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All done!  Scrappy Crossroads was started on July 30 finished August 27th – now of course it will be awhile before it gets quilted – two are in line ahead of it.  It measured 70 x 86 inches. Made up of 20 – 16.5 inch blocks  all the little squares are 2.5 inches that were […]

One never gets bored (or rarely) if you have more than one project going on at a time.  Yesterday I cut strips for the border of Scrappy Crossroads but I didn’t sew them.  I also put two fabrics aside for the binding that will go in the “to be quilted” basket with the quilt – […]

Scrappy Crossroads is a really easy quilt for piecing and by doing one large block a day you can get done with it quickly.  I started it on July 30th – there are 20 blocks in it – I skipped a day here and there.  Linking to Design Wall Monday — Monday Musings — Fabrics […]

The scrap box of 2.5 inch squares when I got started on Scrappy Crossroads I think there might just be enough squares left in here for 2 more quilts this size easily!!  They never all get used up.  There are a lot of light and dark Two rows left to put together and then the […]

First off on Friday I sat down to finish to the Scrappy Crossroads block that I had screwed up and it went together easily this time – it is a wonder how good that goes if you just look at it before you pin!  It was added to the wall. And then I thought what […]

Well no block added to the wall yesterday for Scrappy Crossroads – I messed up – the block needs to be partially re-done – I turned one whole row the wrong way – it is taken apart now and ready to stitch!  Yup looks kind of wrong doesn’t it LOL easy fix – this was […]

If I had planned on working off and on all day on this Scrappy Crossroads it would be done already – doing one block only a day I have 3 blocks left to do.  I started it July 30th- it is really going quickly even at one block a day – I think the border […]

It is still hexies, scraps and quilting. 4 x 4 rows of Scrappy Crossroads done – one more row to be 5 x 4 – surely I will finish this week and then “slap” ok think about a border and add something to finish it off – although it doesn’t really need much does it. […]

What started out as a very humid cloudy morning after bad thunderstorms Sunday night turned into a nice day of 80 degrees and lower humidity – I was able to spend some nice comfortable time on the porch after I got caught up on laundry. The deer came to visit in the morning instead of […]

Although the house cleared out early yesterday I just never did get around to doing a blog post.  Jessica left by noon and Melanie had come over for awhile Sunday morning and she had things to do too so took off and the house was quite again.  We had a good all day visit on […]

I try to get in a variety of sewing most days – variety is nice. One more Scrappy Crossroads block was done leaving 7 to do – I might not get around to any today as I have a variety of chores to get done, cleaning, grocery shopping and laundry.  Jessica is visiting for the […]

I decided when counting out hexies for the next segment with the four flowers in it that I needed more variety of white.  I have plenty stacked up to use so got busy. And before you know it another stack was cut I need to recount the white later after I get a lot thread […]

We had another fine day yesterday – it was nice to have several cool days before the heat comes back today – heat index will be 105 it said last night on the news – yuck.  I did spend part of the day out on the porch enjoying the 82 degrees weather we had but […]

I didn’t think I was going to get a good photo of the quilt yesterday as the deck was wet from on and off rain but by evening the sun had come out and the deck dried off enough that I could spread the top out and take photos!  Half of this border is now […]

I had no kitchen work to do yesterday – some weeks I tend to a lot other weeks barely.  It was a nice day outside and I almost felt chilled when I sat outside drinking my morning coffee on the porch – it was only 69 degrees!! how nice today we actually have a chance […]

Back to the hexagons and Noriko’s Star and finished the segment I was working on now it needs to be joined to the big piece – after I corrected a spot.  I put too many pieces on one end!  This is where it goes but on the left side I have 2 too many black […]

It was time to put the tomatoes to rest – they need too much water we are heading possibly into a drought and seeing as the weather was nice last night with a nice dry breeze it was time to pull those plants out and get all the green tomatoes off of them.  Earlier in […]

I started out my morning as I have for about the last 4 or 5 mornings now  outside on the porch –when I first wake up for about an hour it is nice outside and under 80 degrees — then it gets hot.   I bring my coffee and my phone to the porch and scroll […]

When I went outside to drink my morning coffee and listen to the birds it was about 74 degrees – it felt so nice.  I went and got my hair cut and it was about mid-80’s by time I got home it was 90 .   And then it got hot – and hotter getting up […]

Well I did get another Mercantile Block done but talk about crazy directions – but I continued on even after numerous mistakes.  I’m not happy with it but it stays unless next year or whenever it gets pieced together I decide to make a new one.  The directions aren’t bad if you are following color […]