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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 […]

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 […]

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 not sure where I left off posting progress on my own stuff after posting photos of the show quilt – but here is progress on Hunter’s Star quilting. I think the red marks about half way across this row. The circle applique on Happy Daze is caught up – this was the last one […]

Sunday was a nice day I was inside and outside.  Inside it was all about purple.  I got done with the Happy Daze applique purple block (circle) and started on the red one for the applique part of it.  One down two to go And I cut out the back and cut that part up […]

First I did get some accomplished yesterday and will link up to SoScrappy today for the RSC group.  I have the 3 Happy Daze blocks ready to applique to the background squares.  (the Mercantile block is on the right side).  Also linking to Patchwork & Quilts – I also have the first Mercantile quilt block […]

I mentioned “The Mercantile Sew Along” that is going on at Lori Holt – Bee in My Bonnet blog so yesterday I spent some time looking through the fabric stash on the shelves under the quilting frame for the back ground of the circles and the background to put those circles on.  I’m not sure […]

Off and on I worked all day long and the purple circle was done.   Ended up slightly wavy in places but I should be able to get that to lay flat with the applique to the background block.  First I got the center circle appliqued in place. Then I worked on piecing the outer ring […]

I pressed all my templates (freezer paper) down for the purple Happy Daze circle and then completely forgot to take photos of it – but I do have some of it laid out while I was working on it – there is a lot of cutting to do for one circle and I never did […]

On my way to getting caught up for the March colors for the Happy Daze quilt – The half Dresden Plates are made for the border – I have the accuquilt die for Dresden Plates so that made the cutting easy.  I make them in a long chain and quickly snip them apart with the […]

One purple done and on to another.  I worked for two days on the Georgetown on My Mind quilt for  the  RSC group and I finished it in time to link up today on SoScrappy.   This is the circle pinned in place to applique I forgot to do the final press with spray starch to […]

I spent time organizing more in the sewing room on the rainy Sunday that we had.  I started out by emptying out the box that held the Hertfordshire Quilt top which by the way I sold the 36 inch piece to a reader – thank you Sandra it is in the mail tomorrow. In the […]

First of all I want to share the red and green blocks made for the RSC quilt Happy Daze for the link up today at SoScrappy – my background fabric arrived and it matches what I already had exactly so I will proceed to cut 9 blocks for the circles and get them appliqued in […]

The first of the two RSC quilts are done for the month – I will show the red and the green finished on Saturday for the link up.  These two blocks are for Happy Daze pattern by the late Sue Garman who designed so many lovely patterns of which she hand pieced or needle turn […]

I was busy all day yesterday – I started off the day organizing my hexies for the segment by rows – the quilt top was laid out on the table with a flat iron holding it in place so it wouldn’t move and pieces were laid in place.  I had miscounted and had about 10 […]

I spent time yesterday getting the prep work for Happy Daze done- the red whirly gig block and all of it’s pieces are cut.  I was asked did I use the accuquilt for this – not for the whirly gig – I have no die for that – for that one I used an old […]

Yesterday it was all about the handwork, no machine (other than the accuquilt that is for cutting).  If I ever won the lottery and had the big dream house I would have bins that could be stacked up and on wheels and have the ability to pull out to look for fabric in.  I guess […]