This week I took to the woods with the books.
This is a sweet fairy tale. A king and queen had no children so the queen went to the royal inventor and she (SHE) put together a robot boy while the king went to the local witch and she transformed a log into a little girl. But as we all know, witches attach glitches. At night the girl turns back into a log until she is awakened by the robot when he opens her curtains in the morning. Then one day a commotion distracted him and he forgot....
Rene opens a cafe at the edge of the woods. An idyllic setting. Glumfoot is the little gremlin who answers her ad for help. Rene prepares gourmet foods she is very proud of but no one comes to eat. Glumfoot goes out into the woods and finds Ogre to come eat. Ogre thinks Rene's ingredients are horrible but Glumfoot figures out how to fool the ogre into eating the food, which means the other forest creatures will, too. The kids loved the ingredients ogre expected and how Glumfoot transformed Rene's masterpieces to appeal to him.
While you all are packing your cars for Scrub Stitchin' weekend, or as the time changes, you are probably UNpacking right now, I was at my retreat last weekend.
Our little group is just six of us now and that wasn't even this weekend because Friend Barb got sick in the late evening of the first day and packed up and went home to spare the rest of us getting what she had. Thank, you, Barb! We really missed her but were glad to not get what she had.
Thus there isn't much show and tell to share
Lisa made this huge elephant for her grand girls as a floor pillow.
She made this for their camper
Sally showed this. We all were astounded. It's beautiful, who doesn't like pink, green and white? But it is WAY out of Sally's wheelhouse. The blocks are big and not her colors at ALL. I didn't get a picture of the pieced grand daughter's name on the back for privacy sake. So pretty!
Joyce made this for her daughter. This daughter is the one that's quilt worthy. Remember the story I told about her OTHER daughter who sent the quilt Joyce made for her to Goodwill? Not quilt worthy.
Joyce was given a lot of hexies from Barb and she did what I'm doing as my car project. Just attaching them with no rhyme or reason to planning. Mine is growing but I only work on it in the car and my hexies are smaller. Joyce was happy to have a way to use the variety up.
And she had still more.

Joyce is a wonderful knitter. This is an interesting thing. She is making a shawl with this yarn. You knit the blue but when you come to green you make this bauble thing - looks like barnacles or coral- they are random, you just stop knitting when you come to green and do the thing.
Of course I can't show you my show and tell because it was Elizabeth's BA quilt. But this is what I worked on AND FINISHED. When I got home I added the binding and FINISHED it!
I also took my Liberty of London circles but didn't do much with them. They are a slow slog.
OK, have fun everyone at Scrub Stitchin' and tell everyone I said hi.