About 4 years ago I made a start on Blue Ridge Beauty – a beautiful Bonnie Hunter quilt pattern that I really wanted to make. But it has been put away for at least 3 years now and when I saw that aqua/teal was the RSC colour for September I knew it was time to get back to work on this UFO.
After I found, unpacked and counted all my blocks, I had 230 four patches to make and 28 half square triangles. So for the first three weeks of the month thats all I worked on and I’m happy to say I now have all the small blocks made – ready to be trimmed up.
I did make four of the larger blocks and I love the way the pattern is turning out! My plan is to just poke along with it now in between other projects.
September has been a productive month all round here. I’ve started volunteering a couple of hours a week tutoring and am really enjoying it. At home we’ve continued working on cleaning up the garden and are waiting on a quote to get some long overdue retaining walls built. We’ve had several tradespeople in quoting for various jobs inside and also got security cameras installed. I feel that we are settling in to good routines now and retirement is starting to feel like the ‘norm’ rather than a holiday.
We also finalised the sale of our investment property and have paid off the mortgage. After years of working we are now fully debt free. I remember years ago when we had a lot of debt ( my blog was originally a personal finance blog) and the stress associated with that. I used to listen to Dave Ramsay and it seemed so far away to think we could ever be fully debt free, but here we are – living like no-one else after years of living like no-one else. So now our finances are very simple and not something I stress over or spend much time on anymore which is a big change for me.
I’m trying to get back in the habit of more regular blogging again so will do better in October. I’ve always wanted to do Moda Blockheads and this year I finally am! Loving it so far so will post those blocks shortly.
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