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The girls and I with Honey supervising got a lot of cookies and coffee cake made on Saturday.  We had been so busy baking and the heat of the oven going that we never realized until evening that our heat pump had stopped working.  When the temperature all of a sudden started to go down […]

Between Log Cabin blocks and getting Christmas cookie dough made I was busy all day. Three of the Log Cabin rows of blocks are now done – five more rows to do I had to stand back far to get it all in and then still part of the quilting frame blocks the wall a […]

It was time to put the red quilt on the bed for the holiday season, I usually put a flannel quilt on the bed about this time of year and since I finished this one 2 years ago it is the one that goes on the bed.  It is called Yuletide Gatherings.  Of course after […]

I really didn’t think I would spend all day in the kitchen but I decided I really needed to get my pumpkins taken care of.  I see no reason to waste and if I buy pumpkins for decorated I tend to bake them and mash them up in the food processor to use for baking […]

One more row of Flying Pansies was done leaving 2 rows left to sew on. Also worked on the hexies for Noriko’s Star again and finished another row – I will probably wait until the last row is put together before I start to put all the rows together. English Ivy from Thursday night – […]

I like color.  Right now the sewing room is colorful from the table to the design wall to the quilting frame.  Even the thread cabinet is colorful – it inspires you I think. So yesterday I got 3 more flying pansies ready to press and add circles to and that will leave me with 7 […]

I was working outside yesterday so I didn’t get done with a lot of sewing, but some and made a quick bread also. First more binding on The Carpenter’s Wheel was done last night before I got started to quilt.  I think I have about 40 inches left so hopefully I can sit still long […]

I really want to get done with the Carpenter’s Wheel and get this binding done so yesterday several times (make that 3 times) I sat and stitched and now have two sides of the binding done.  I have a few stray threads here and there to trim that I am first noticing now and I […]

I worked on Flying Pansies once again – I didn’t sew as many blocks as I do sometimes but four more got done.  Linking to Life in Pieces – can you get in 15 minutes of stitching a day? Usually I do more but sometimes that is all I do too. After the applique circle […]

Well no block added to the wall yesterday for Scrappy Crossroads – I messed up – the block needs to be partially re-done – I turned one whole row the wrong way – it is taken apart now and ready to stitch!  Yup looks kind of wrong doesn’t it LOL easy fix – this was […]

Although the house cleared out early yesterday I just never did get around to doing a blog post.  Jessica left by noon and Melanie had come over for awhile Sunday morning and she had things to do too so took off and the house was quite again.  We had a good all day visit on […]

Back to the hexagons and Noriko’s Star and finished the segment I was working on now it needs to be joined to the big piece – after I corrected a spot.  I put too many pieces on one end!  This is where it goes but on the left side I have 2 too many black […]

It was time to put the tomatoes to rest – they need too much water we are heading possibly into a drought and seeing as the weather was nice last night with a nice dry breeze it was time to pull those plants out and get all the green tomatoes off of them.  Earlier in […]

I started out my morning as I have for about the last 4 or 5 mornings now  outside on the porch –when I first wake up for about an hour it is nice outside and under 80 degrees — then it gets hot.   I bring my coffee and my phone to the porch and scroll […]

If I can do one block a day I will be done with this top in less than a month – that will be ok with me.  I was down to sewing the last row onto the block when the bobbin ran out – I thought maybe there was enough left – there wasn’t! Always […]

For now I am just giving this quilt the name that is in the book – I have heard it is one of those patterns that has been around for a long time and has several names.  I did decide to go with dark fabric where the neutral light fabric is in the photo.  I […]

Although I am not 100% by chopping tomatoes and other ingredients with the Marinara Sauce recipe and having the crockpot full on Tuesday night it made it possible to get a batch of sauce done yesterday.  I woke up at 6 which was unintended but I went ahead and got the crock out of the […]

One more NYB block done so 2 left to do  – I had to change out one of my light bulbs the other day and I didn’t get it quite aimed right and the blue fabric is appearing darker than it actually is in this photo – I need to change the direction it is […]

Slowly this New York Beauty is getting done – someone asked when did I start it that it didn’t seem like I had been working on it all that long – but it is moving close to a year believe it or now I started in September 2023 so getting closer and closer to a […]

I think we got less rain than expected yesterday as I wrote this Monday evening we had gotten a half inch of rain with most of it expected overnight – it is to be heavy rain all night possibly 4-5 inches? We will see when I wake up this morning how much we got.  I […]