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Good morning, my friends. If you thought you were going to get a break from my incessant prattle, you're going to be disappointed. We managed to get all the unpacking finished yesterday...food, clothes, dirty laundry, towels, quilts...all unpacked and washed, if necessary. The one remaining wash load is the bedding. Aside from that, the trip has been moved to the dustbin of history now. Only the pictures and memories remain.

While I was doing laundry, I spent some time rearranging the magnets on the refrigerator. Surprisingly, I found room for five more. Hopefully, I'll still find ...

 This is another long winded RSC finish, which started off as another completely different project, way back when we lived in Upper Hutt.  I found my big bag of batiks, and decided to make Cobblestone blocks instead, and there it floundered again.  Eventually added it to the RSC list and started making Cobblestone blocks in the colour of the month, working away until I had stitched sufficient blocks to give me the required number for a large quilt.

Good morning, my friends. My night of sleep was short last night. It took me absolutely forever to fall asleep, but I was up at my usual time after just about 3 hours of shuteye. My mind was busy with everything I need to do, and there's no more procrastinating. Today, I really must start doing some packing. For the past couple of days, I've been doing some cooking and baking ahead. On yesterday's to-do list was to bake up these Chocolate-chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries. Several years back, I scaled this favorite cookie ...

Good morning, my friends. My night of sleep was short last night. It took me absolutely forever to fall asleep, but I was up at my usual time after just about 3 hours of shuteye. My mind was busy with everything I need to do, and there's no more procrastinating. Today, I really must start doing some packing. For the past couple of days, I've been doing some cooking and baking ahead. On yesterday's to-do list was to bake up these Chocolate-chunk Oatmeal Cookies with Pecans and Dried Cherries. Several years back, I scaled this favorite cookie ...

Have you seen my Blush?

Paul the model

I made the flimsy as a part of the Pantone Color Quilt Challenge which included three categories - mini quilt, not a mini quilt, and flimsy. The extremely limited guidelines are a double-edge sword. As participants we can make anything we want - no limits to creativity. Since we don't know the judging criteria we cannot make a quilt to win the challenge. 

All the peaches

I chose to participate because I had plenty of gorgeous peachy goodness in my stash. I was in between projects. But most importantly, I wanted to play ...

Good morning, my friends. As often happens when I'm doing free motion quilting, my left wrist tendonitis flared up yesterday. It had been threatening for a couple of days, but it was downright painful yesterday. It didn't really prevent me from doing anything I wanted to do, except it seemed wise to take a day off from quilting. If not, I'd probably end up having to wear a splint, and that makes everything awkward. I might take today off too since I can still feel some achiness. I might need to limit my quilting to just one ...

Good morning, my friends. As often happens when I'm doing free motion quilting, my left wrist tendonitis flared up yesterday. It had been threatening for a couple of days, but it was downright painful yesterday. It didn't really prevent me from doing anything I wanted to do, except it seemed wise to take a day off from quilting. If not, I'd probably end up having to wear a splint, and that makes everything awkward. I might take today off too since I can still feel some achiness. I might need to limit my quilting to just one ...

 Orange is the RSC colour of the month.  How much orange do I have, I wondered?  Not too much but enough to make some blocks.  First up were some Hollow Nine blocks.  I'm only using cut squares tucked away in a small bag.  There were enough little squares to make two orange blocks, and then I found some cream squares to make two more blocks.  That will do for August.

Hollow Nines

I've used up the final  previously prepared four patch blocks this month, to turn them into bordered four patches.  There are spots, cats, flowers and afternoon ...

Good morning, my friends. First of all, thank you for your many kind comments about the Tin Cup Store quilt. I'm so glad you like it. It was the most difficult of the art quilts I've attempted, and completing it has enhanced my confidence level. There are two prompts left in this round of quilts. I have ideas for both, and so I'll be working on the next one soon. To see how others in the group interpreted the "Vintage" prompt, visit The Endeavourers blog right here.

In other sewing, I finished top-stitching the first block for ...

Good morning, my friends. First of all, thank you for your many kind comments about the Tin Cup Store quilt. I'm so glad you like it. It was the most difficult of the art quilts I've attempted, and completing it has enhanced my confidence level. There are two prompts left in this round of quilts. I have ideas for both, and so I'll be working on the next one soon. To see how others in the group interpreted the "Vintage" prompt, visit The Endeavourers blog right here.

In other sewing, I finished top-stitching the first block for ...

Have you seen my newest finish? Fireworks was published in Make Modern Issue 59.

Published in MM#59

Fireworks was designed in EQ8 and made using Fire and Ice, an original collection designed by Claudia Pfeil. 

I love this pattern because it is not paper-pieced and requires no special rulers, making it very accessible to quilters of all skill-levels.  

I like big blocks :-)

Made of 12 large blocks, Fireworks finished at 60" by 79". The background and binding is Egg White, an Island Batik Neutral available all year round. The backing is Dove, an Island Batik Basic from the Bodacious ...

This month it is shades of teal for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge stitching, teal, turquoise and aqua. Not a colour I have a lot of, but I managed to find enough to get my blocks done.  Hollow Nines were stitched first.  I'm only using the 2.5in squares tucked away in my bag, and found enough to make two blocks.  I'm sure I've mentioned before that I don't really like working with little squares, and it will be interesting to see how many squares remain at the end of the year.

Hope you had a good holiday celebration!

I have some good news and I promise I will get to it. But please let me whine first. After all, if I don't do it here, where can I?

In Yorktown

Paul and I decided to visit Colonial Williamsburg so we made hotel reservations a few weeks in advance. The plan was to spend July 4th in Yorktown, July 5th in Williamsburg, and July 6th in Jamestown.

I booked us a sailboat cruise (6:30 - 8:30) on the York river, after which we could watch the fireworks. As we drove ...

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Fourth of July to my American friends! It was a busy morning yesterday. I had some things to do in the kitchen. Our friend is coming up tonight to celebrate his Fourth of July birthday. Before we left on our trip earlier this year, I promised him some cookies. My father always said that a promise made is a debt unpaid. Birthdays seem like a good day to settle those sorts of accounting problems.

Good morning, my friends, and Happy Fourth of July to my American friends! It was a busy morning yesterday. I had some things to do in the kitchen. Our friend is coming up tonight to celebrate his Fourth of July birthday. Before we left on our trip earlier this year, I promised him some cookies. My father always said that a promise made is a debt unpaid. Birthdays seem like a good day to settle those sorts of accounting problems.

Good morning, my friends. The Photoshop Elements debacle of yesterday had me off my regular routine. Things happen in a certain order, usually, but everything was seemingly backward in the morning. Really, I didn't feel as if I was back on track until I made it into the sewing room around 2:30 p.m. Smitty was happy we were finally going to do something productive.

Good morning, my friends. The Photoshop Elements debacle of yesterday had me off my regular routine. Things happen in a certain order, usually, but everything was seemingly backward in the morning. Really, I didn't feel as if I was back on track until I made it into the sewing room around 2:30 p.m. Smitty was happy we were finally going to do something productive.

It is no surprise that I made an Autumn Quilt in Spring :-) Meet Sweet Dreams.

Autumn in Spring

• Project Type: Quilt for Quilts Across America
• Size: between 50” to 60” wide and 75” to 90” long. 
• Fabric: Any, in colors that appeal to children aged 2-17.
• Work with any size unit that you want, you can also use ...