Happy Monday! I have been working on some different things. Is this true, or did someone just make it up? 

I decided I need to make some totes from this pattern, 

and I spent more than a little time looking for it. I am going to prequilt the fabrics and then cut out the pieces. I have pulled the fabrics I want to use, but they aren’t quilted yet. The technician is coming today to do the periodic maintenance on my longarm, so I didn’t bother to load anything for quilting. I will work on my paperwork while ...

 I must admit that adding stitches to the sky in my current cross stitch project is not that exciting...I try to break it up by adding stitches to the bottom part of the picture too.  You can see from the picture that progress was made on both fronts this week. Someone asked about stitching on perforated paper--the paper is quite thick and I have not had any issues with it tearing.  I have had to unstitch in a couple of spots and did not have any issues.  

My daughter has been working on her crochet in the evenings this ...

 My daughter was here for the past week and she and Finn went home yesterday.  It was nice to have her here.  Finn was very excited to see her.  He loves it when all of us are together.  I did a little bit of cross stitch this past week, but no machine sewing.  I finished the framing stitches and added more sky stitches as well.  I hope to do more today. 

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The blocks for this quilt were made back in 2011. I finished a larger quilt with these blocks in 2012.

I put a lot of the leftover blocks aside until later that year, then turned them into a smaller quilt top.

And that’s the way it stayed until this month. It was one of my UFO collection. It has now seen the light of day again and has been backed, quilted and bound. At last.

This version has ended up at 52 X 52 inches.

The design is called Country Garden Maze and was from the Irish Quit and ...

Summer’s End sounds like it should be the name of a quaint English village.

There I go. Off track and distracted before I even start!

Okay, today is officially the last day of Summer for us, but it never feels like it. In fact I think March is one of the best weather months that we have. Usually lots of sunny days that are hot but never unpleasant. At least I can get outside to take quilt photos.

This quilt top is a UFO that is not a UFO. Sounds like a riddle.

I had 3 charm packs and ...

Stitches 2025

 My friend, Karen, gave me a little cross stitch kit to make an ornament for our tree for Christmas.  I decided to abandon my funky chicken cross stitch and do the kit instead this week.  I wanted to get it done before we take the tree down and put the ornaments away. My father in law drove a little red truck and my daughter called him the Red Truck Grandpa when she was little so red trucks have a special significance in our family. 

Stitching for Christmas 

Crochet Christmas Trees

Mouse of the Month

November in November 

I sewed the binding strips together for The Rose Garden and pressed them – they are ready to be stitched down – maybe today? I really need to get busy on that.  I have put off making another unit of Jack’s Chain until the table is cleared off – I need the room to sew […]