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Yesterday was another ice day and power was out for part of the afternoon – I didn’t want to try to use the sewing machine with the generator so I did hand work instead.  I got my hexies for the section I showed last thread basted.  The top of this doesn’t quite look right so […]

It looks like Arkansas is really getting winter this year!  What’s with that – happened last year too – I think next winter should be warmer than usual lol.  When I woke up yesterday bright and early to go to my doctor appointment after making that first cup of coffee I checked the weather to […]

Yesterday was an out of town day and didn’t get back until mid afternoon and then I was too tired to do much of anything.  I hadn’t slept well the night before and then woke up early to leave the house around 8:30 to a doctor appointment and an injection treatment for osteoporosis that I […]

Melanie was over for lunch and stayed a couple hours while she was here I was working on hexies while she worked on some stitching.  She was just starting a new project so there wasn’t anything really to show on hers. I made progress – I almost got the third section done – the next […]

The final arcs are made for the Pickle Dish – now to see if I can get them attached before Melanie arrives for our birthday meal with Melanie – I decided to get the arcs done first as they are easy to do and do not need pinning – now the curves need to be […]

Yesterday I just didn’t feel like sewing machine work so I put some old shows on that I had been watching and basted hexies – I have them all ready now to piece the next section of the center together.  I lay a 12.5 inch ruler over this to hold everything in place when I […]

I’m moving slow on this one really trying to get it right so two down two to go.  I’m not perfectly satisfied with them – but good enough to make it work! Getting the correct amount of hexies out to thread baste for the next section and took all the papers out of the back […]

Not much to blog today – did some errands, worked on hexies a little and tossed the Feathered Star in the trash!!  The aqua one that is – it was too much trouble, ripped seams out 4 times over the last 3 days and finally poked a hole in it – that did it – […]

Work was started on the Feathered Star aqua color but I can tell you it is moving slow! It has been rip, rip, rip – you know how it goes with these little pieces you get off just a tiny bit and it is too much.  I lay out one section at a time or […]

The Carpenter’s Wheel block with aqua was finished after an all day off and on sewing.  I would get a quarter of the block done and go do something else and kept that up all day until it was done. Last month’s and this month – I’m not sure what the layout will be for […]

I am still waiting on Fed X to deliver my Accuquilt GO Big – the electric cutter.  I guess shipping really got messed up with the winter weather we had almost a week ago now – I have been tracking it and it is still about an hour away from me for 2-3 days now […]

The snow/ice melted a lot yesterday and over the next couple days most of it will be gone and the temperatures will be staying in the 40-55 range all week – cold nights but melting is happening. I spent a good portion of the day listening to an audio book (a Jack Reacher) and finished […]

Got back to work in the sewing room and got done with a little bit – I could have done more but didn’t for no particular reason.  Two Hunter Star blocks done and two more to be added to the wall – maybe today? They really aren’t all that hard to make.  When I get […]

I had thought of starting the February aqua/teal blocks yesterday but then I thought no I would wait for today.  Instead I went grocery shopping and a stop at Hobby Lobby to find a better container to keep my threads and things in for the quilting frame – the last two little boxes didn’t work […]

It was announced that for February the RSC group will focus on Teal and Aqua colors – I got out my blue boxes (2) and looked on the shelf to see what yardage was available also and got colors picked out – this is it – all I have for the 7 quilts I am […]

Yes that is right – RSC 22 quilt #7 is happening – since I got the Lemoyne Star die this past week I keep walking by it admiring the photo on the cover of the die and thought – sure why not add one more quilt to the RSC – making 4 –9 inch blocks […]

From the library I got a new Susan Meissner audio book to listen to and got started listening to it while working on a  hexies yesterday morning – it so happens the part I am currently working on is red – but this is not an RSC quilt – just coincidence – I have been […]

At the sewing machine yesterday – and I got all the HST’s sewed onto the main pieces of flannel – and then pressed. Stacks of squares and divided into piles by color – the white is the smallest stack followed by the red – which means I will need to stand back and look at […]

Yesterday was the first of 4 chilly days to come this week – I was in the sewing room or reclining on the couch reading!  In the sewing room progress was made and the flannel blocks are really coming along  – about 20-30 more to sew and a stack waiting for me to press the […]

I was busy cutting fabric off and on all day – it really tells me that yes after have my hand crank GO for quite a few years now I really do need to get the electric cutter sometime this year!  It will be so much easier on my hands – one of the things […]