New sewing machines!

While we were on vacation a couple of machines followed me home! I was browsing FB Marketplace and came across these two for sale. I've wanted the Lotus decals for awhile and the Damascus....well I've never even seen one for sale! So I had to go get them!
Aren't they so pretty? Now to clean them up and get them running.

The Damascus was frozen up. The hand wheel would only make a half turn and then stop and the presser foot would not go down. Both now work and a bobbin has hopefully been found on Ebay. The Singer didn't need any special treatment.

I even broke down and finally bought some TR3 that is supposed to make them shine. It should be here today.

This has been my handquilting project for the summer. As you can see I'm getting lots of help from the resident quilt inspector!

Everything must pass her quality control. She thought my markings on this quilt were a little off so decided to move the ruler just a tad. This one will be a wedding present for dh's boss who is getting married in September. It just needs the binding put on and to be washed.

This one I have been working on all year. Its for my daughter who put everything on hold last year to take care of me and run the house while I was sick. Its a LOT of paper piecing (which I hate) and right now I had to take a break from it. There's a huge mistake in it and I have to work around that because I am simply NOT redoing eleven rows! It is going to be a design change!

To clear my mind from paper piecing and let it rest I'm playing with years of TOGA blocks. So far I like what I have come up with. Its been so fun to pull these out and look at all the different names and types of machines they were made on.

And that's all for today folks!!

So much for keeping up with this blog!

Life gets busy and this is the farthest thing from my mind. It has been a great summer though. School starts back next week for the boys so I will be inside more and maybe will post more often...or maybe not!

Most of my time has been spent in therapy this summer. Aqua therapy and Vitamin D therapy. It all happened right here.

Everyone worked so hard putting this amazing pool up this year. I am thrilled with it. See that beautiful clear water? It still looks that amazing! In years past I have struggled mightily with keeping the water clear. This pool has a sand filter instead of a cartridge and I love it! I have been in the pool every chance I could and I am dreading the thought of closing it for the winter.

I've also played with plants a lot this year. I didn't garden. I just did not have the heart or the energy for it. Here are a few of the plants I've been busy with. There's also a rock bed I created with help from my youngest son and a hosta bed.

I've also spent a good bit of time in urgent care with our youngest this summer. It has been the year for him to get stitches. I am threatening to wrap him in bubble wrap! First he hit his head with the tamper that they were using to pack the dirt for the pool and ended up with four stitches above his eyebrow. Then later this summer he went to a picnic for his tkd school and cut his knee open on bolts that were sticking out under the picnic table.
I'm not going to post pics of those.

To finish off the summer we went on vacation. It was a well deserved one for dh. He has been on crazy, long hours for too long. I treasure these pictures as we were able to get everyone together for a short time. It doesn't happen often anymore with everyone grown and having their own lives.