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I’m so excited to share the 2025 Snowflake Quilt Block! It is a little late… but here it is! For years, I’ve

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 This is a painting by William Kurelek called "Balsam Avenue After Heavy Snowfall", 1972.  This area of Toronto just had a huge snowfall so I imagine the present day residents doing just this. Shovelling snow is certainly something all Canadians are very familiar with. Do you like the way William used pops of colour here?

Apparently there’s a lot to learn about Pyrex. Specifically, PYREX (all caps) vs. pyrex (lower case). The former is vintage and made with borosilicate which makes it a lot sturdier as far as withstanding temperature variations, i.e., "freezer to oven". The latter, pyrex, is newer and now made with soda lime ash which has higher impact resistance (they no longer claim to have freezer to oven

Apparently there’s a lot to learn about Pyrex. Specifically, PYREX (all caps) vs. pyrex (lower case). The former is vintage and made with borosilicate which makes it a lot sturdier as far as withstanding temperature variations, i.e., "freezer to oven". The latter, pyrex, is newer and now made with soda lime ash which has higher impact resistance (they no longer claim to have freezer to oven

Good morning, my friends. I have to write fast this morning because we're heading on down the dusty trail today. Our time in Escondido has come to an end. By the end of today, we'll be in Boulder City, Nevada.

My slow-stitching was neglected yesterday morning. My first priority was to finish sewing together the final ten blocks for the Gumballs quilt. Smitty helped me lay them out for their picture.

The top four rows are still at home. 

Good morning, my friends. I have to write fast this morning because we're heading on down the dusty trail today. Our time in Escondido has come to an end. By the end of today, we'll be in Boulder City, Nevada.

My slow-stitching was neglected yesterday morning. My first priority was to finish sewing together the final ten blocks for the Gumballs quilt. Smitty helped me lay them out for their picture.

The top four rows are still at home. 

 We had such a good day at Prayers and Squares yesterday and managed to get quite a lot done. The biggest accomplishment was that Marg finished putting together the sampler we started a few months ago. We were all given a piece of focus fabric and then were asked to pick a quilt block from the Quilters Cache website that began with the first letter of our first name. There were no requirements for the size of the block. It required a lot of thought and improvisation to come up with a layout to get all those blocks together. I ...

We are sew excited to untie the bow and explore for all the goodies in the January Sew Sampler box! Join us as we reveal the oh-sew-delightful contents of this month’s Sew Sampler Box.

Buttons & Bows Blueprint Junior Layer Cake by Camille Roskelley for Moda Fabrics

Let your imagination wander with the Buttons & Bows Blueprint Junior Layer Cake by Camille Roskelley! This sweet stack is soft, bright, and full of delightful details, with playful dots and dainty bows dancing alongside bubbly motifs and cheerful plaids. The palette floats from airy sky blues to deep navy twilights, giving every print ...

 It was  5 this morning, and now it's up to 12! Yikes! A good day to stay in. I just placed a Walmart grocery order to be delivered thi afternoon. 

I can't even watch any of the news shows, I'm so filled with rage at what the Melon Felon is doing to this country. This whole ice (they don't deserve to be capitalized) is so upsetting and maddening. I hope I live long enough to see the modern ...

Hand embroidered buttons inspired by this design collection.

Some of these will be used as adornments for embroidered cloth, others will be used in design work. 

       

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• Almost a production line, full of little iced gems... by Rachel https://www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk
• These almost look like little edible confections! by Magpie's Mumblings https://www.blogger.com/profile/09852241848575954128

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The amaryllis will bloom while I'm away so I took it (and some produce) to Mike and Jen, the neighbors who will watch the house.  Not only do they have the house key but they also have the car keys because if the house is burning the cars need to get out of the garage. 

I was determined to finish The West Wing before the trip.  I watched four episodes Wednesday night (got through Matt Santos' election) which left me with five episodes for Thursday.   All that TV time meant sewing time. 

Last Saturday night, the ice storm arrived in our area, coating the trees and covering the driveway. I knew this was coming, and got concerned about the single digit temperatures. While I have plants in the Carolina room to keep them sheltered, this was just going to be too much for a few of them.

I decided to move the ones most at risk to the basement where it is warm and I have a grow light. It was a good time to set up some small pots for the spider plant to root its little daughter plants.

Consulting the ...

Well, where are we at?

I tried one of the new pantographs on there that arrived just before Christmas. It's a new design from Hermione Agee from Lorien Quilting called Airy Clouds. Very cute for little baby quilts.

While still a bit wobbly here and there I am definitely feeling that I am getting the hang of this.

Oh my goodness -- I love hearing your stories about decluttering! Yes --- it was great to take notes when you are learning, or find tips in magazines or patterns you wanted to make, but at some point, you get past the point of needing/wanting that stuff. When we accumulate so much of it, and it gets tucked away, it gets forgotten. 

KUDOS to any and all of you who are whittling away at that crap along with me. I just don't buy it when people say, "OH, my kids will take care of cleaning my mess." Why? Why would ...