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Well I did get the big quilt on the frame late Sunday and I must say that was a work out for sure.  A couple hours later though I was ready to get to work on it. I am doing simple diagonal lines in the border for now – as I continue with this first […]

Halleluiah!  after struggle with the 3 layers of New York Beauty all Sunday it was ready to mark and quilt last night.  Wow this one was a struggle – It just didn’t want to go on even – it was mainly the batting that created the problem, I thought I cut it straight and I […]

I know often when I take a quilt off of the frame I have one on it immediately but I guess I am moving slower this weekend and I haven’t started to get New York Beauty on the frame – maybe today?  I was working on other things and cutting strips of binding for the […]

I didn’t get done quilting on Scrappy Crossroads Thursday night – but almost so I know I finished it last night and will show it this weekend.    Only this much left to quilt.  Just the border and a couple of the X’s aren’t completely finished. The binding fabric for Scrappy Crossroads And the section for […]

I actually got further along on hand stitching the section I am working on of the hexies then I thought I would.  Today I just might finish this section but I bet the deck won’t be dry enough to lay it out for a photo – the snow continues to melt and it is messy […]

First the quilting – the segment of Noriko’s Star that I have been working on it ready to add to the top!    It  now has the first hexie on the left side pinned in place for me to start in the correct spot.  This will take two or three sessions of hand stitching to get […]

Scrappy Crossroads is coming to an end – I rolled it down Monday night and got started on the last width across. This part was done on Monday night and because I know someone will ask I started it on the frame November 18th and maybe it will be done by January 18th?  Keep in […]

I was going to make more log cabin blocks then I did yesterday – instead only one was made.  I didn’t really look at color as closely as I should have and when I finished one block and put it on the wall to look at it I realized I had green strip on the […]

Yesterday I worked a lot on the log cabin quilt as the snow continues to melt.  The driveway was still a mess so I stayed inside and sewed.  Row number 6 was stitched together and I got started on row number 7. When I make the blocks I will count out how many strips I […]

Six rows are done now for the Broken Star Log Cabin – I might go ahead and stitch this row together before I start the next row.  I already moved some blocks around a little bit so the color is good. Another strip of Noriko’s Star was partially stitched and I will work more on […]

Yes we did end up with a heck of a lot of snow – they kept changing the amounts of how much we would get all day Wednesday and Thursday and we ended up with 10 inches when I went out to measure the snow on the deck table Friday morning. (the ladder was still […]

Yesterday we didn’t get inches and inches of snow as it really slowed down quickly but as I was writing this last night the weather guy said we could get an inch an hour in the night – so I wonder what I will wake up to!! The birds got fed Before it started I […]

Two more log cabin blocks done I could have gotten more done but I also did laundry and some cleaning – that cut into my sewing machine time – 22 more blocks to make! I had bread rising while I was making the blocks (and laundry going – doing 3 things at once!) this is […]

I hadn’t planned on working a lot on the hexies yesterday afternoon when I got home from grocery shopping but I realized the President Carter funeral stuff was on and thought I would tune into it for a little bit to the see the pomp that goes with it and actually sat for awhile watching […]

First before I get to my quilting I want to share with you my daughter Jessica’s fairly new blog.  As I mentioned awhile back Jessica was diagnosed with Alpha Gal Allergy from tick bites a few years ago.  That link will tell you about the allergy. With Jessica’s new blog she would like others to […]

Looks like winter is coming to the south – how about you all?  Are you ready?  Mike and I got our little live Christmas trees that we had lighted up by the front door planted yesterday.  I still need to put a little more mulch around them but got tired out and said today or […]

The top row of the Log Cabin is sewed together – The last block needed for the 5th row was done and I shined a light in the corner to see it better – still not a perfect view but you can see it.  I am linking to Patchwork and Quilting today I shined the […]

I thread basted way too many hexies for this section, I must have lost count or something, but that is ok as there won’t be as many to baste on the next section.  All of these in the box left over. These photos are pretty much just for seeing how I lay out and placement […]

Time to start anew and get busy with finishing projects and starting new.  I very often start New Years Day off by putting away most of the Christmas things and between us we got it almost done.  There is the Christmas quilt to take off the wall and the big wreath off the fireplace.  The […]

The last day of the year I was busy working on more Log Cabin blocks. The way I do my blocks now that I have it down pat is to get as many strips out and on the table that I need first and then sit and sew one block at a time for the […]