I finished up the "Rouse House Turkey Bowl" hats while on vacation in Cincinnati. The Rouses were blown away by them! I am so glad they loved them and also very happy that they are completed. We will look forward to going seeing them in use at Thanksgiving. I just adore that four-letter word "DONE"! Now it is back to work on the kitchen renovation. I still haven't recovered enough from our vacation to check out the aftermath of the flooding in the basement from the combined effects of hurricanes Katia and Lee. I don't think there will be too much permanent damage, PTL!

Some kitchen cabinets are finally installed!

We have been working diligently on the kitchen for the past few days. My cousin-in-law arrived late Monday night and painted the kitchen yesterday. This morning Gobbi & Dennis started installing cabinets and worked on that project until Dennis discovered water was flowing into the basement. All kitchen work came to a quick halt and we all got busy downstairs trying to stay ahead of all the water coming in through the walls. The ground is so saturated that the basement was the only place left to go.

Late this afternoon Pam and Dennis went to visit a friend and Gobbi and I got busy on the cabinets again. Here are a few pictures of our progress. My contributions to the install were removing a glide from the bottom of one of the cabinets, holding the over-the-refrigerator cabinet up while Gobbi installed it, and holding the doors while they were being put in place. I am such a good

helper! On the one picture Dennis is checking the level. It was about then that the guys discovered that the house wall was not straight! The corner cabinet was fudged a bit to get things to line up, but I think it worked out well after all. The final picture was what the west end of the kitchen looks like with the pantry and uppper cabinets installed.

Rouse House Turkey Bowl hats

I have been working on a project for my SIL. Every Thanksgiving morning her neighbors host "The Rouse House Turkey Bowl" for the neighborhood. There are two teams for touch football. Last Thanksgiving we were there to watch the game. SIL suggested that I make hats for the two teams so we could better tell who was on which team. Today I completed the first black hat. I will also be making orange ones. The colors represented are the Bengals and Anderson Twp. high school's team colors, so we thought they would be appropriate. I nixed the idea of embroidering a small turkey on each hat--too labor intensive! The pattern for the hat is from Patti Pierce Stone.

Angel flying to Nova Scotia

I haven't been doing much stitching lately, but yesterday I sent an angel I made on Sunday to Nova Scotia. A digitizer requested angels for one of her testers whose husband had passed away. They had no children, so the widow is pretty much alone. The angel is from C-Some Stitches and stitched out beautifully.

Oh, my! It has been almost a month!

Yes, a month since I last posted. During that time I have been busy in physical therapy trying to get back the use of my left hand following carpal tunnel surgery the end of February. My crazy body decided to build up scar tissue in all the wrong places in my hand and wrist. That caused all sorts of pain and other problems. As of this past Wednesday, I finally feel like I will regain the full use of this hand, PTL!

"Baby" crocheted-edge fleece blanket

Tomorrow is our Project Linus quilting bee and I found several blankies in the closet at church to take along. I found this little, plain blankie and decided to add some embroidery. I think it is really cute! What do you think? The design was a freebie from Hatched in Africa.

my, how time flies!

I can hardly believe that almost a month has flown by since I last posted to my blog! It has been so hot lately that I don't even have to light the grill to do my meat. Well, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. 8-D

Since I was on a roll with embroidering dish towels and the like, I decided to do a bunch more. I ordered six more Dunroven House dish towels from The Sewfisticated Stitcher; I really do like these towels. I also discovered a set of three red striped dish towels, as well as a few microfiber towels and a set of really plush hand towels that cried out for embossed designs. Attached are pictures of my output. The colors are a bit off because I took most of them down in the basement. The lighting is not great down there, putting it mildly.