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October 27, 2026
Dark and Stormy from ... Cat Patches

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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Dark and Stormy from Cat Patches

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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October Life, Stitching Updates and Plans from Canadian Needle Nana

 We 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.
None of these will last as there are heavy frosts now every night.
Walking about our woods on Tuesday I spied a familiar shape high up in a tree. Can you see him?
I wonder is he one of the Barred Owls I often hear at night hooting back and forth ...

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Embroidery - Both Hand and Machine from Quilting My Way

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 ...

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October 26, 2026
Fall Fling with OOTB and I Quilted This! from Quilting & Learning

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Project Planning from ... Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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Project Planning from Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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October 25, 2026
A Little More Sewing from ... Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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A Little More Sewing from Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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October 23, 2026
Get the Flock Out from ... Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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Get the Flock Out from Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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Smitty's Bad Day from ... Cat Patches

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.


Our vet has expanded into the building ...

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Smitty's Bad Day from Cat Patches

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.


Our vet has expanded into the building ...

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October 21, 2026
Stitching Fast and Slow from ... Cat Patches

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 ...

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Stitching Fast and Slow from Cat Patches

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 ...

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October 18, 2026
Lots of Sewing from ... Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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Lots of Sewing from Cat Patches

Good 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 ...

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Sunday Stash October 18, 2026 from Quilt Paint Create

No 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 ...

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Slow Stitching Projects and I Quilted This! from Quilting & Learning

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October 17, 2026
October Finishes. from Sunburnt Quilts

I 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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