Showing posts with label Lilla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lilla. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Scraps and more scraps


We had an excellent Zoom sewing session yesterday. We got to see two people that we hadn't seen in quite a while, so that was good to catch up with them. I was ripping something out, and now it's ripped out completely. That was a bit of a nasty job, but it's done.

I did spend some time puttering to try and get a handle on the stuff in Studio B. I got everything from the retreat put away, except those baskets of work that need to be done. They are still sitting in the middle of the floor.

Rita sent me a picture of her Lilla quilt that we worked on last year. This was the class at Oh Look Fabric. I LOVE the colors! Rita made it totally random with her fabrics, and she used up her scraps to make some of the blocks, so I don't think she has anything left over. That was a brilliant idea as there were a lot of small scraps because of the curved seams and the way the quilt was constructed.



Rita's version of Lilla 




What I love is that she persevered even after the class finished getting her quilt top done!

Well, I could NOT find the project box for one of the quilts that I'm working on. I knew it was in the studio, but where? I checked several times. Nothing. Then I actually opened my eyes when I searched and look at what I found.
Do you see what I see?


Yep - if I fold back those blocks, guess what's hiding beneath them.

The project box


Phew -- so now I'm going to finish off that homework and get it out today and start working on the next blocks for the next project. It keeps me hopping to stay ahead with the five projects. It's not hard, I just can't let my guard down!

Then I decided it was time to get some pet mats done. I'll be meeting with the person I give them to on Friday, and well, I'd like to get more out of my house.

I managed to get 10 more mats made. Some of them just needed to be sewn shut. But they are now packed and ready to leave the house.

Pet mats ready to go


The best part of that? I was able to empty quite a few bags of scraps. I did find quite a bit of batting scraps, and those went into another bag as I have someone who'll take the smallish sizes cut off from quilts. That bag is almost full.

I still have seven bags, so I don't need to rush out and make more at the moment, but I'll have to make more for the next pet mat making session. 

Bags for pet mats


The bags of scraps that I used up yesterday, were sitting on the window seat in Studio U. Now, look at the window seat.

A few more scraps on the window seat



There is one big box of scraps that people gave to me. The tub is mostly larger pieces of fabric and will likely all go to community projects. The other small bags and basket are my own stuff, and there are all kinds of things in there that I need to sort through.


I'm not entirely out of the woods yet with scraps. There are still there four IKEA bags to deal with. But huge progress is being made. Compared to what I started with, this is nothing!


The last of the donated scraps

I've no idea what's in any of them. On top is more of the upholstery samples that I make the bags from. Depending on what's in the bags, I might be able to deal with one per session. That means I'm about 6 sessions away from being done with these darn scraps. And that exercise is NEVER to be repeated. Oh, the things we learn - the hard way!!!

I did pull some fabric from the bags I emptied yesterday. It's incredible what I received in the bags. Bit of baby clothes still with snaps and zippers that had been cut up for a memory quilt. Those went in the garbage. People obviously didn't appreciate what I was doing with the scraps and did not respect what I asked for. Which is why I would NEVER do this again.

But this is what I pulled. There were lots of other smaller pieces, but I let them go. These strips are all sorted and in the appropriate bag of strings waiting for the next round of sewing on the string quilts.


Strings from the scrap bags


I emptied my loot bag from the birthday party. Oh - a unicorn cookie. That'll make a tasty snack this morning.


Unicorn cookie


 And here's a great pack of buttons. Those would have been perfect for that Summer Quilt for my Mom. Oh well, they'll be suitable for another project.

A package of flower buttons

I got one more thing that I ordered, which was the Kimberbell mystery quilt. I got the embroidery version and the embellishment kit.




The pattern for Love Notes

The embellishment kit



The mystery takes place over August, so I'm one week behind as it started last week. I did not buy the fabric kit, so I'll have to pull some fabric for that. I really don't have the coloring that they show in the pattern, so I'll get creative and come up with something else. That's a job for later today. OH -- I could do black and white and a touch of red????

I forgot to post all the links last week for my QUILTsocial blogs. So here they are.


Monday - Features of the Husqvarna Viking DESIGNER Brilliance 80 sewing and embroidery machine

Tuesday - Tips for working with terry cloth and monograms

Wednesday - Word Sculpt

Thursday - Yarn Couching and the Majestic hoop

Friday - Personalizing Christmas stockings with embroidery


There are loads of tips throughout the posts, and I created a Christmas Wish List as well, so check the posts out as I'm sure there's something among those tips and items that you'll want to add to your Christmas list or that you'll want to do. I love the Word Sculpt project.


If you've ever wondered about copyright, here's a video I found yesterday that is very good at explaining what you can and can't do with a pattern that you buy. I bet you didn't know some of this stuff.


Well, there's loads of stuff to get done today. A wee bit of paperwork, but thankfully there's not much. I do have a Zoom presentation tomorrow evening, and I have to get my film studio set up today. And make sure that I have all the samples, etc. in place. I don't think that'll take too long to do and then I can do whatever I want! Except that I have to pick up my library books at 5:12. All 13 of them.

On that note, I'm out of here!

Have a super day!!!!


Ciao!!!!





Thursday, February 27, 2020

Just do it!!


Back in November, we had our final show and tell for the Lilla quilt. This was our year-long class at Oh Look Fabric. I made all the blocks, but decided to make two lap-sized quilts instead of one huge one. One of the tops got sewn together for that final class and it even got quilted. If you scroll down that post to where I talked about my quilt that was quilted with wavy lines, I was on the fence about adding more quilting.

The quilt has been on my list of quilts to quilt since November - and basically, it was to make a decision whether to add more quilting or call it done. When I initially came up with the idea of the wavy lines, I really wanted to try the lines in two different directions - similar to crosshatching. Well, the list of "urgent" quilts for this month was done and I really didn't have anything else to work on. So I loaded the quilt.

The quilt is loaded

Since it had already been on the long arm, I didn't have to load three separate pieces, I just pinned the backing to the frame.

Here's the detail of the wavy quilting lines  - they look nice all by themselves, but it's my quilt and what do I have to lose if I don't like it with lines going in the opposite direction. Before I committed to the additional quilting and had pinned it to the frame, I did trace these lines onto a piece of clear cellophane and then laid it on the quilt to see what it would look like. I like it - let's go!

The quilting pattern on the Lilla quilt


Now it was a question of replicating that pattern as I had NOT saved it. Oh well. A little bit of math and some finagling and I had myself a pretty decent replica of the original wavy line pattern. This was as close as it was going to get.


Wavy line pattern on the long arm computer

The first set of quilting lines (back in November) consisted of 46 lines. This time, I had to stitch 42 lines as the width was shorter than the length by about 10 inches. I'm sure that if we looked really, really close, we could see a few little issues - so slight that I bet you wouldn't even know what to look for. But after only two lines, I was dancing around the studio - this is EXACTLY what I wanted.

My quilt - DONE

Here's a close up of the quilting pattern. I LOVE IT!

The cross-hatching quilting pattern

This had to be babysat quite closely - simply because each line took only a few minutes to stitch out. I couldn't walk away. Well, I could and I did, but I only had snippets of time to do anything else.

It's going to be trimmed this morning and perhaps have the binding put on later today. I wasn't supposed to let this become a UFO so I must get it done. It also means that I should get the blocks out for the second one and assemble that top. The goal is to quilt the second one totally different so it would be a good comparison for different styles of quilting.

I know that that pattern isn't rocket science, but it doesn't matter, I'm thrilled with it and I made it up myself on the computer!

So it's time to check out the next quilt to be quilted. It's one for my Mom. I totally forgot it was there, but she remembered! Of course - she did!!!!

When I pulled out the quilt, I realized that it's much larger than I thought it was. It's about 66 by 76 or something like that. Pretty much my generous lap size. Oh great - the apple didn't fall from the tree!

Dresden quilt for my Mom


There's no binding and no backing for it. HOWEVER, I did remember seeing some backing fabric that might work. And it happened to be very handy.


Backing fabric

That fabric is actually supposed to be the backing for this quilt - or should I say, it's going to be the border after a cream inner border is added. And perhaps the backing and perhaps the binding.


Quilt top from 30s fabrics

Hmm - what to do? Keep the fabric for the original quilt or use it for my Mom's? HEY - there's a lot of fabric here - let's measure. So I measured and I think there's enough for the TWO backings, TWO bindings and the outer border on the small quilt. Yep - over 8 yards!!!!


Measuring the fabric


It'll be tight, but when haven't I relished a challenge? I'll be making the backing today. We do have a Sit n Sew scheduled, but with the weather, I'm not sure who will venture out. Doesn't matter - if they come - they are totally on their own. I've got a stack of stuff to do and I'm determined to get some of those small things cleaned up!

Everything from that piece of yardage has to be cut perfectly. The backings need to be big enough that the cut off pieces will become the binding so absolutely NOTHING goes to waste. I'll keep you up to date on the progress.

Now the next thing is how to quilt the Dresden plate? My Mom wouldn't know the difference between custom and edge to edge and I could get away with an edge to edge pattern because it's fast. However, I quilted a small Dresden plate quilt for her last year and I believe it was with an edge to edge pattern.

Back to the blog - yes it was in August last year and it was an edge to edge design.

Quilted small Dresden plate quilt for my Mom


I was thinking of using the robot to quilt a feathered wreath in the Dresden blocks. It's so darn busy, I know that you won't see anything. I do NOT want to do straight line stuff in the blocks - like an outline - that'll take forever. I'll contemplate it today and see what I come up with. I should be learning to do new quilting designs or styles with the computer so I might do the wreaths just because I can.

I kept a close eye on the weather yesterday as it snowed all day. However, the temperature was fairly warm and for most of the day, no snow accumulated in our driveway. My kind of snow! So I ventured out last night for my dressmaking class. More sample making. I finished off the two samples from last week.

Here's my sample of the gathered waistband. I know those darn gathers do not lay as nicely as I would like them. They are supposed to be even and look - there's a big gather on the left-hand side. Oh well - it is what it is. It's darn hard to work in small scale!!!

A gathered waistband sample

Then we had to do a skirt vent. I don't think I've ever done one of these before. Now that my sample is made, could I do it again? Well, our pencil skirt has a vent so I'd better remember. I swear it's the angle of the picture that makes the bottom look slightly off. I swear it's straight!!! Do you know how hard it is to make these samples? We're using contrasting threads and it's darn fiddly!

Skirt vent sample


And let's not forget about all the hand stitching details. The edges of the vent need to be sewn shut. I think I did a pretty decent job on hand stitching considering I used dark blue thread.


Hand stitches on the vent


I'll share with you tomorrow, the sample that I made last night. I'm up to date on the sample making - yeah!!! We have one more week of sample making and then we have to work on our skirts. I'll be away for two classes in a row, so I get to work on my skirt completely on my own at home. Oh, dear! I'm sure I'll be fine - after all, how hard can a pencil skirt be when I've already done all the hard work? The muslin is made and has been fitted. The fabrics (except one -yep - making TWO skirts) have been washed. The pattern is ready to go. It shouldn't take that long to make them up.

All those details that Mrs. Sealy taught me in Grade 8 are coming back to me as I sew these samples. I don't remember all the hand stitching details or making things like a vent, but I did a lot of this stuff way back when. But I have learned some new things and that's why I signed up for the class. I'm loving this class and so glad that I decided to take it. I'm going to sign up for the next one as well as long as my travel schedule doesn't interfere too much with the classes.

Yesterday was a great day for learning because I learned ONE more thing. That was how to edit a video on my phone. I was asked to make a short video for my events in Saskatoon. Oh boy - like I have time for that. But let's go for it. Here's the link to the video should you want to be amused. Now that I've cleared the path for editing the videos and using my phone on the tripod - I can see more videos in the future. Yeah!!!

Here's one more video that I thought was hilarious. All about those men quilters!!!

On that note, I haven't heard from any of the five people coming today that they won't be coming, so I'd best get myself organized.

Have a super day!!!


Ciao!!!!

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Lilla Show n Tell


It's that time of year - it's time for the final reveals of our ongoing projects. There were three of them this past week! Wow-what a lot of eye candy!

I'm going to start with Lilla. The final class was this past Thursday.

This is the pattern that we used for the class.


Lilla by Lotta Jansdotter and Cheryl Arkinson

Essentially, there are 25 blocks in the quilt. Each block finishes at 9" and the cover quilt is made using four of each block. Yes - that makes a big quilt - 90" by 90". Everyone did their own thing which I strongly encourage.

Kathy has been busy with life and she still has the last four sets of blocks to make and then she'll assemble all the blocks into a quilt. She promised to send me a picture when it's done and I'm going to hold her to that! The colorway that she chose is amazing. That yellow/green just makes things pop and her background fabric with the black and the yellow/green - well it's perfect. I don't believe those two fabrics are from the same designer.

Kathy's blocks

Rita's life also got in the way. This lady is into everything! She's very creative and a fabulous knitter. Here's just a reminder of the colorway that she used. She's using black/white/grey with a pop of yellow. This one is also going to look spectacular. Rita wants her quilt to be BIG, so she'll be making all the blocks - I believe she has 4 sets of blocks to finish. She might even be adding an additional border with all the leftovers. I can't wait to see it!

A sampling of Rita's blocks

More of Rita's blocks

And more of Rita's block

I realize that I transferred our October show n tell photos to the cloud and I don't know how to access them. I can see them, but not as files. Oh well - something else to learn. Doesn't matter - we're seeing the finished quilts so that missed show n tell isn't a big deal. By the way, I did write out a list of blog posts that I need to write and I'm going to try my best to be on top of things next year. This year was better, but I still missed a few things.

Genny is making TWO quilts. I'm not sure how big each of them is, but she's completed both tops. One was on her long arm and the other is waiting to be quilted. So I'm waiting for pictures of those two as well.

Here's just a sampling of her blocks for one of the quilts. I had to go a long way back to find this picture.

Genny's blocks
I had two ladies who started the class and unfortunately they didn't stick with it for long. So just to refresh our memory, here are Stacey's blocks.

Stacey's blocks

These blocks belong to Eleanor.

Eleanor's blocks
Hopefully, they make something from the few blocks they did make. It's a shame to let them go to waste. If they need help? I hope they call or get in touch with the store.

This is Cathy's quilt, ready to be quilted. She made fewer blocks but she's still going to get a nice lap-sized quilt.


Cathy's quilt


Cathy deserves a medal because she used a directional print for her background and wanted ALL the pieces going in the same orientation. That takes a lot of patience and I think it took a wee bit of the pleasure out of piecing the blocks.

Cathy's meticulous piecing to keep the directional print in the proper orientation

So here's some advice about directional prints. If you need to have the directional prints going in the same direction, never choose them for a background of anything! You'll drive yourself crazy. Or just decide that having the direction going any which way is fine. And this is perfectly acceptable. If you are not comfortable with this process, give it a try - piece some blocks with directional prints and just use it as a print and don't worry about the direction of the motif. That takes some getting used to, but once you get over that - it's OK. And of course, this all depends on what you're making. Pillowcases? I want the directional print going in the right orientation. A print like this one? I probably wouldn't have worried about it. However, we are each different in our approach.

Gisele has her quilt top together!!!!  It looks awesome. And totally different from the picture on the pattern because she made the background dark. I love the little pops of color and prints. What you can't see from this picture is that four of those blocks have two squirrels on them! And they are all in the same orientation which was easy to do since it was only four blocks to worry about.

Giselle's quilt top

Here's a close up of part of her quilt.


A detail of Gisele's quilt


This is the first of my two quilt tops.


One of my quilt tops




One of them is quilted, but not trimmed as I'm still on the fence about whether to do additional quilting lines in the opposite direction. The other one is not sewn together yet.


Quilted with wavy lines

But I've saved the best for last. Sara brought in a COMPLETED quilt. Quilted and bound. Way to go Sara!!!! She made a smaller quilt than the pattern and used four NON-MODERN fabrics for the blocks. It just goes to show that you can make a modern quilt without using modern fabrics. She also didn't follow the pattern exactly - let's just say that some of the blocks were a wee bit of a challenge, so she modified some or made them up! The challenge came from the instructions and that was a wee bit frustrating!


Sara's completed quilt

The best part - the quilt is done!! The backing was pieced from two large pieces of fabric leftover from the front. I didn't get a picture of that. And then with some of the smaller bits, she made this runner. It was quilted with straight lines (like the big quilt), but the lines were much closer together and it looks awesome. I love the texture of dense quilting. The table runner is also bound and finished!

Sara's table runner - DONE

We had a couple of other items for show n tell. Kathy was at a retreat and this is one of the things that she made. It's a gorgeous table runner. I forgot to ask whose pattern it was.

Kathy's table runner

Here's a close up of the block.

Detail of the table runner block

Giselle is always making cool garments and I keep forgetting to take pictures of them. This time, she had made a very smart jacket using the black/white/gray buffalo plaid. It was gorgeous. NEXT time, I'll get a picture.

I'd like to congratulate everyone in the class. I think they did an amazing job. Some of them are still fairly new and each of them took on a personal challenge to put together such a large quilt. They each did a super job and they should be extremely proud of their accomplishment!!!


So what's next???  I'll be listing all my upcoming classes in one place shortly, but here's a peek at what we're doing for next year. This is an on-going class to be held at Oh Look Fabric in Milton. The classes are once a month and last one hour long - it's a lecture-style class including monthly show n tell. This is a medallion quilt (starts in the center and works outward). Lots of opportunities to change up the blocks, the colors and a whole lot more. The class starts in January and ends in November. No classes in July and August. Check out the website and sign up for the class.   The dates are listed on the website.


Aviatrix Medallion


And I have to show you this cute little card holder that I got from one of my students yesterday. Notice the doggie fabric! It's adorable and this is absolutely perfect for my walks when I don't want to carry my wallet, but just need a credit card and a library card (you can't forget the library card - EVER!).
A mini card-holder

Here's the inside of the cardholder. It's adorable. Thanks so much, Barb! I'll be using that a lot. I've already got it tucked in my reuseable errand bag.


The inside of the cardholder


That was amazing! I love this time of year when we get to see the finished projects. I'll have more for you tomorrow.

Today is sit n sew day and we have a full house. But everything in the sewing area of Studio B is nice and neat and waiting for the guests to arrive. I'm going to need a few days to get things back in order. What I need are two solid sewing days to tidy up some loose bits that have been messing the studio up. But that's for later this week.

I'm happy to report that there's not a whole lot on my calendar in the next five weeks! A couple of sewing days, a couple of community project days, a couple of day road trips, and a couple of small classes left to teach. That means I'll be able to hit the sewing/embroidery/long arm machines with a vengeance. I can hardly wait!

Have a great day!!!!

Ciao!!!!

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

What happens at Monday sewing


Ah - Monday - my favorite day of the week. It's our Monday sewing day and well, getting together with friends and enjoying a laugh (or two, or three, or - well you know what I mean) and getting a bit of stitching done at the same time. It doesn't get better than that.

I'm making progress on the current piece that I'm hand appliqueing. It's one of the big quilts that we did in our $25 class at The Hobby Horse in 2009!!!!  Yep - if I could clear up those quilts, I'd be laughing. So every stitch moves me that much closer. Once I'm back from my trip to Needle Works in Cochrane, (November 13 and 14) I'll be more or less done with commitments for the year and I'm going to be focusing on getting some of those UFOs done this year. Yep - that's me - ever optimistic that it'll happen.

I'm that much further along than I was at the beginning of the year. I'm happy with my progress.

So what did the others work on yesterday? Loads of stuff - it was a full house and we had quite a few guests. I love the guests!!! We're all becoming one big happy family and that's so exciting!

Lynn is working on her Celtic Solstice blocks that she acquired this past summer. Between four of the Monday group, they collected quite a few blocks.

One of Lynn's Celtic Solstice blocks

Helen Anne is working on some hand applique. Darn it - I think she's way faster than I am - she even does the prep at Monday sewing. Mind you, she probably doesn't "waste" as much time as I do. I think this block is complete or might be missing some embroidery. Now she's working on the U block. U is for underwear. I don't remember the name of the pattern - I have it, but I'm not running downstairs to find it.

Helen Anne's appliqued block

Nancy was hand stitching the binding to a quilt. You got to love those binding clips! I use them for all kinds of things, but NOT binding.

Binding a quilt by Nancy

Sheila was also working on a hand applique project. This was a small quilt by Laundry Basket Quilts. Those butterflies are super cute and she's done an amazing job at turning those edges under.

Sheila's butterfly blocks

Joyce was working on her homework for the landscape class this Wednesday. The pattern is called Rough Water Canyon by Quilts and Quirks (Joni Newman). Can't wait to see it finished.

The pieces for Joyce's landscape quilt

Mary is becoming the border queen. And the queen of this colorway. She's been working on this quilt for a fair bit. I do LOVE the colors. The quilt has FOUR borders and I think she got at least three on yesterday. Yeah!!!! Not sure what the pattern was.


Working on the borders for Mary's quilt

Susan was working on a quilt that incorporated several panels. As I'm staring at this, I realize that I WANT this panel. Hmm - before I run off and do something silly, I'd best look in my panel section to see if I haven't already purchased the darn thing.


Susan's wintertime quilt
 Heather was working on her batik block of the month. Nice colors!!!!


Heather's blocks for her Block of the Month

Diane was in a binding mood. She got the binding on this small wall hanging and also on the huge quilt that I quilted for her. These embroidered blocks are from the Christmas Cats pattern by LunchBox Quilts. 

Diane was working on binding 

She also started the borders on another quilt. I took this picture in case she asks me next week what order they are supposed to go in!!!

The order of Diane's borders

Linda was working on some homework so I didn't take a picture of it. You'll see it soon enough. But she made this adorable little basket. I LOVE IT!!!!  I gave her the pattern as I had received a bundle of them. Guess what I threw in my retreat bag? Yep - my copy of the pattern and some foam. The pattern is called Petit Four Baskets by byAnnie.com.  It's a FREE pattern. Oh, shoot - I just downloaded a couple more free patterns.


Linda's little basket
 Jan (crazy Jan) finished up the last border on her 99 bottles quilt. Those nine-patches are teeny tiny. Only Jan could work on a quilt like this. Well, I have my eye on this pattern - actually have had my eye on it for a long time, but there's been no time to make it! It's in a book and I don't remember the name of the book at the moment.

Jan's Ninety-nine bottle quilt

 Kathi was making an advent calendar from Grinch fabric. And instead of putting candy in it, there's a little Grinch that you move as the days progress.

Kathi's Grinch advent calendar

Shoot - I didn't get a picture of what Marg and Judith were working on. I think Marg was working on her homework for our upcoming class so you'll see that in a couple of weeks and Judith was knitting.

When I got home, I realized that I should be quilting. There was already a quilt loaded, so I fired up the machine and tried to come up with something different. So I got this wavy pattern going which is what I wanted. I might not have done it the most efficient way, but it doesn't matter - it's done. And I came up with a whole lot of other ideas as I played with this wavy line.

Quilting a wavy pattern on the long arm

Originally I was going to custom quilt this so I didn't take note of the length of the quilt. However, I decided to use the computer to quilt it and guessed at the length. Not bad for guessing.

Only a teeny bit ran off the edge

Here it is finished. I'm tempted to reload it in the opposite direction and do the same wavy lines. Not sure yet. I don't have time to worry about it at the moment so I've got time to decide. This is the Lilla quilt that we are working on this year at Oh Look Fabric. Our final show n tell is at the end of this month. I'll actually have an almost completed quilt to show and tell. Hell is going to freeze over for sure!


My quilt - DONE

The next quilt is on the long arm and I'll be firing that up pretty soon.

OH  - one of the things that we also did on Monday which was super exciting. We came up with a list of classes for next year!!! Oh my - some pretty exciting stuff and I'll be sharing the schedule with you all in a bit.

I managed to get one side of the binding sewn on this giant quilt for a customer. Since it has to be delivered tomorrow, I'd better get the rest of it done today. Nothing like waiting until the last day to work on things.

Attaching a binding


I still have two quilt blocks to make that I sort of forgot about. They need to be done before I leave tomorrow or I'll tuck myself in the dining room at the retreat and finish them then. Always a little window of opportunity to help with a deadline. In addition to my two classes today, I have a few things that need to be dropped off and picked up. Oh yes - nothing like waiting for the last day.

However, I've managed to amass huge piles of stuff to take to the retreat. Now, how the heck did that happen??  A bag for this project, a bag for that project and before I knew it - there was loads of stuff at the door waiting to be loaded tomorrow morning. I'm OK with that. Better to have too much, than not enough. So little bit by little bit, it'll get done.

I'm going to share this with you as I think it's beautiful. It's a poppy project in Perth, Ontario. Make sure you pop through the six photos at the beginning. I'd love to create a large artwork project. Something that people all over the world could contribute a small piece to. How fun would that be? And we could blog about the progress and the final display. Hmm - any suggestions and what about a location?

Anyway, wear your poppy with pride and remember all those that died to give us the freedom that we experience each and every day. We need to be grateful for that each and every day, not just on November 11.

On that note, I'm out of here. I've got loads to do and the day waits for no one.

Have a super day!!!!

Ciao!!!