Today is the start of the On The Road Again Blog Hop Challenge, hosted by the fabulous Carol @Just Let Me Quilt. Thanks so much Carol for the opportunity to participate in another of your fun challenges.
The Challenge: May starts the summer of travel, so where would you like to go? Make something showing transportation vehicles (cars, planes, buses, etc), summer fun or a place you'd like to travel to.
When my husband was alive, our adventures always involved sailing or houseboating or toward the end we had a motor home and we had some nice travels with that. My husband was always a sailor, from the time I first met him in 1972. In 1975 we sailed from San Diego to Catalina after taking a celestial navigation class.
When we moved to Northern California he started making sailboats. He ended up making 7 boats.
The biggest was a 27 foot, two-masted sailboat which we took all around Northern California with our two daughters, camping on the boat.
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He also made a small little sailboat we could just do day sailing.
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Later he built a houseboat we also took all over Northern California.
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For the On the Road Again Challenge, my thought was to make a table runner, because I have never made myself a table runner. I looked on Embroidery Library and various other places to see if I could find a gnome sailing a boat, but was unable to come up with anything.
So I found some gnome designs on the road and enjoying themselves in various activities, bicycling, motorcycling, camping, and hiking. I also cut out "On The Road Again" with my
Cricut and iron on vinyl.
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Our quilt show was last week, so I was not able to get it quilted, but the top is done.
Be sure and visit the other bloggers in the challenge, the full list is below. Thanks again to Carol, this was a fun challenge, and brought back some wonderful memories!
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Thanks for stopping by!
