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I had meant to get one block sewed yesterday but Melanie stopped by for a visit and before you know it the afternoon was about gone – nice to get caught up before she gets back to her regular routine at work after having quite a few days off over the holidays – must say […]

I do believe as I get older the days and years go by faster – is it the clock ticking away reminding us we are getting older (some of us anyhow)?  Well I have a lot of quilts left in me to make so I will keep on making as long as I can.  The […]

I have not determined in advance how many quilts I will try to make in 2022 – I know a lot of quilters make out a list and try to stick to it.  I have “want to” make but “will I make?” is another question.  I bought a lot of Accuquilt dies this year while […]

I have a lot of finishes right here at the end of the month/year and it is too many to post today so today will be the Drunkard’s Path – it needs to be  binded but we are going to have a spell of bad weather – wet and cold so I won’t be taking […]

Yesterday was a stay home day and I got busy on the borders for Love Letters.  All four made and one attached.  This is my last RSC quilt top of 2021 to finish – this is the third.  I’m not sure what all I will make next year (next week!) – I have ideas for […]

We spent Christmas Eve with our daughter and family in NW Arkansas and then drove home late in the day and had Christmas morning and early afternoon with our daughter down the road from us a ways.  By mid afternoon it was the two of us and we were doing things outside enjoying the weather […]

If I have time before Christmas I will cut the border strips and get to work – otherwise I will wait until after Christmas and try to finish it up in the last week of the year.  I decided the border strips will be the same size as the sashing – that will give me […]

Thanks for all the replies on the cookies yesterday – it was interesting to hear what you all do for your holiday in the line of baking. A little more work was done on the Love Letters quilt – just couldn’t get into sewing machine work yesterday I will try to do more progress today.  […]

Finally I buckled down and got to work in the morning for a change – usually I am lazy in the morning lazing around reading and drinking coffee taking my time to wake up – but instead by 10:30 (yeah not too early) I was at the sewing machine and had the big ironing board […]

And very little sewing got done – Melanie and I had decided we couldn’t let the holidays go by without baking some Speculaas – (Speculaas or its variant speculoos is a type of spiced shortcrust biscuit, traditionally baked for consumption on or just before St Nicholas’ day in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and around Christmas […]

I woke up super early yesterday morning and didn’t feel like doing much of anything all day – in the morning I was reading and then kept falling asleep while I was reading!  So by late afternoon I finally got busy and sewed the first row of the quilt top together – I do feel […]

The only progress to show today is on the hand quilting.  We went out of town to meet our daughter and granddaughter at a half way point for lunch and some shopping.  A different way for us to spend the day but nice now that they are closer.  Although with covid on the rise we […]

I am determined to finish the the 3 quilt tops that I have been making all year with the RSC group and I am on the last one to finish up.  I have been busy cutting sashing and squaring up my applique blocks for a good part of yesterday afternoon – sewing will commence today.  […]

Butterflies in Flight is done – well I need to stay stitch around the edges and press – then it is done – if it isn’t raining I might take it out for a photo as I have no room in the house to see the whole thing without corners cut off. For some reason […]

Something about how I had the lay out  for the butterfly blocks I just didn’t quite like so before I got started  sewing the blocks together I started to change things up and decided on this layout.  It was the  straight lines in the version I had posted last that I just didn’t like.  So […]

It took me long enough to make these butterfly blocks, I certainly didn’t rush after I decided to add them to the top.  All I needed were 21 blocks after all.  I started them on November 10th – but they are done, now I need to sew blocks into rows and rows into quilts and […]

Boy I’m glad I started to bake before the girls all arrived – as it is I don’t think we finished up until near 4 in the afternoon – I never did sit down to crochet a little until after all left and the kitchen had been cleaned at least 3 times during the day […]

Our weather has been such a roller coast – chilly for a couple days, then warm for a couple days, then cold – and on it goes most likely for the rest of the month.  So I sewed in the morning yesterday and worked outside in the afternoon – I believe we got up to […]

Back to work on Butterflies in Flight I need 6 more completed blocks before I start to put the blocks into rows.  Yesterday I got another pair done but I couldn’t start until late in the day as I was at the dentist for some work – of course that made me feel kind of […]

On Monday night I decided to get the second gnome quilted before I went to bed and tried out the other walking foot that I have – it is a generic brand I assume that fits numerous machines – I’m pretty sure I got it on Amazon about 4  or 5 years ago  – I […]