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This week the kits for my favorite quilt from Spring quilt market arrived in the store. Moda, the fabric manufacturing company, has a new designer. The designer has a store, French General, where she sells vintage french fabric and jewelry kits and notions. She goes to France each summer, and shops at flea markets to collect more vintage merchandise for her store. This fabric line was patterned after old French linens. Her next collection has faded blues. I liked both the fabric and the story behind it. You can see her store at www.frenchgeneral.com.

I had to be firm with myself to not carry one off with me when I left the quilt shop. I am almost done with Mike's quilt, but I have several others in various stages of completion. My housekeeping is also in various stages, so today I have to work as well as play.

Farming is on hold until it warms up again. We got very little snow, which has melted, but the corn and the fields have to be a little dryer before the farmer can finish his corn harvest. Many in the midwest are up to the axles in mud, so we are thankful for just a short delay.

"Hello kitty" is now Gracie. I feel a little guilty that we did not put a "found cat ad " on the radio, since she is so clearly a tame cat. We will see. She was "helping" the farmer dig a trench for the electrical wiring to run from the power pole to the new wood shop. He did not think she was much help. But she is beautiful, which is, in itself, a useful function, don't you think?

I find myself a little nervous over punctuation and spelling, given my educated readers, but I keep writing. You all do the same!