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Good morning, my friends. It was a good day of sewing yesterday. I was able to finish off the Circus piece. It just needs the binding hand-sewn now. Today's sewing will probably be mostly hand-sewing, although I'm going to make good on my threat to sew the Kittens blocks into a finished quilt top.

While struggling to baste the Down & Dirty Civil War Repro Quilt, I found myself experiencing an interlude of interruptions or, as I’m prone to say, life happens. 

The quilt became a flimsy last week—I think Wednesday. But the next day while accompanying a dear friend to the hospital for a heart cath, I ran into the bestie of one of our daughters-in-law, and learned that her father was in the hospital and not doing well. The next day one of our sons landed in another hospital and is still there. And the day after that, the father of ...

This morning, it was nice knowing there wasn't anything scheduled today. 

So, I played for a bit on my tablet and then decided to sit and watch TV while stitching. 

I worked on the white hair. I like how it's coming alive. I have more to do, but will work on it tomorrow. We don't have quilting at moms tomorrow, so it should be another good day of getting more done on here. I worked on the red to the left as well. I need to get this done and work on that awful gold. He is ...

This morning, Debbie and I went to Yelm to go shopping for fabrics. We wanted panels and ended up with more. First, we stopped at Dutch Brothers for something to drink, then headed on to Yelm. it was a good ride. It's about an hour north of us. 

We arrived and found a panel that was marked "last one." So, we picked that up along with a lot of other panels that will work for what we are doing. 

The note is personal and touching for me but I wanted to share it with you, 

So, on that note, I found that amazing lovely blue print above but am not quite ...

Good morning, my friends. Our weather warmed up significantly overnight. We have a dense cloud cover keeping everything warm. This is good news for travelers. Matthew's flight is supposed to leave for Mexico during the 10:00 hour (that's all I know). Checking in with the airport this morning, I notice there's a flight for Cancun (near where he's going) that is listed as "on time." If he can get to the airport, I expect he'll take off on his badly-needed vacation from the cold. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for now. (It makes ...

Good morning, my friends. Our weather warmed up significantly overnight. We have a dense cloud cover keeping everything warm. This is good news for travelers. Matthew's flight is supposed to leave for Mexico during the 10:00 hour (that's all I know). Checking in with the airport this morning, I notice there's a flight for Cancun (near where he's going) that is listed as "on time." If he can get to the airport, I expect he'll take off on his badly-needed vacation from the cold. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for now. (It makes ...

 Happy Valentine's Day.  Celebrated on 14th February, Valentine was a priest who defied the orders of the Emperor and secretly married couples to spare the husbands from war.  He was martyred in 270 CE.  This is my first Valentine's Day without Robin.  We always used to do something special, go out to dinner, or in later years, out to lunch.  Or just stay home and cook a special meal.  Whatever we decided to do, the day was celebrated together in our own quiet way.  

As a quilter, I only have one quilt with hearts.  This is "Hearts of ...

Good morning, my friends. We're going to get three kinds of precipitation over the next day or two. It has already started. We're expecting snow, sleet, and freezing rain. And one might as well say "lions, and tigers, and bears!" Looking out my window as I'm writing, it has already started.

Good morning, my friends. We're going to get three kinds of precipitation over the next day or two. It has already started. We're expecting snow, sleet, and freezing rain. And one might as well say "lions, and tigers, and bears!" Looking out my window as I'm writing, it has already started.

…a project that’s not the Tattoo Quilt!

The quilt on the design wall in the Bottoms Up! studio in 2013

I’ve gone as far as I can on getting ready to quilt the Tattoo Quilt. The top, backing, binding and threads are in a bag. The trip to Katrina’s has been rescheduled thanks to a bout with the flu—yes, I always get a flu shot, but I had a reaction to the last one and wonder if that’s why I caught the flu. I haven’t had the flu in decades and was completely caught ...

 This morning, Patrick went to have coffee with a friend. He was gone a short time. So, while he was gone, I decided to get some of my shows on TV. I saw two "Vera" shows. Then when he came home, we watched another show. 

Pretty much today we were watching TV. Mom had called and asked if she could take us out to eat. We decided to go. Patrick is getting better about that. So, around 3 pm, we headed to moms and picked her up. We decided to go to Denny's because Patrick was hungry for eggs ...

Good morning, my friends. Everyone remain calm. There's no reason for you to be scared. As for me, yesterday's sewing could best be described in a single word: "Gulp." I'll tell you about that in just a minute, but let's back up a few steps. When I left you yesterday, we were contemplating the trip up our steep snow-covered driveway to the main road. Could we do it? And let me just skip to the exciting conclusion: YES!!! Only, just hold the celebration because it only means we're going grocery shopping. Sigh. We encountered nothing ...

Good morning, my friends. Everyone remain calm. There's no reason for you to be scared. As for me, yesterday's sewing could best be described in a single word: "Gulp." I'll tell you about that in just a minute, but let's back up a few steps. When I left you yesterday, we were contemplating the trip up our steep snow-covered driveway to the main road. Could we do it? And let me just skip to the exciting conclusion: YES!!! Only, just hold the celebration because it only means we're going grocery shopping. Sigh. We encountered nothing ...

 In Rainbow Scrap Challenge land, a new month means a new colour.  And blue it is.  I looked through my small bag of 2.5in squares and selected some with blue tones to make more framed four patch blocks.  That bag doesn't seem to be going down at all, but it must be, ever so slowly.  I know I've said it before, but I really don't like working with 2.5in squares, they just seem so small to me.  And yes, I know, some bloggers delight in working with even tinier 1.5in squares, how do they ...

This morning, I was up after Patrick again. Then I realized he was wanting to go golfing. He sat with me for a bit before heading out to meet up with Mike. Once he was gone, I watched TV and played for a bit. Then I pulled out my cross stitching and started to work on it. I watched a TV show that I taped, but wish now I watched one of my British shows instead, since Patrick was gone and lately, that isn't very often. 

I was checking my phone, when this "video" came up and had a ...

 This morning, we were up early. Neither of us could enjoy the day to sleep in. I would have because the bed was warm, but I just can't stay in bed to stay warm. lol 

I took my time getting ready for the day. When I did, I came in the computer room to work on my recipe blog that I hadn't touched in 3 years. I added a few more recipes to the list. Some sounded good even to me. They are old recipes that came through the generations and from a box I got at an ...

First off, I was planning on having an auction today but the blog has been acting up a lot with jibber jabber posts. I have someone looking into it but it’s turning out to be a bigger problem than anyone anticipated. I didn’t want to run an auction without a little warning. I plan on …

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The visits to the vet are getting harder. We left and Vince said . . in 10 years Oscar will be 13 and we are not going to be able to handle him unless he calms down a whole lot. I’ll start with the good news . . nine months ago when we were last...

Nope, not a good, heart racing kind of workout but a major fight with Oscar type workout. I feel so bad for that dog with his anxiety issues. He has to be at the vet this morning at 8:30, which means he got a tranquilizer at 6 a.m. I broke it in half, put a...