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<\/a>The second block gives our first named destination\u00a0\u2014\u00a0and I’m sure I’d need some anti-nausea medicine if I were actually a passenger on this beautiful ship! I wonder what our next destination will be …. Of course a quilt will be the final product of this adventure, so now I’m wondering how in the world anyone does the actual quilting on\u00a0embroidered blocks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things are heating up here in the desert; we’ve been in triple digits for weeks now, with no relief in sight. Luckily, air conditioning is everywhere here: cars, homes, stores, theaters. 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<\/a>I’m doing a lot of reading right now, for one thing. But I also happened upon a weekly challenge for machine embroidery, and it’s giving me just enough of a stitching “fix” to be very enjoyable.\u00a0The blocks come from this site<\/a>, and there’s a Yahoo group, too, for sharing comments and photos. Each week brings a new block design, the theme of which is a road trip, though we don’t yet know exactly where we’re “going”.<\/p>\n