![My Dark Vanessa: A Novel by [Russell, Kate Elizabeth]](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41N27wrCq8L.jpg)
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I usually listen to an audio book when I walk my dog Willow. A lot of times my mind wanders and I have to back up a few minutes to hear what I have missed. Recently I won an audio download of
My Dark Vanessa read by
Grace Gummer. It was a disturbing and sometimes maddening story, but I never had to rewind it--haha! Needless to say, Willow and I had some very long walks for a few days!
After finishing that book, I listened to
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz.
Derek Jacoby does an awesome job of reading this Sherlock Holmes take-off. Anthony Horowitz wrote some of the early episodes of
Midsomer Murders, so I expected this story to be a bit more "cozy" than it was. There's a lot of despicable stuff going on but, of course, Sherlock neatly ties everything up in the end (I don't think that's a spoiler, as that's what he always does, isn't it?).
For my April
One Monthly Goal, I had chosen a completely different quilt, but then the final parts for completing
Cheddarback were released early. Gay at Sentimental Stitches has been posting the patterns as a block of the month for more than a year and now it's a little sad that we are at the end.
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Part 14
I did a little "pick and choose" when deciding which blocks to make for these last two sections. |
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Part 15 I had already made the letter blocks and thought I better fit them in somewhere before I ran out of room. |
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My top is all put together and loaded onto the quilting machine. You can see a peek of my "Cheddar-backing" in the above photo. I had pieced the backing and made the binding last week in anticipation of being so close to the end, so I am ready to go! My goal for April is to get Cheddarback quilted and bound.
Linking with One Monthly Goal HERE
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