I have just been informed by Etsy that I must connect my bank account to their new third party manager called Plaid. When it asked for my bank login and password, I stopped and looked closer. In researching this entity, I was stunned to find it has been involved in lawsuits for selling consumer information, and creating false bank pages to trick people into entering financial information that they then use to sell to other entities.

Here’s what is in their policy that they can harvest and use and SELL – “financial account name and number, balance, and transaction history ...

Last night I talked to Nicole and hung up and was kinda teary. Vince asked why and I said . . I don’t even know but after we went to bed, I was thinking about it. At Addie’s game Saturday, she was just not into cheering and she was standing out there, not doing a...

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 Als mijn kleindochter aan mij vraagt, hoelang het duurt voordat haar quilt af is, zeg ik altijd: “4 jaar”.

Ook dit keer, maar ja, Corona kwam. Winkels dicht. Ik kon geen stof kopen. De 4 jaar zijn voorbij. Wat doe je dan? Belofte maakt schuld. Ik heb mijn Quilt weggebracht naar Nuenen. Anne Lillholm heeft hem machinaal doorgequilt op de Longarm. Het is een plaatje geworden.

Gisteren heb ik hem aan mijn kleindochter gegeven voor haar 14e verjaardag. Wat was ze er blij mee. En ik…..natuurlijk ook!

 Als mijn kleindochter aan mij vraagt, hoelang het duurt voordat haar quilt af is, zeg ik altijd: “4 jaar”.

Ook dit keer, maar ja, Corona kwam. Winkels dicht. Ik kon geen stof kopen. De 4 jaar zijn voorbij. Wat doe je dan? Belofte maakt schuld. Ik heb mijn Quilt weggebracht naar Nuenen. Anne Lillholm heeft hem machinaal doorgequilt op de Longarm. Het is een plaatje geworden.

Gisteren heb ik hem aan mijn kleindochter gegeven voor haar 14e verjaardag. Wat was ze er blij mee. En ik…..natuurlijk ook!

My life is quite busy at the moment and will continue for another few more weeks.

Cottage season is winding down and my sister and I are trying to get as much done outside and inside while weather permits.  Our Canadian Thanksgiving is in a few weeks time and that is when we close down the cottage for the season.

The squirrel saga continues.  The cedar seeds have dried up and are now brown in colour.  We keep checking each time we go out to the cottage to see if the squirrel has stored away these seeds.  Come on, squirrel ...

 The quilter made this quilt for a friend who recently lost her mom and used jelly rolls.  It was massive and towards the end, I had a hard time advancing it as my wrists do not seem to want to handle the heavy weight anymore.

I decided on a large-scale ribbon edge-to-edge because of the size of the quilt.

I've been doing some slow stitching in the last few weeks. It's always such a relaxing thing to do. 

Stitching a second seascape 

Last month, I wrote a post about Embroidering a seascape. It was based on TextileArtist.org's workshop with Bethany Duffy (see Related links below). I decided that I wanted to go further with this technique since it's a lot of fun and since I changed it up a little, was able to learn a new beading technique

Welcome to Week 400 on Free Motion Mavericks! I'm back to free motion quilting (FMQ) on my son's Version 2.0 quilt. It's getting cool. I'm sure that he'll want to snuggle into it soon

 Another month has flown by!  Just a few more days and it will be time to set some goals for the month of October.  And nearly time to take stock of September accomplishments.

For a fast and easy Christmas pillow look no further than this tutorial from A Bright Corner.  The simple design is so effective with the bright holiday colors used.  Patchwork like this pillow is always a favorite any time of the year.

This tutorial does not have extremely detailed instructions, but it has the basics and if you have some quilting and sewing experience it should not be too difficult to make one of these pillows.

I’m not sure if this beautiful pillow could be any more festive than it is.  That is thanks to the various reds and ...

I’ve made good progress on getting the center flower stitched. I hope to completely finish that big flower today. Once the flower is finished, I’m going to finish the top alphabet, then start working on the side flowers. I’ll get a better picture once the stitching is done and the piece is pressed. These colors...

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