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Flying Pansies needs to be pressed – but I took a photo of the finish anyhow – but I do need to give it a good pressing before I put it away until it is it’s turn to be quilted.  I decided to put a border on the sides as well – it does look […]

Finally all that is left to do on Flying Pansies is it to mark the sides of the top for cutting straight – first sewing a stay stitch line so no stitching comes apart and then cut the sides straight.  I have not pressed any seams on the back or cut away excess fabric from […]

How can it be December already – crazy – another year disappearing before our very eyes.  I was moving kind of slow yesterday.  Going in and out to our storage for Christmas boxes – getting some things unpacked and still more to do.  I’m getting used to the smaller tree but still not sure if […]

Last day of November – Only one more month of the year left – did this go by even faster than last year or is it my imagination? After eating too much on Thursday I was really feeling lazy yesterday and didn’t get to the Flying Pansies quilt until late in the day – do […]

Right now I am trying to decide on which I will make a Log Cabin with the strips or a Courthouse Steps – I can’t recall if I ever made Courthouse Steps but know I have made 4-6 log cabin quilts over the years. I spent a good part of yesterday (we were doing Thanksgiving […]

The weather was perfect on Sunday although quite windy and I enjoyed some outside time as well as doing some sewing in the house while listening to an audio book.  Of course the temperature is going to drop late tomorrow for a couple days then warm up and then drop again – such is fall […]

Well we got our email back to working and have the computers connected to our phones when we want to do things on the internet.  Still sounds like Thursday before they get to us.  Now I’m trying to see f I can do a post from the computer with photos and that it won’t take […]

Ok what do you all think – pick apart or leave as is.  Two more rows need to be added to Flying Pansies– yesterday I didn’t work on it but I just happened to stand back and look at it and saw two of the same print of green colors next to each other.  I […]

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 – […]

Back to work at the sewing machine yesterday and the two day headache was finally gone.  So glad that doesn’t happen often.  I got one more row sewed onto Flying Pansies – 6 rows done and 3 hanging the side – I got tired of having to move the bottom row when I needed to […]

Hexies  – progressed a little bit – all the black pieces are done – neutral half way I think. One more row on the Flying Pansies is done – 4 rows left.  Linking to Patchwork & Quilting Quilting on English Ivy from Thursday night Instead of the very large New York Beauty next up on […]

Our month long dry spell finally came to an end Wednesday night and we got a little over an inch of rain and more coming later in the week and next week – I think the weather finally changed course.  We had a bit of wind too – but not bad here but in Northwest […]

I did a lot of block piecing yesterday and all of the blocks in Flying Pansies are now ready to sew the Y-seam rows.  I don’t know how long it will take but now that all the individual blocks are together maybe it will go faster.  The rows are pinned to the wall to keep […]

Finally got back to the sewing machine.   I have one more row of Y seams done and one more row ready to sew today.  These rows of Flying Pansies are now back up on the wall so I could quilt last night. The last row is pieced but not attached. Some thread basting done on […]

I got 2 more rows (3 and 4) of blocks sewn into rows but they are not attached to the two rows I did the Y seams on the other day – maybe some today?  I’m not sure what all I am doing at this point although I do want to work in the garden […]

Some of you have said you wouldn’t make a quilt that needs Y Seams that you think they are too hard to do and they take too much time.  They aren’t that hard to do but yes you do not rush it – you do take your time.    I got started piecing Flying Pansies yesterday.  […]

All the pieces are now sewed and appliqued – I’m ready to sew blocks into rows and then the long rows together.  First I went and voted Then after lunch I went outside to work on the garden and got some work done and Mike got another wagon load of mulch ready for me to […]

I went outside intending to put in a lot of work in the garden and just couldn’t after getting the wagon emptied of mulch I could not kneel down on the ground and work on the strawberry bed – maybe today but maybe not until tomorrow – I was just too sore.  I spent the […]

Yesterday a lot got done in the garden – of course now my right hand is aching a bit from arthritis but such is life – you live with it.  Hopefully I can keep up working almost every day in the garden to get it ready for winter.  I have one and a half strawberry […]

I have been showing this one a lot lately I know – I am trying hard to get all the hexagons done so I can piece it all together and get something else on the design wall.  Five of the remaining seven done – They are now sitting in the living room for me to […]