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While I got busy with the next quilt, hubby was in the one guest room.  I use this room to keep my ironing board but the only space I had was right in front of the cupboards.  Whenever I needed something from this cupboard I had to move the ironing board.

After changing the cupboard doors – the previous ones were painted and in terrible condition, hubby decided to build me a cupboard to the side just for the ironing board.

This is what it looks like while busy ironing.

Once done, I can lift the stands and put it into ...

 The Guardians 

a painting, just a quick painting to see colors dance with each other on paper, moving, spreading, blending and creating lines. 

I might be superfluous in the process

I lift the paper, let water guide the lines as it will, amazed at the life in a painting. I think of how life moves and blends and resists too, how the colors so pretty on their own, look when next to other colors and that each living thing has it's own colors, and how each living thing changes a bit when it's near another.

will they blend ...

 It's in the 50's today, due to go up into the 80's during the week! Yikes! Typical jersey weather.

 It was time to move the qsnap! In the first pic, I think was in my own shadow. 55% done! 

Our local Legion post does a breakfast once a month as a fundraiser. Ralph goes and brings us takeout. Today I have eggs, bacon, ham, and home fries. A good start to the day.

Tree Farm designed by Pam Buda ~ HeartspunQuilts.com

The large blocks have a tree in the center, surrounded by a red wreath.  The block is 18 inches and is made from Half Square Triangles and connector ...

Each Friday in my Facebook group, some members work on starting or finishing their Dear Jane quilts. It's not a teaching group, just a checking-on-your-progress group to help keep you accountable and move forward. Sometimes inspiration happens when like-minded quilters get together. Seeing the progress that others are making on their blocks/quilt can be very motivating.

These recent weeks have been full of inspiration with Spring rolling in. There’s a lot of stitched finishes because I’ve made stitching my priority, but I’m thrilled to share my newest makes with you!

Below are all of my Spring cross stitch projects I’ve been working on. Between Be Mine 2024, Stitching with the Housewives Monthly Weigh Ins, and even more I’ve been a busy bee!

• Temperature Cross Stitch Downloadable PDF by Fat Quarter Shop
• Temperature DMC Thread Pack
• Cloud 25 Count Lugana by Lori Holt for Zweigart
• Learn more in our Temperature Cross Stitch ...

The Beehive baby quilt is coming together nicely. Yellow is the dominant color,  which is why I pulled out this kit for this month.  It still needs an outer border, possibly green.  One more PIG moved along to the next phase - almost.  The lighting here makes the quilt look so dull, but it was a grey rainy day. In reality it's bright and cheerful with those yellows. 

Lots of scrappy happiness is going on lately. And I've been taking my inspiration from blogland for how to use some of the scrappy blocks I've been collecting.

Good morning, my friends. We spent our last day in Paducah visiting the National Quilt Museum. We’d driven by it the day before, but entering through the front door, it was bigger than I thought. And before I go on, I want to say that being here in Paducah during “Quilt Week” has been quite an experience. The crowds were bad at the quilt show, but there was something special about being with so many quilters from so many different locations. The museum was similar, and the crowd was much less bothersome.

Here’s how it looks approaching the ...

Good morning, my friends. We spent our last day in Paducah visiting the National Quilt Museum. We’d driven by it the day before, but entering through the front door, it was bigger than I thought. And before I go on, I want to say that being here in Paducah during “Quilt Week” has been quite an experience. The crowds were bad at the quilt show, but there was something special about being with so many quilters from so many different locations. The museum was similar, and the crowd was much less bothersome.

Here’s how it looks approaching the ...

We all have those days - you get "lots" done but have nothing to show for it! 

Yesterday was the day to get the car's tires switched. In the morning, I worked on the project for this morning's applique class, which I am able to double-dip for tomorrow's digital cutter class. 

All I can say about that, for the moment, is that cutting fabric with my Brother Scan and Cut is child's play. Why was I "afraid" of using it before? Oh -- I know -- because I had no idea how to make it work and had never ...

 Time for a post dedicated to this quilt-along as we have just completed block #15 this week

Linking to Put your foot down, Off the wall Friday, Patchwork and Quilt, Design Wall Monday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday

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There's a bit of a Bunny thing going on in these here parts. Elizabeth Hartman Bunnies to be precise. Maybe it's true about how bunnies multiply, even if they are not real bunnies? The pattern has a few different sized creatures.

I am up and off early this morning to drive our workshop presenter to the Austin airport. She needs to be there by 10am and I am hoping to hit the quilt shop in Shiner on my way back. I should have plenty of time to get there. 

We had a great two-day workshop. Here are some pictures on the “in progress” stuff:

This is the workshop I made the 4” blocks for.

The class is called “Love Your Layout”, and the premise is coming up with a pleasing setting for blocks you have made. Of course, they can really ...

Three sides on Hunters Star is now done  2 or 3 more times stitching with the evening news and it will be done – maybe if things dry out I will be able to take a photo outside Monday or Tuesday. The fabric is picked out for my yellow Mercantile block – I hope to […]