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On Sunday I managed to get done with a little even though I started late in the afternoon. The black sashing is added to Sunny Daze and now I am ready to make four more half Dresden Plates.  Then those will be glue basted to the borders.  The borders will not be sewn down until […]

The Dresden quilt has finally made some progress.  The yellow block is done I decided to take it all off the wall and put a black sashing around the 9 inside blocks  – cut and ready to sew.  Then the newsprint borders will be put back up and the half plates glue basted in place […]

One more of the Dresden Plates was finished and added to the wall.  Four more half hexies need to be made and added in also.  Right now the two full plates pinned up are finished. I like how colorful the center one is the next one I will work on is the red plate, it […]

What with the storms yesterday I didn’t have the sewing machine plugged in most of the day but I did get some work done before I needed to unplug.  The last of the Dresden Plates was stitched and ready to glue down – I thought I took a photo of the last one after it […]

Instead of starting a new color for the Dresden Plates I wanted to stick to the four colors I had started with but that left me having to decide what to do about the 5 blocks that plates would be appliqued to – do I duplicate one or go with a new color.  Gail at […]

On Sunday night I finished one end of the NYB and was then ready  to roll the quilt down. It is always nice rolling the quilt down when you know it will be then showing the half way point clearly.  The big circle is in the center of the quilt. And this is where I […]

It got so warm yesterday it is a wonder I did any sewing at  – today we get back to normal for going into April and it will be in the 70’s or even 60’s for most of the week and tons of rain if they are right starting around Wednesday.  It has all pretty […]

I worked on my applique block yesterday and got the green plate done – I will see about getting another one made today and it will be ready for the applique also. I counted out some stacks of yellow, purple and red for the next ones up.  I will need one more full plate and […]

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! […]