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The plants are growing like crazy and it will be no rain for awhile now so I have to watch carefully all the plants growing in buckets to keep them watered.  Mainly I do that kind of work in the evening and should be able to do it every other evening I hope. I was […]

Not much changes here lately – I have been working on the same things.  The yarn has been put aside for a little bit I guess – kind of warm to work with it but it gets picked up now and then so progress has been made but no new photos of it.  On hot […]

Like I thought I didn’t get much done in the sewing department yesterday – when you have an unusually cool day you cut grass and whatever outside stuff you feel like, read and a little handwork. I did 3 more stacks of strips cut for the pineapple quilt and just now as I was writing […]

It was so very hot and humid yesterday that I barely went outside – it is that heat index that will really get you when it is 88 but feels like 98! and now today – what a difference high of 78? really I sure hope they are right – that will be feeling so […]

A little more work was done on the diamonds – I need to thread baste more for the row around. I gave up on trying to get the antique machine working – just couldn’t quite get it there – instead I got a pineapple block out and got another one done.  This is a repeat […]

Yesterday was another hot day and I spent a good part of it in the day again until evening when I went out to the porch for a little bit.  I ordered a new tension assembly for my featherweight and it arrived  – Mike is going to play with that one and see if he […]

yes it will be a slow Sunday indeed as we have another day hitting around 93 – I might get out early again with Melanie for a walk and then it will be in the house for me again.  I spent very little time outside other than a walk yesterday morning at the trails before […]

Oh wow was it hot yesterday – today and tomorrow – certainly not used to 91 – it had been more like 83 or 84 for a high.  No walk at 5:30 yesterday it was still 90 degrees and so humid.  We are trying for this morning instead before it hits 90.  Instead I was […]

Instead of working on the last two blue flowers on the corner of Morning Glory I sat is aside yesterday to get some hexie work done on the two that I started last weekend.  Sometimes I can work for hours on hexies other times just 15 minutes or so at a time.  I didn’t have […]

Morning spent outside reading on the porch and the hot humid afternoon was spent inside with the air on – a little baking done and a little sewing. I feel like I am sharing the same things every day! Sorry about that – just trying for some finishes. Granola made to last a couple weeks […]

Decisions on Morning Glory still have not been made but I am leaning towards more work – at least the opposing corner – I can’t say if I would ever get all four corners done so really will need to decide soon.  Four blue flowers with the embroidered centers and then this corner will be […]

The only sewing I worked on during the daytime yesterday was Morning Glory and plenty of time reading and getting distracted!!  I did re-pot my tomato plants into much bigger pots – I quickly realized that the pots I had them in were not going to be large enough – they are now re-potted and […]

One more pineapple block done yesterday morning – slowly the wall will be full of them!  The dark blocks are not solid colors as you will see from close ups. very pretty dark blue batiks (pre-washed!) I hope to get a few more from some of these dark batiks and then will need to repeat […]

Oh it was such a nice Saturday – I love it at this time of year when we have low humidity days I was outside for a good portion of it.  Melanie came over for a couple hours in the afternoon and we had a good visit – I got the old hexies from Lucy […]

Note:  Bluprint (on side bar) added a note around noon yesterday on to their page with this information: The last day and time to purchase individual classes, patterns, new subscriptions and supplies is May 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm EDT. Maybe there will be no final sales after all?  What a let down. The Christmas […]

EDITED:  Bluprint (on side bar) just added a note on to their page with this information: The last day and time to purchase individual classes, patterns, new subscriptions and supplies is May 31, 2020 at 11:59 pm EDT.  Maybe there will be no final sales after all?  What a let down. Thursday I was in […]

I’m having fun doing one pineapple block a day – I had thought of doing two but the next fabric I was pretty sure was going to have to be pre-washed and it did – a very dark blue/black batik – I will need to press that before cutting today.  I had one more selected […]

Someone had asked me about how to make elastic loops for face masks from a t-shirt – cut the seams off of the shirt making yourself a square or rectangle of fabric cut strips about 3/4 inch wide and the length of your piece – you will sub cut these into 7 inch pieces.  It […]

These are pretty easy to make as big as the pieces are but still I will probably only do one a day while I work on other things too – eventually it will get done. The two together This section of the Christmas quilt was done on Saturday night and over into this block About […]

Yes I am crazy I know but I started a new quilt – I bought some Pineapple block papers a month or so ago from the Fat Quarter shop and just felt like trying it out.  I normally do not like paper piecing but I have several patterns that use them and thought that this […]