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It's about time I worked on my purple clam shell quilt again, goodness knows when I last got it out of the bag.  This project came with me to a monthly craft group I recently joined.  We can take anything we like to work on,  there was knitting and crochet happening, needle felting and one lady was setting up a hand loom, that looked rather tricky to me.  After doing big stitch hand quilting around all the clam shells, I'm now up to the borders.  I won't tell you just how old this project is, but believe ...

I decided on going large on the quilt – it just looked too narrow to me.   I have some more fabric I can cut up into squares and I have some fabric in the kit still to go through.  I can purchase a little on line of the fabric line if needed to finish […]

I know often when I take a quilt off of the frame I have one on it immediately but I guess I am moving slower this weekend and I haven’t started to get New York Beauty on the frame – maybe today?  I was working on other things and cutting strips of binding for the […]

Yesterday we didn’t get inches and inches of snow as it really slowed down quickly but as I was writing this last night the weather guy said we could get an inch an hour in the night – so I wonder what I will wake up to!! The birds got fed Before it started I […]

It has been lovely to have a quiet break since Christmas and over the New Year period. A chance to slow down and recharge is always appreciated. I have especially enjoyed some sewing time without any deadlines. And some knitting while watching TV. Happily, this has lead to some finishes.

I had a fat quarter bundle of Mint Crush which I used to make Fat Quarter Four Patches. I ended up using them to make two quilts. The first one is a single bed size.

A very simple design but it let me leave some of the fabric in larger ...

I'm looking for the dies that will cut some of the pieces of the Plaid-ish quilt.  One of them is a 5" square.  I'll get some fabrics pressed today and start cutting.  Some of the shapes will have to be rotary cut.  My right shoulder has been bothering me so I won't be doing a lot of cutting any one day.

Time to start anew and get busy with finishing projects and starting new.  I very often start New Years Day off by putting away most of the Christmas things and between us we got it almost done.  There is the Christmas quilt to take off the wall and the big wreath off the fireplace.  The […]

 My girls assure me that they love my hand knitted socks, so that's what they got for Christmas again this year.  Three pair of 4ply socks, one each for them, plus a couple of other small gifts too.  They probably don't realise how long they take me to knit, but I started early, and had them done with time to spare.

 Christmas 2024 has come and gone and we are now in that quieter time between December 25th and New Year's Day. I blogged earlier in the week about some of the gifts I made this year and you can read about them here.  I have been doing some reading and cross stitching every day--ahhhh! The lower left square will eventually be a picture of an owl...

Finn loves a squeaky toy and ...

I split my red ...

 Many, many thanks to all who sent me blog post comments, emails, cards and phonecalls of condolences after the passing of my beloved husband Robin.  I appreciate each and every one of your messages.  Thanks also to those ladies who told me of their own losses too of their husbands, such a sad thing to go through for us all.

Robin's Memorial Service went well, although it was a trying day for me, as you can imagine.  The front table was draped with a quilt I had made for his 60th birthday, "Memories of Work and Play" I had ...

Between making time for PT and cleaning house and doing laundry I didn’t sit at the sewing machine at all and no more progress on the Log Cabin until Sunday. Most likely if there is a blog post on Sunday it will be later in the day or maybe not until Monday, I did get […]

I didn’t get any sewing done yesterday but I did sort and press strips for awhile – they are now ready for me to trim to 1.5” and then be ready to sew.  Instead I ran to Wal-Mart with Melanie and she was getting groceries and things for her mother in law and I was […]

Finally I got the sewing table cleared off yesterday and got starting on the new quilt.  I don’t know large it will be – I do have lots of strips and lots of neutrals that I can turn into strips so we will see.  I got the accuquilt out to cut purple squares and got […]

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 […]