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 This week between Christmas and New Years is so confusing. What day is it? What do I want to do? What to make for dinner? I'll actually be glad for the routine to kick back in tomorrow.

I didn't take any pictures yesterday. I started watching this season of Tracker on Paramount plus last night while crocheting on the scrapghan. I finished the first 8 oz skein of yarn of the year! 

This morning I did .15 miles on the treadmill, 900 steps, 8 minutes. Did my PT exercises on the vibration plate. 

It's Sunday, so lunch ...

New Year-2026

There’s something about a brand-new year that makes us want to reorganize everything—our schedules, our studios, our inboxes… maybe even our lives. This year, though, I’m trying something a little more daring.

I’m slowing down.

Less hustle. Fewer shoulds. More joy. If quilting has taught me anything, it’s that rushing only leads to crooked seams ( ha ha)—and I’ve made peace with the fact that life (and quilting) looks better when we ease up a bit.

A Softer Kind of Goal-Setting

This year’s inspiration is coming not from a planner packed ...

And so the decluttering continues! I have NOT found that file folder that initiated this current cleaning frenzy, and I NEED that folder. I've promised the contents to someone. So I have a couple more spots to look - actually, at this point, just one, and if it's not there, I will have to recreate the files. I have some of it in hard copy, but it needs to be digital. Sigh...........

Well, that's OK, but the darn thing is I remember sorting and cleaning that folder. I did NOT throw it out. Where the heck is the ...

When I first moved to Devon and asked what would happen when the roads became icy, a local person told me it happens extremely rarely. Well, I had planned a last day of the holidays trip to the seaside and woke up to snow on the ground and rooftops. It is not nearly as much as in Aberdeenshire but I think Devon Council only owns one gritting lorry so the roads are not treated to the extent that they are in Scotland. It actually makes me more nervous to drive here on ice than it did when I lived in ...

   A very short video for you today.It's not new. It was lost when the 'other place' shut down.Three little hand made buttons for a seam. 

       

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Several mornings this past week had such colors at dawn that I had to step out to the freezing cold to take pictures. This day had purple clouds low on the horizon, almost looking like a second mountain ridge with the sun coming up in front of them.

The birds seem to like the new feeder. A pair of chickadees take advantage of the bounty on a very cold and overcast day.

Here, a Carolina wren gets his share while a downy woodpecker has a meal on the opposite perch.

Another dawn in golden yellow and peach hues.

Morning fog ...

Welcome to the first Stash Report of 2026!

Everyone gets to start over with nice shiny zero balances.  Did you hit your usage goal last year?  Do you have stash goals for this year?

My goal for 2026 is to use more than I buy.  I expect to add fabric this year as I am out of light yardage in multiple colors.  Scraps will get me by on smaller projects but less so on larger ones.  We’ll see how the year plays out.

I’m still working on the challenge project.  There was a lot of trial and error ...

Bereits zum 3. Mal schreibe ich einen Jahresrückblick. Es ist jedes Mal wieder super intereassant zu sehen, was ich alles gemacht habe, wo ich gewesen bin usw. Es ist immer ein echter Blick auf das Quilt-Jahr.

In meinen Posts Rückblick auf des Quiltjahr 2024 und in dem Post über das Jahr 2023 habe ich meine verschiedenen Reisen, fertigen Quilts und Teilnahmen an den Quilt Alongs beschrieben. Das wird in diesem Jahr nicht viel anders sein. Manche Dinge wiederholen sich einfach. Eine Sache ändert sich allerdings: Ich habe tatsächlich den ersten Blogpost auf meiner neuen Wordpress-Webseite veröffentlicht und werde darüber demnächst ...

We are a few days into the new year.  I've spent some time in the sewing room, but also a lot of time looking back and then looking ahead.  My tracking spreadsheet is reset. So I'm ready for a new year on that front. Not so much on other fronts.  Personal preference has me making a clean break between last year and this year.  Here are my final stitching time metrics for 2025. 

• 15 minute days/Dec 2025 =30/31 days
• 15 minute days/2025 = 320/365 days
• Success rate = 87.67%

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Let's be kind to each other this year..

.if you have a choice to do a good thing, take it

If someone needs something, you could provide it now and then I think

Good is circular,  you'll be glad you were able to choose good I bet

I'll be right there with you doing what I can to make things better... not all the time because well that's how things are, but I'll be nice when I can.... Love to you all

I’m happy to say I was able to start my RSC 2026 blocks. I have two or three different blocks in mind, but I made a start on one of them. I have been making 16-patch blocks for a few weeks with the 2.5” scraps Betty gave me.

Joey sent me this email before Christmas and I am just now finally getting to it. Joey writes:A lot of these blocks I gave to Kenda T in WI (classmate), it was in August during my SCRAPTASTIC sale, I gave her a bunch to sew up for donations or whatever she needed. This turned out …

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As in will she get anything done? 

HAPPY NEW YEAR! New Year's Day was the 33rd anniversary of my quilting life. Again, glass half-full girl here, hoping she can accomplish more than last year, and that 2026 is not the dumpster fire that was 2025. 

WIP - That Girl Done Gone Plum Crazy—a project from the digitizing refresher class I had last year. The top is ...

Debbie and I left for Yelm to go shopping for fabrics that will work with the panels. 

We left around 10 am and were in Yelm by 10:45 am. We shopped for a while getting as much fabric as we could for the panels. It cost a lot to get what we needed. We are starting to run out of fabric that was donated. I did get a lot of yardages as well. Trouble with that is that the fabrics where $15 a yard. So, for what we bought, it too a good amount of money. 

We stopped at ...

During June of 2024 we enjoyed a land tour and cruise in Alaska. We actually lived there 40 plus years ago. (Gosh, we’re old.)

I picked up a kit featuring a panel with the northern lights. It came with everything but the back, but I picked something up. Didn’t make it right away, obviously, but finally decided I’d like it to be displayed during December. It didn’t take me long to do, and I mostly enjoyed the process.

The finished display quilt in Alaska was quilted so beautifully, I tried to do the same ...

Arnie’s nephew passed away. I volunteered to bring some bars to the get-together honoring him. I wanted something easy, so I pulled out a favorite of mine as a kid. My mom made them all the time. I remember requesting that she make them for my high school graduation party. I don’t have a real …

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 I am home alone today since sweetheart went over the Mountain to yet another funeral. I don't do snowy Mountain pass trips because they make me too anxious.

Today I hope to move along on a little 8 year old boy's scripture bag. He saw my grands bags and wanted one. He chose John Deer. He gets baptized next Saturday, so I need to move right along. I would like to gift it to him then.

For Christmas this year I asked for new, white storage spaces in my sewing room. Out with the tall brown cabinets and ...