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yes finally time for the drawing for the winner of Barbara Cline’s book Diamond Star Quilts – thanks to all that participated in this drawing last week.  I had 81 entries and the random number generator picked  Marti Meadows – Marti I sent you an email letting you know so contact me and I will […]

Another beautiful day meant more stitching outside on the porch in between several walks around the property taking photos of fall color.  I stitched one side hexie for the Lucy quilt – Stitching outside – I wanted to share the cute Edyta Sitar papers that I have been reusing from a project made a couple […]

A very nice day meant that I took my iPad outside on the porch and proceeded to watch a show outside while I was sewing binding down by hand – the end result was the Halloween quilt is finished – tossed in the wash and dried and on the table. I didn’t do a final […]

I rarely work on the same project all day – it just isn’t in me to devote a whole day to one project.  I started the morning yesterday with crochet – right now at this stage I am still looking at the photo tutorial at the beginning of every row.  After the first little bit […]

The Halloween little table topper has the quilting done – now I need to decide what to use for the binding – it could be the same black and white stripe that the backing it or I have an orange fat quarter that would make enough that is the same as the outer sashing except […]

We had such nice weather on the weekend – Melanie and I got in the same walk all over again on Sunday – two days in a row of 16,000 steps – I will enjoy it while I can as who knows when the aches and pains of arthritis comes back – it is good […]

It was such a pretty day yesterday that I met Melanie at the walking trails and we had our 10,000 steps done before 3 and then by the end of the day I has 16,000 in again like a did a week or two ago – here are a couple photos of our trails Not […]

Yesterday I didn’t get a lot done, I went grocery shopping in the morning and when I stopped to fill up the car with gas I saw the smaller local store was having a meat sale so planned to stop there on the way home so I wouldn’t have meat sitting in the car while […]

Well we all know which one I prefer!!!  The Halloween quilt was basted and ready for work – but I couldn’t get the tension adjusted perfectly using the orange variegated that I had found in the stash of thread – so I switched it out to black instead – I am not the type to […]

The Halloween quilt is layered and basted and ready for quilting.  I thought I took a photo of it while I was basting but I hadn’t so this one will need to make due.  The plan is to machine quilt it this week – it is only about 40 inches square I think with the […]

Finally I was done marking the stencil for the top border of Alaska and got back to quilting on Monday night but I hadn’t shown any photos since then – I am right underneath the red star now – about half way across – so this work was done Monday and Tuesday but I think […]

Finally after two days of working on the corners and final border of stencil for Alaska I got it as good as it will get and got back to work quilting last night.  When working with cables and feathers it is not as easy as one might think to get your design to flow smoothly.  […]

Alaska needs more of the stencil design drawn on before I do more quilting – the design doesn’t quite fit right so before I am doing more quilting I rolled the quilt down bit by bit as I get the design drawn on – then I will roll it back up a little and move […]

Checked off the invisible list face masks for Melanie – I don’t really keep a list other than things in my head but I wanted that off my cutting table so got them done, washed and dried to make sure no germs on them and tucking into a bag. Now I have all the left […]

The bottom half hexie was added on to the Lucy quilt and the long row is pinned to the wall until I start to work attaching the whole row.  Not a lot left to do. This is where the row is that needs to be attached sometimes it can be hard to see in the […]

I was asked yesterday about the nose pieces that I use for the mask and how do I apply them – so I took a few photos of the process I do – some of you might do it differently if you use them – this is just how I do it. I cut t-shirt […]

In my blog post LIVE! from Alaska, I mentioned that I was thinking about offering workshops directly from me to you.

Kitchen Sink Quilt by Claire Sherman

I wasn’t sure when this would happen as I am a Technology Resistor. Is that a term? It should be.

But sometimes the universe just makes it happen. Which means, I am offering my first (from me to you) VIRTUAL live workshop Kitchen Sink Quilting on Friday & Saturday, October 2 & 3 from 1PM – 4PM Alaska Time. What time is that for you? Click the link to find out.

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What a rainy day we have had for a first day of fall – it only reached 65 yesterday and light rain the whole day – one of those days where it was just too chilly to bother to sit on the porch – if the sun had been out that would have been different […]

Yes I know I don’t like to make face masks but I told Melanie I would make some for her and her part time employees in the children’s department at the library for October so that means I better get busy and crank some out!!  I believe I got the Halloween fabric from the Fat […]

Quilting on Alaska is coming along so much faster on the second half of the quilt then it did in the beginning and I think that was because I was planning and plotting the quilting design as I was going – now that the first half is done it is now repeating the design to […]