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Good morning, my friends. The clouds cleared off into a beautiful and warm day yesterday. It was a good day for an outing to the San Diego Botanic Garden. We've visited the garden before, but you'll see different things at different times of the year. Before we left, I made the correction to Block 12 from the Raggedy project. I like this better:

Good morning, my friends. The clouds cleared off into a beautiful and warm day yesterday. It was a good day for an outing to the San Diego Botanic Garden. We've visited the garden before, but you'll see different things at different times of the year. Before we left, I made the correction to Block 12 from the Raggedy project. I like this better:

It’s time to dive into a quilt that is sure to satisfy your sweet tooth! The newest addition to the Shortcut Quilt Series is the Layer Cake Crumpets Quilt. You can start sewing Shortcut Quilts right away, thanks to their easy designs using precuts! Our Shortcut Quilt patterns are always free, and they come with a Fat Quarter Shop YouTube video tutorial.

The Layer Cake Crumpets Quilt Pattern

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Layer Cake Crumpets is perfect for confident beginners, and the free pattern includes instructions for a ...

I have a new Free Cross Stitch pattern for you today!  I love Valentine's Day so this is the Floral Valentine Heart:

Kitty And Me Designs Free Cross Stitch Patterns
 

Happy Stitching!

Pam 

 It was 9 when I got up! Now it's up to 14, and Ralph and neighbor Dave are out playing with snowblowers.

Samantha said Boone loves the snow! Since she was born during a blizzard, I'm not surprised! 

And I ripped Sally Snake all the way back to ...

 If  you joined me in making lots of little four patches last week for my Valentine's Day sew along, this week we'll put them together into larger blocks and finish the quilt. The directions are in my Facebook group files.  If you're not on FB, go to my website later today and find the directions and download from there. 

Here goes -    

This is a basic Irish Chain block and you'll make four of them using two different background fabrics. The directions will tell you how to cut the pieces and put them together.  

How cute is ...

It's definitely winter here.  Our low has been -1 F for the last couple of days.  We won't warm up much, barely above freezing most days.  Definitely good days to just stay home and stitch.  I mostly did that last week, so my to do list got a lot of attention.

To Do List for 01/20/26

1. 2026 Guild BOM: Finish April block ✔

2. Kate's Choice: Assemble fourth row ✔

3. SAHRR: Make block for first prompt ✔

4. Scenic Waypoint: Cut fabrics - progress

5. Magnificent Mystery: Work on Dec/Jan clues ✔

6. Wild and Goosey: Work ...

The past few weeks have brought a lot of reading time with cold temperatures and some rainy days perfect for escaping into a story. Time for a good book chat! Amazon links provided for those who want more information. Thank you for using my links when you can. They help to provide a small commission to pay for the costs of writing and publishing this blog.

The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights by Kitty Zeldis – At its heart, this is a story of family, both of blood and choice. Set in the early 1920s, with flashbacks to earlier decades, three women ...

I have a small start to the Jackrabbit Stars project.

This isn't a UFO, exactly - more of a PIG.  I've had the pattern and fabrics for months, but just couldn't make myself start cutting.  Finally, I began by making the big flying geese (finish 5 x 10) for the star points.  The block centers will be the Jackrabbit logo print. 

 LOL --- I have entered a couple of things into my electronic to-do list, but it's going to take some work to get started to make it truly useful. Baby steps. Meanwhile, I had made a paper list of 12 things I wanted to accomplish in Studio B this week, and I crossed two off yesterday and almost completed 3 more! These are all small things - not actually piecing a quilt, but finishing off bags, or other small items. But all is good!

I get a daily email from the to-do app listing my tasks. I'll have to check ...

 A quilt client brought in this little quilt made by her daughter for one of her pregnant friends, and apparently insisted on making the quilt herself.  Mom booked a space while the daughter was still in the process of making this.  The day she brought it to me, she said, she thinks this was the first and last quilt her daughter will ever make.  I am not sure whether mom interfered too much or whether the hobby just wasn’t for her. Whatever the case may be, the quilt turned out lovely.

Sometimes, plans are made to be broken. I think it’s going to be that way with me. Let me explain. Last week I showed you this piece. It’s from the Garden Club Series from Blackbird Designs. A blog reader pointed out that I forgot to stitch the bees (or was I planning to not stitch …

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Hourglass blocks. Our choice of size, color and placement

(I'm having a lot of trouble making decisions right now)

I made these hourglass blocks first

oooo pretty colors and fabrics!

love them!

My Chicago Modern Quilt Guild comes up with different ways for us to play.  In September I began a bee with 8 guild mates.  Each 6 weeks one of us would be the queen bee and tell the others what they want us to do.  I took the first reign and asked my mates for tuning forks, a nod to my father and brother who were piano tuners.  True confessions: I did this before and loved the results.  But Thomas Wolfe was right - you can’t go home again.  Although I asked for a neutral background and a darker fork ...