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I got the block finished to add to Jack’s Chain and found more fabric for what might be the left hand corner – can always be rearranged later. The wall – I had taken a different photo and last night when I was transferring them to the computer I was looking at it because the […]

On Jigsaw Puzzle I am using all colors of scraps which leads me to the question Black or White when it comes to the center of the hexagon puzzle pieces.  I had intended to use only black with white polka dots with all the units but then I came to my first collection of dark […]

Sunday was so nice and sunny compared to the previous day – but today it is to rain again and off and on all week.  I did get more of the neglected strawberry beds cleaned up but still slow going at it.  Other than that I worked a little here and there on projects and […]

Some days just aren’t meant for sewing – sometimes for me those are the chilly, dreary days where the sun doesn’t come out for even one minute and you sit around in your pajamas (or sweats) and read while drinking coffee.  Yesterday was that kind of day – I wonder what today will bring?  (by […]

One more ring done on Jack’s Chain – I was about ready to forget about it for the day as I had gotten almost done with this one – but I decided to take a break and then go back to it. So I did take a good long break and almost didn’t go back […]

I was looking at fabric for Jack’s Chain and decided another green mix for the next ring.  This one might go to the left of the yellow block that has some green swirled in it.  It is all cut and ready to stitch today.  I was looking through some of my boxes of fat quarters […]

I wasn’t going to start putting the pieces together for awhile but I wanted to try it out and see how it went so showing how I am doing it as I had some ask how do you put it together.  Like most people that do EPP a lot of people don’t buy patterns – […]

More on Jack’s Chain – it is really an easy quilt to make – so far! I’m sure I will need to focus more when I start to put units together – so far 6 made  – I’m not sure how many units I will make before I start to put it together – I […]

I just didn’t get around to much yesterday it was a slow day other than grocery shopping which seemed to take a little longer than usual for some reason maybe it was because SNAP benefits had been held up and more out getting their groceries combined with Thanksgiving food shopping before the hoards of late […]

Yesterday the blog was working much better but comments were not coming to my email so I started to answer them on the blog – then mid afternoon some were coming to the computer – I hope it all works correctly today.  I plan to link to Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy and Life in […]

For Jack’s Chain to see the “chain” emerge your really need more than two on the wall and now that I have 3 up there I can see the chain but I couldn’t see it until I took photos for some reason – why is it sometimes that you see patterns in the camera that […]

A little progress yesterday on Jack’s Chain – this was the day to practice Y-seams by machine.  I knew it would be slow going while I got it down some in my mind and it did – but one ring half way done.  I got the first nine patch on and then of course messed […]

There will be some days that I won’t be working on all three of course but yesterday I did in between some other things. First on Jack’s Chain I got the nine patch blocks made and it is ready to work on more today if I wish.  We are going into a nice warm stretch […]

Yes I am jumping in with hexagons now that I decided to give it another shot.  Jigsaw Puzzle or something like that will be the name for this new long term(?) project size to be determined later.  I have my big box full of pre-cut hexagons leftover from Noriko’s Star that I want to use […]

Finished up the 2nd Jack’s Chain ring it was another mostly stay at home day with the weather being quite chilly but it was really sunny and I did get outside for short walk with it not being too windy and a short drive to Melanie’s house earlier in the day to deliver some things […]

Sunday was a very chilly day for us – fall has been very mild and then wham! a cold front came though not giving my body time to adjust to colder weather coming – and windy too – I think half of the fall leafs fell yesterday they are all over the porch, right up […]

I continue to work on my two projects with no sewing machine work at the moment – I will probably start to look at colors for the machine project that I showed the other day – instead of “54-40 Fight” for a name for the new quilt I think I will go with “Tennessee Waltz” […]

I started to go through fabric picking out the colors for the next ring.  I will be showing the rings on the wall with the connecting triangles that connect all the rings.  This pattern is slightly different in some that you might have seen.  There are several ways to make this pattern I have learned.  […]

I guess for Jack’s Chain quilt you would refer to the “blocks” as “rings” because of the shape?  I have the first one on the wall while I look through fabric to see which green color to add to it – all the white is the same piece it is a very light beige maybe […]

I’ve been figuring out Jack’s Chain as I start to piece it together I finished all segments on Tuesday night and got pieces pressed on Wednesday. The first part of putting it together as I understand and it seems to be working is to sew a patchwork block to the center as this-leave a quarter […]