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Yesterday just flew by with little done in the sewing room.  I was busy with other things – finishing a book started while traveling for one thing that never got finished.    First of all I did get the Carpenter’s Wheel out to finally get to the binding that I never did before we left on […]

I really jumped back into sewing today – after I took the machine somewhat apart cleaning it and getting it to go smoothly a little thread had gotten caught up in the feed dog area and wasn’t flowing smoothly – glad I found the problem. First I appliqued the circles on to the three Flying […]

I didn’t get around to getting in the sewing room until evening.  I was so tire and work up early yesterday after I really could have used more than 8 hours of sleep and barely got 6 so I was dragging a bit.  I did get grocery shopping done and a little clean up on […]

I have not gotten a lot of sewing done while we have been gone – I just haven’t felt like it much but I have gotten one Flying Pansies hand stitched and started a second I mark my seams to keep them straight and quarter inch I have worked on the new knitting project I […]

Yesterday was a busy day as packing has begun for our vacation and I was stitching in between.  I had to decide what to bring to sew or crochet first though – for me that is as important as clothes!  So now that the sewing stuff is put aside I can get laundry done today […]

Yesterday was a hexagon kind of day.  In the morning I got the big Noriko’s Star out and spread it over part of the bed so I could figure out where this section of hexies went and attach it to work on. I got started stitching on it late in the day – the side […]

I always think even if you don’t have time to sit for an hour or two to work on your stitching it’s the 15 minutes here and there that add up.  Yesterday I had some errands to run, like picking up prescriptions that the doctor had faxed in yesterday so I have all I need […]

The Flying Pansies is such a colorful quilt I am enjoying make it.  Three more made yesterday – this is the width of the quilt now.  In the second row after I am probably done with most of it I will add the half hexies to the sides.  Final color placement will be decided later.  […]

Windows were open – the weather was beautiful.  Cool enough to have windows open at night and all day is just the best!!  The brightness of the Flying Pansies is nice to see – nothing dull here.  I got these two done and then went to do other things. Then came back and did three […]

I wasn’t sure on Thursday night if anything was going to come to me for quilting on English Ivy – most times quilting designs come easily this one not so.  I have probably picked out more stitching then necessary but to me I see 3 designs in this quilt – other than the obvious one […]

On Wednesday seeing as I wasn’t quilting I went ahead and worked on getting English Ivy on the quilting frame.  It is a much smaller quilt than what is usually on the frame so it was much easier to get on the frame and it is ready for quilting.  Usually it comes to me quickly […]

Almost there – the end is in sight.  The end is so close that I decided to make the binding and have it waiting for me.  Sewing all those long strips together. All the pressing involved Done – now it waits for the finish – I have run out of places to store things LOL  […]

Someone when looking at this said get your sun glasses LOL – I must admit these are much wilder more colorful fabric then I have used in sometime.  And I love it.  I got started cutting the white fabric yesterday and got one strip of them cut  – this is four layers of the fabric […]

I’m so pleased that yesterday I finished getting all the colors cut out for Flying Pansies – now on to the white pieces of which I need 322 pieces LOL.  The difference will be that I will cut some, sew some, cut some and on and on to break up the monotony of all that […]

Is anyone else having a hard time believing it is September – still hot here but the summer will quickly go away this month. I was mainly cutting out more pieces for Flying Pansies yesterday when I was in the sewing room – but admit I did more reading yesterday than sewing.  Forty-seven of 59 […]

I got more cut yesterday but I’m not moving fast on this one for sure.  It will be awhile before I start to sew I think.  I haven’t even pressed the white piece yet to get it ready to cut – sure goes faster if there was a die for this for the Accuquilt LOL […]

I really didn’t get done with a lot – I got involved with my Karin Slaughter book and I might have spent more time reading than sewing yesterday.  I need to get a move on cutting Flying Pansies pieces.  I need a heck of a lot more – I might start cutting the white pieces […]

Well now that Scrapy Crossroads top is done and in the to be quilted basket the sewing room is full of the fun fabric for the Flying Pansies quilt – I will be busy the rest of this week cutting fabric I’m sure.  I’m going to wait to start to sew until I get the […]

One never gets bored (or rarely) if you have more than one project going on at a time.  Yesterday I cut strips for the border of Scrappy Crossroads but I didn’t sew them.  I also put two fabrics aside for the binding that will go in the “to be quilted” basket with the quilt – […]

The scrap box of 2.5 inch squares when I got started on Scrappy Crossroads I think there might just be enough squares left in here for 2 more quilts this size easily!!  They never all get used up.  There are a lot of light and dark Two rows left to put together and then the […]