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Well it got up to 80 degrees yesterday.  I was in and out a bit and reading a new crime novel as well  -John Sandford’s new book “Lethal Prey” I always buy his book and had pre-ordered and an email let me know it was delivered to my kindle in the middle of the night.  […]

I just played around with pieces yesterday.  I’m not sure what will be on the design wall.  I decided to get the black squares out with the round pinwheel type of circles to work with first. None of this is as it would be in the end for sure – just playing for now and […]

Well it is all sewed together but I’m not sure if it is done LOL – it is narrower than I imagined.  I mean I knew what the estimated measurement would be but it is narrower than I pictured in my mind.  Would be a good size for a runner over the legs perhaps or […]

Big Half Hexies had some work on them, I have all pieces sewed into rows and then yesterday I sewed 3 of the rows together – I will do this two more times and then join to the top – all the rows are on the wall.  When I get them all joined I will […]

Yesterday I don’t know why I just wasn’t in a sewing mood I guess – I spent some time with Melanie and it seemed like when I got home my day was just shot.  I will try harder today to get the last rows of the Half-Hexie quilt sewed – heaven knows it is an […]

Yesterday was full of color – while the wind was blowing wildly outside!  So very windy all of Arkansas is in high wildfire danger because of low humidity and extremely high winds.  Yesterday the state was fighting 38+fires – most of the were all in the eastern half of the state, I know of none […]

The wind has just been relentless for the past 4 days or so – it doesn’t quit.  Although it would have been nice enough to sit out on the porch yesterday and work on hexies or something it would have been impossible due to the wind.  I did walk around looking at trees and the […]

Yesterday was a lazy Sunday I spent a lot of time reading and a little time sewing. I went through my hexie box of pre-cut pieces selecting colors for the next set of four flowers – I have a lot of pieces – I went way over board cutting scraps and have no idea where […]

I was able to finish up the last stitching on this section of Noriko’s Star I was working on and take it outside for some photo’s – it wasn’t windy! And the sun was mostly shining.  Two sections left to make and then the 4 corners – this will still take until the end of […]

Yesterday was another day of clearing up scraps, working on hexies, quilting and adjusting to the time change – for spring forward an hour.  Kind of messes me up a little but adjust quickly and I like it lighter in the evening! I forgot to take a photo of the box of scraps that I […]

I didn’t want to start sewing the half hexies together just yet yesterday while I looked at it a little while longer so I got busy cutting more scraps that were left over from it and from the Flying Pansies quilt that I did a couple months ago – that is where the Kaffe scraps […]

Still working on the Half-Hexies on the color – I swear this is where it gets complicated – the more you put up on the wall and then see one piece that doesn’t look right where it is causes havoc!  Your intention is to move one piece to another and you end up moving 10! […]

Wow was it windy on Wednesday – it was 50 degrees but sure didn’t feel like it.  Melanie and I had went grocery shopping and the wind was just blowing us around and the empty carts to when we put them in the cart corral.  I hope that is past us now.  I thought we […]

Well I cleaned off the design wall and I’m ready to start over again – I am going to go across the wall instead of down because what I have planned is too long for my short wall and I don’t want it on the floor – so you will be getting a sideways view […]

The fabric that Wanda put in the mail for me last week to go with the Kaffe bright prints on the wall finally arrived after sitting in Chicago forever but I was sneezing and blowing my nose so much from allergies that I got no further than pressing all the pieces.  I hope to get […]

The segment of hexagons that had the big mistake on Noriko’s Star are almost fixed I might get the stitching done today.  Because all those papers had already been taken out I wasn’t sure how the sewing would go but because of having had papers and having been previously stitched they are laying flat as […]

Don’t you just love unpicking hexagons – unpicking rows of hexagons is messy all those little threads and you need to be so careful with the unpicking.  One of my readers let me know that she spotted what she thought was a mistake unless I had actually planned what she was seeing – I took […]

Ready to attach the new section of hexies that was completed yesterday to the big top. Phot came out a little dark – but I pin the two black pieces on the bottom together to make sure I have it going in the right direction before I sew.  I should get this attached in a […]

I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday – my sinuses dripping like mad and I just kept nodding off napping over a book.  But I felt just fine last night other than the drippy nose – don’t think I’m sick are allergies rampant already? I got some slow stitching done on hexie row […]

I’m pleased this New York Beauty is moving along but a very long way to go before it is finished.  The quilt is all batik and some are a little tougher to quilt through than other pieces so I am just taking my time through it – going slowly in some pieces and faster in […]