The girls and I with Honey supervising got a lot of cookies and coffee cake made on Saturday. We had been so busy baking and the heat of the oven going that we never realized until evening that our heat pump had stopped working. When the temperature all of a sudden started to go down […]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!
As I was looking at my batiks wondering what colors the next NYB block would be I thought I needed to search through my boxes for more of them for variety of color. I got started on the brown box and started pulling and then the purples, yellows etc. and from what I had gotten […]
read more.... and how they look now. IMO, the rectangles were too busy. Now they actually look like baskets, don't they?! :)
I got one bag of the scrap batting that I showed yesterday squared away and hope to get the pressing tape on it today. I knew I had some of the pressing tape but had to really look for it! It was hidden among all the treasures stashed here and there. The one section that […]
read moreI borrowed MIL's vintage Singer. We are not sure how old the machine is, she bought it in 1956, the year she got married. Actually it was a gift from her late husband.
We have tried all day trying to set the thread tension right. MIL came to rescue, but no way is it possible to ...
... Christmas is over and, as of today, packed up and put away again until next time! I always wait until Epiphany, Three Kings Day, to take it all down. January 6 was my grandmother's birthday; she's be 120 years old today. She was the one who impressed upon me the importance of leaving Christmas for the full twelve days. When we lived in Puerto Rico we experienced first-hand the true
read more... Christmas is over and, as of today, packed up and put away again until next time! I always wait until Epiphany, Three Kings Day, to take it all down. January 6 was my grandmother's birthday; she's be 120 years old today. She was the one who impressed upon me the importance of leaving Christmas for the full twelve days. When we lived in Puerto Rico we experienced first-hand the true
read moreWhile emptying a set of draws before our move, I found another long abandonned UFO, my blocks for the Birdie Stitches blocks by Corey Yoder or Coriander Quilts from.... 2011. Yes I know that's 10 years ago. I did quite well with the stitching since I completed 10 of the 12 blocks. The last one was nearly done too but not quite...
The Christmas Stitchery that Melanie made for us last year is now a quilted piece and it looks really nice – a little wrinkly but that will relax out in a couple days I’m sure. I will be cutting strips getting things ready for my final blocks for the pineapple quilt over the next couple […]
read moreWith skipping yesterday’s post because of internet issues I have more photos to share than normal. When the internet goes out I do not bother to try to on my phone as it just doesn’t work well for me. Starting with Friends Around the World I am almost done with the row across that I […]
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