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Are all caught up and here it is only the second day of September – of course it helped the color of the month was released early wasn’t it. Up on the wall before they got taken down – right now I am thinking that this quilt will be a good one to carry over […]

I had another Lemoyne Star block all laid out on the table to sew and then never got around to it!  I just didn’t feel like sitting at the machine yesterday but I do want to get it done today. But I did work on hexies.  The last two sections of these colors are thread […]

Actually got started on my five RSC quilts early – here it is not yet September and one of the five is half way done – I hope to finish the other 2 today and that will be 1 down 4 more to go for September’s blue.  Linking to Midweek Makers – And on the […]

I spent part of the day working on more hexagons for the next two sections of Noriko’s Star.  While I was working on that I was also thinking about the next parts of the quilt.  When these two sections of the quilt center are done there will be large star points to make. Although I […]

I never used to think stars were my favorite block to make but they must be I have at least 4 quilts going with stars in them right now.  First I finished up the two blocks needed for the Leymoyne Stars I put them up on the wall for their photo overall I have 8 […]

Noriko’s Star – a bit of work done on it – putting strips together.  To put your strips together you do a bit of folding of pieces here and there to manipulate your strip as you stitch. Here are the three rows put together – I take the paper out of the middle row(above) but […]

EDITED:  blog issues – published a little later than normal Would you believe as I was laying blocks out on the wall from all those made since January I found a block that was totally done wrong and it had been on the wall each month since we did Yellow!!  I didn’t notice and if […]

finished the Lemoyne Star blocks – they are on the wall for their photo and now will be taken down for the Hunter Star Blocks to take their place – moving on from one to the next!  Linking to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts These were the two blocks I did yesterday Here are the […]

Two stars down 2 more ready to go – the one closest to the machine is ready to stitch today The other two joined those on the wall More stitching on Noriko’s Star – just about finished this one last night – it will get done today – the layout right now – linking to […]

Oh my gosh the heat has been horrible here – I know I told myself to not whine about a hot summer – but it isn’t just hot it is dry too – we need some rain – I really don’t recall when it rained last – must have been early June or end of […]

Yes here it is July so I’m ready to get back to work on the RSC quilts – I will start with the Lemoyne Star – purple this month!  I didn’t get the blocks back up on the wall so most likely will do that first today and then get fabric picked out, pressed and […]

Yesterday I said ok get those star blocks done and I finished the rest of them which I think was something like four or five – I used them all – I had cut too many by accident and they will all be used!  So there are 8 dark blues/bright blue in this top plus […]

I was asked to show a step  by step of how you can easily make the Lemoyne star block so here goes with photos – here are all the pieces you need for one block – make the block in quarters – starting with here I placed the number 1 join that to the piece […]

Yesterday was a good day for being on the porch, cutting grass and sewing.  A bit got done and I never considered myself to be too busy!  Work on the hexies for Noriko’s Star is coming along pretty good and number 11 is done and basting has started on number 12. The back of hexies […]

Really moved along yesterday on the Hunter’s Star blocks – really these are easy blocks there is no reason why 4-12.5” blocks should take 4 days to make, I just wasn’t getting into it but I did yesterday afternoon.  Finished the dark blue blocks. And they joined the rest on the wall – this is […]

It was a busy day – picked up a couple more plants yesterday morning – peppermint and spearmint – last years plants finally appeared to be worn out and got tossed – they had last about 4 years in pots but the winter seemed to be too much for them two years ago and didn’t […]

Strawberries – I think most people love them but there are probably some that don’t, my husband will only eat them as made into jam or with whip cream – I will just pop them in my mouth as I pick them – first year crop – I don’t know if you usually get more […]

I can tell that the last month or so I have been having to push myself to sew – I am more in a reading/garden mode right now for some reason – probably because it is nice to be on the porch and enjoying the weather after all the rain we got.  I did get […]

Today a little bit of this and that – so many projects going on all the time.  The binding is coming along slowly on Twinkle, Twinkle – but now 3 sides are done so just a couple more days and I will get this one washed and dried to add some crinkliness to it. I […]

I should have been able to get all four star blocks done yesterday if I just sat down and did them – these blocks are even easier to do then the Hunter’s Star block I think and although I got all four blocks cut out I only got one sewed.  Instead I spent time cleaning […]