I Like Thursday #52

Whew I guess I am  a wee bit late---but I made it.  Wednesday had been "one of those days".  From the moment I awoke until I finally fell asleep I was constantly being bombarded with texts, instant messages, phone calls.  Now most of the time I am not even remotely that popular.  My mom calls me every couple of days.  My daughters call me maybe once a month, and I have no problem with that.  I know they are busy with work, families, life in general.  I get a text or two from my male friend John, but otherwise, it is relatively silent.  So here it is actually Thursday and I am writing a quickie I Like  post.  :D 

I like having a stash....a big stash.  Every year one of the local quilt shops does a stuff your stocking event which I mentioned in this blog post. (I guess I should share what I acquired during that event soon!) The devious little elves at the shop set out all this cute holiday projects right by the check out and every year is a super cute table runner and pattern.  I picked up this years which had these cute chickadees.  I started to cut the runner out the other day and one fabric was cut so crooked I could not get 4  two and a 1/2 inch strips like I needed. 

This is the fabric.  I even tried a Google image search to no avail.  I didn't want to drive to the quilt shop so I went stash shopping. 

This is what I found, in my whole stash one red which was close.

Not too terrible I think.  Thank goodness for stash. 

I like flowers but sometimes I can't justify the cost.  Every time that John and I have a date he brings me something.  This past week it was these gorgeous flowers.

They sure do brighten up my day, and freesia smells wonderful. 

 I like that sometimes I am ahead of the pack when it comes to quilting.  The trends come and go as fast as the runway fashions from New York, Paris, and Milan every season.  I started using scraps for guild to make string blocks. 

  It helps use the ugly fabrics and florals because they kind of get lost in the design.

Trust me I create a lot of strings when I cut for guild.  Empty and cleaned kitty litter buckets come in very handy. 

Finally I read a lot, or listen to a lot of books.  I saw this cozy mystery series and thought it looked fun, so I borrowed it from the library online through an audio book service called Hoopla.  I can get up to 6 books per month through Hoopla alone.  I will say I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the person who read the book on the audio added to it so much.  I definitely will be reading or listening to the 2nd one.  

Thanks for visiting, I guess better late than never.  Now head over to LeeAnna's at Not Afraid of Color and check out the other I Like Thursday posts.