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 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 […]

I actually got done with some hand work yesterday and a little shopping. First the binding is done, English Ivy is washed and dried – finished! Finished at 52.5” x 60” I started this one in April for a promo for the Fat Quarter Shop – they supplied the fabric and I promoted it and […]

 The Hawkes Bay is generally sunny and warm, and although we had a couple of chilly nights, the days were glorious.  We spent a couple of days at Napier NZMCA Park and our neighbours were intrigued that we travel with a cat and came over to say hello to Gemma.  

At Napier NZMCA Park

These NZMCA parks always have a book swap and I found this helpful book there, Crafty Girls Road Trip.  Although 10 years old, there is still plenty of information that will be relevant.  I'll keep the book in the caravan for when we are tripping ...

We had a good weekend visit with our daughter in her new apartment, she is settling in and getting all her quilts out to decorate, she said there is more to do.  I will take you on a mini tour of her quilts.  She and the kids have been getting them for many years.  Now […]

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 […]

My headache continued all day yesterday finally giving me a sinus headache as well which was not totally unexpected – as it seems like I always have a two day headache after major dental appointments. So again not a lot to blog about.  I did go outside for a little and sat in the cool […]

All the best!♥︎

 I have finally finished this pair of socks for me.  This 4ply sock wool is branded Happy Feet, no colour named, just a number, and I received it as a birthday gift last year from Sew Wot friend Mary.    As most of you know, I knit my socks flat, two at a time, and packed the finished socks in my knitting bag on our recent caravan trip planning to get side seam stitched up.  That never happened, and I finally completed this task once we returned back home.  It's about time I finished them.

Although it is now Spring ...

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 […]

Very little got done in the house.  I was outside most of the afternoon working on one strawberry bed.  It was so packed and over crowded it too forever to clean it out and separate plants. I really do not know how many strawberry plants I dug out – here is the pile, hundreds? a […]

I'm obviously much to busy to do too much knitting while we are on our road trip.  The only thing I've worked on is my pair of pink socks, mostly knitted while traveling in the car.  This pretty yarn was a gift from my daughter Nicky last Christmas, so I'd like to get them finished soon.  They are coming along, I think I'm just about up to the heels by now.   In case you don't know, I knit my socks flat, two at a time.

My pink socks

Not only have I packed my pink ...

Yesterday I had a bad sinus headache and did no machine work.  I took numerous naps, read, knitted and a little EPP.  I got to thinking that I thought I had bought a layer cake of Kaffe fabric at a quilt show a couple years ago and looked for it and found it – would […]