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The UPS guys are working overtime these days. A package was delivered at 8:15 last night. If they have something for us, it's usually here by 5 PM. I knew it was coming, but it must have come just minutes after I checked and went upstairs. And they send a picture in an email as proof. I'm sure they appreciate that extra part of the job, but with all the porch pirates, they don't have a choice. 

Well, it was another slow, methodical day! I did NOT complete all the UFO commitments, but I still have ...

Only 1 more week and 2025 will be in the rear view mirror!  I'm hoping that my scrap bins yield lots more quilts in 2026.  I'm also hoping those scrap bins are more empty by this time next year instead of overflowing. 

 I know we are not quite at the end of the year just yet, but close I thought to show my Rainbow Scrap Challenge finishes for the year. There are not too many completed projects, but that's the way it goes sometimes.  First was my challenge to get rid of my small bag of selvedges which had been hanging about forever.  I used to collect selvedges years ago, and have made all sorts of small items from them, bags, oven mitts, place mats, an apron, and have even  knitted some into small mats.  So this year, 2025, I decided ...

There has been a lot of gift giving this year. Maybe (hopefully) the economy is improving. My favorite gift so far? Betty cut up all her smallish scraps into various sizes and gifted them to me! A whole bag full! 

They are divided into ziploc bags by size. The ones I took out first were the 2-1/2” squares. 

Lights and darks. I started on some 16-patch blocks—just for fun, and because other people’s scraps are more inspiring. 

I’m doing a little series of posts that feature old blog posts. I have been going back and looking at them. It’s been fun. I started blogging in June 2009…WOW—over fifteen years. Today, I’m still playing catch-up, so today I’m telling you about April of 2015. I previously did these posts monthly and then somehow …

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Even though there is time left in December I’m going to post my quilt tops to date.

First up is Running Doe top-a-long Weave

This is December top-a-long Waverly.  Another one I’d like to make again.

Not much happening in the sewing room.  I have a few tops in progress that I could work on.  My longarm is staring at me but I continue to ignore her.  I really need to jump back in.  It’s blocking my mojo a bit and I can’t let that happen.

 I learned something new tonight. While watching a delightful movie starring Michael Caine about the 50th anniversary of D-Day, I wondered why all the women wore red lipstick.  And thinking of other movies about WW2 and how women wore red lipstick.  So I searched and found out it was practically mandatory, to show patriotism etc. Elizabeth Arden was tasked with developing a bright red shade. I think my mother always wore red lipstick….

This morning, Patrick went to Safeway and moms. He went to help mom move her clothes from the dresser to the spare room. She's getting a new bedroom set, a little at a time. 

While Patrick was gone, I boiled potatoes to make the family Lefsa recipe. I noticed our recipe is a little different from what is out there. I think mom and dad added to their recipe over the years, but I had the one I got from mom back in the 1970's. 

When Patrick got home, he helped me with cooking the Lefsa. I found ...

I had someone ask me how I was cutting out my pieces with the Rectangle Ruler. The most recent clue for Bonnie Hunter’s mystery quilt calls for half rectangle pieces. She used a different rectangle rule. I used the Creative Grids Perfect Rectangle Ruler. You can find it HERE. These are a little tricky for …

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 This will be a short post today. We had 2 finishes this week. The log cabin, called Tea Biscuit by Laundry Basket quilts. And a Carpenters Star variation that Janet has been working on for quite a while, in between other quilts. The Tea Biscuit quilt has already gone to its new home. Our final count of quilts given out in 2025 is 44. For a small group of 7 ladies year round and  3 or 4 more during the summer, that is an astounding number of quilts finished and given away. I’m looking forward to seeing what the ...

 Is once more underwayI have been making these silly things for almost 30 years.

Good morning, my friends! And Yay! We're home early enough that I can still say "good morning." We've done our grocery shopping already today. I'm hoping I won't need to go back before we reach our final destination in southern California, but that's probably not realistic. Still...I'm hopeful. Without checking today's to-do list, I think grocery shopping was the only thing on today's list. If that's the case, I can spend the rest of the day sewing. Probably, I'll take a nap too.

So my yesterday started with me ...