Cats – TooBusyForWork

And we’re off!

We had a lovely Christmas get-together with most of the Iowa family. Lots of good food and lots of fun. After all the practicing I did with the ukulele and Christmas songs, I lost the book of the songs! So not really much music which was disappointing. We did have a really lovely Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve service at church, so I got to sing a bunch there.

But let me back up. I finally recovered from my sinus surgery only to find out my pre-diabetes diagnosis got moved to real, true, gotta take medicine-type of diabetes. Sigh. Since this was just a few days before Christmas and our snowbird trip, it was a real hassle getting things with my PCP and the pharmacy. My PCP gave me a choice between Metformin, a pill, and Mounjaro, a GLP-1 injection. Since my A1C has always been related to my weight, I chose Mounjaro because I should lose weight on it in addition to being good for the diabetes. I took my first shot on Monday evening, and my fasting blood glucose went from 160ish (pretty high) to today’s reading of 102 (normal!). No side effects so far, so I am hopeful.

Back to getting out of Iowa… We packed yesterday, Christmas Day, after pulling the motorhome in front of the house. Our town allows such parking only for 48 hours, but that wasn’t going to be an issue. Our weird weather patterns continued, and we were above freezing the entire day so Kevin was even able to fill up the water tank and flush all the lines free of antifreeze. We then went to Camping World and used their dump station to get rid of the gray water from flushing. Took the rig back home and re-filled the water tank. We finished packing everything except toiletries yesterday, and we were on the road by 9:00 this morning. We are spending this first night in an Elks Lodge parking lot in Cameron, MO. We still have quite a few things to put in their correct locations, but everything did fit LOL! Tomorrow we will have a long day trying to get well southwest of Oklahoma City to miss a storm coming in on Sunday. No matter where we end up, we will still need to be on the road by 6:00-6:30 in order to not get held up by wind gusts. If we make it past the wind, we should be good to get to Quartzsite by New Year’s Eve.

The cats are doing great! Shy, hesitant, anxious Minnie is happily exploring everywhere. She even sat on my lap for a while, and she is demanding lots of cuddles. I think Minnie thinks the small quarters are less frightening. Luna is Luna; nothing much bothers her, and she is behaving quite normally. I took a couple of cute pictures of the two of them with my iPhone, but the photos aren’t syncing quickly for some reason. Here is at least one of them.

Ignore the mess and look at the kitties!

See how they are both just strutting around?

I probably won’t post again until we get to Quartzsite unless something weird happens. Let’s hope 2026 is a LOT better than 2025.

Heading to Salt Lake City

After the night in Burns, we spent one night (again) in the Mountain Home Elks Lodge lot followed by three nights in the Jerome Elks Lodge lot. We planned the time in Jerome to do some RZR riding in the Sawtooth Mountains near Magic Mountain Ski Resort, and it was a fabulous ride.

We started in a forested area.

Ride Through Woods

There was a variety of road/trails in the area. One type is called a shelf road. They are basically just a bulldozed trail in the side of a steep hillside that drops off steeply on one side. This one was pretty mild, but it does show how they work.

Shelf road

Interestingly enough we also saw this occupied, but quite rustic, cabin. We didn’t see anyone around, and of course we didn’t get too close, but the flag in front was new and waving.

We saw hundreds of animals! Well they weren’t too wild, but we did encounter a large herd of sheep being moved. We never saw the shepherd, but we saw a guardian dog and a sheep dog. Note in the video how the sheep split around an obstacle then come right back together.

Sheep moving

We saw the herder’s wagon, and didn’t he pick a lovely place to put it!

Sheep herder wagon

Of course there were more than just sheep. Note these folks watching us.

More wild animals!

There was just a lot of beautiful scenery.

The trip was around 40 miles, and we took 4.5 hours to do it. That included lunch at a lovely shady spot that I didn’t get a good picture of.

I thought I would add a picture of what the parking lot looked like. In the winter I bet it is MUCH busier with skiers! You can also see the ramps Kevin uses to put the RZR back in the truck.

On Thursday we visited the Minidoka National Historic Site. It is the location of what is more appropriately called a “concentration camp” rather than the innocuous term of “internment camp.” May we never forget the stain on our nation when we rounded up people based only on their ethnicity and locked them away for years. Oh, wait, doesn’t that sound much more current than WWII? The camp was huge, with thousands of people and probably around 100 housing units. Each of the buildings like the white one below held 6 families of between 3 and 8 members.

We would have done more, but we ended up having to take Minnie to the vet. She has obviously not feeling well, and she had lot a lot of weight. After a few hundred dollars of blood work and an ultrasound, she was diagnosed with probable pancreatitis. Lots of meds over the next few weeks, then a revisiting of her blood work.

Today we are at Antelope Island State Park in Utah. Gorgeous, and hardly anyone here! The water is turned off to the entire island, so only the hardy folks are camping.

Back in Iowa for a while

When we got home, we had a fabulous Easter dinner with most of the kids and grandkids. This time we had butterflied leg of lamb, and it was lovely. Because Kevin cooked it in the sous vide, it left the oven free for roasted carrots. It takes a LOT of carrots for 13 people! We also had green beans with bacon and onions cooked in the Instant Pot. It took two Instant Pots to cook the four pounds of fresh beans, and it took Kevin and I both working about 45 minutes to snap them all. Memories of my grandmothers house came back when we would snap a lot of beans on a regular basis during summer. My grandmother did all kinds of canning out of her 1 acre garden. She basically provided vegetables for her, my grandfather, my mom, my sister and me all year.

As I noted last time, the cats were very busy exploring. I tried to put the first load in the dryer, and I was treated by this! Good thing she has bright eyes, because she was really hard to see until I called.

Luna is also a bother downstairs isn the sewing area. She only occasionally will sit with me upstairs, but as soon as I go downstairs she is fully involved! She sits on the quilt while I try to quilt, tries to climb on my lap while I am doing anything, and she is fascinating by seeing the thread moving from the thread stand to the machine. As soon as I took this picture, I moved her away. Cats and thread are a dangerous combination!

We are also keeping the Amazon delivery drivers busy. Our English friends Tony and Anne showed us pictures from their game camera when we were in Quartzsite. I bought one myself, and set it up at night in the living room to make sure I had the settings right. I didn’t, but the picture below is pretty cute anyway. I have since set the camera for videos and corrected the AM/PM issue.

One of the things I am working on this year is a Block of the Month from Kona Fabrics. It includes a Zoom class with a quilt shop about 45 miles away. She includes all kinds of methods to do the class which is interesting. I pushed my technique in April, and I am not thrilled with the result. I didn’t dislike it enough to take it apart though!

The may version was much easier, and I only had one spot I should have re-done. You can see if you notice it. I am just not too picky anymore.

I finished the quilting for the partner of one of my son’s. She is a Broadway theater fan, and I was pleased to find the feature fabric.

I quilted it with golden yellow thread (hello Tony Awards!) in a random meander with loops and stars.

I used the same color in the binding. I really like doing machine binding this way. I serge the edges first for a nice firm edge, cut binding at 2.25”, sew on front, press well, turn over the edge holding the fold with clips, then sew the binding from the front with a decorative stitch. This time the stitch was a 3 step zigzag, but I have used a number of other stitches in the past.

Iowa had had a terribly dry winter, but we finally got a bunch of rain. The flowers are all considerably delayed, but they are finally coming out. My pink and white bleeding hearts are doing well. Ignore the massive infestation of weed! My local grandchildren are coming over tomorrow to week for me.

And in a statement of really good news, I got another radioablation on my back that has really helped in the almost two weeks since I got it. I am also keeping up my pain meds – gabapentin and cyclobenzaprine plus lidocaine patches occasionally. I still have problems with any walking over a block or so, but I have no real pain when I am not moving. This is a huge improvement over how I felt before the procedure.

I am now working on quilting some other tops that I have been ignoring for far too long. I am also taking a sampler class offered virtually and sponsored by the Arizona Quilt Guild. The guild is well worth the $15 a year in dues!

Taking a break from Quartzsite

We are now staying at the Elks Lodge in Needles, CA. Definitely a sad town, but the lodge is nice. We are on our way to Death Valley, arriving there tomorrow. We have been busy here doing laundry (lots and lots of laundry!) and cleaning up the incredibly dusty motorhome (lots and lots of dust!). In between I took a Zoom class about machine binding offered through the Arizona Quilt Guild. Well worth the time and money. I love Zoom classes!

To catch up on what we have been doing since the last post, it has mostly been quilting, driving back and forth to Parker for Amazon packages and good food, and a bit of relaxing in the warm weather. The temps have been in the 70s for a couple of weeks now, and the nightly lows are mostly in the upper 40s, even into the 50s. We haven’t used much propane recently! Kevin got his new drone out again since the wind was down, and I love the pictures.

The first one is from above our campsite looking toward La Posa South LTVA. You might have to zoom in a bit to see the much more crowded area. I don’t go boondocking to be 30’ from my neighbor! We much prefer the less crowded areas. The second picture is our campsite. Motorhome, outdoor kitchen, truck, RZR, and the Clam shelter make a comfortable resting spot for a few weeks. The blue covered tripod has Kevin’s telescope on it, trying to keep it out of as much dust as possible. The third photo shows a picture using the telescope on a clear night with a full moon. He’s been figuring out how to use the tracker with the telescope.

As usual, the cats are a big distraction. They both like lying on my legs with the “magic blanket,” but they are not always cooperative about it. A look at Minnie’s face here says that Luna is taking up far too much space!

I did finally get the practice pieces from the feathers quilting class bound as a cat bed. Minnie says it is marginally acceptable, but she still prefers the blanket.

I forgot to mention something we actually did buy at the Big Tent – a microwave toastie/panini maker. Pretty handy little gadget. The ham and cheese sandwich shown was made in 2 minutes in our low powered microwave. We now use 3 minutes. The cute thing has a silicon outside and metal grates inside. The metal grates absorb microwaves and heat up, but the silicon keeps the contraption from sparking. I am quite pleased! We have had “grilled” sandwiches a number of times now, and this gadget it a keeper.

We left Quartzsite on Wednesday ahead of some rain and wind that was coming in. We spent Thursday night at the Elks Lodge in Parker, just to see how it was. Kevin would like to transfer to a Lodge he can be more active in, but the Parker lodge is quite small. We arrived in Needles on Friday night, and besides cleaning, laundry, and shopping, we also visited the Goff Historical Center. It was called “Goff Schoolhouse” the first time we visited a few years back, but it was definitely misnamed then. Yes, the schoolhouse is an historic building that is part of the museum grounds, but there is so much more! Lots and lots of mining history and general history about the Mohave Desert and the Mohave Road. Fascinating stuff.

The schoolhouse was the center of the Goff community when it was busy and active with mining, ranching, railroads, and WWII training. Little is left of that except the schoolhouse these days.

A few of the more unusual exhibits are working stamp mills that have been restored. Very impressive! The vast majority of stamp mills in museums are incomplete and definitely not in working order. It was a true labor of love to restore the mining equipment at Goff. The first picture of the two stamp mill shows how they worked taking in 2” pieces of stone and breaking them up into dust. The dust was then washed and moved to chemical vats for separating the gold or other precious metals. Goffs no longer uses aresenic and cyanide, but they do have water tables for separating. I would love to come here some day when they are operating the mills. The ten stamp mill is the big buy with huge wheels for moving the stamps.

I have also been quilting a lot. I got all the squares for my Christmas quilt made up into twosies before, but I made them all into 4 blocks and then combined a number of those into 16 blocks. I still have quite a few more to do, but I am making some good progress.

I will end with a glorious Arizona sunset. They just can’t be beat.

And it is almost summer!

I am definitely in the mood for getting out again. We haven’t bee out since the last trip at the end of April. For Mother’s Day we had most of the kids and grandkids come over for dinner. It was nicer than just the two of us going somewhere, though I did do the cooking LOL! We had pot roast, carrots, and potatoes so it wasn’t too hard.

The kitten are growing like weeds. They are so well behaved! Never any scratching even when being held against their will. They don’t scratch anything except their scratching post except for my big rolls of batting downstairs. I have had to move them all to an inaccessible spot since that soft batting seemed just right for little kitten climbing. We kept them on kitten food since they were so small, but we are transitioning them to adult cat food now. They seem to like it just fine.

It is hard to get a picture of them playing without it being fuzzy! They were chasing the magic red dot (laser pointer).

Minerva was particularly fond of the doll bed we got for my granddaughter’s birthday

I have been sewing some. The king sized quilt for our bedroom at home has the main center part completed – 80” square. I need to add borders, but I haven’t gotten in the mood. I did finish quilting three quilts for my quilt guild though. As before, just utilitarian meandering, but it keeps me in practice. I am not a person comfortable with completely scrap,quilts, particularly in big pieces. I find these dreadful, but the people who donate fabric to the guild should have no doubt every inch of useable stuff they give to us will be put to good use.

The last one, just before I started quilting it.

I also have made Kevin a pillow case for the travel pillow he uses for his knees at night. We found a little pillow at a truck stop this winter, but it has a satin cover and slips off the bed during the night. A cotton cover keeps it in place better. I am also just finishing up a bunch of bowl cozies I am going to use as small gifts on our upcoming trip.

I modified my fabrication process to pre-wash both fabric and the batting. Then I made sure all three layers (fabric/batting/fabric) are quilted together. Hopefully that help them keep their shape after washing.

We do have the first part of our summer trip planned. In a normal year we would just take off, making reservations only at destinations. This year we are slightly spooked by reports of massive numbers of people on the road, so we made more reservations than normal. We leave on Tuesday, 1 June, to go to Hamilton, MO, home of the Missouri Star Quilt Company and their multiple shops. We will stay there a couple of nights then off to eastern Oklahoma to visit some tourist locations we haven’t seen for 30 years or more. Then we head to Canton Reservoir where I worked as a seasonal park ranger before my senior year in college. I haven’t been back since, so it should be fun. We have reserved a Boondocker’s Welcome site in far eastern Texas off I-40. I figure I will give the hosts a couple of bowl cozies as a thank you. We are hoping for good enough weather to hit up a bunch of Native American sites in New Mexico. Eventually we will head north to Cody, WY for an FMCA chapter rally followed by Gillette, WY for the big FMCA national convention. We then have reservations at Badlands NP during a new moon for Kevin to get some astrophotography done. We will gradually head back to Iowa then, time TBD.

I will be getting some shoulder surgery done when we get back. I have a bone spur that is giving me grief. I have been using cortisone shots to manage it, but I figured it will only get worse. Hopefully there isn’t much rotator cuff involvement. Rehab is something between 2 and 12 weeks, depending on what they have to do. Sigh. Even with an MRI they can’t tell until they get to look inside.

Kevin has been busy making even more modifications and updates to the motorhome. I will post those after we get on the road so I can take good pictures. The expensive one was 600 amp hours of LifeBlue LiFePO4 batteries with internal heaters. I am really looking forward to off-grid camping with those! Some of the less expensive modifications are woodworking and others are 3D printing, and they are quite cool. We even got our yearly diesel maintenance done, this time at the Decorah Truck Country shop. Nice folks. It was a more extensive list than we had for previous yearly, so it also cost more. Sigh. Just the price of owning a diesel motorhome.

And we are off to start packing!

Kittens, restaurants, and shopping

I am striving to be more frequent in my posts. I hope it lasts!

Luna and Minnie are still settling in. Minnie, in particular, still has a tendency to hide whenever she sees our legs. She is perfectly happy to get petted if she is on her cat tower, but she is on the floor and we walk toward her, she gets spooked. I actually wonder if she has been kicked before. Cats can have long memories, even of accidents. Thank goodness we got the two together since they play a lot together. They wouldn’t be nearly as happy with the limited play they get from us, though we do play with them about an hour a day. They are particularly fond of feather sticks.

These are their normal locations. Luna loves to sit on top, surveying her world. Minnie prefers to look at the world from her safe spot. I wish I could show the color of Luna’s eyes; they are a deep golden color that is truly stunning.

It feels so very odd to be going to restaurants. We spent so many months doing drive through and carry-out I keep forgetting we can actually go into restaurants. So far we have eaten at a couple of Mexican restaurants (with margaritas!), a steak place, and a few breakfast places. We haven’t done any “fine dining” yet, mostly because we don’t have many open where I live. So many restaurants closed or went to greatly reduced menus! Of course that would also mean putting on slacks instead of the jeans I live in, so it is a mixed blessing.

We also have done some shopping, the type where you actually go into a store and look around, not just order online. I bought a bunch of new bedding for,our spare bedrooms plus new towels for the guest bath. Today we went to Trader Joe’s to stock up on some of their specialties. I adore their coconut shrimp, ginger biscuits (British cookies), biscotti (nice small ones that are a treat instead of a complete meal), plus some of their sweets. We can now use our own reusable bags there and at our local grocery stores, a real plus. I am so tired of the thousands of plastic bags we have accumulated. Yes, I take the plastic to the recycle center, but I still prefer the reusable bags for ease of use.

I have been doing some quilt piecing too. I have 2/3 of the main part of a king sized quilt completed. However I can’t find the pieces for the rest of it! I am going to have to bite the bullet and clean my sewing studio completely. I know those pieces are around, but I have so much miscellaneous stuff laying around that I can’t find them! So that is tomorrow’s job. Pray for me!

Not much going on

I just don’t post as much when we aren’t traveling. I actually haven’t been doing much, giving in to a really bad back probably more than I should have. I am now back in PT and taking acetaminophen three times a day. It has helped a lot. I also got a Nursal brand e-stim unit. It helps a lot to loosen sore muscles that have just been overwhelmed with pain.

The big news is we have two new kittens in the house. Luna (black) and Minerva (tabby) came home with us two days ago. They are sisters, six months old, and they are still restricted to our bedroom and bathroom until they get a bit more comfortable though. We decided to call Minerva by a nickname – Minnie. She is just a tiny little thing just over 4 pounds. Her bigger sister is at an average weight of 5.5 pounds. They are really well socialized, very healthy (our vet has already done a checkup), fully immunized, and they have already been chipped. They spent three months in a foster home, so their behavior has been very good.

Luna (left) and Minerva aka Minnie (right)

They each slept on the bed some last night, though they also decided to play with the blind cords at 4:30 in the morning! We haven’t had kittens in a long time, but we knew what we were getting into. That included interrupted sleep.

I have also been playing with my sewing machine some. I ordered a Sew Steady inset for the sewing machine table I keep in the motorhome. Then I started thinking about using that inset as a stand along table for when I go to retreats or just want to sew outside. The inset has no legal, so I asked Kevin for some 3D printed adjustable legs, and he delivered!

Each leg slips onto the suction cup and has adjustable feet to accommodate different surface heights. I love them! I am now going to out the small, old wobbly table that came with the machine into the storage room some place.

I have also been cooking some. I have watched way too many seasons of The Great British Baking Show, and I wanted a lovely desert for Easter. I practiced making a pavlova, and it was wonderful! I even made a home made lemon curd to go with it, but some of my grandkids got sick so no big Easter meal. My son Mark did come up, but he doesn’t really do deserts, so we just had little pastry cases with some lemon curd. Well, and a pot roast, carrots, and potatoes.

We have been planning our summer trip. We will leave the day after Memorial Day, heading to Hamilton, MO where Missouri Star Quilt Company is headquartered. They open in early May after 14-15 months of closure due to COVID, and I am looking forward to it. We will have 2 nights at the campground which gives us one full day in the town. Then we are going to head south to the Bartlesville and Tulsa, OK area. We hope to spend a couple of days at Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve, a treat we both remember from our childhood. I also want to see the Philbrook Museum of Art and its trove of impressionist paintings. We don’t know how long we will stay in the general area, but probably about a week. We have a Corps of Engineers site reserved at Copan Lake for the Woolaroc visit, then we hope to stay 2-3 days at a Boondocker’s Welcome site nearer Tulsa. After that we don’t have any firm plans, but intend on staying in the northern Oklahoma/southern Kansas/eastern Colorado areas for a few weeks. The next firm commitment is Cody, WY for a FMCA Diesel Club chapter meeting for a few days during the Independence Day holiday. Then off to Devil’s Tower followed by Gillette, WY for the FMCA convention. Then it is to Badlands NP for dark sky photography around the new moon. We intend on being back to Iowa sometime in August, but nothing firm.

We both finished our COVID vaccination series 3 weeks ago. It sure feels good to be back in society again. We are shopping and eating at restaurants again, a lovely treat. Hopefully we can put this nasty disease in our nationwide rear view mirror soon.

I am off to sew. I still need to finish a quilt for our bed, and I need to make a little bag to put the legs for the Sew Steady inset.

Resort living

No pictures because we have very limited internet here at Craggy Wash BLM campground north of Lake Havasu.

We stayed at the Fortuna de Oro RV Resort in Yuma for a week. This is the first time we have stayed at a real upscale resort. My, but they can keep you busy! There are clubs for every interest, live music most afternoons/early evenings, planned Happy Hours, pickleball leagues and tournaments, softball, a golf course (but we don’t golf), etc. Quite impressive. We took the opportunity to listen to music a few evenings, I visited the quilt group twice (they have their own room at the resort), and we road our bikes around and around. This place is huge with about 1200 sites. Many are year around places, either park models or RVs, but there are a number of people here for a few days or a few months. We actually liked it so much we are pretty sure we will plan for two months there next year, February and March. Too early to make any final decisions though because the reservations aren’t refundable!

While in Yuma we also wandered around the town some. Decent restaurants, more shopping than I remembered from some day trips we made before. We did get the motorhome washed and waxed. Papi’s RV Wash gave very good results, but they were hours late! They were able to get rid of the brush marks on the side from close encounters tears with bushes and trees. The coach looks wonderful! We also went to a local community theater presentation fo Godspell, fun though pretty amateurish, and last night we went to an outdoor concert known as “Howling at the Moon”. Yup, 3000 people in lawn chairs listening to music, talking with friends, and, when the full moon came up over the mountain, howling at the moon. They do it once a month. We got to see some of our friends from Quartzsite so it was extra fun.

We were on the road from Yuma to Quartzsite by 10:00. Our black tank has not been draining well, so we set up an appointment to have the black and the gray tanks power flushed by “The RV Procologist” (love the name). It turns out the problem was that Lily had managed to put a sock in the toilet and we must have flushed it down in the dark! We can’t figure out any other way it could have gotten there. We have found a few of her stuffed mice in the toilet bowl in the past, but obviously this one must have been done at night. Oh, and they offered us the sock back, but I declined LOL!

We then drove on to a BLM dispersed camping site know as Craggy Wash. It is so lovely I wish I could put up pictures. Only a mile off Hwy 95 right at the north edge of the Lake Havasu airport, it is very quiet even though there are a number of rigs ranging from vans to a teardrop to trailers, fifth wheels, and motorhomes. Only a couple of generators going, and I hope they stop soon. Tomorrow morning early we are heading to Death Valley, hoping to spend a few days at Stovepipe Wells followed by another few days at Furnace Creek. We have seen a few flowers in the southern area beginning to bloom, and I am hoping to see some good blooms in DVNP.

I will post some more pictures if I get service at Stovepipe, but it is iffy.

Back home with good stuff and bad stuff

The first day back in the sticks and bricks house I basically just slept! It took us a couple of days to move the things back to the house – clothes, food in the refrigerator, etc.

We are catching up on medical appointments, so I had a small cyst removed from my face. I was lucky enough to,score a quick appointment due to someone else canceling. It left me with a couple of stitches right under my eye, a real bother. It is hard to keep a bandage on it, yet the dermatologist says I have to do so to minimize scarring. Ugh. I get the stitches out in a couple of days thank goodness. Everything should be fine by Christmas pictures at least.

The really bad stuff if that we finally had to have one of our cats, Minou, euthanized. I cried and cried. She was 15 years old, and we knew she was basically on hospice care, but that doesn’t mean I was ready for it. I became aware how few pictures I had of her. She was all black and hard to get a photograph, but that isn’t much of an excuse. She looked like an Egyptian cat goddess.

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i also have been doing some cooking and sewing. The cooking was mostly in the Instant Pot. I made red curry with a bottle of curry sauce, some chicken thighs, rice, and miscellaneous vegetables – peppers, mushrooms, sugar snap peas. I used the pot in pot method, and it worked wonderfully. I also made beef stroganoff again, though I used more seasoning this time plus a bunch more mushrooms. Delicious.

The sewing was slow. I just haven’t been able to get in the mood, but I finally got motivated to complete a Quilts for Kids project. Super simple, and I got to enjoy the quilting process. I ended up using an all over leaf meander since the focus fabric had trees on it.

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BTW, this comes as a precut kit so I take no responsibility for the poor cutting!

i have never had a bad kit from Quilts for Kids before, but I rejected the second kit I was given. The pattern was designed for strip piecing, but they gave me random lengths of fabric of all different lengths plus some smaller pieces that were cut to 7” instead of the needed 6 1/2”. My time is worth too much to mess with randomness, so I am giving it back with a complaint. This is from the relatively new local group,so I think it is probably just growing pains.