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It's done! The quilt for Kasia's baby girl is ready for delivery! It's another reversible one, but with a completely different design on each side—which made deciding how to actually quilt the thing quite a challenge. But I absolutely love the result and hope Baby Ariel will, too.
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Badger and I lived together in the Midcoast region of Maine for six years—Thomaston, Rockland, Tenants Harbor—it's where we met, where we got married, where we wish we could still be ... and where we guess we will eventually return to. But for now, I write this from the Pacific Northwest, where we currently live. For now, Rockland must live on in our hearts (and stomachs).
We are always making lists of places for people to eat when they're in Rockland—you'd be surprised how many people we bump into who are going to Maine! I figured I'd put all our very favorites together in this format for easy reference. [Update: I only managed to write about four of them so far, but additional posts will eventually get completed to round out the offerings.]
These are not-to-miss restaurants. There are many other places to eat in Rockland that are very good, but these are the places that we patronize EVERY time we return—which is thankfully for at least two weeks every year to visit my parents who still live there in the Midcoast region (Hi Mom and Dad!).
Here's a preview of what's below:
• Home Kitchen Cafe—650 Main
• In Good Company—415 Main
• Suzuki's—419 Main
• Conte's—148 South Main (directly next to Primrose Framing)
And I will try to soon write about these other favorites as well (also every-visit kind of places):
• Cafe Miranda (for great, big food)
• Wasses (a hot dog stand—there's one on either end of town)
Also, for COFFEE, go to:
• Rock City!
And while you are there at the café, check out the coolest little bookshop in, well, anywhere:
• Hello Hello Books!
Continue reading "Our Very Favorite Restaurants in Rockland, Maine" »
So, as I was hunting for fabric to make quilts for the other three new babies in my extended circle of family and friends—four babies born in two months!—I stumbled across this delicious elephant print fabric and got completely sidetracked with one single project.
My lovely friend Tania and her husband had just had a baby, and as she is elephant-crazy (in an actually-go-to-Thailand-and-help-the-elephants kind of way), this print just about jumped into my arms. I knew I'd ignore the pink elephants and just focus on the maroon and yellow elephants, so choosing matching fabrics to highlight those colors didn't take much effort. Thread choices were easy too.
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In a period of two months, four new babies have been delivered into my circle of friends and family. Some planned and others unexpected, four different states, three girls and a boy. Congratulations, all.
I, however, am absolutely staying away from unfiltered water for a while—beer and wine will do me fine. Also, having my husband now gone for an extended deployment will certainly help on that front. Phew! Maybe the baby deluge of 2013 has ended? Maybe not ...
So, I've always wanted to quilt. The mechanics of quilting always seemed straightforward to me. But I'd never actually done it before last week (or rather, I'd never gotten close to finishing a project ... there are many stitched together pieces in my wake). I even have a few books in my library of fantastical quilts created by insane minds. But I've never actually done one myself. Granted, that hasn't stopped me from haunting fabric stores and buying scraps of this and that over the years—similar to how I collect paint chips at hardware stores. (Poor, Patient Badger.)
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