Good morning, my friends. Oh, my goodness. We've had some nasty weather the past couple of days. We had nearly half an inch of rain on Sunday. Yesterday brought at least another inch. We're also heavily overcast, making day nearly as dark as night. We're supposed to see just a little clearing today, if you can believe the forecast. As I’m writing this, the rain has stopped. It’s overcast, but not so dark. We’re expecting more nasty weather for the remainder of the week. The weekend looks pretty good, but then more rain next ...
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Good morning, my friends. Oh, my goodness. We've had some nasty weather the past couple of days. We had nearly half an inch of rain on Sunday. Yesterday brought at least another inch. We're also heavily overcast, making day nearly as dark as night. We're supposed to see just a little clearing today, if you can believe the forecast. As I’m writing this, the rain has stopped. It’s overcast, but not so dark. We’re expecting more nasty weather for the remainder of the week. The weekend looks pretty good, but then more rain next ...
read moreWe celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving this month with the family here as usual. The neat bouquet in a real gourd they brought me is hanging on.
Outside, the colours of Autumn certainly rival those of the summer season. Though scarcer and beginning to curl, pinks are still to be found.This morning, I had things to do and left early. I had to stop at Colleen's to drop off her dish and towel. Then I headed to DB to get my tea. Next stop was the bank. Finally, I was off to Georgie's.
Bonnie and Sandy came after I did. We had such a good time. Laughing about all kinds of things. We also talked about Bev who passed away about 3 years ago. Found out her husband passed away about 5 weeks ago. Sandy was saying her 4 children were looking for the will. Sandy helped them ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Hopefully, everyone survived the weekend. It was pretty quiet here. All the tasks from last week are completed. Family has been fed and sent home. Rain has started up. So, it's pretty much business as usual from here on. We're getting our vaccines this morning, but aside from that, we'll be sticking close to home for the next several months. There's going to be plenty of time for sewing.
My morning started with baking some muffins for our breakfast. For years, I cooked a traditional morning breakfast...eggs, some kind of breakfast ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Hopefully, everyone survived the weekend. It was pretty quiet here. All the tasks from last week are completed. Family has been fed and sent home. Rain has started up. So, it's pretty much business as usual from here on. We're getting our vaccines this morning, but aside from that, we'll be sticking close to home for the next several months. There's going to be plenty of time for sewing.
My morning started with baking some muffins for our breakfast. For years, I cooked a traditional morning breakfast...eggs, some kind of breakfast ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It's a rainy day today, and we're expecting rain for the remainder of the week. Possibly the Big Dark has arrived. We're not planning our usual Rainbird trip south this year, and so I guess we'd better get used to it. It's good sewing weather, though. I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished today.
We had errands to run in town yesterday, but errands will always take a backseat to slow-stitching. Before we left, I made a little more progress on the second block for the "Pieces of the Heart ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It's a rainy day today, and we're expecting rain for the remainder of the week. Possibly the Big Dark has arrived. We're not planning our usual Rainbird trip south this year, and so I guess we'd better get used to it. It's good sewing weather, though. I'm hoping to get a lot accomplished today.
We had errands to run in town yesterday, but errands will always take a backseat to slow-stitching. Before we left, I made a little more progress on the second block for the "Pieces of the Heart ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It was a tiring day yesterday. We had our Egg McMuffins for breakfast, and then we had a huge list to get through at the grocery store. It was nearly noon by the time we got home. And, of course, we still had to put everything away. Yikes. I'm glad that's done. Smitty is going to the vet this morning, but I'm hopeful it won't take as long.
When I'm tired, machine sewing sounds like too much work, and so I focused on my slow stitching, finishing off the center block ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. It was a tiring day yesterday. We had our Egg McMuffins for breakfast, and then we had a huge list to get through at the grocery store. It was nearly noon by the time we got home. And, of course, we still had to put everything away. Yikes. I'm glad that's done. Smitty is going to the vet this morning, but I'm hopeful it won't take as long.
When I'm tired, machine sewing sounds like too much work, and so I focused on my slow stitching, finishing off the center block ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. I'll just start right out by saying there's nothing to worry about with Smitty. I'll say more about that in a minute. With a vet visit in our immediate future, it seemed appropriate that I took the first stitches on the Pieces of the Heart stitchery yesterday morning. I’m just getting started on the body of the cat.
When I’d used up all my stitching time, we crated up the cat and headed to the vet. He was not happy about that at all.
Good morning, my friends. I'll just start right out by saying there's nothing to worry about with Smitty. I'll say more about that in a minute. With a vet visit in our immediate future, it seemed appropriate that I took the first stitches on the Pieces of the Heart stitchery yesterday morning. I’m just getting started on the body of the cat.
When I’d used up all my stitching time, we crated up the cat and headed to the vet. He was not happy about that at all.
Good morning, my friends. Well, I skipped a day of blogging, and so I have a lot to show you. Happily, my dental appointment is behind me, and I'm good for another year. And, look ma! No cavities. Always a good outcome.
Backing up to Monday morning, I cut back the peonies to the ground. We'll look for them next spring. For now, I'm enjoying the last gasp of the flowers. This first one is the Firefighter dahlia. When we left on our trip mid-September, it had not a single bud on it. I was threatening to ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Well, I skipped a day of blogging, and so I have a lot to show you. Happily, my dental appointment is behind me, and I'm good for another year. And, look ma! No cavities. Always a good outcome.
Backing up to Monday morning, I cut back the peonies to the ground. We'll look for them next spring. For now, I'm enjoying the last gasp of the flowers. This first one is the Firefighter dahlia. When we left on our trip mid-September, it had not a single bud on it. I was threatening to ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. The camper is unpacked. The bedding, towels, rugs, and quilts are washed. The birds have been fed, and what else is there? Oh yes...I needed to find room for five more refrigerator magnets. Standing in front of the refrigerator is discouraged at this point. Hard hats are required.
Matthew suggested we might need a new refrigerator if we are to do more traveling.
Probably I've forgotten something I still need to do, but I spent a good part of the day sewing yesterday. My first task was to reorganize and figure out where I ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. The camper is unpacked. The bedding, towels, rugs, and quilts are washed. The birds have been fed, and what else is there? Oh yes...I needed to find room for five more refrigerator magnets. Standing in front of the refrigerator is discouraged at this point. Hard hats are required.
Matthew suggested we might need a new refrigerator if we are to do more traveling.
Probably I've forgotten something I still need to do, but I spent a good part of the day sewing yesterday. My first task was to reorganize and figure out where I ...
read moreNo change in the numbers.
Every week is a different adventure in the sewing room. This week I started quilting this project.

I’ve changed what I call it three times. The most recent name is Tropics. I’m quilting a different design in each section. It will either look really cool or be a hot mess.
I also stumbled across a church rummage sale this week. I paid $1 for a ziploc bag with all of this in it.

The patterns will go on the free table. I wanted the floss, needles and hoop and didn’t realize the ...
read moreI am enjoying our beautiful Spring weather here in October. Gorgeous sunshine and the garden is very happy.

I have continued to work on projects that need finishing. Several of those have been Wendy Williams patterns.
This wall hanging is a combination of three different designs.

Here they are before they were stitched together and quilted.



These are delightful little projects called Travel Threads.
Keeping the Wendy Williams theme going, I also finished the sheep. This one went into a hoop.

They have all been appliqued with wool felt and stitched with perle cottons.
I was asked by a friend ...
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