So, what’s been happening around the studio these days? Well, first up I wasn’t in the studio for just over a week as I headed down to Orlando Florida to meet up with friends and do a jam-packed tour of several Disney parks and Universal Studios. It was an awesome trip, however, I was so tired when I got back that nothing much has been happening at all in the studio for the past week or so.
We ended up as a party of five as I met up with my friend Karen and her brother Tom and then we were joined by a long time friend of Tom’s and his wife. We were quite the mixed bag as Tom is from Schenectady New York, Karen has recently moved to Newport News Virginia and Colin and his wife hail from Gulf Port Mississippi. I was the lone Canadian in the group.
Here we all are, this was actually taken at Epcot which was our last day together but it was the only group photo I could find.
Here I am with Micky at Disney Animal Kingdom we are ready to go on Safari!
Here is the Volcano at Volcano Bay. The tube thing you may notice in the photo is a water drop (I would say slide but you actually just drop down it) and no I didn’t try this out. We had a lot of fun at the water park it was great being a kid again!
Here is Karen and I at a restaurant in Hollywood Studios, it was designed as a late 50’s early 60’s diner like Mom’s, you even got told off if your elbows were on the table or if you looked at your phone!
The stormtroopers marching down the streets of Hollywood Studios.
Me just before heading down to explore Knockturn Alley. I loved exploring all of the Harry Potter stuff at Universal Studios. I could have just stayed there all day. Next time I may just do that.
It was a great time, we did Disney Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Epcot Centre, Volcano Bay and Universal Studios-Islands of Adventure (Harry Potter). It was a lot of fun but I think if I go again I would like to space things out some with more downtime scheduled in between parks. I just missed hurricane Michael on my way through Atlanta airport and it was a rough hour flight from Atlanta to Orlando due to the hurricane but it was all good. We had sunshine, for the most part, however, it was unseasonably HOT and HUMID!! I never thought I would hear myself say this but I really enjoyed the air-conditioned exhibits and theatres when we could find them.
On the quilting front, I did finish a July Quilt a-long that Bold Notion Quilting was holding, of course, I was a few months late but better late than never. It is funny how you get really good at doing some quilting patterns but avoid others. I made myself go out of my comfort zone and do swirls on this one. I didn’t do to badly but still need a little more practice.
Since I managed to come back from the trip exhausted and then caught a cold I didn’t get much done but did pull out some hand work to do.
This is Block 11 of the Vintage Valentine pattern which I started hmm 12 or more years ago. It was supposed to be a block of the month, then it was a block of the year and now it’s whenever I remember to get it out and work on it. I choose to do it by needle turn applique. It is not my favourite method of working however, I am determined to finish this one day. I only have one more block and the centre medallion to go.
It’s odd though, I don’t even like the colour pink that much or hearts so whatever possessed me to take on this project still baffles me.
Oh well, may the quilting force be with you!