Grandpa is 98!

Here is Grandpa Stockton with my Aunt Katie.And in the 50s with his chinchillas.
And his parents (about 1940?). I am flying up to Missouri tomorrow, and then driving with Mom and Dad to the Ozarks to visit Grandpa on Saturday. He (Grandpa) is healthy and a lot of fun to listen to. He has a million stories and a great sense of humor. If time permits we are also going to visit the shop Katie works in. I hear they have quilting fabric now.

Should I get her a machine of her own?

Kitten says "this machine is mine."

"So is the case it came in!"

"You may use the Bernina ONLY when I nap."

"I have my eye on you."

Aunt Katie (Primitive Woolens) thought perhaps the grilling photo was from holiday activites at my home, but nope, I took the barbecue picture at River Market in Kansas City when Dad and I went down there last week. I am getting slow at quilting, so I don't have any new sewing photos. The Kitten and I are fighting over my Bernina. She has scratched me up pretty good, even with my sewing gloves on. I kicked her outside; she got scared, so I shut her in the bathroom; she got mad (more mad). I don't know what I am going to do with her. She is great as long as I don't go near my machine.

Sue Spargo's Michelle Pillow

Thank you, Aunt Katie! In the mail today was the brown wool blend thread I needed to complete a small part on the Michelle pillowtop I started in Sue Spargo's class at Gwinnett's Original Sewing and Quilting Expo last October. My sweet Aunt Katie (Primitive Woolens) sent me an entire spool even though I said I only needed 2 yards. I will have to do a lot more wool work (I really enjoy it)! I am not sure my pillow top will make it to a completed pillow though, since pillow finishing is uncharted waters for this novice sewer (oh man, look at that word). I guess you have to be a novice seamstress because you can't be a sewer except out loud, otherwise it looks nasty. But if you know a lot of hookers...

Anyhow, I can't wait to get done with work tomorrow so I can spend some time with my Kitten in my sewing room being a seamstress and blogging with hookers.