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It's time for a change!! Hopefully, there won't be too many rabbit holes to go down today, and I need to get back into the swing of things. Good grief -- I've become a slug with bad eating habits, and I don't like it one bit!!! 

The first change -- I'm up much earlier!! And I plan to go for a long walk this morning, since I don't expect M to be up too early. I'm good with that. The good news is that there is no rain this morning. While I came dressed for ...

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Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving that celebrates it.  Why did I cook so much food – downsized yes but still like all the side dishes etc.  I didn’t make as many though and much smaller amounts but still too much for us.  We will be eating it all for a couple days […]

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Oh my-- I have a few things to learn about knitting, but that's OK. What I noticed was the number of large loose sweaters in the store on Salt Spring. Oversized chunk sweaters are back!

My hands will get used to it! 

OK -- here's a hilarious story about knitting sweaters. When I was young -- very young, OK, young, in my late teens, I knit a sweater for my then boyfriend, who was a large guy, so it took a lot of knitting. I forgot about that sweater. He tracked me down one day a couple of years ago ...

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Not much getting finished, but projects have progressed along.

Rows are starting to be sewn together for this project.

Flying geese blocks have been made, but a lot more are needed.
Binding is finally being sewn onto this Xmas quilt.  
Lastly, leg warmers are being knitted.  With the loss of muscle in my lower legs, I’m finding the cold weather harder to take and the cold affects me when outside.  These warmers are nice and thick and will help me a lot.
Last week, my sister and I took a trip to Ottawa for a few days of Xmas ...

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Well, the blog is really late today! Yesterday was a whirlwind day filled with MANY Plan Bs, and I just went with it. But I didn't get to bed too early, and I was exhausted, so I just luxuriated in bed this morning, and I'm OK with that. I'm in a different bed again! But one that I was in before on this trip - more on that in a second. I'm here to stay until I leave for home. 

I finished knitting my cowl - at least the flat part - it's folded in half in this ...

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The morning yesterday was spent making a backing for an older quilt top.  I'm using a full width piece and a cut away from another back for it.  Now I just need to cut batting.

I have a bunch of ideas on the design wall to audition what works and what doesn't in this strippy quilt.

This is my favorite new block.  The stripe is Twigs by Martha Negley so now there are 2 Martha fabrics in this project.

In the middle of the afternoon I had a PT session for my weaker leg.  

I bought the Kaffe ...

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Three nights into this trip and three different beds! 

After finishing the blog, I left M's house, got my stuff packed back into the car, and headed out to Tim's. OK -- so if you are from Toronto, there is a Tim's on every street corner. OK - perhaps not that bad, but there are three of them that I can walk to from our house. The maximum distance is probably 2 KM. Here? They are few and far between. There are loads of other options, but when you're in a hurry and not familiar with the terrain ...

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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 […]

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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 […]

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It was time to bake some more scones, this time, very berry box mix.  My pan has 16 sections and I like that better than my ceramic dish that has 8 sections.  I also mixed chocolate chip cookie dough and put it in the refrigerator.  I might bake one tray of them this morning.

I started my third of three dishcloths last night.  They are all at 35 stitches now and I need to increase them all to 44 stitches before I start decreases.

A few people asked how many do I have right now.  There are 26 in this ...

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It was in the low 20s when I got up yesterday so I hurried to get photos before the sun melted the snow.

You will have to look closely to see the snow we got.  It is mostly on fallen leaves.

There was a little more snow in the backyard.  We rarely get much of the lake effect snow so I wasn't expecting much.

I sewed a few sections of 6 three inch squares for the border blocks.  There is lots more to do.

I started two of the next three dishcloths.  I will knit them all up to ...

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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” […]

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I have started the hand stitching on the binding but didn't finish it last night.

Earlier in the day I finished the third of the last 3 dishcloths I had on the needles.  Now I can start 3 more.

The big beautiful tree across the street lost all of its leaves on the last few windy days.  My tree in the backyard turns color later so it still has a lot of leaves.  This is the view from the north.

This view from the south shows a lot more bare spots because the wind was from the south.

There ...

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I had chosen backing fabric for these mug rugs over a week ago but hadn't trimmed them yet.  Yesterday was trimming and layering day.

This set of four got trimmed and layered too.  Now I need to decide on thread color(s).  It would be nice to chose one color to quilt all seven of them.

i haven't done as much knitting in the last week but last night I finished the second one in the set of three that I had started.  This is the first time I've used this lavender and white yarn.

My neighbor ...

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 Sadly, not a single finish and just a little time working on my craft projects this last couple of weeks.  I picked up some sort of nasty lurgy from my recent coach tour and after two seeks I'm still not over it.  Cough, cough, coughing, generally in the evenings, and luckily I'm no longer trying to sleep propped up on pillows at night.  But I am feeling tired so need a Nana Nap most days.  Would you believe I have purchased three different types of cough lozenges - two from the chemist and one from the supermarket.  One lot ...

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Wow – 3 years and 10 1/2 months of English Paper Piecing (EPP by hand) and the top of Noriko’s Star is done – well that is I still need to sew around the edges (I do this 2 times) and cut straight sides – that is why I sew around the edges to make […]

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 Early morning dance party non participants...but they want to be near me anyway. Ned is bored but Petey is trying to understand what is it I'm doing.