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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 […]

Well the section for Noriko’s Star was done yesterday but very late and it already had started to get dark and looked of rain so took a photo inside – yes running out of room! Two sides done – four more to go and then the border to square it all up – linking to […]

But I did get just a little sewing done – this section of Noriko’s Star is ready to join to the main body of the quilt – I will work on that over the next couple days – one side doesn’t have a white edging on it because of the way it lines up when […]

New York Beauty – the blocks are just about done – one more block to make after I finished this one yesterday – this block is called “Echidna” – 35 pieces in this one with the very long spikes – I do like those spikes What is a Echidna – it is sometimes referred to as […]

I don't know where this month has gone. It's been filled with activity, not the least of which is keeping up with breadmaking from two different sourdough starters! What have I gotten myself into? Loaves are being gifted continually. I've branched out into English muffins, cinnamon buns and multi-grain breads too.Without a lot of words or explanation I'm going to catch up with a post 

I don't know where this month has gone. It's been filled with activity, not the least of which is keeping up with breadmaking from two different sourdough starters! What have I gotten myself into? Loaves are being gifted continually. I've branched out into English muffins, cinnamon buns and multi-grain breads too.Without a lot of words or explanation I'm going to catch up with a post 

Another Christmas has come and gone; as always, I was almost ready. Are we ever completely prepared? Naturally, all of the gifts were purchased and wrapped, cards addressed and sent, and the food was ready at the appointed time and place. But, then, there's always those "extras", those things I think I'd like to make and tuck in as a special surprise- those little cross stitch ornaments I

Another Christmas has come and gone; as always, I was almost ready. Are we ever completely prepared? Naturally, all of the gifts were purchased and wrapped, cards addressed and sent, and the food was ready at the appointed time and place. But, then, there's always those "extras", those things I think I'd like to make and tuck in as a special surprise- those little cross stitch ornaments I

Off the frame!  This one sure took awhile – I started quilting it back in the middle of July and it took almost 170 hours to do – that is about 50 hours at least more than usual.  But whose counting LOL  This part was finished on Wednesday night And I took it off the […]

well it took a few more days to finish this block then intended but it is now done – other than a piece that needs to be added to the left side of it and the block above it when I start to put the center together.  Construction was done in arcs of course Eventually […]

Well I have the large NYB block ready to piece – I might get to it today but not sure – Melanie’s schedule keeps changing and we still hadn’t made Xmas cookies together and she swears she will be over today – if not I will get started with the two kinds of dough that […]

I got one more block done for NYB and it was an easy one even if you don’t think so!  This block is called “Fruit Bat” So lets see what is an Australian Fruit Bat?  I found that they are also called Flying Fox and this group are the Gray Head Flying Fox The wall […]

For all those in the states it is turkey day or whatever tradition you have for Thanksgiving.  We do turkey and bread stuffing with some of the sides but not as much as we do when we have extra people here.  This year is just us and Melanie and she will be here for just […]

Another New York Beauty block and this one is called “Hairynose” that is a funny name.  This makes 22 blocks. The wall — linking this Saturday to Patchwork & Quilts— And what is the Hairynose – a type of wombat, this one it says is critically endangered. I baked pumpkin yesterday and then processed and […]

Finally we got our rain, over the last two days it is at 1.5 inches so far with more to come all day today and maybe Monday too?  I’m amazed it is almost November already we have had windows open more than closed this past month.  But today was an inside day for sure.   I […]

All of the rows are finally put together – now to press this and measure and come up with a simple border.  I do not want to spend time on a complex border just simple sashing.    There is actually not a lot of black in the quilt is there – when I was making it, […]