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I started the day yesterday by going out to the garden after breakfast – it was already over 80 (it was 85 when I went to bed on Monday night) and I wanted to get done early – which actually really wasn’t all that early but I got the handful of blackberries picked, a large […]

I had forgotten yesterday to show the table runner that is now ready for binding for an overall view – I have binding strips cut but still need to get it on.  I plan to do that today seeing as it is to get to 100 degrees so I expect I will mostly be inside […]

The 3rd border has now officially started!  After looking it over I think it might be 12 blocks total needed but I’m not positive as I don’t know if there will be a block in the corners with the layout.  If I go into the corners then it would be 16 blocks I believe. It […]

Well although I didn’t make a New York Beauty block yesterday I am ready to today!  Pattern pieces glued together for about 5 blocks I think.  I had a routine going for this and what with not working on it for about 2 months I have gotten out of my routine and having to think […]

I was gone all afternoon yesterday for a doctor appointment – which in itself doesn’t take long but it is in Little Rock so that tacks another 2 1/2 hours to it.  Just a routine visit and blood work.  I stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home to get the prescriptions that were refilled and […]

Finally I got the second border on New York Beauty– top and bottom about complete – it turned out to be a little more in length then I needed – 118” long so I will be trimming about 3-4 inches off top and bottom making it closer to 110” and then the long sides will […]

The second border is getting close – I finished the last block for that border and in the process of putting it together – the fourth block was finished. Added to the wall – some of what is up there is sewn together and I hope to finish this border today so that I can […]

I have been outside working on odds and ends, helping Mike stack firewood for next season and cleaning up some of the workshop.  It has been nice outside so we have been nice doing odd jobs outside.  I got the garden fertilized and snail repellent put all around.  Got some new netting ordered that will […]

I didn’t think I was going to have another block to share on NYB today but I managed to finish one more yesterday –  I was this far before I stopped to make supper I decided to finish it as there wasn’t much left after I got the kitchen cleaned up and before I would […]

A little bit of progress on the second border.  I cut more blue pieces out (I cut a little large and trim down) and I got one more block done. I just noticed that I had yellow for three of these four blocks so I might change the next one out and cut some new […]

Can you all believe it is the end of March already – it is crazy I swear the days, weeks and months just fly by.  Once again I didn’t get a lot done in the sewing room – it was just too nice outside. I did manage to make myself make one of the 4 […]

It has been so nice outside (other than the wind) that I have been outside a bit more than inside last couple days but I have gotten closer to starting the next border for NYB – I picked out colors for the 4 blocks that I will be doing next – usually I do one […]

Really not much to share this morning – yesterday I just didn’t feel like doing much.  I think I was reading more than anything – I’m reading “Matterhorn” book one of two .  Book two will be out next year.  I like it and spent a good part of the day reading. Someone asked what […]

A little work got done on the New York Beauty borders – one border is now finished and 3 to go.  I took it outside seeing as it wasn’t windy so I could lay it out for photo – I have had it folded on the wall so it hasn’t been displayed in forever.  I […]

I hadn’t mentioned this quilt in awhile as it had been put aside while I was catching up on the applique of the circles for Happy Daze and the Mercantile sew along.  The other day I finished thread basting the hexies for the next section I am working on so before I got to any […]

This border is turning out to be easier than I thought it would be – what I thought might be a month of work might be a bit less. I decided to keep all the blocks going in the same direction not twisting or turning the into a wave type pattern.  By moving the pieces […]

I was working more on the border yesterday than the handwork I said I was going to.  But I came up with an idea for it after I realized the other would be too big and went with it.  It is working out – the NYB blocks are pieced as you can see for the […]

Well I got started on the New York Beauty but before I even started to make a start on the border I realized I wasn’t thinking right on the border I selected – it would be way too wide for the quilt all around.   LOL – it was one of those “what was I thinking […]

And this is going to take awhile to get it done – but one block at a time and I hope it won’t take more than a couple months to get it done. I am going with this block for the middle of each border only (as if that won’t be enough work) and then […]

I’m not sure where I left off posting progress on my own stuff after posting photos of the show quilt – but here is progress on Hunter’s Star quilting. I think the red marks about half way across this row. The circle applique on Happy Daze is caught up – this was the last one […]