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Good morning, my friends. It's a second Valentine's Day here. Mike and I have an evening out tonight to celebrate Friday's Valentine's Day. There's a special three-course meal at one of our favorite restaurants in downtown Portland. We wanted to avoid the Friday night holiday crowd, and so we waited until tonight for our celebratory dinner. I'm glad because I doubt we could have gotten out of our driveway on Friday. Tonight, it'll be smooth sailing...but no sailing...and no slipping, just because it's smooth. Sailing and slipping are to be ...

Good morning, my friends. Do you ever have a day where you just relish lying around and doing nothing? My Saturday was like that. There were plenty of things I could have done, but I spent most of my day sitting or else lying on the couch. I blame cats. They're at their best when people are sitting around or lying around. There are plenty of nooks and crannies in human laps that allow for excellent kitty warming spots.

A few things were accomplished. I turned the fourth corner on the Domestic Affairs quilt.

Good morning, my friends. Do you ever have a day where you just relish lying around and doing nothing? My Saturday was like that. There were plenty of things I could have done, but I spent most of my day sitting or else lying on the couch. I blame cats. They're at their best when people are sitting around or lying around. There are plenty of nooks and crannies in human laps that allow for excellent kitty warming spots.

A few things were accomplished. I turned the fourth corner on the Domestic Affairs quilt.

 I put my Arizona quilt blocks together and it is now a completed top--36"square.  Before assembly, I remade a couple of the four patches. If you look closely, you can see that the cacti are now mirror images of the adjacent block in the next quadrant.  Anal, I know, but I didn't like how it looked before. 

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day of sewing yesterday. I've taken two projects to the next step in the process. Of course, no day of sewing is complete without first spending some time with my slow-stitching in the morning. I'm nearing a finish of the Catmint piece.

Good morning, my friends. It was a good day of sewing yesterday. I've taken two projects to the next step in the process. Of course, no day of sewing is complete without first spending some time with my slow-stitching in the morning. I'm nearing a finish of the Catmint piece.

Good morning, my friends. We're looking at a break in the rain for the next several days. We had rain off and on yesterday. There was enough dry weather for Mike and the other neighbor men to get out for some trenching and graveling a drainage area at the end of our driveway. It seems water runs downhill from our house into the neighbor's yard, and the deluge is eroding an embankment they want to preserve. After discussing it with the neighbors, it was decided to put a "French drain" at the end of our driveway. (Yeah...don ...

Good morning, my friends. We're looking at a break in the rain for the next several days. We had rain off and on yesterday. There was enough dry weather for Mike and the other neighbor men to get out for some trenching and graveling a drainage area at the end of our driveway. It seems water runs downhill from our house into the neighbor's yard, and the deluge is eroding an embankment they want to preserve. After discussing it with the neighbors, it was decided to put a "French drain" at the end of our driveway. (Yeah...don ...

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a ho-hum day...just the way I like it. I spent quite a bit of time in the morning stitching away at the Bicycles and Lace piece. I'm nearly finished with the "Rosy Pink" bicycle, and looking at this, I decided to move my hoop to the right some.

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a ho-hum day...just the way I like it. I spent quite a bit of time in the morning stitching away at the Bicycles and Lace piece. I'm nearly finished with the "Rosy Pink" bicycle, and looking at this, I decided to move my hoop to the right some.

Good morning, my friends. 'Tis the season to work on my seasonal quilts, apparently, because that was how I spent my day yesterday. Sadie was there to help.

Smitty's job was to mind the rulers. 

With so much help, it was easy finishing off the quilt top for the Seasons quilt.

And I guess I won't be traveling south to The Cotton Patch after all because I took a second look at my stash and came up with these two long-time residents. I had three yards of each, which was ...

Good morning, my friends. 'Tis the season to work on my seasonal quilts, apparently, because that was how I spent my day yesterday. Sadie was there to help.

Smitty's job was to mind the rulers. 

With so much help, it was easy finishing off the quilt top for the Seasons quilt.

And I guess I won't be traveling south to The Cotton Patch after all because I took a second look at my stash and came up with these two long-time residents. I had three yards of each, which was ...

 Christmas 2024 has come and gone and we are now in that quieter time between December 25th and New Year's Day. I blogged earlier in the week about some of the gifts I made this year and you can read about them here.  I have been doing some reading and cross stitching every day--ahhhh! The lower left square will eventually be a picture of an owl...

Finn loves a squeaky toy and ...

I worked on the last Christmas gifts that I am making today--one is done and the other is very close to completion.  Pictures to follow in a few days... The secret sewing season will soon be over for another year. 

I made some progress on my winter counted cross stitch project this week.  The Christmas tree is done and the next part of this quadrant is started.  I did quite a bit of the framing on this quadrant too. There's a reason why they call this slow stitching...  it gets done slowly, one stitch at a time.  I enjoy ...