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I finally sat down and finished this this evening...I don't know why didn't finish it the other day.  Is it bright enough for you?  Lorelei picked out the flowered fabric and her aunt and I picked out the other two to go with it.

This is the back...not too bad looking.

This shows the pockets.  When I was a kid, I loved pockets.  In fact I still do...

I have not washed this...and I don't know about the fit but I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Anyway, just wanted to show that I did in fact finish it.

From Indiana--2011

I am pretty sure I have never posted this.  It was taken in 2011...I think from somewhere near Shipshewana.  How I would have loved that porch when I was kid.  Shoot, I would love it now.

Mom had a friend that lived in a house with a wrap around porch.  At least she lived there for a while.  We only went to her house once or twice a year.  And I dearly loved to go because that porch went all the way around the house.  I barely remember being in the house itself.  It was a two-story house. I was for sure never upstairs...and I don't even remember which room they had their visit in.  There was a farm pond not far from it.  I never fished in it, but mom's friend did.

It is funny, I knew I had to behave at her house.  Mom's friend had only had one daughter...I never met that daughter.  She lived in another state I think.  Anyway, I don't know if it was because Mrs. H was older, or it was cause Mr. H. was sickly, I just knew to be quiet and behave.

But if we went to the Jones, I could climb trees, and explore around the place and come in and out and nothing was thought about it.  And if there were kittens, someone would be sure to take me to them, or tell me where they were.  (My mom hated cats...)  Actually, it was one of the Jones that talked mom into letting me have my first cat.

Anyway, any time I see any sort of a wrap-around porch, I think of Mrs. H....

Willy Nilly Friday 5

1.  We probably spend as much time watching stuff on YouTube as we do watching actual TV.  We watch stuff about our hobbies;  in my case, I watch a lot about sewing as well as regular series that were on TV at one time.  Roger watches stuff about fly tying, knife making, history, and more besides. He tends to watch random things...I tend to find series that I will watch till I watch them all...recently, it was All Creatures Great and Small, before that New Tricks, and Ballykissangel was somewhere in the mix.  At one time YouTube had all the Great British Sewing Bee shows on, then could only watch clips for a while.  Right now, there are 3 full length shows available from Season 3...below is the first one.


2.  Do you ever pause and think how sewing is done everywhere.  Some out of necessity, but a lot is done by people just trying to make something beautiful.  How many of you have heard of  molas....click here to see a video showing some...they are made by hand.  So many stitches...adding and taking away layers of cloth.  Or click here to see the Siddis making quilts.  Again by hand...

3.  How many of you have what you call guilty little pleasures?  Mine is the mini-powdered donuts that you get in a bag.  I LOVE them.  I don't especially care for the normal sized powdered donut, but give me a bag of the small ones and I am good to go.

4.  I have not fed the birds in days...simply because of the number of cowbirds that come.  The last day I filled the feeder, it took them approximately 3 hrs to empty it...and the feeder holds close to a gallon of feed.  The little songbirds did not get to enjoy any of it.  I will eventually start  to feed them again...just waiting a bit in hopes that the cowbirds will have moved on.

5.  We seen the doctor today...it was just a follow up to the test/procedure Roger had done.  The one biopsy they took was benign...did not show any pre-cancer cells.  So that is good.

Linking to Tanya's Willy Nilly Friday 5