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I was delighted when I ran across this pattern!  It was attractive, easy to piece, free (gotta love free!) and called for two sets of charm packs.  I went to my fabric stash to see if I actually had two sets, and lo and behold, I did! And it was fabrics that I had not known what to do with until now.

We keep a bookcase in a guest bedroom full of children's books, these books belonged to our children when they were small. When the grandchildren spend the night they like to choose a book from one of the shelves, usually we open the front cover to see who the booked belonged to, 30+ years ago. Gregory especially likes to find books that were his Daddy's. I keep another shelf full of

We keep a bookcase in a guest bedroom full of children's books, these books belonged to our children when they were small. When the grandchildren spend the night they like to choose a book from one of the shelves, usually we open the front cover to see who the booked belonged to, 30+ years ago. Gregory especially likes to find books that were his Daddy's. I keep another shelf full of

Yesterday was a nice relaxing day.  Drama Teen showed up about noon yesterday after spending a few days at State Science Fair.

It felt like a sleep in, but it wasn’t! The clocks jumped forward an hour last night!  Did you remember to set yours? I treadled and treadled and finished the string piecing I needed for my sashings.  Actually --- I over pieced! LOL! There is much more than I need, so there will be something fun to use somewhere else, perhaps in the backing for this quilt ---which is growing VERY LARGE, which

By 8 pm last night I'd had enough of lovin' up my sewing machine. I moved on to lovin' up a bottle of wine and a bag of potato chips. I was the advance guard, it seems, because soon I was surrounded by many wine glasses and many more bags of, um, bad munchies.
I am tackling things FRESH today.

So it'll be dark in the mornings again when I get up. But we'll have light in the evenings!

Ralph is delivering Bob to be spayed. He couldn't get him in the carrier last time and had to let him go. He caught him yesterday in the have a heart trap, and kept him on the porch with an electric blanket wrapped around the trap for warmth. 

It's been a busy month! Two more snow days, and we lost spring break to make up days. We still get out June 26. 

Amary came for a visit ...

I haven’t spoken about this project for many years. I actually looked back, and I had written about I on my very first blog in 2007. Steve gave me several of his old Hawaiian shirts many years ago.  I thought that I would make a quilt out of them.  I actually pieced them, but I was never quite happy with them.  I saw a pieced tunic top on a friend at work.  I decided to make a pieced garment.  Here is where I am now:

I always seem to work on a more summer focused project around this time ...

continuing for simply stitch 4

This being the first week of March, it was the first week of The Scientific Quilter’s March-A-Long. This is a 15 minute of quilty goodness a day thing. “How did I do?” you ask. Very well, if you ask me. … Continue reading →

So today we've taken the first step towards spring by moving our clocks ahead one hour so we will have longer periods of daylight! Here in northern Indiana we have lots of snow left to be melted. It is 10° at 7:45 AM but we are expected to get into the mid 30s today. That means I'll be able to take a walk outside because I have discovered I can comfortably walk at 30° or warmer. I can hear birds now chirping outside as another sign of spring coming. The sun feels warmer on my skin and ...

Hallo Ihr Lieben,

heute habe ich mal einfach drauflos genäht. Ich hatte keinen Plan, wollte aber die Strandhäuser vernähen. Entstanden ist dieses Top. Ich bin noch nicht sicher, ob es ein schönes größeres Kissen wird oder ein etwas größeres Tischset. Die Größe ist 65 x 50 cm. Aber bevor ich entscheide was daraus wird, werde ich es quilten und darauf freue ich mich, denn ich habe schon eine Idee.....
aber nicht mehr heute, denn ich möchte draußen die Sonne genießen.

Hi everyone,

today I had no plan, but wanted to sew beach houses. The result is this top. I`m ...

I spent a good bit of yesterday designing quilts in EQ6.  These are quilts that I’ll be able to show right around Spring Quilt Market. I know, I know, it feels like I’m teasing. I’m not. I’ll share it when I can.
I did (re)learn something about working on the block yesterday: tweaking the settings on the work table gives better control of the grid which means that drawing lines becomes easier because the end up where I want them. I can tell you that for a while I was having a bit of a ...

The Great Stitched Postcard Swap – An international swap – how fun that would be! Participants were to  make an art post card. It could be paper, fabric or the medium of their choosing.  No surprise I chose fabric.  My base was  a heavy weight fusible 5 x 7.  I began by pulling various scraps working from a Kaffe Fasset print and then adding to it – I chose 7 for my background. I layered the first two, cut a wavy line, then pulled them apart.  The first piece was fused to the base. I then layered the next two fabrics, cut a ...

I really need to get back to posting more than twice a week. Maybe one day my day job will calm down and I'll have time again.  I did however manage to find time to finish the backing for my rainbow quilt this week. That used 6 yards of fabric.  Not much else going on in the sewing room, although I did finish 2 customer quilts this week too.

Now, oh dear, what came in this week?
4 yards of Barcelona fabric for a quilt I'm planning
5.5 yards of "just because" from the sale bin at ...