stash while i listened! i sure would love to go to a quilt show but i'm not sure that will happen for a while, but my favorite quilt shop just opened the other day!
So many things I miss that I would want to do and reading the comments I keep adding things to my list. The best part would just to feel free again. Free to be with friends, shop without masks, go to church, travel, gather at our local quilt store, take classes with my friends, ride in the car with my friends. I’m getting sad thinking of all the things I miss so I better stop. Take care, always love your videos.
I love that you have a plan and feel in control. I had to giggle when the 1 you ate working on and the other one that you showed are 2 that I don't believe were on your stand..lol. my stash is the same, 1 yard or less. I have been making masks, 300 were donated and 200+ have all been from custom orders and not a sing piece of fabric did I have to buy with the exception of jelly bean print for those that work at the jelly belly. On my favorite chair I have the quilt that my dad made me, so special. He enterd quilts at Sisters too. Have fun binding and quilting.
Love your ramblings. I totally understand the "friend " thing. But in our case it was family who could care less. My reading also has taken a hit... haven't read like I used to. Hope when "normal" returns my need to read does too. I'm teaching an origami bag class next Wednesday and another bag classes on next Saturday. I plan on going to more little quilt shops when this cleaes! Keep on stitching!
Great video. Goes without saying the first thing we want to do is visit our son. He said he would take me to Fire Poppies (needlework store in SC) as I don't have an LNS in our area. That will be a wonderful trip, can't wait! Keep stitching, you will get to the end of the binding before you know it 🤗
My dream would be to get in the car with some besties and hit the road stopping at lots and lots of quilty stitchy shops I have never been to before and just explore as many as possible in as long a time span as we could be gone. Road trip! Thanks for the chat.
Enjoyed stitching with you. One of my first dreams was to go out and have lunch with a friend which I’ve done but covid-19 is still here. I think after visiting with mom another thing I’d like to do is my planned road trip to go to Quilt Canada in Edmonton which was cancelled. I wanted to go and visit my Aunt Pat now know as A Secret Love Pat and visit with her and then swing up to Dawson Creek and visit with my Uncle Al her youngest brother, I’d start the trip by also visiting my cousin in Calgary on the way up to Edmonton. Of course because Quilt Canada was cancelled I’d have to check out quilt shops and needlework shops along the way! Enjoy your family time and camping trip this weekend,
Quilt Roadies Rita had me over for some face to face time and some stitching. And bonus puppy visits, feel so much better. I needed face to face conversation and girlfriend time. I talked to her about it and she want to drive over the border and go to LaConnor to hopefully visit the quilt museum and Sylvia Pippen’s shop. Then she said she wants to go to her annual trip to Ogunquit Maine and I said I want to get to the Oregon Coast again. Sisters also but I love driving along the coast.
Definitely travel anywhere. Oh to see something new would be lovely. I love to read also and I also cannot seem to concentrate on a novel with any depth, so I too have been reading, what I call easy reads. We will get back to them on of these days. Love you Anna, keep up the great work.
What will I do when the world opens up... well, Becca and I went to Acorns & Threads; I got my much-needed mani/pedi; but I'm ready to hit the road... I want to go camping! It's been too long and I'm itching to see new roads, maybe some new trails and a beautiful lake or river... ah, a nice chair, a nice view and some hand work *sigh*. I heard DisneyLand is opening up next Month... what?! Finish up a couple of those bindings and start the Summer wool project. Heehee!
Love watching you live your projects you inspire and encourage people we would have been great friends har our paths crossed I dream of going to stitching shops in every state
I have had some time with my grandsons already here is GA but I haven't been to church since March 15th. I miss the fellowship and the music with my church family. I watch it online but it just ain't the same. Many blessings
Ah yes, the Sisterlies and I are having an ongoing dialogue tonight. What a hoot!! Cheryl has a wip with about 4 stitches in it and I told her it wasn't a wip. It was a wipette! LOLOL You really are determined to finish those bindings aren't you? Good for you. Think of the guiltless leeway you'll have to make many more purchases when you're done. You're singing to the choir as far as your Dad goes. The same thing happened to me when I had my second heart attack. Any "friends" who didn't visit, etc. said "well, it's your second one. We've done all this before." No wonder I've become a lone hermit. Most people DO disappear when the dust settles and you're left alone, so may as well adjust in the beginning and ICU was a good place to start. I've done my #2 thing. It was my B-day yesterday and I went INTO a restaurant for dinner. Didn't get the right meal but I ate it anyway, I was so grateful to be out. Take very good care, Anna. Luv ya and we'll chat again. Thanks for this evening's visit.
love that term...wipette!! LOL I am going to use it...yes, it seems challenges seem to weed out those that don't want to make the effort...I may end up the hermit next door to you! lol
I don’t have family nearby, so I would need to spend some serious driving or flying time to see them. But, after that, I think I want to go to the coast (Morro Bay or nearby) and Sequoia National Park for the nature hits and then plan a big trip that I haven’t done before-Europe or Africa or New York ( I don’t get out much). I also want to start taking classes again at my LQS. I miss the people there and the collegiality of classes. Thanks for the prompt to dream! Great video!
Ohhhh- i want to travel to The Vista motel - which is right across from the ocean in Gloucester, MA and have my favorite seafood dish from LobstaLand, also in Gloucester - and then hit every yarn and quilt and thrift shop all the way home from Gloucester - AND come home up over the mountains- & hope I see one darn bear or moose because it’s just that beautiful. (The wildlife is a running joke because there are signs ALL over & we still haven’t seen one!!). AND then - spend a night in Bennington, VT - because it too is just so beautiful!! Sigh. I’m afraid it may happen even before seeing my family - my children do not live close - my son is in tech school in Texas. My daughter is in Buffalo & talking about moving even farther- children spreading wings.
I would have said that my first thing to do would be go to the quilt shop an hour from me but she has closed for good after this darn virus. Now I guess going shopping would be my next wish. I haven’t even gotten my own groceries since early March! What pattern is the quilt behind you Ana? I see a bee hive on it. I really like the embroidered quilt blocks. I find I can work on those at the cottage or outside and see them. I can’t see cross stitch without a magnifier anymore. I’m working on Winter Wonderland from Crabapple Hill this summer. I do the embroidery in the summer and the piecing and quilting in the winter. Yours looks like a nice easy one to put together. Edited to add that I just heard you say it was your Stitching With The Sisterlies quilt. Now I have my answer. 😀
Looking forward to gathering with the gals at the church quilt group... That's about the only thing affected by the Covid nonsense.... We haven't been impacted here in Nebraska like other places.... We see the grandkids, still have family dinners, everyone is still working. My girls homeschool already, so they weren't bothered... And... All our quilt shops stayed open to provide fabric for all the mask makers... Life is good!
I'm having the same experience with my reading. I'm 75 years old and I can't remember not have at least one book going. I really don't know what is going on. I enjoy your post and consider you a friend! I'm a quilter and a cross stitcher. I'm thinking we are twins seperated at birth!!
I had a goal to read 10 books this year. I have read 3. Lost count of how many I started and put down. I think the quality of writing and storytelling has declined. So many books today rely in violence to sell a book. I just want a good story.
My dream has to include snorkeling in the Caribbean 😊. It will be awhile till I get there, I’m taking care of my 90 year old Mom and she needs a lot of attention. In my mind though, my friends and I are going to explore central and South America, maybe Africa... I’m an expert daydreamer. Think of all the cloth, quilt shops I could visit🤗. I really look forward to your videos, thank you so much.
Anna, enjoyed your chat. I know that once I can go out again I will get together with a group that I knit and crochet for charity. Its been a long time since we were together.
I think you will enjoy the rest of "Queen Bee" By Doretha Benton Frank. That was her last book as she died in 2019.. Many of the books she wrote take place on or near Sullivan's Island in SC. Spent a week there as our niece was married in Charleston and the family stayed all together at this wonderful house a block from the beach.Quiet different for us from the NW.
I hope to visit all the quilt stores along the way via I-40 on my way from Taylor, Texas to home in Bakersfield, California to visit with family and friends; especially my daughter in Tulare, California. I will be 77 in November, and just hope I will still be up to the long drive, yes alone. I miss my daughter and family. My son and family are here in Texas. Visit quilt stores between Taylor, Texas and Santa Rosa, New Mexico where I catch I-40.
I am moving after Covid us over. I have one more place to see in the 🌎, I am going to see my mom's folks overseas, Am. 🇼🇸, or Galapagos. But now it all depends on the shape of those places...& the airline travel. What a different world since I flew as a airline personnel..'sigh'. Oh...thanks for doing this vlog. I really think you took my idea of a 'binding & chat'. I duuno....coulda been others too.; either way YAY!! Old World Quilt Shop? I pray they will open open fully one day!!Stay safe👋🙏😁
If you enjoy the Midsomer Mysteries, have you tried Father Brown series? Similar concept. You were the first person who mentioned difficulty concentrating on reading. I had the same issue, finally able to read a book again! In the meantime the last few months cross stitching has been my saving grace.
I’m dying to get out of town! I had planned a trip up to Oregon this fall, but don’t think that’s going to happen.🥺 So, the next best thing would be to go to Lake Tahoe for a few weeks. So, basically I want to go where you live. Lol. Just going to a free sew at our LQS would be great at this point! The soap that came on at noon was All my Children. I watched it from the beginning. I still watch General Hospital.🤪In Fresno, they were going to open movie theaters, but our numbers went up, so maybe the end of June now. They did say they would be older movies, not new releases. Ttyl. Susan
I like your dream question, but I think it's a hard one. The first thing that popped into my head was to be able to go to a nice restaurant and h ave a glass of wine and a wonderful meal. They have opened up here but still not feeling sure about going. Take care!
Anna, the story about your dad really struck home with me. When I was working I had, or so I thought, a lot of friends.....and then I retired. It turned out that what I had was a lot of working acquaintance's - not friends. And so now, I am trying to make friends. It's not easy at 55 but at least I'm trying 😊
Yay! Sweet Anna ❤️❤️❤️ i am in the middle of tripping my way through creating a pantagram of the alien that gets edged to edge on the son’s quilt....THEN I CAN BIND ❤️❤️❤️❤️ you are more than welcome to drop in anytime. If you have any quilts you just need edge to edge quilting on, you can drop them off here on your way to Portland to visit the kids and grandkids. Mark said the same exact thing as your dad, after his first heart attack. I think Lori McCleary does that cool custom quilting and shes up by you ;). The next thing i would want to do after covid is done, i would want to go to Minnesota and meet Stacy at Buttermilk Basin and see her new shop and all the goodies in it ❤️❤️❤️
Keep sewing your bindings Anna. I enjoy your chit chat while you sew. It’s like having a friend over and enjoying time together. Love all your videos.
I miss just being out in public and not being afraid of a virus. I would love to shop again and browse around in a quilt shop and a yarn shop. I would love to see children playing on the school playgrounds again. I truly hope that the world will be a much kinder and thoughtful place.
Not being afraid of the virus...especially if I catch it and was 'lucky enough' not to have the symptoms. My daughter lives with me and on occasion stays with my mom when my sister and hubby need to help out with his dad.
From what I can see, the kids on this fabric are darling! You are going to feel so "virtuous" when you get your bindings all done! You're right....having a "plan" seems to set us in the right direction. I have to write things down in my planner/notebook/calendar (and yes, I do have a lot of arrows from day to day because I don't get to them!) and physically cross them off. I heard a motivational speaker once who said we do it all wrong (especially women) and that we need to sit down at the end of the day and make a list of all the things we DID rather than make the one in the morning. I have to finish a quilt I started for my grandson and also finish one I began in a class last summer.......I cannot make excuses for myself. About the 3rd thing I want to do (because you are so right about seeing the family and the best friend) is to adopt a new dog! We have been without our so loved old girls for over a year and my heart is telling me I need to give it to another furry friend. You can only visit the shelter and animal control by appointment right now and I am going to have to "browse"....which is so hard because I want them all. Ok...I'll get two! I've been hoping a needy stray would just show up in the yard but nothing yet! Love the chats, Anna!
Thank you for your positivity and wisdom. It truly helped me today. 💕 I look forward to taking a drive to a new place on a beautiful day, stopping for lunch and having no worries about being in a public place. Simple pleasures!
Seeing you working on binding and getting quilts completely finished, makes me want to get some of my projects completed. 😀 The beach is where I would go if all was open and good. I have not been to my beach spot in a year and a half. I think it’s gonna be time. Have a blessed stitch week!
Anna, you make me smile and I enjoyed your WIP parade because I have my own collection like that! I'm sitting here cross stitching while you chat about quilt stuff... I have been a crafter for a long time but find myself being frozen where I'm hesitant to try things. Thank goodness for RUclips! There's not much you can't find on there to teach us how to do almost anything! Thanks for being a friend to us all! It would be so great to be able to meet in person... but I live in Pennsylvania so we are very far apart! Our son is in the Army in Arizona so I love hearing about places closer to him!
Anna,you make it all sew real.I have no idea what I would do first!!!Would luv to just relax,be happy and feel safe.You our not alone,reading has been put on hold.Started a book about a month ago have no idea what I read.But gotta say thank you for showing all your projects.Since I have been rethinking what I have,what needs to be quilted,and of course what I want to do.Stay safe,enjoy getting away,and thanks for bringing you into my life.
You are so wise! I enjoy hearing you talk while I work on my quilting. I also realized during this time who my friends are and what kind of friend I would like to be. Also, it was nice to step back and move at a slower pace. It has opened my eyes to what I really want to do! My dream once everything is settled down is to do a rug hooking class!☺
I want to travel again - oh how I miss going anywhere and finding fun shops along the way. I too have difficulty focusing on reading. I think stitching and wool appliqué has been a blessing during this pandemic because we quilters have no shortage of things to do. So enjoy your videos each and every week. Your quilts are really pretty!
I am so glad you do these chats. I’m not a cross stitcher and I still watch your stitch roadie videos. Your kit parade made me laugh, I think many of us were prepared for the pandemic. I still have many projects in my project boxes, but I’m starting new projects. The older ones aren’t going anywhere, and I’ll get to them someday.
Anna I love spending time with you. I just finished Queen Bee and I loved it. It has prompted me to pick up and start a couple more books. Love reading especially in the summer on the deck listening to the birds. After family I would like to drive around the Midwest visiting quilt shops and cross stitch shops. Enjoy your camping trip. I’m sure it will be beautiful. ❤️
Lovely to spend some time with you today! After quarantine, I would like to get together with my embroidery group. We are all quilters who decided we wanted to branch out a bit and do some embroidery. We meet a one friend's house and sit around the dining room table for the afternoon. Not much stitching may get done, but there is lots of talking and laughing. There are six of us and I sorely miss them all. We are all in the same large quilt group but there is something so special about sitting together for the afternoon in a small group.
I am so glad I found quilt Roadies. Am really enjoying it. I also was so glad I went to Road to CA as that was the last quilting event I've been to. Wish I knew you were there. After getting together with family and friends I want to go quilt shopping and to a quilt retreat.
I would just like to go to the grocery store! I miss the ladies in my hand stitch group, they met this past week and FaceTimed me so I could see everyone and their show and tells. It was great. I would love to visit Sue Spargo’s shop for the experience . We are in the same county but I’ve never been there yet although I have made lots of online purchases. Such fast service. I have a ton and a half of quilt shop quilting fabric but I will need some large backings for several king size quilts. Thank you for sharing your time and talents with us.
Thank you Anna for binding with us! I do this with you whenever something comes back from the long arm quilter! I just want my girlfriends to be able to come up to my town, and go for lunch at one of the great little restaurants on our Main Street. I will even go while rockin’ the doo I am stuck with until our salons open again!😂
It was so restful just listening to you chat while rocking away in your rocking chair 🥰 I’ve finished the Gail Pan “Bee Brave” covid 19 hand embroidery free pattern you mentioned on one of your videos. My first hand embroidery and I enjoyed it so much..I changed it a bit to try some fancy stitching like satin stitch and French knots 😂. I’m so pleased with it and I made it into a cushion with a adorable bee fabric. Can’t help thinking of you when I see Bee 🐝 fabric 😂😘💐
I want to take the rv someplace, any place, and enjoy a different view. We watch our grandsons one day a week now and that helps a lot in making life feel more normal. Enjoy visiting yours!!
Amen sister..we are very blessed. The first thing I want to do is travel see something other than my little house in my little town. And get back to sewing with my friends..oh yes! Thanks for the visit..take care.
I can't wait to be in the same room as my quilty friends doing quilty things. I miss being in their presence.
Enjoyed stitching with you today❤️. I will for sure miss Olde World Quilt Shoppe as I went 4-5 times each time I went down ❤️. I’m looking forward to going to chapters our bookstore here and spending a couple of hours looking through the books for new ones. Midsomer Murders is very addicting but have a look into Murdoch Mysteries as well it is another one of my favourites. Take care and 🐝well
Anna, thank you for the sweet chit chat. Hope you have lots of fun traveling to see your family and the countryside in your future! You are always so much fun to listen to!!
I would love to look forward to the George R Brown Quilt Show in Houston Texas. But most of all to be able to retire just so I can travel to all the quilt shows you talk about. For now I’m happy to see what you do for your viewers by filming all you do. You’re living my dream I use to show my husband RUclips videos how people converted their vans into tiny homes. But the good Lord had other plans for him. He always went out of his way to make me happy. I have great memories he was a good person. Keep doing what you do I watch your videos over all the time and just love them, most of all I enjoy how share your memories and the things you do. You make me laugh when you say it takes along time to see a video cause you always pause just to go shopping. You make me do that a lot and just loving it. I. Work the night shift at a hospital and when I’m off I’m up most of the night watching your videos. Thank you for all you share. Maria
I'm glad I can keep you company...there are several single women traveling in vans like our...check out the Travato facebook group...then we can run into each other at quilt festival!!
Your video today gave me the inspiration to go back to finish a quilt I start for my son but I don't own a sawing machine so I am hand quilting it. Thank you for the motivation!!!!!!!
I sometimes think it would be lovely for you and G to come and visit us here in New Zealand. I think that’s a dream. Happy stitching.
Maybe one day! It is a virus free zone and I am sure the door is closed now...but maybe some day!
Anna, you just make my day! There are just some days I start out with great intentions and then it all goes south! I so look forward to both the Stitch and Quilt Roadies Episodes. After visiting with family and my Quilt group, The Treadle Pushers of 22 years together, I can't wait to get back on the road with my hubby and go to some of our favorite campgrounds where we go into the the towns, eat at the local restaurants and if there's a quilt shop in the area, I want to just go and walk around and take in all of the beautiful fabric, patterns and other items it has to offer.
Blessings to you and you family, Happy camping and have a great visit with that little one!
I would love to go to Cannon Beach with my hubby, eat a delicious bowl of clam chowder at The Wayfarer, walk through the trees in Ecola State Park, spend some time walking together on the beach, and go shopping at the Center Diamond quilt shop. The Oregon coast is our absolute favorite place to be. 💕 (Sisters is a close second!) 😉
So enjoy your chats, the first thing i want to do is go to Destin Florida and travel to Maine, and go to all my quilt retreats again. I really miss the girls and seeing what everyone's doing.
Another lovely time with you Anna. I have those philosophical thoughts too. I hope a lot of us are. Reading has been a challenge for me too & I really miss it. I just started a new book and have been able to get lost in it for short periods. Thank goodness for our projects! I will hop on an airplane to Sanibel Island, Fl. when this is over, with my stitching of course.
I want to travel to see my friend in Texas. We had to cancel a long-planned visit in late March. And I want to visit every quilt and stitching shop along the way!
You go girl! I knew you could start getting those projects done! One by one! Oh my dream is to go to the quilt shop touch all the fabric and buy, buy, buy!😁 Be safe and well!
I had the same eye opener as your dad. When I had a serious surgery not ONE member of my family that I had always been there for showed up, not ONE phone call. So I stopped showing up for them. Thank God my daughter is always there for me as I am for her.
Thank you for keeping me company as I stitch. I can’t wait to go on a crafty retreat with my BF. 🌺
I love your plan to finish! I just finished hand-quilting and completed binding on the very first wallhanging I made in 1995 first quilt class. I love to see “In the Beginning” hanging in my sewing room. I finished binding four quilts the past two weeks and made three twin quilts for great grandchildren. Get it done!!! Thanks for incentive...
After the pandemic I just want to spend some time at my favorite quilt shop petting fabric and spending a whole lotta money on quilty stuff 🙂
and all the money we saved on gas will give us some fabric change!
@@quiltroadies1695 So true, Anna. I'm getting about 2 weeks to the gallon.
Wonderful relaxing video Anna! I worked on my English paper piecing while we chatted😘. I also had an a mother-in-law. I miss her dearly.
I miss seeing my mom who is now in a nursing home. So I would go see her again. I really enjoy the chat, like another writer wrote, I was disappointed when it was over. I just finished a 12 shift at work, got into my cozy bed was watching you. It is like we were one on one. Nice you did all the talking. I'm talked out.
AQS Quilt Week was cancelled in Paducah this year. I dream of hopping into my VW van and camping my way to the next Paducah Quilt Week. I can’t wait to go to the quilt museum, learn new ideas and see the smiling faces of other quilters.
Tiffany’s Quilting Life sent me to you. Glad she did!
Hi, I so look forward to your videos! You always cheer me up & inspire me, especially during this time of isolation! Thanks 😘.
I spent a couple of days with my mom and took a quilt that needed the binding stitched down so I would be forced to work on it. Mission accomplished!,
I shouted "Yes!" when you said you needed more fabrics to add to your stash to make scrappy quilts 😂 I am not alone! I just want to go to a quilt/needlework show/shop without needing Covid rules. To touch fabrics and threads and see the colours and browse. I'm tired of feeling more restless and unsettled as months pass and my stitching is suffering and no longer so therapeutic. I know how blessed I am. (Just hoping my email with address reached you re BB prize - I've found a felted wool supplier online for supplies). Thanks for cheering me up and chat. Keep binding you'll get such satisfaction when some more are fully finished. Framers are going to be so busy when they open aren't they? Thanks Anna
I'm like you Anna, I realistically have nothing to complain about though there are times when I have to shake my head and say to myself " no stinkin thinkin" which is a saying from a very dear friend. Had there been no pandemic this year my hubby and I would be on our way to the Maritimes with many stops along the way and we still plan on doing that when it's safe to do so. Not this year mind you but keep in four fingers crossed for 2021. Travelling now is on the top of our bucket list because soon our age will be against us and we want to experience as much as this world offers while we can. Take care and enjoy finishing those Quilty projects❤️
Thank you Anna for keeping me company and making me chuckle whilst I was stitching my chalk it up by buttermilk basin. I think I am much in the same mind as you, that I would like to do a class of some sort or to visit one of the big quilt shows when this is all over. We are off on our travels next week as we have hired a Motorhome for 2 weeks, first time, newbie .....wonder how that will go x
My dream after visiting with family is to get together with my quilt group to sew and chat and laugh together. To be able to go to a quilt shop with others to enjoy the fondling experience together, to enjoy a meal in a nice restaurant, to be able to travel or go camping out of state. To just be able to go grocery shopping without a mask and the feeling of paranoia . To hug anyone I want. There is nothing like a big hug! To go to Sisters Oregon and sew with you!❣️
AWWW I would love that...I am a big hugger...this is going to be a challenge for me!
Thank you for keeping me connected, Anna. The first thing I would do after visiting with family would be to search for a LNS and join a stitchy group! I have recently begun to cross stitch and would love to make some stitchy friends. You inspire me with all of your stitch and quilt projects. Thank you.
yes, connections are healthy for us!
I’m looking forward to the day I can get out n go anywhere. I’ve been house bound since March 8th n haven’t been anywhere other than dr appointments. I enjoy listening to your insights into human nature. I now know who really makes a spot for me n I agree with ur dad. It’s not the friends I thought. Some I only hear from because I initiate the call. It’s really sad but I just can’t get all sad about it or I’d wallow in despair n that’s just not me. I like being happy. Thank you for your videos. 💕 very uplifting n serene. Bless you.
Sweet & clear musings... ;0)
I appreciate you! I’ve been able to see my grandchildren for a few weeks. Indiana has opened gradually and our daughter and her family live only a couple of miles from us. We all usually go to Mackinac Island in early June. Lilac Festival was even cancelled on the Island this year! So I guess, if the pandemic was over, I’d plan that trip! Always fun road trip, and have been so many times, our vehicles just lead the way! I have been making a patriotic quilt and stitching Blackbird Design patriotic. Just heard that fireworks are a go here in Fort Wayne! Have a great week, and glad those bindings are happening! Lynn in Indiana
i love our time spent together, esp since you carry the conversation so well! I'd like to hold a tea party, I'm very good at them! I'd invite you, Ariane , and Sue~ lively conversations, excellent food and tea, and then some intensive stitching! You said we could dream!
OMG...I can see myself there!!
I want to go on a road trip to Oregan and visit all the quilt shops!! My husband and I will fly in rent a car and make a list of all the quilt shops with in 150 miles and hit the road. We will shop everything I buy home so it will be there when I get back!! Cant wait and I hope to see you!!
We live in Pa, and our daughter lives in California. She and her Fiance" are closing on their Condo tomorrow. I would love to take a long slow ride out there in our camper, stopping along the way to see some sights we've missed so far. We didn't travel last summer because my mom passed away in April and I was busy settling her estate. We love seeing the beauty of this great country. We usually go for 6 weeks or so, although now we could go for a longer trip. I miss traveling on the road.
Thanks for the chit chat! I've been jumping from cross stitch to quilting all day today while listening to a bunch of floss tubers in the back ground. Now entering dreamland LOL...the first thing I want to do after family is to enjoy a fabulous potluck with my quilting peeps here in NE Ohio. I'm the President of the Lorain County Piecemaker's quild here in NE Ohio. I have taken our membership up to over 80 members, men and women, over the last 3 -4 years. I miss them all and want some hugs!! Social distance be damned LOL. I'm so excited to learn today that we are allowed to meet again in July. I'm going to host a Christmas in July event at the hall were we meet. No potluck and no hugs, but at least I'll get to see their smiling Eyes from a socially distanced, masked six feet. Good times will be had. My NEXT big dream is seeing your smiling face in person July 2021. These dreams will come true, in time. ROFLOL. Sending you virtual hugs.
OMG this sounds fabulous!!!
Love watching the sisterlies
I was cross stitching while visiting with you! 🙂 Nice to see you have a plan for all your beautiful work! They will soon have a proper finish & home! 🥰 After family, I'd like to go back to traveling! ✈️ God Bless! 🥰🤗🙏
Wonderful! me too!
I listen to free audio books or CD' s when I'm stitching and quilting. My eyes tire more quickly now.
I do want to go on a small quilt related group tour to England or Ireland. But first, I have always wanted to rent an RV and explore the western states and National Parks and quilt shops, of course. I took a two week group tour to many national parks years ago that made me want to do more traveling.
Your travels have given me inspiration about where to go out west. I loved Tuscon 5 years ago as a solo traveler.
I am still working fulltime from home since stay at home orders issued in March and will continue as long as possible. Two and a half years until retirement.
They are making progress daily with the pandemic. It truly is a war with an unseen enemy that takes its toll. You really do learn who are true friends who keep in touch and you keep in touch with.
Take care and happy hugs for grandbaby.
We had quite the thunderstorm this afternoon as well. Your kit is fantastic I hav so many things going it is absurd
It was wonderful visiting with you. Oh won't it be great when we can get back to a normal of some kind?! I hope and pray we will. After seeing family I want to just get out and do some traveling. Anywhere, lol. God bless.
Love you Anna - you'll get all that binding done before you know it. Have you tried sewing the binding down in the ditch with your sewing machine? I know - it sometimes isn't as nice as hand sewing. I too haven't read a word since a trip I took last January even though I have 4 books downloaded in Kindle. I have to push myself to quilt and longarm and I don't know why but after I start it goes good and I'm glad I did it. I miss my kids but it's good to see them when we video chat. My dream is to be able to go to Hawaii with all my family to celebrate my husband's and my 50th anniversary the end of April, 2022. Hopefully we can look back at all of this and not be so sad but become stronger. We will definitely cherish all of our blessings.
The vampire soap opera during college was probably Dark Shadows. No one scheduled classes during this time and many people gathered at the student union during lunch
I love the binding part. I hate the sandwiching and basting. Thanks for the videos😊
A trip is what I want. A true vacation.
me too!
I was sad when this video ended😢it was like you were sitting in my sewing room and we were just yakking. Thank you for the visit tho...
When life is back to normal, I want to pack up the van...or rent a small RV...and take a trip up to the Northwoods and Lake Superior area. Camping wherever I stop. Doing whatever I want to do. And sketching and painting a LOT. Maybe it’ll be FALL by then and the trees will be gorgeous🥰
i love being in the beehive with you! i was cutting out still more masks from my stash while i listened! i sure would love to go to a quilt show but i'm not sure that will happen for a while, but my favorite quilt shop just opened the other day!
So many things I miss that I would want to do and reading the comments I keep adding things to my list. The best part would just to feel free again. Free to be with friends, shop without masks, go to church, travel, gather at our local quilt store, take classes with my friends, ride in the car with my friends. I’m getting sad thinking of all the things I miss so I better stop. Take care, always love your videos.
I love that you have a plan and feel in control. I had to giggle when the 1 you ate working on and the other one that you showed are 2 that I don't believe were on your stand..lol. my stash is the same, 1 yard or less. I have been making masks, 300 were donated and 200+ have all been from custom orders and not a sing piece of fabric did I have to buy with the exception of jelly bean print for those that work at the jelly belly. On my favorite chair I have the quilt that my dad made me, so special. He enterd quilts at Sisters too. Have fun binding and quilting.
Just saw so many spelling errors that phone decided to do....grrr
Once we are all back to 'normal' I would like to fly to Northern Ireland and spend time with my Mum.
Love your ramblings. I totally understand the "friend " thing. But in our case it was family who could care less. My reading also has taken a hit... haven't read like I used to. Hope when "normal" returns my need to read does too. I'm teaching an origami bag class next Wednesday and another bag classes on next Saturday. I plan on going to more little quilt shops when this cleaes! Keep on stitching!
now that is sad! geez! I wish I could take a bag class from you!
Great video. Goes without saying the first thing we want to do is visit our son. He said he would take me to Fire Poppies (needlework store in SC) as I don't have an LNS in our area. That will be a wonderful trip, can't wait! Keep stitching, you will get to the end of the binding before you know it 🤗
Sounds great! I wanna come!!
I would dearly love to go on a quilt retreat.
My dream would be to get in the car with some besties and hit the road stopping at lots and lots of quilty stitchy shops I have never been to before and just explore as many as possible in as long a time span as we could be gone. Road trip! Thanks for the chat.
Thelma and Louise hit the quilt shops!
I live in Florida and I’d love to go to the Smokey mountains. Have a wonderful camping trip! God Bless. Lynn-Grmmy
Sounds great! I'd like to come along!
Enjoyed stitching with you. One of my first dreams was to go out and have lunch with a friend which I’ve done but covid-19 is still here. I think after visiting with mom another thing I’d like to do is my planned road trip to go to Quilt Canada in Edmonton which was cancelled. I wanted to go and visit my Aunt Pat now know as A Secret Love Pat and visit with her and then swing up to Dawson Creek and visit with my Uncle Al her youngest brother, I’d start the trip by also visiting my cousin in Calgary on the way up to Edmonton. Of course because Quilt Canada was cancelled I’d have to check out quilt shops and needlework shops along the way!
Enjoy your family time and camping trip this weekend,
What a wonderful road trip this will be...I know you have the traveling bug in your veins!
Quilt Roadies Rita had me over for some face to face time and some stitching. And bonus puppy visits, feel so much better. I needed face to face conversation and girlfriend time.
I talked to her about it and she want to drive over the border and go to LaConnor to hopefully visit the quilt museum and Sylvia Pippen’s shop. Then she said she wants to go to her annual trip to Ogunquit Maine and I said I want to get to the Oregon Coast again. Sisters also but I love driving along the coast.
Definitely travel anywhere. Oh to see something new would be lovely.
I love to read also and I also cannot seem to concentrate on a novel with any depth, so I too have been reading, what I call easy reads. We will get back to them on of these days. Love you Anna, keep up the great work.
sounds like you and I are picking books from the same shelf!
What will I do when the world opens up... well, Becca and I went to Acorns & Threads; I got my much-needed mani/pedi; but I'm ready to hit the road... I want to go camping! It's been too long and I'm itching to see new roads, maybe some new trails and a beautiful lake or river... ah, a nice chair, a nice view and some hand work *sigh*. I heard DisneyLand is opening up next Month... what?! Finish up a couple of those bindings and start the Summer wool project. Heehee!
Definitely spend time with my grandchildren, the go to a cross stitch shop.
I hear ya!
Love watching you live your projects you inspire and encourage people we would have been great friends har our paths crossed I dream of going to stitching shops in every state
Thanks for the chat. Now I want popcorn! My dream is to go on a vacation to a beach where the water is crystal blue.
I have had some time with my grandsons already here is GA but I haven't been to church since March 15th. I miss the fellowship and the music with my church family. I watch it online but it just ain't the same. Many blessings
I bet the churches will be flooded when the doors open
Ah yes, the Sisterlies and I are having an ongoing dialogue tonight. What a hoot!! Cheryl has a wip with about 4 stitches in it and I told her it wasn't a wip. It was a wipette! LOLOL You really are determined to finish those bindings aren't you? Good for you. Think of the guiltless leeway you'll have to make many more purchases when you're done. You're singing to the choir as far as your Dad goes. The same thing happened to me when I had my second heart attack. Any "friends" who didn't visit, etc. said "well, it's your second one. We've done all this before." No wonder I've become a lone hermit. Most people DO disappear when the dust settles and you're left alone, so may as well adjust in the beginning and ICU was a good place to start. I've done my #2 thing. It was my B-day yesterday and I went INTO a restaurant for dinner. Didn't get the right meal but I ate it anyway, I was so grateful to be out. Take very good care, Anna. Luv ya and we'll chat again. Thanks for this evening's visit.
love that term...wipette!! LOL I am going to use it...yes, it seems challenges seem to weed out those that don't want to make the effort...I may end up the hermit next door to you! lol
@@quiltroadies1695 You'd be more than welcome. Have at it with "wipette". It's all yours.
I don’t have family nearby, so I would need to spend some serious driving or flying time to see them. But, after that, I think I want to go to the coast (Morro Bay or nearby) and Sequoia National Park for the nature hits and then plan a big trip that I haven’t done before-Europe or Africa or New York ( I don’t get out much). I also want to start taking classes again at my LQS. I miss the people there and the collegiality of classes. Thanks for the prompt to dream! Great video!
I would love to do some traveling soon. Perhaps with family.
Ohhhh- i want to travel to The Vista motel - which is right across from the ocean in Gloucester, MA and have my favorite seafood dish from LobstaLand, also in Gloucester - and then hit every yarn and quilt and thrift shop all the way home from Gloucester - AND come home up over the mountains- & hope I see one darn bear or moose because it’s just that beautiful. (The wildlife is a running joke because there are signs ALL over & we still haven’t seen one!!). AND then - spend a night in Bennington, VT - because it too is just so beautiful!!
Sigh.
I’m afraid it may happen even before seeing my family - my children do not live close - my son is in tech school in Texas. My daughter is in Buffalo & talking about moving even farther- children spreading wings.
I would have said that my first thing to do would be go to the quilt shop an hour from me but she has closed for good after this darn virus. Now I guess going shopping would be my next wish. I haven’t even gotten my own groceries since early March!
What pattern is the quilt behind you Ana? I see a bee hive on it. I really like the embroidered quilt blocks. I find I can work on those at the cottage or outside and see them. I can’t see cross stitch without a magnifier anymore. I’m working on Winter Wonderland from Crabapple Hill this summer. I do the embroidery in the summer and the piecing and quilting in the winter. Yours looks like a nice easy one to put together. Edited to add that I just heard you say it was your Stitching With The Sisterlies quilt. Now I have my answer. 😀
Looking forward to gathering with the gals at the church quilt group... That's about the only thing affected by the Covid nonsense.... We haven't been impacted here in Nebraska like other places.... We see the grandkids, still have family dinners, everyone is still working. My girls homeschool already, so they weren't bothered...
And... All our quilt shops stayed open to provide fabric for all the mask makers...
Life is good!
I'm having the same experience with my reading. I'm 75 years old and I can't remember not have at least one book going. I really don't know what is going on. I enjoy your post and consider you a friend! I'm a quilter and a cross stitcher. I'm thinking we are twins seperated at birth!!
I had a goal to read 10 books this year. I have read 3. Lost count of how many I started and put down. I think the quality of writing and storytelling has declined. So many books today rely in violence to sell a book. I just want a good story.
yes...a good sink my teeth into it book!
My dream has to include snorkeling in the Caribbean 😊. It will be awhile till I get there, I’m taking care of my 90 year old Mom and she needs a lot of attention. In my mind though, my friends and I are going to explore central and South America, maybe Africa... I’m an expert daydreamer. Think of all the cloth, quilt shops I could visit🤗. I really look forward to your videos, thank you so much.
oh I love your daydreams!
I think facing the bee quilt is a great idea. It would be great to do a short review on that process. Thank you!
Will do!
Awwww, such nice friends 💞
Anna, enjoyed your chat. I know that once I can go out again I will get together with a group that I knit and crochet for charity. Its been a long time since we were together.
I want the freedom to go to any place I want to go without restrictions 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Love watching Midsomer Mysteries 😄
I think you will enjoy the rest of "Queen Bee" By Doretha Benton Frank. That was her last book as she died in 2019.. Many of the books she wrote take place on or near Sullivan's Island in SC. Spent a week there as our niece was married in Charleston and the family stayed all together at this wonderful house a block from the beach.Quiet different for us from the NW.
I hope to visit all the quilt stores along the way via I-40 on my way from Taylor, Texas to home in Bakersfield, California to visit with family and friends; especially my daughter in Tulare, California. I will be 77 in November, and just hope I will still be up to the long drive, yes alone. I miss my daughter and family. My son and family are here in Texas. Visit quilt stores between Taylor, Texas and Santa Rosa, New Mexico where I catch I-40.
I am moving after Covid us over. I have one more place to see in the 🌎, I am going to see my mom's folks overseas, Am. 🇼🇸, or Galapagos. But now it all depends on the shape of those places...& the airline travel. What a different world since I flew as a airline personnel..'sigh'.
Oh...thanks for doing this vlog. I really think you took my idea of a 'binding & chat'. I duuno....coulda been others too.; either way YAY!!
Old World Quilt Shop? I pray they will open open fully one day!!Stay safe👋🙏😁
I want to go up to Door County Wisconsin with my stitching and sit by the lake in Pennisula State Park!
If you enjoy the Midsomer Mysteries, have you tried Father Brown series? Similar concept. You were the first person who mentioned difficulty concentrating on reading. I had the same issue, finally able to read a book again! In the meantime the last few months cross stitching has been my saving grace.
I’m dying to get out of town! I had planned a trip up to Oregon this fall, but don’t think that’s going to happen.🥺 So, the next best thing would be to go to Lake Tahoe for a few weeks. So, basically I want to go where you live. Lol. Just going to a free sew at our LQS would be great at this point! The soap that came on at noon was All my Children. I watched it from the beginning. I still watch General Hospital.🤪In Fresno, they were going to open movie theaters, but our numbers went up, so maybe the end of June now. They did say they would be older movies, not new releases. Ttyl. Susan
I like your dream question, but I think it's a hard one. The first thing that popped into my head was to be able to go to a nice restaurant and h ave a glass of wine and a wonderful meal. They have opened up here but still not feeling sure about going. Take care!
Anna, the story about your dad really struck home with me. When I was working I had, or so I thought, a lot of friends.....and then I retired. It turned out that what I had was a lot of working acquaintance's - not friends. And so now, I am trying to make friends. It's not easy at 55 but at least I'm trying 😊
I want to go to my quilt guild retreat and spend time with 99 friends in August!
whaaaa...I just said yesterday I need a quilt retreat!
Our August retreat just got cancelled. I understand but am still sad. I live in Phoenix.
Yay! Sweet Anna ❤️❤️❤️ i am in the middle of tripping my way through creating a pantagram of the alien that gets edged to edge on the son’s quilt....THEN I CAN BIND ❤️❤️❤️❤️ you are more than welcome to drop in anytime. If you have any quilts you just need edge to edge quilting on, you can drop them off here on your way to Portland to visit the kids and grandkids. Mark said the same exact thing as your dad, after his first heart attack. I think Lori McCleary does that cool custom quilting and shes up by you ;). The next thing i would want to do after covid is done, i would want to go to Minnesota and meet Stacy at Buttermilk Basin and see her new shop and all the goodies in it ❤️❤️❤️
I want to travel to Europe like I was supposed to this summer.