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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 […]

This post was supposed to go out yesterday but for some reason it never posted even though it was scheduled.  I never even noticed.  So here is yesterdays post with a few extra photos. This will be my life as long as tomato season goes on.  A little canning and sewing when I can fit […]

Yesterday was a too busy day.  I decided I had enough tomatoes to make my first batch of Marinara Sauce and got all the ingredients in the crockpot to start while I ran into town in the morning to get my haircut.  While it was cooking I was doing other things of course but never […]

With Stashbusters check in coming on Friday, I needed to get these Project Linus quilts done. I’m going to have quite a bit of “fabric in” this month! It was a beautiful day when I loaded the second one onto the longarm frame. So, I opened all the windows to let in the fresh air while I quilted.

I used the same pantograph on both quilts, a flowing curve called Fascination.

The first Beatrix Potter / Mother Goose quilt had a backing of bright yellow and green. I used the remnants to make the binding, and applied it to the ...

Mother’s Day was a fairly lazy day for me.   I texted with Jessica  and Melanie came over.  The strawberry pie was great!  I shared a photo of it yesterday but here it is again for anyone that missed it.  I will be making it again. The crust was a nut crust – I had wondered […]

I was searching for a strawberry pie recipe that would not have a soggy crust and I hope I found it (we usually do not have berry pies as they always seem to have a soggy crust this may be a keeper)  – I made one late in the day – it is a refrigerated […]