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Finally all that is left to do on Flying Pansies is it to mark the sides of the top for cutting straight – first sewing a stay stitch line so no stitching comes apart and then cut the sides straight.  I have not pressed any seams on the back or cut away excess fabric from […]

Still no internet I’m checking to see if I can get this to post from my phone’s hot spot.  So one photo only! Last row of Rainbow Crossing is put together and added to the quilt top – pressed and ready for final measurement so I can add a border. And lets try a second […]

Yesterday off and on all day we got the house decorated – well basically it was me decorating and Mike put the tree up and the lights on it.  Today we do the outside.  I did get one pineapple quilt block done and there is a little bit of work on Friends that is done. […]

Is done! finally I really was slow getting the binding done on this quilt – I guess because I know I was not going to use it before Christmas.  This pattern is designed by Lynn Wilder of Sew’n Wild Oaks – after washing and drying it shrunk a little bit but I expected that it […]

Not much quilting got done on Monday night I had a little bit of a headache and neckache and just didn’t do much –  this was it – I said not much! Yesterday in the heat of the afternoon I got my copies that I made of Alaska that I had printed out to fool […]

Sometimes at this time of year for some reason I loose my interest in working all day on sewing and get into reading moods, outside garden stuff etc.  yesterday was another partly rainy day and hot until the rains came.  We had went to Lowe’s early in the morning and picked up bags of soil […]

I have most of the stencil drawn all the way across the lower border of Alaska but not all – some was done in the corner on Sunday night so I could begin quilting and then more was traced out on Monday afternoon – still one corner to do but that is the area where […]

Quilted!  Not that it is a race or anything but I keep track of my quilting time just for fun and this one is 60×70 and took 42 evenings of quilting for a final 67.5 hours.  I have the binding machine stitched and will do the hand stitching off and on this week. I laid […]

Finally I can link up for my progress on the RSC20 quilt this month – here it is the end of the month and I got the 2-8.5 inch blocks done – and it took the whole month for this progress to happen – well it only actually took a couple hours of time but […]

I thought here it is almost the end of the month and I have not gotten started on the two blocks I need for the RSC20 challenge (RSC Country Charmer).  Pink is not something I have a lot of but after rummaging through my canvas box of pink/burgundy I found plenty to work with and […]

I finished my second Allen Erskens book called The Heavens May Fall while stitching on a diamond hexie off and on all day.  And that was all I did in the sewing area until evening when I went to the quilting frame after an evening walk.  I have not read the books in order as […]

Yesterday I spent some time tearing papers off of the pineapple blocks – I got almost half of them done!  They take more time then one would think they would – I think this was 10 of 24 blocks done – I think I will get all of the papers off and then start to […]

Yesterday was a quite father’s day at home – Melanie came over to visit on the porch for awhile and I worked on hexies before and after she left.  This was my scenery from the porch before Melanie arrived and the hour she stayed. I had the thread basting done before she arrived for this […]

A few more neutral hexies needed to be cut – a good part of the day was spent inside – it was so humid out – finally we got a little rain in the late afternoon that helped to cool things down but by then the bugs were out so I continued to stay in.  […]

Are you ever satisfied with just working on one quilt at a time?  I can’t seem to stick with just one project – yesterday I worked on 4.  I often times only spend 30 minutes on a project – go do outside stuff, housework, a walk – then come back and spend another 30 minutes […]

I was busy yesterday – I hopped from one thing to another and managed to get in 10,000 steps before the end of the day – it was hot outside for walking and it will get hotter – we decided to order a treadmill and it will get here by the end of the month […]

Just a little quilting done on the Christmas Quilt  Tuesday night after Melanie and Aniya’s surprise visit.  I did roll the quilt down and got started on the side border. this much left to do I didn’t do any pineapple blocks yesterday as I was outside a lot – the last nice day for awhile […]

yesterday was a very busy day – it was so nice out after the heat we had been having we had a nice day with the high at only 83.  Garden work was done, one pineapple block and work on one hexie.  Coming up from the garden to the house at around 7:30 in the […]

We have been having a bit of heat this past 5 days or so but at least the humidity has been lower than it is at this time of year normally.  Outside on the porch is relaxing in the morning if I get out there early enough – I listened to my audio book “The […]

Got a little bit of work done yesterday – and the bag is decorated – just a little – I don’t like a lot of embellishment I think this will suit it just fine – the buttons are sewn all the way through and I used some fabric glue in back of pieces and then […]