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Well it rained on Sunday and Sunday night a little but by afternoon the deck was dry and out came the quilt to shine Hunter’s Star – the sun came through the overhead branches and landed right on the yellow blocks making them shine brighter than the rest.  The quilt finished at 93×94 inches I […]

But we had rainy weather so I can’t get an outside photo until later today I bet.  But finally the binding is done, Hunter’s Star has been washed and dried – so here is an inside photo for now.  Linking to Design Wall Monday — Monday Musings — The back Most of the Mercantile block […]

I have been moving so slow on the binding for The Hunters Star quilt I have the 3rd side just about finished – it will be too wet to display outside for awhile so I guess it is ok to take my time – give me another week LOL I still have one block to […]

When the spring time almost summer time weather comes I find it harder to post things about quilting because I am spending more time outside.  I’m also spending more time rushing to make progress on the quilt that I am making for a promo for the Fat Quarter Shop as time is almost up – […]

Progress has been made quilting Carpenters Wheel and the fix to keep the frame a little more stable seems to be working for now.  I think I have it all figured out now for the quilting design One side of the binding is done on Hunter’s Star and the second side was started.  Linking to […]

Mike came up with a solution to try to see if he could make the quilting frame less wobbly causing the rods to slightly move out of place – now to see if it works.  As I stated the hand quilting frame is 30 years old and I really love it.  I used hoops before […]

A little of everything done yesterday.  It was an off and on light rain day so I got a little more done in the sewing room then I had been. First I had ironed on my freezer paper templates for Georgetown on my Mind and then got them cut.  Some of this is done with […]

The binding was put on Hunter’s Star and it is ready for the hand work over the next week or so – it is all folded up here on the couch handy for me to work on – these are just some of the colors on the binding. Today I hope to get started picking […]

Inside and outside – it was a beautiful day but quite warm by mid afternoon.  I got all the binding cut for a rainbow binding for the Hunter’s Star but I still need to press it and sew it on today – then I can finally get back to the RSC quilts – two to […]

I finished Hunter’s Star Thursday night – and got it off the frame.  I did get all the excess cut off the sides  and it is folded and ready for binding to be added when I get to it which I know won’t be for a couple days at least.  I’m linking all my yellow […]

Hunter’s Star is coming to an end and the next post it will be finished.  Last night I sat down to quilt the last block and today I will take it off the frame.  There are a few things that Mike needs to tighten up on the rollers before I load the next quilt.  I […]

It rained yesterday so a little bit got done at sewing machine – no thunder and lightening so it worked out good. The blocks started like this My background is a little busy I don’t know if I will use it again – maybe – it will depend on the colors used.  Linking to My […]

Yes I have to make sure I get a small new selection of yellow before I make the rest of my RSC quilts – but I had enough for Happy Daze – the problem with my yellows is that they are almost all the same shade of yellow – light!!  That said I did get […]

Well it got very dark for a little bit and the temperature did drop as they said it would.  We were lucky and had very few clouds yesterday and had a perfect view at home without driving anywhere like so many did. I got the grass cut early as I didn’t want to sit out […]

We are expected to be able to view the eclipse in its totality for 4 1/2 minutes this afternoon – it might be cloudy but the weathermen are thinking positive and say it will be ok.  I’ll let you know!  We plan to be in our backyard or wherever we think we can view it […]

Yellow is the color of the month for the RSC quilts and I didn’t get much further than picking out two yellows to start with – really do not have a lot of contrast in this bunch.  I might need to swing by the little quilt shop at the end of the week and see […]

Finally I got the second border on New York Beauty– top and bottom about complete – it turned out to be a little more in length then I needed – 118” long so I will be trimming about 3-4 inches off top and bottom making it closer to 110” and then the long sides will […]

I’m been in a little slump with the sewing – I just haven’t felt a lot like sewing lately and I’ve been more reading and working outside instead.  I think I will need to force myself to sit at the machine today for a little bit to get that second border done which was not […]

The second border is getting close – I finished the last block for that border and in the process of putting it together – the fourth block was finished. Added to the wall – some of what is up there is sewn together and I hope to finish this border today so that I can […]

I have been outside working on odds and ends, helping Mike stack firewood for next season and cleaning up some of the workshop.  It has been nice outside so we have been nice doing odd jobs outside.  I got the garden fertilized and snail repellent put all around.  Got some new netting ordered that will […]