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(Below, a brand-new human on a recently finished quilt. Eyes are covered to protect anonymity.) 

Is romance in the air? For whatever reason, in my world, babies are a-poppin! Fortunately, I am prepared! Here's my neonatal kit: An oversized shoebox full of maybe 200 4" squares, some of them sewn into 9-patch blocks.

Unpacked, below, you'll find stacks of squares, many tourniqueted with torn white fabric strips, and the category name scribbled in pencil on torn-paper labels, in handwriting so terrible (mine) that I can barely read them. 

In the photo above, the categories, starting on the top ...

I've been playing with wrapping quilt fabric around batting scraps, and weaving them into baskets. Just in time for the holidays, I made a couple of black holes this way, including one for this guy:

I was inspired by a talk at Cal Tech last month by Kip Thorne, who won a Nobel Prize in 2017 for creating LIGO, the project that detected gravitational waves emanating from colliding black holes. (My DH works on this project.) 

Instead of resting on his laurels, Kip has been having a blast producing black hole art, including movies (Interstellar, and soon, a sequel ...

So last Thursday I drove to Oklahoma for our girl's baby shower and our DIL and granddaughter flew in to help celebrate. When they reached the bottom of the elevator, E ran to me squealing, "Gram! Gram!" Made my heart leap with joy and melt into a puddle all at the same time,We are all avid readers and we treasure books so we based the shower around books and everyone brought a book instead of a

Ok done, washed and dried.  Machine pieced and machine quilted (by me) I used whatever kind of batting it is that Hobby Lobby carries on the super big bolts I think it was Warm and White? it was very flat which is what I needed for my machine quilting to not bunch up and ripple.  […]

Yesterday I was reading a lot but I still got some things done in the sewing room.  I could have finished a one Carpenter’s Wheel block but I kept taking breaks to read!  Right now I am reading a fairly new to me author James Hayman featuring two Maine Police Detectives McCabe & Savage, he […]

Yesterday was spent getting the Carpenter’s Wheel back in progress.  I started the quilt last year for one of my many Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilts and I started too many so this year has been spent trying to play catch up and finish some – which I have had great success in doing!  But I […]

Finally the weather was clear, we were back and caught up from being out of town – no reason to not get busy!  First the binding was made for the Toddler quilt using a variety of left over fabric for scrappy, pressed and got busy with the machine. then I got down to work of […]

We had a great family reunion it went on with people coming and going the whole five days we were in Northwest Arkansas.  We were lucky the weather wasn’t too bad and my brother was able to have shading over the deck the whole time.  It was hot some days but the last two days […]

Done! well except for the binding that is. I worked on the quilting for this toddler size quilt for the past two days.  After starting last week and ripping it all out that is – I’m glad I did it turned out much better the second time. I was about half way done at this […]

Not really very much to share today I finished getting the toddler quilt ready for machine quilting and this time it seems to be laying flat and staying flat with this other batting that I got from Hobby Lobby that you get by the yardage – it is on a great big round bolt I […]

Yesterday was a slow Sunday and I did a bit of hand work.  I finished taking apart the machine quilting that I didn’t like and ready to baste the toddler quilt again today.  I am linking to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts today. This section for Noriko’s Star is nearly done – one more of […]

First a crown falls out of my mouth – the same one that did 4 months ago – luckily I quickly realized what I was almost biting down on and retrieved it – dental appointment this morning!  Then about an hour later I was at the sewing machine – machine quilting my toddler quilt – […]

I should have gotten done with more yesterday then I did but for some reason I don’t seem to have done much of anything.  I did beat the heat and got out to the grocery store and home before it hit 90!  That is hard to do lately isn’t it – I have been watching […]

The toddler quilt top is finished and I will probably try to get it machine quilted next week.  It is 52 x 52 inches  linking to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts — A close up of some of the fabric – these were all in a Tula Pink fat quarter bundle that I got last […]

And it pretty much has me staying inside lately – I just can’t take the humidity – can I say this early in summer that I am longing for the cooler days of fall?  For three nights in a row we had thunderstorms giving us 3/4’s of an inch each night and then the temperature […]

Progress!  I have enough blocks left to do one more row each direction which would make the quilt about 51” square – I have enough fabric left to cut and make more – now to decide if I want to! These blocks were made yesterday And added to the wall Court Jester from Thursday night […]

Little by little – (if I spent less time reading) this toddler quilt will get done!  All the 9 patch are sewn and pressed  – now they all need to be cut in four and sewed back together. Linking to Wendy’s Quilts and More — From Bolt to Beauty — The last two rows of […]

I did get to the sewing machine yesterday for a bit to get started on making a bunch of nine patch blocks – after I am done with them all I will press and then cut each into four pieces and mix them up.  I lay strips of 3 out and try to mix and […]

How long have I been making Marinara sauce now to can? I have lost track – I know it really hasn’t been more than about 2- 3 weeks but it feels like months. I know have 30 jars and that is it I have reached my limit.  I’m not sure how many more tomatoes I […]