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 I have a collection of completed quilt tops waiting to be quilted.  Sometimes, I just don't have inspiration on how to quilt them and other times, I just don't have time.  This week, one of them yelled "pick me" for hand quilting so I got started.  This pineapple log cabin was one of my Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilts a few year ago.  Each block is foundation pieced on a printed fabric so the finished quilt will have three layers of fabric as well as batting.  I am big stitch quilting it with gray 28wt thread.  I am starting ...

Good morning, my friends. I was up way too early this morning. It was during the 3:00 a.m. hour when my eyes popped open. I tried going back to sleep, but no dice. I had too many things on my mind. I'll tell you what happened next, but let's back up to yesterday first.

It was another day of getting up close and personal with my heating pad. I'm happy to report that my shoulder is nearly 100% today. I'm still being careful with it, but it's feeling much better. I expect I ...

Good morning, my friends. I was up way too early this morning. It was during the 3:00 a.m. hour when my eyes popped open. I tried going back to sleep, but no dice. I had too many things on my mind. I'll tell you what happened next, but let's back up to yesterday first.

It was another day of getting up close and personal with my heating pad. I'm happy to report that my shoulder is nearly 100% today. I'm still being careful with it, but it's feeling much better. I expect I ...

Good morning, my friends. Well, I'm back. We ventured into war-ravaged Portland on Tuesday to get our COVID boosters, and somehow, we came out whole. Yay, us. We even found our way back to our car parked in the underground parking garage. As we walked, we noted which bank of elevators we'd used and whether we'd turned left or right. Amazingly, we were able to walk directly to our car when everything was over. But, hey. They wouldn't let us leave without these lovely parting gifts.

Good morning, my friends. Well, I'm back. We ventured into war-ravaged Portland on Tuesday to get our COVID boosters, and somehow, we came out whole. Yay, us. We even found our way back to our car parked in the underground parking garage. As we walked, we noted which bank of elevators we'd used and whether we'd turned left or right. Amazingly, we were able to walk directly to our car when everything was over. But, hey. They wouldn't let us leave without these lovely parting gifts.

Good morning, my friends. It's a happy day. My quilting project is finished and ready for binding. When I left you yesterday, I was still mulling over how to finish the outer border. I ended up doing a sort of diamond motif all the way around. It's a little hard to see, but I have the elongated diamond in the middle, and then a shorter diamond at each point.

Here's another look at that border. Sorry for the weird angle. It's sometimes hard to take a picture that ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a happy day. My quilting project is finished and ready for binding. When I left you yesterday, I was still mulling over how to finish the outer border. I ended up doing a sort of diamond motif all the way around. It's a little hard to see, but I have the elongated diamond in the middle, and then a shorter diamond at each point.

Here's another look at that border. Sorry for the weird angle. It's sometimes hard to take a picture that ...

Good morning, my friends. Our yesterday started out with a dense fog advisory. Before noon, the sky had cleared and it turned into a pretty nice day. I had some things to do around the house, but I got an early start on my sewing.

My first priority was to finish quilting the blocks for the Barnyard quilt. It was hard to know what to do on some of these blocks. For a few of them, I simply put my needle down somewhere and then let my hands decide what to do. This one, for example...picking some points I ...

Good morning, my friends. Our yesterday started out with a dense fog advisory. Before noon, the sky had cleared and it turned into a pretty nice day. I had some things to do around the house, but I got an early start on my sewing.

My first priority was to finish quilting the blocks for the Barnyard quilt. It was hard to know what to do on some of these blocks. For a few of them, I simply put my needle down somewhere and then let my hands decide what to do. This one, for example...picking some points I ...

 The RSC colour for this month is black or brown.  Great, I'll get on with stitching the last of my selvedge strips and make a final two handed oven mitt for the year.  You may remember that I have been on a quest to use up my remaining selvedges.   But where was the bag with the selvedges and the hessian for the backing?  It should have been hanging up on the coat rack with various other bags of stuff, but no, it wasn't anywhere to be found.  Perhaps it was in the crates in the wardrobe, where I ...

Good morning, my friends. It was a productive day yesterday. I finished most everything I wanted to during the day, and even started on a new slow-stitching project. When I left you, I was getting ready to quilt the aqua barn for the Barnyard quilt. The quilting is going well, but quilting with rulers is a little tedious. I broke yesterday's row of blocks into three sittings to give myself a break between them.

Starting with the aqua block...it was hard to know what to do here, but I figured it out eventually.

Good morning, my friends. It was a productive day yesterday. I finished most everything I wanted to during the day, and even started on a new slow-stitching project. When I left you, I was getting ready to quilt the aqua barn for the Barnyard quilt. The quilting is going well, but quilting with rulers is a little tedious. I broke yesterday's row of blocks into three sittings to give myself a break between them.

Starting with the aqua block...it was hard to know what to do here, but I figured it out eventually.

Good morning, my friends. It was the worst possible morning in cat land. It was raining...hard...and Smitty was relegated to the sheltered part of his catio.

My morning was spent finishing off Block 7 of the Raggedy & Friends project. I'll set this aside until I'm ready to piece together the block.

There were ...

Good morning, my friends. It was the worst possible morning in cat land. It was raining...hard...and Smitty was relegated to the sheltered part of his catio.

My morning was spent finishing off Block 7 of the Raggedy & Friends project. I'll set this aside until I'm ready to piece together the block.

There were ...

Good morning, my friends. It was a successful outing to the quilt shop, in more ways than one. I had a couple of stops to make along the way, but I reached the quilt shop about 45 minutes after leaving home. In another life, I blogged about this quilt shop when they were at a different location. This was my first visit to this new location, although they've been at the new location for nearly three years. I'm fortunate to have a couple of good options closer to home, and so I don't get down that way ...

Good morning, my friends. It was a successful outing to the quilt shop, in more ways than one. I had a couple of stops to make along the way, but I reached the quilt shop about 45 minutes after leaving home. In another life, I blogged about this quilt shop when they were at a different location. This was my first visit to this new location, although they've been at the new location for nearly three years. I'm fortunate to have a couple of good options closer to home, and so I don't get down that way ...

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday I was whining about the rain arriving just as I was preparing to drive a fair distance to a local quilt shop. As it turns out, the weather gods were merciful. I'll have a short window of dry weather for my drive today. I'm heading south to the Cotton Patch. It's "backing day" today. I can get a discount on backing fabric if I bring in my finished quilt top. I'll be showing up with the Scrappy Plus quilt top. 

It's been a while since I've been to the ...

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday I was whining about the rain arriving just as I was preparing to drive a fair distance to a local quilt shop. As it turns out, the weather gods were merciful. I'll have a short window of dry weather for my drive today. I'm heading south to the Cotton Patch. It's "backing day" today. I can get a discount on backing fabric if I bring in my finished quilt top. I'll be showing up with the Scrappy Plus quilt top. 

It's been a while since I've been to the ...

 I thought it was time for an update on the collapsed wardrobe fittings.  You may remember that I had to get a workman around when the wardrobe rails came away from the wall and had to be replaced.  But first I had to take everything out of the wardrobes.  The back bedroom/sewing room wardrobe was the most difficult, with everything from winter coats, crates full of whatever, and innumerable bags of projects.  So much stuff!  And it all spent quite a bit of time on the floor of my sewing room.  It wasn't easy, but I managed to ...