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 Sigh.  Every January for the past several years I've set some targets for the year ahead of me.  If you don't know where you're going, you will never get there, right?

• Lose 5 lbs.  ha ha ha ha ha...  To my credit, I DID lose 1.5 lbs.  However I have since located those pounds.
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Nope, look again, they're not cotton bolls; it's snow. Winter has arrived with a vengeance in the south. The weekend before last it was all ice, this past weekend it was all snow. Eight inches plus at Chez Goodneedle. That will teach me to make statements like "it's been so long since we've seen snow"! This snow was light and fluffy, due to the temperature being brutally cold, it is very pretty.&

Nope, look again, they're not cotton bolls; it's snow. Winter has arrived with a vengeance in the south. The weekend before last it was all ice, this past weekend it was all snow. Eight inches plus at Chez Goodneedle. That will teach me to make statements like "it's been so long since we've seen snow"! This snow was light and fluffy, due to the temperature being brutally cold, it is very pretty.&

It's time for a change!! Hopefully, there won't be too many rabbit holes to go down today, and I need to get back into the swing of things. Good grief -- I've become a slug with bad eating habits, and I don't like it one bit!!! 

The first change -- I'm up much earlier!! And I plan to go for a long walk this morning, since I don't expect M to be up too early. I'm good with that. The good news is that there is no rain this morning. While I came dressed for ...

First shipping said I would get my fabric that I needed to finish Silent Night on the 8th then it said the 14th and then it came yesterday – that’s ok, I was glad to get it.  Linking to Quilting Patchwork Applique today Even so I wasn’t able to get started cutting the first section […]

I worked some more on the house/star panel for Silent Night and that section is now done and I will make the last tree for the top half of the quilt or start to today that is.  The bottom half has four more trees and a tall Santa. More hexie work got done – Melanie […]

I guess I will share the butter first – Melanie had some leftover cream she wanted to use up so decided to make some herb butter.  I have a couple antique butter molds so on her lunch break she came over to visit and get the butter done.  She participates in a group of friends […]

For the first time in ages I felt pretty good yesterday – still a bit of a limp and numb toes on my right foot but not as bad as they were and I finished off the day with my first walk outside in almost 2 weeks for enjoyment and not the car for a […]

This blog post is going to be more of a pictorial update of the past week than a word-filled one. I guess I have more time to snap pics than to compose. So, c'mon along while I fill you in on the happenings in and around Chez Goodneedle... and beyond!Our oldest granddaughter represented North Carolina in the Southern Zone Championships in Orlando last week. We drove down to watch her compete

This blog post is going to be more of a pictorial update of the past week than a word-filled one. I guess I have more time to snap pics than to compose. So, c'mon along while I fill you in on the happenings in and around Chez Goodneedle... and beyond!Our oldest granddaughter represented North Carolina in the Southern Zone Championships in Orlando last week. We drove down to watch her compete

Finally I got all my pieces cut out for my star circle maybe I will start the machine work today and then one more to make – and I didn’t even realize that I cut another section out wrong until I looked at the photo just now – the light purple around the center star […]

That is the way I make circles – I was asked to show how I make mine.  I start with a template a  mylar circle – (that link will take you to the Fat Quarter shop) I have a lot of these all different sizes some are from Karen Kay Buckley and some of what […]

A Creative Life There are times when one must exercise certain skills in order to maintain the level of proficiency one has, or in this case, someone requested cookies & cream something for a breakfast meeting we’re having. Baking is a skill wherein I’m still learning the rules as there are still so many things… Continue reading Baking, Quilting, Writing

We were to get very serious storms yesterday towards late afternoon and evening so I was busy outside for awhile.  Last time we had bad winds some of my houseplants that I keep on the porch were knocked over from the winds so I spent some time getting the plants on tall planters or lightweight […]

Noriko’s Star is ready to advance once again onto the big flannel board for the layout of the next section.  I finished the tin of hexies thread basting yesterday.  It always feels good to get this amount ready for the long rows to stitch – especially knowing after this one is done there are only […]

For some reason not a lot got accomplished yesterday – maybe because it got up to 74 degrees?  I sat out on the porch for awhile in the afternoon and read a book and drank a coke.  I trimmed off a couple plants and pulled some long dried up stalks from last summers flowers.  And […]

First the quilting – the segment of Noriko’s Star that I have been working on it ready to add to the top!    It  now has the first hexie on the left side pinned in place for me to start in the correct spot.  This will take two or three sessions of hand stitching to get […]

Two more log cabin blocks done I could have gotten more done but I also did laundry and some cleaning – that cut into my sewing machine time – 22 more blocks to make! I had bread rising while I was making the blocks (and laundry going – doing 3 things at once!) this is […]

The girls and I with Honey supervising got a lot of cookies and coffee cake made on Saturday.  We had been so busy baking and the heat of the oven going that we never realized until evening that our heat pump had stopped working.  When the temperature all of a sudden started to go down […]

Between Log Cabin blocks and getting Christmas cookie dough made I was busy all day. Three of the Log Cabin rows of blocks are now done – five more rows to do I had to stand back far to get it all in and then still part of the quilting frame blocks the wall a […]