Shopping, Visiting, and a Mess

Friday was a shopping day with mom. Here's my Aunt Effies haul.

For a little over $100

10 yards of muslin, two types of hand sewing needles (for all those hexagons I've been making over the years), batting tape, a purple thang, three 1-yard coordinated cuts for that last minute project, and a bundle of 24 fat quarters for a project I have in mind utilizing an Alison Glass pattern I have on order. 

I did come home after our shopping day and start these...

The start of 100 11" string blocks

Yesterday we were on the road again. All day. Picked mom up around 9:00 and didn't get home until 6:00-ish. Visited with the kids/grandkids, stopped by Gall Sewing to get some needles (which they didn't have) and a 1/4" presser foot (without the rail) for my little HQ Stitch 210 (Lilo). Mom needed vacuum bags for her antique vacuum...and of course, Gall had them.

Lunch at Red Robin and then off to Lowe's. Picked up some flooring for our back entrance, some double sided tape for my long arm foam mats (because they are becoming slippery with all the lint), and two more totes to store quilts in.

After a quick trip through Culvers for a Concrete Mixer, we were headed back home. After getting in the back door, something didn't smell right.

Now, we leave Hazel often by herself. She's 2+ years old and generally, other than ripping out parts of her tail, is completely fine. But yesterday did not appear to be a good day for her. She ate/got into something that just didn't agree with her and left three large soupy green poop messes on our off white carpet. Clearly, she didn't feel well. Clearly, we're still working on getting up the stains.

Don't know if we're going to get to lay that flooring today. It's a beautiful sunny day so working back in the back room would be stellar, but Jim needs to find tools and see if we can actually get to this project.