Warm Homespun Greetings
As the year winds down, we reflect on 2019 and look forward to 2020. Drumming up extra energy for countless holiday festivities, we also turn inward, stay inside a little more, and hopefully catch an extra nap here and there. We found contrast throughout this issue. Our Charitable Cause paired up a retired nurse in Oregon with impoverished women in Kenya. In Designer Notes you’ll read about biding time in business and physical education to blossoming in the creative arts. Jeni, in Ask Mom, reveals how she transforms ordinary items into eye candy. Last but not least, the homeowners of our photoshoot location balance an empty nest with a house full of joy and friendship. The projects in this issue offer a feast of scrappy, whimsical, imaginative, and downright delightful quilts, mats,…