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Three Projects from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's still fairly dark and foggy out as I'm writing. It's anyone's guess what the weather holds for us today, but it doesn't matter much either. I'll be spending most of my day inside. We'll venture out for our grocery shopping tomorrow. The weekend will be busy. The kids are coming up for dinner to celebrate Erik's 45th birthday. Can you believe I have a child that old when I'm clearly so youthful?

It was a good sewing day yesterday. And I even made good on my ...

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Three Projects from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends. It's still fairly dark and foggy out as I'm writing. It's anyone's guess what the weather holds for us today, but it doesn't matter much either. I'll be spending most of my day inside. We'll venture out for our grocery shopping tomorrow. The weekend will be busy. The kids are coming up for dinner to celebrate Erik's 45th birthday. Can you believe I have a child that old when I'm clearly so youthful?

It was a good sewing day yesterday. And I even made good on my ...

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A Day with Buck from Jo's Country Junction

Before I get to today’s post, several people have asked about Ray and the hurricane situation. Sandy recently contacted him and this is what Ray wrote back to her: All is good here so far. Light showers today. Folks are freaking out over the storm though. Grocery shelves are stripped and gas is in short …

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A Good Day from Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

Pretty much every day is a good day around here. Retirement is fun . . most of the time. The dogs, even though they’re a lot of trouble and require almost constant attention, they’re such a joy. I have my garden, knitting, cross stitching, cooking, canning. There are few days that I have to do...

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Sickly from ... Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to October. It's not such a good morning at this end. As expected, I'm feeling pretty puny this morning after getting our vaccines yesterday. The flu shot is to blame, I believe. It always makes me sick. We got our shots around 10:30 a.m. By dinner time, I could feel that I was developing a fever. Tylenol helped, but of course, it didn't get me through the night. I awakened last night shivering with chills to the point my teeth were chattering. This morning, I was running a fever ...

added by Barbara 1 week, 1 day ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , family , mindless musings , quilts

Sickly from Cat Patches

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to October. It's not such a good morning at this end. As expected, I'm feeling pretty puny this morning after getting our vaccines yesterday. The flu shot is to blame, I believe. It always makes me sick. We got our shots around 10:30 a.m. By dinner time, I could feel that I was developing a fever. Tylenol helped, but of course, it didn't get me through the night. I awakened last night shivering with chills to the point my teeth were chattering. This morning, I was running a fever ...

added by Barbara 1 week, 1 day ago. under cats , challenge quilts , embroidery , family , mindless musings , quilts

Enjoying A Visit With Family from Quilting My Way

This morning I was out walking with Ron. We got 6 laps in. He's getting ready to leave for CA. He has another place down there with his friends. He doesn't have a lot of friends up here any more but he loves his house.

I worked on my pattern for tomorrow. I had to enlarge my space needle design. I have it to the size I want. It goes with our retreat last weekend. I may need to order more floss.

Then it was time to go to moms. Since my washer is still waiting on a ...

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 week, 3 days ago. under crocheting , family

North Star Wedding Quilt from Tea Rose Home

Let me introduce you to my most recently finished quilt, "North Star". I have always wanted to make a quilt for my children when they are getting married. Shortly after my oldest son got engaged, I started brainstorming quilt designs. I was going through the quilt books and patterns I already had. Then I came across the acrylic template by Jen Kingwell's "North Star". I love the meaning and sentiment North Star carries; Constant, guidance, direction, stability, etc. I thought it would be a perfect block to use to construct the quilt for the happy couple. I also asked ...

added by Sachiko 2 weeks ago. under baby lock sewing , family , quilt , wedding gift , wedding quilt

These Two Dogs! from Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

They say it’s playing but they spend so much time being so rough with each other, it doesn’t look like fun to me but . . I’m not a dachshund! Their favorite thing to do is to go outside and chase a ball. It’s finally gotten to . . not “cool” but at least not...

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A Cat from Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

You remember Cat, the feral tortoise shell cat that showed up at our house in Texas in 2016. She was there for at least four years and I spent a lot of time trying to make friends with that cat. She was so standoffish but after a while, she would come up and rub on...

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A Little Here and There from Quilts....etc.

I always think even if you don’t have time to sit for an hour or two to work on your stitching it’s the 15 minutes here and there that add up. Yesterday I had some errands to run, like picking up prescriptions that the doctor had faxed in yesterday so I have all I need […]

added by Karen 4 weeks, 1 day ago. under english ivy- fat quarter shop , family , flying pansies , noriko's star - hexagons (Comments)

Yet Another Saturday from Quilting My Way

I woke early to find Patrick was up before me. 6:30 am is early even for me.

I played my games till about 10 am. Patrick and I peeled and cut apples for dehydration. The rest for apple sauce. We froze it all. Once I was done peeing, Ron and I went walking. We got 6 laps in today.

Came in and waited for Phil. He came for a couple hours visit. We had a great time. I beaded for a bit while he was here. After he left, I went into the computer room and got some QOV ...

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 month ago. under beading , family , life

September...what?? from caledonia quilter

What happened to the past few months! Well:

This was the last group project that I organized. It was for the Binbrook guild and I had "planned" to do a demo on back-basting at the June meeting, to end the season. All the background squares were either white, cream, grey, or black, with text of some kind. All the center circle pieces were somewhere between yellow and red.

However, it was scheduled for the day I got home from Quilt Canada in Edmonton.

As you can guess, I did not make it to the guild meeting. I also managed to ...

added by helen-mary 1 month ago. under covid , dog , family , garden , guild , longarm quilting , quilt , quilt canada , zucchini

Midnight Sewing and Fun on Monday! from Humble Quilts

I stacked my "Etsy" store on one side of the spare bedroom as my sister and her grandson Zack were coming for a visit. I jokingly told him, "No quilting in the middle of the night!" (Note the bag of fabric rolls in the foreground)

The next morning he came down with these two, one was a conversation print with pencils! What are these? Can I have one? haha I asked my sister later what she thought he would do with it and she replied, "probably make a parachute" He cracked me up!

He loves Elsa.

Some of what I ...

added by Lori 1 month, 1 week ago. under family , hiking , just for fun

Made It Back Home from Quilting My Way

Yesterday we went to a tracker show/tracker parade/knife and gun show.

Loved seeing this! We stopped and visited with dad since he was selling knives at the show. He had them overpriced and can understand why he hasn't been able to sell them. No one can tell him otherwise, too stubborn.

Today we were on the plane at 11 am central time. We made it to Minneapolis around 2pm. We weren't leaving there till 6:45 pm. So, I got a salad at Chilli's and Patrick had a bad day. Took awhile for him to ...

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 month, 1 week ago. under beading , brazilian embroidery , family , ufo's , vacation

Can They Get Any Closer? from Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

These two dogs crack me up. They “play” and I’m sure one of them is going to hurt the other. They’re growling and snarling and snapping, then they wear themselves out and this happens. Perfectly aligned, as close as they can get, with their heads across my leg . . sleeping. Look at Oscar! He’s...

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Yesterday - Shopping Today - Beading from Quilting My Way

Yesterday Christine and I went shopping. I went to my favorite beading shop. I bought several things. Noc Bay is an awesome shop!!

I picked up 4 kits. I am giving one to Sandy as a gift. I will make the others

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 month, 1 week ago. under beading , family , vacation

This Is How I Spend My Evenings from Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

The dogs eat dinner about 4 and then they have this massive “play” session, though it doesn’t look like fun to me. When they’re both exhausted, I take them out, separately, to go to the bathroom and try to catch the bunny. Then we come in and they crash and I can stitch til about...

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Leaving The Cabin from Quilting My Way

Today we woke, dressed and got ready to leave. Christine cleaned more than the rest of us, but we loaded her car and headed to their place about noon time.

Christine and I stopped to get french fries. We chatted with a military guy, and I told him if he ever makes it to Chehalis he should go to the museum.

We made it back to their place and chatted a bit. Her friend came and cut Kayla's hair. When she left we headed to the laundry mat to wash sheets and towels. Then dropped them off at the ...

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 month, 1 week ago. under family , vacation

Two For One - Making Up For Yesterday from Quilting My Way

Yesterday we spent most of the day outside. I was able to get some embroidery done.

I worked on the nest. I need to finish it. Then I decided to work on the leaves. It's not my favorite to do satin stitch for the leaves. I was able to figure it out and it's not bad. Just not my favorite for leaves.

Then we played games before calling it a night.

While we slept, there was a lightning storm. It was the first time I have seen lightning, one right after the other keeping the sky white. It ...

added by 6th Generation Quiilter, Crafter 1 month, 1 week ago. under brazilian embroidery , family

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