Its been a little boring the past couple of days around here. I have been trying to get some projects ready to take with me on a retreat I'll be attending next week. My goal is to have 3 or 4 prep projects to sew on the machine and then I'll take the blocks I have ready for "Words to Live By", plus some knitting too. I've been going through my scraps for strips and then cutting up squares and rects. And the strips for this project. Figure I would sew up strips to take with me so all I'll need to do is trim them up and make the units. Will see how that works out. They'll be 3 of us in one car and we try to keep it down to the minimum, so my plan is to have everything cut and ready to sew together. I'll be taking no extra fabric. Bob is feeling like himself these days and I'm so happy to see it. Except he is into everything. Helping with the scraps. He thinks I need to help with appliqueing too. But he