52nd anniversary celebration

 Yesterday was our 52nd wedding anniversary and we had a really nice day.....
The curvy road from Hemet to Ildyllwild is one of our favorites.........

 We have been riding to Idyllwild since in the 1970s and always fun......

 We had lunch at the Red Kettle....it used to be Jan's Red Kettle....we have eaten there many times...

Yummy grilled chicken salad with a dash of oil and vinegar.......

 We parked next to the monument sculpted by chain saw....

This ride was 199.2 miles and we hope there are many more rides in our future.

For those checking my blog for quilting and projects...sorry none with this post.

Smiles and hugs....Caryl

ticker tape quilt + more

 I have been wanting to make a ticker tape quilt for awhile....
I have a lot of small scraps that I save and this is a perfect way to use them....
This past week I was cutting strips and squares from my stash for projects I am working on....
SOOOOOOOO when I ran into a bag of these little pieces....I had to start a little quilt!!!!

 Here is my scrappy trips quilt.....
in August I finished the wavy line quilting across the squares....

Also in August I put on the binding....

using Sandy Gervais fabric of course....

all of the pieces of this quilt are from her lines of fabrics....

I have blogged many times about this...

Here is the binding in the large glass container on the floor......
A really easy way to keep the binding out of the way and ready to clip to the edge of the quilt...

I am now working slowly on hand stitching the binding to the back and doing this in between other projects.....

I am linking to Pat Sloan's Show and Tell........
Smiles and hugs....Caryl