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Yesterday didn’t quite go as planned – I was going to finish up the placemat but Melanie got in touch – Monday being one of her off days and wanted to meet for lunch and get started on her Christmas shopping and company so off we went and were gone almost all afternoon – I […]

I got one of the gnome placemats quilted – one left to do today – the machine breezed through it – but I couldn’t get the automatic fabric sensor set right also the walking foot sat too tight to the feed dogs and the fabric wouldn’t glide smoothly through it.  I took it off and […]

Machine applique takes a little practice for sure.  First you have to find a stitch that will work for the piece and size you are doing for sure! and practice the stitch on a scrap first – which I did do as I didn’t want to pick out thread on a fusible small piece.  I […]

I forgot to show one of the new dies that I got a week or so ago – and I really need to find time to do a fast couple of placemats or something with it for the holiday – after all that is what it is for – a cute little gnome!  It would […]

One of the things I love about batiks is how colorful they can be all mixed up in a quilt.  I do use them a lot – some ask “aren’t they harder to hand quilt through?” yes they can be a little harder and this particular quilt – The Drunkard’s Path I am finding it […]

A busy day with a variety of things going on.  I managed to get one block made for the Butterflies in Flight – well it be done for the end of the year? I don’t know 9 more blocks to make then sew the rows together. A little more on crochet and beginning to weave […]

Someone on Instagram had asked to see the Dear Jane quilts I made some years ago and I realized that a lot of you had probably not seen them so seeing as I didn’t accomplish much yesterday as I was out of town for part of the day I thought I would share them today.  […]

I do not seem to be making time to cut out more butterfly blocks and working on them so for a change I decided to cut last night and get blocks ready to sew sitting on the table – they should move faster that way for when I have even 30 minutes here or there […]

Would you believe fall in Arkansas just keeps continuing – Saturday was a pleasant 58 degrees and all week or most of the coming week is to be in the 60’s.  So most of Saturday was spent raking leaves trying to clear out a smaller area that is hard to get the lawn mower doing […]

I took a short break from blogging for Thanksgiving while we were at our daughters house so I missed posting all the Black Friday sales but I’m sure if you were really interested you found them!  We had a good two days at our younger daughters house and had a house full in the evening […]

Slow going but by adding one a day it will get done and I still have time for other things.  I am still waiting for my sashing fabric to arrive from the Green Fairy – it didn’t say it was out of stock so I’m surprised it hasn’t shipped yet.  I really would like to […]

I just didn’t feel like sewing yesterday and instead ran a few errands and continued on with re-reading a series of books that I have been reading for probably going on two months now. I did look for some more lighter prints to use for the Butterfly blocks – I am using some charm packages […]

Several blocks got done on Sunday – it was a misty light rain day so it wasn’t a good day for outside stuff although I still got in a late afternoon walk. and this one I put them up on the wall and then thought to try them facing different ways instead of facing the […]

Thanks for commenting on the question about Christmas decorations – it was interesting – it seems most of us that were raised Catholic no matter what country decorate the end of the first week of December or so and keep things up until January 6th and others decorate more around Thanksgiving – one said around […]

Yesterday was kind of a dud day for sewing, just didn’t get around to much.  I had intend to sew on the Butterfly blocks and never got to it so they are waiting for me today. I did get a little more done on the Drunkard’s Path And some on the crochet – Yuletide is […]

For a change I got busy first thing in the morning and got a couple more of the 6 inch butterfly blocks made and then made up into the 12 inch block Next I got 2 more cut out and ready to make today.  The thing that takes the longest to make on these is […]

It is amazing how sometimes the machine doesn’t work one day and you do something as easy as changing a needle and re-threading the machine and it works – put a smile on my face! So I got to work and finished one more block for the Butterflies in Flight and have any other cut […]

My sewing day didn’t go as planned – I intended to get a couple more butterfly blocks pieced but then I had the bright idea to take time to clean the machine, change needle etc and it went down hill from there.  When I put the machine back together I didn’t do it quite right […]

I spent part of the day with Melanie yesterday so I didn’t get a lot of blocks sewed but I did get two more butterfly blocks done and added to the wall. I’m just putting them anywhere on the wall right now. A little more on crochet – added the next red, a pretty shade. […]

I needed one more RSC 36 patch block (now Butterflies in Flight) on the wall for the design so I looked through my boxes to see which colors of pre-cut 2.5 inch squares I had and that was black so counted out 36 and got it done. After a few more minor changes I got […]