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Good morning, my friends. After writing yesterday's post, I proceeded to waste my morning hours messing with ChatGPT. This is the sort of thing that interests me not at all, but I was trying to create an AI image. It took me quite a while to understand the ins and outs of this. At one point I realized I was wasting my whole morning, and I decided to indulge in that luxury for a single morning. Since I needed to leave the house at 11:45 a.m., it didn't seem as if there was enough time to ...

Note:  I am back to having server issues again so be warned the blog might be in and out again for a couple days  – I don’t have a clue why they have so many problems. Did some machine work and have part of the top and part of the bottom sections put together of […]

Yesterday was another day not at the sewing machine.  It was time to figure out where to put the house plants and set up plant lights that I decided to get this year.  I did get some more work done on the hexies though so will show that first – I planned on stitching that […]

Good morning, my friends. It was a gardening day yesterday. I'm happy to have things mostly wrapped up for the winter. Before I started on that, though, I spent some time stitching the next Tiny Treasure. It looks like one treasure per day will probably be my limit. This one has stem stitch, satin stitch, seed stitch and fishbone stitch.

Good morning, my friends. It was a gardening day yesterday. I'm happy to have things mostly wrapped up for the winter. Before I started on that, though, I spent some time stitching the next Tiny Treasure. It looks like one treasure per day will probably be my limit. This one has stem stitch, satin stitch, seed stitch and fishbone stitch.

Once again it was not a sewing day.  I had a hair cut appointment which was long overdue.  I was going to get my haircut back in early August before my back surgery but with scheduling doctor appointments, CT scan, MRI I just didn’t get to it – when I was recovering I didn’t feel […]

A little more hexie work done today but nothing on the Santa – I picked out pieces for the next row. I wasn’t done sewing a row on main piece though and didn’t want these to fly away or get out of order so I fold the liner over it – I do this most […]

Once again I changed out quilts on the bed – I’m trying to do this more often so they all get some use and not just folded up in a stack.  This one I finished in 2016 and I named it “The Final Frontier” in honor of Star Trek.  Audrey from Quilty Folk had a […]

With all 8 trees the Silent Night quilt is getting near completion.  Now I need to decide will all the trees stay where they are or move around?  I have some white flannel strips to add here and there and then the Santa and the border.  I ordered a piece of red and a piece […]

This morning, while showering, I had a thought about toilet paper and toilets. Weird how we think of things while in the shower! This of all things! But I found myself thinking of the past - yet again. I do miss my father!

I remembered the story my dad told me about having to go out to an "outhouse" to use the bathroom. I knew of outhouses, but thought toilets was before his birth. Guess not. Anyway, I remember him telling me that they didn't have toilet paper like they do today. When I questioned, "then what did you use ...

I didn’t machine stitch yesterday but I did get another tree cut out this will be the last tree to sew for Silent Night. More hexies were put together and now I need to watch for placement of the flowers – I almost got this row thread basted when I remember it might be time […]

Good morning, my friends. What a nice day we had yesterday. For whatever reason, it felt less hurried than usual. I finished one project, and I'm on the cusp of finishing another. Possibly the lack of projects half finished made it seem less busy. 

Of course, I have lots of projects half finished, but I take them in stages. When I'm talking about "projects," I'm meaning whatever stage it happens to be in currently. Take the Barnyard quilt as an example. I made the blocks one per month. When they were all finished, it went to the ...

Good morning, my friends. What a nice day we had yesterday. For whatever reason, it felt less hurried than usual. I finished one project, and I'm on the cusp of finishing another. Possibly the lack of projects half finished made it seem less busy. 

Of course, I have lots of projects half finished, but I take them in stages. When I'm talking about "projects," I'm meaning whatever stage it happens to be in currently. Take the Barnyard quilt as an example. I made the blocks one per month. When they were all finished, it went to the ...

Yep, just not there today. I wasn't in the mood to do much. I'm still coughing and getting tired of it! I'm still not 100% better. My ears started popping, so it's getting better instead of worse. 

I pretty much played my games. I did go out and walk once around the neighborhood. It hurt when I got down by Ron's place. So, I stopped and chatted with Dustin. We talked about how Ron is doing. Then I came back home. I was able to do one lap, but it's only about a half ...

I decided to stick with those colors for the tree for now and if I want I can change it out later.  No matter how I changed the lighting the color would not come out right on the wall.  Way too dark. So I moved it and laid it down on the quilting frame under […]

This morning, I needed to go to my PT appointment. First, we had a war game, which I could only play part of. I played for the first 25 mins, then when I got to the appointment, I played another 10 mins. 

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday I was whining about the rain arriving just as I was preparing to drive a fair distance to a local quilt shop. As it turns out, the weather gods were merciful. I'll have a short window of dry weather for my drive today. I'm heading south to the Cotton Patch. It's "backing day" today. I can get a discount on backing fabric if I bring in my finished quilt top. I'll be showing up with the Scrappy Plus quilt top. 

It's been a while since I've been to the ...

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday I was whining about the rain arriving just as I was preparing to drive a fair distance to a local quilt shop. As it turns out, the weather gods were merciful. I'll have a short window of dry weather for my drive today. I'm heading south to the Cotton Patch. It's "backing day" today. I can get a discount on backing fabric if I bring in my finished quilt top. I'll be showing up with the Scrappy Plus quilt top. 

It's been a while since I've been to the ...

Three corners are done and on the quilt – Noriko’s Star is nearly finished.  One more corner to make and add. In certain light outside but I have not noticed inside is that the white in the quilt if you hadn’t noticed is actually white and cream.  Today in the photo you can notice.  The […]

I worked some more on the house/star panel for Silent Night and that section is now done and I will make the last tree for the top half of the quilt or start to today that is.  The bottom half has four more trees and a tall Santa. More hexie work got done – Melanie […]