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Today, was one of those days where it poured! Rained all day! They are expecting flooding, so it's going to be interesting the next couple of days. 

I headed out to Georgie's house for embroidery. I pulled out my Round Robin piece out to work on. Yep, I forgot I had it and needed to finish it. 

I told you last week that I put a baby quilt on the longarm to see if my leg/hip/foot/back could handle me working at the long arm. It was a small quilt top when I got it. I ended up finding the green border fabric in my stash and made the quilt just a little …

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This morning, Patrick wasn't doing very well. I tried to keep quiet and let him sleep. He spent most of the day in bed. 

When he was up and in the living room, I moved to the computer room. I wanted to learn how to make the earrings that are on YouTube.  I liked them and thought I could make a pair. 

First, I tried with Delica 11/0 beads. She was working it with seed beads 11/0. They are different from each other. I didn't like the way this one was coming out. It didn't ...

This morning, I needed to be up by 9 am to play the war game. I played but didn't get much in points. I've been backing off that game lately. 

We watched some TV and then we shut it off. 

I'm not sure when I will be getting the next one ...

Today I was out the door by 9 am. Patrick wasn't doing well. I was a little worried about leaving him. I had to stop at a couple places and then make it to the grange. Colleen had a quilt for me, then I had to stop at Micheals for some floss. When I was done, Geralyn called to say McD's made a mistake and gave us sweet tea and could I pick up the other. So, I did. 

We sat and chatted for a while. Alice stopped in. We gave her the sweet tea. 

Today was one of those days. I was in the mood to do a lot of stitching. I even made some bread for supper today. 

This morning, I went downstairs to finish the quilt top that was on the floor. My next quilt is the one on the wall that Ann started. 

Since I didn't need to do much but get the borders done, I worked on that. I'm glad I cut the border last time, so I didn't have to have a lot of work to do. I added the stars and then put it all ...

This morning, I was up and a little miffed with the neighbor cutting down a tree at 7:30 am. 

Patrick went to his meeting/coffee with his other management friends who are all retired. While he was gone, I went through my project bags and put away my BE floss. I didn't realize I had so much out and about. I added more to the bars and found that I had to add more bars to hold the floss. Now it's about to the point where I can only add one or two more bars. Then I ...

Before I start this - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS! Today is my brother's 70th birthday. I wish the best for him!

My day started with me heading out the door and getting a few things done before joining Sandy and Geralyn. First was Rite Aid, but what I needed wasn't ready so, I opted to go back after our meeting. Then I headed to the post office to drop off the family group sheets for Bryan. I need to send him a message that it's on the way. After that, went back to Micheals to find the DMC floss ...

Today Patrick went golfing. While he was golfing, I was doing trips in town. First, I took the batting and quilt to the church for Rita. Next to Safeway because I had 2 free coupons that expired today. Next trip was to Phil's to drop a few things off. And lastly a trip to PUD to pay the bill for Gunderson. 

Once all that was done, came home and set a message to everyone letting them know about tomorrow. 

Patrick came in the door as I finished up with my email. Then we headed out to the casino, where ...

Today, I was up and cleaning. Then I decided to go downstairs and work on the quilt top before we headed to the play in Centralia. 

I was able to get the center area almost done before we left at 1 pm. 

We went to Panda for supper. I got a birthday promotion that I used. We finally got back home around 5:30 pm.

I decided I wanted to keep the reds on one side and the blue on the other. So, when we got home, I went downstairs and worked on finishing this. First, I had to take ...

I finished up my John Deere quilt. Whew. I need this one for a benefit in August. I am going to make a toddler sized quilt and then will donate them both to the benefit. For the benefit I often make a themed quilt. For the last couple of years I have made an Iowa …

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 This morning, we stayed pretty quiet. I did get some work on getting the word chart going. I haven't finished the deer part and wanted to get moving on it. So, I was able to get another 11 rows done before we had to leave. 

We were meeting Kelsey at Jeremy's in town. I had a quilt for her to quilt. Then we stopped at Colleen's, and she was waiting to see if I had anything. Told her no, gave it to Kelsey. So, she can work on a quilt top with those blocks I gave her ...

This morning, I really didn't make plans. I wanted to but then remembered my cousin would be calling me again. I was ready for him today. 

So, I started the day playing games. Then I cleaned up a bit. I worked on the laundry to get it done. I wanted to have less to do this week. Then I vacuumed. Was tired of seeing stuff on the floor. I found some drops as well, that I needed to clean since they wouldn't come up with the vacuum. 

After all that, I took the embroidery piece downstairs to make ...

I got my Old Town Mystery quilt finished. Yahoo!! I’m very pleased with how it turned out. Mine is a little different than the original mystery. Where I have brown, Bonnie Hunter, the designer, had teal. She used bright colors…I used reproduction prints. She had one row of large square on the outer border…I put …

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I finished stitching my Cupid’s Sampler from With Thy Needle and Thread earlier this month. I finally got some time to go down to the “frame shop” in the basement. Originally, I thought I would finish this the way it’s shown on the cover by doing a hem stitch. After thinking that through, I decided …

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Oh my word. It happened. My longest standing UFO is finally finished. Here is Hawaiian Sunset. Let me give you a closer look. Sometimes I wish I could keep a quilt hanging here all the time but they would fade so that doesn’t happen. Oh, I love this quilt. I loved it from the moment …

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I told you in an earlier post that I finished this quilt and put the binding on it. Between having family here and the windy weather, it took a bit for me to get pictures of the quilt taken. Here it is all finished. Some of the blocks look pink from a distance, but they …

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I told you on Monday that I finished my Kathleen Tracy Quilt Along mini. I bound the quilt and put a hanging sleeve on the quilt. You can see it in the photo below. This can be used as a table topper or can hang. The finished size is 27 1/2″ square. The original quilt …

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I finally got some time to take photos of the two table toppers I recently finished…of course, it was on a windy day so it wasn’t too easy. I made these using free measurements from Mary at the Chicken Scratch blog. I had hoped to get them finished by Christmas, but that didn’t happen. They …

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This is a simple sashed 9-patch with a cowboy border. There was enough of these fabrics in the donation bins to make 3 of this quilt, with more left over. I put one together and made up kits for two more. The kits will make up quilts identical to this one, but with different backing fabrics. I don't think I'm going to quilt this one, I'm going to hand it in and let another Guild member do the quilting. I included the strips for ...