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Yesterday was another one of those days where there wasn’t enough time in the day to work on the blocks for Rainbow Crossings.  One measly block done – I swear I will do better today so I can get this quilt top finished this year – each block (if the fabric is pressed) only takes […]

So glad this cold front will be short lived – we woke up yesterday morning to 0 degrees and it took all day to get to 15 degrees which was the high – at least last night was slightly warmer and this weekend to warm up to the 30’s which will feel warm in comparison […]

Not much got done yesterday other than baking.  I got the girls favorite cookies made – Golden Thumbprints with raspberry jam and Mike’s favorite plain old chocolate chips.  Therefore I was in the kitchen most of the day it seems which is good as with as cold as it was outside the oven was helping […]

Each day as it gets closer to Christmas I seem to be busier and busier and less time for sewing.  I had intended to start working on the border yesterday for Rainbow Crossings and never got to it.  Instead I was grocery shopping before the expected winter storm that will bring a little snow – […]

Why did I decided I just had to get a couple presents to wrap? I do not enjoy shopping – I enjoy shopping for presents even less – I didn’t really enjoy the day – I felt exhausted by time we were done – even the place we were going to stop to eat […]

Before I get started on today’s post I want to mentioned that for some reason I have had a lot of people inquiring  the last several months on The Rose Garden quilt – where to get the pattern, do I sell it, they can’t find it etc.  I don’t know about you but I don’t […]

Sunday was just too busy with baking and then cleaning the kitchen/dining room afterwards.  Very little sewing got done – I do hope to get to the border squares today on Rainbow Crossings to get those blocks sewed into a row. Here is a sampling of what we made as we were packing things up […]

I’m not perfectly satisfied with the end results of this border – I should have changed colors a little bit but I decided to not change it.  I want done, not perfect – it is a scrap quilt – when it is on the bed who is going to really be looking to see if […]

Yesterday was one of those days where at the end of the day you try to think of what to write and say “what did I do” LOL  I had to think about it for a bit and then I remember oh that is right I went to Hobby Lobby for a totally wasted trip […]

I got a bit more work done on Rainbow Crossings and selected fabric for the top border on Wednesday night after I had quilted a bit – a shorter spell of quilting as the thumb was hurting a little from the injection but was fine by yesterday morning.  For this border I find it helps […]

Thank you for all the ideas given yesterday for the Noriko’s Star hexagon, I have a lot of ideas to try and see how they look  – that might take a couple days!! A lot of you seemed to agree on certain things like maybe the yellow and the turquoise in number four needed to […]

I have had varied opinions on the section of the hexies that I have been working on and I admit to being very undecided on the color selection for it.  I need to make something like 12 of these sections so I want to get it right!  I know I showed a photo of the […]

I wasn’t quite satisfied with the hexie section of Noriko’s Star that  I was working on yesterday so I played around with basting more colors and did up several color selections.  Finally late in the day decided on adding some green and some gray – and I am still contemplating more color changes I will […]

Well maybe not that many LOL – I had fabric pressed and the Accuquilt Go set up on Saturday night and planned to cut hexies first thing Sunday morning and I did – lots of white and turquoise cut out – I don’t know how many I didn’t count! I did some thread basting and […]

Now to machine piece the blocks together and attach to the quilt and there will be two sides left to do.  The top row of blocks are just pinned to the wall and need to be stitched for the row.  (Rainbow Crossings)  I really like how this is turning out and glad I decided to […]

A little of this and that and the day passed by once again.  Quilting on Butterflies in Flight has slowed down the last couple nights for some reason I am not getting to until later than normal therefore not sitting as long – last night it was only 45 minutes!  Short night – this is […]

Finally my section of the hexagon quilt that I call Noriko’s Star is ready to add to the quilt.    This is the section I think I showed earlier in the week – the stitching is now done. I laid it out on the design floor to make sure all was right before I did a […]

After 3.5 days of no internet and depending on my phones hotspot I was so glad to get back on line.  So more than a couple photos! I have been working on Rainbow Crossings and the top row of blocks are ready to stitch together today.  Here is one half close up.  I had last […]

Finally all the blocks are finished for Rainbow Crossings and the row is ready to sew on Monday – today I will work on starting a knitting project and hexies.  the last block. On the wall – that last row just needs to be sewed and attached and then I will start to look at […]

It was a very busy day yesterday.  I was working on Rainbow Crossings and I decided to get the boxes of Christmas stuff in the house after all – I was going to wait but I felt that if they were in the house I would get busy. I had one more block to go […]