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January 11, 2026
Finishing Up The Quilt Top from Quilting My Way

 Today, I slept in. I realized I have been sleeping till around 9 am anymore. Guess I don't want to get up. 

I decided to go downstairs and finish up the quilt top. 

It took most of the day. When I had it done, I noticed the size was not where I thought it was supposed to be. Then I realized, I missed a white border that was supposed to be there. Oh, well. It's a good size and I'm going to leave it at that. 

I made the mistake of putting the red on the wrong ...

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January 9, 2026
Presentation Day! from Quilting My Way

Today, I was all set for the presentation. It's been almost 2 months since we had a presentation, and we all were looking forward to it. We have our meeting next week and the following week is our sew days. We will see what we can get done. 


But today was a good day for presentation. Mom knew 2 of the veterans personally, so she was excited about giving at least one of the quilts away. We had 6 quilts that were brought down from Bellevue and presented by the gals that made the quilts. I let them know ...

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January 7, 2026
A Cold Day! BRR from Quilting My Way

This morning, I slept for a bit longer. Patrick was up and waiting on me. He wasn't in a hurry, but he was waiting for me to get up and get ready to go to the casino. 

We headed to the casino around 10:30 am. We played on their money for a while. Then we played on ours. We didn't spend the money we took, so we have more for next time. For the first time in a while we got tired of playing. So, we were home by 3 pm. I didn't mind not staying ...

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January 3, 2026
Interesting Day! from Quilting My Way

We have now entered into the New Year! And I'm doing pretty good so far, let's see how long that lasts. 

Today, I got up shortly after Patrick headed out for golfing. Then I went downstairs to try and get another border on the quilt. 

I was able to get the 3 borders on - the one for the bottom is on the left. I will add that. Then I need to add a blue border on the last part. It will be about 5 or 6" to make it the size we need. I was listening to my ...

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January 2, 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR! from Quilting My Way

Today, another year has passed. We are now in 2026. Hopefully, life will be good and looking forward to having an awesome year ahead. 

Patrick went golfing while I stayed in bed. Then I was up and ready to get moving. I heated up the room downstairs, and I was ready to go. 

I want to have the 2 quilt tops done for Monday. I need to get moving on the panels. I received a pattern from QOV to use with our panels we ordered. I will do that next and it will give me another panel completed. Colleen wants ...

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January 1, 2026
Things To Do! from Quilting My Way

Yep, there are things to do. I should think about doing a resolution but yeah, that doesn't work. 

Today is New Years Eve. I think we are supposed to do something! I think we are supposed to stay up all night to bring in the New Year. I know everyone else is - but NOPE, not me. I pretty much did laundry and listened to my books. 

Patrick had golfing at 11:30 am today, so I was on my own. I did make a trip into town to see my son. Then came back home. Patrick's gift arrived ...

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December 29, 2025
Quiet Day from Quilting My Way

This morning, we cleaned a few things. Then we went to the casino. 

While at the casino we got our "free gift" that was a makeshift Roomba vacuum cleaner. It was made by someone else. It was very light. We stayed and played for about 2 hours and came home. Then Patrick took the vacuum out of the box. He tried it on the carpet, then tried it on the floor. IT DIDN'T WORK! I got nothing! I'm shocked that the casino would get such a cheap gift! Bet they only paid $2 because it wasn't even ...

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December 28, 2025
Finished from Quilting My Way

This morning, Patrick and I enjoyed sleeping in. 

Then we sat and watched some TV movies. I worked on my round robin. Once it was finished, I put the 2 round robin pieces in the mailing bag and have it ready to mail. WHICH MEANS, I forgot to take a photo, and I can't describe what I did. Even I don't have a photo of my work. I finished the piece below. It turned out pretty good, but I forgot that I needed to put green for the borders, and the last boarder where the needle is, was ...

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December 27, 2025
A Quiet Day from Quilting My Way

Christmas is over, and it was just the two of us today. 

We pretty much, just enjoyed the day and each other's company. I didn't work on anything.  I got lost in the shows Patrick and I were watching. Later in the day, I brought out my tablet and played. 

We did go through some patterns for star beaded ornaments and I ordered one from Etsy. It's pretty and I think Katt will like it. Patrick found one but it wasn't on sale anymore, just showed up in Pinterest. So, we weren't so lucky on ...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS! from Quilting My Way

Christmas Day! 


We had an awesome Christmas. One of the better ones in a long time. We started out with opening Katt's gift to us. We got a Rumba. She's getting us to do more electrical things. lol 

I got a zipper bag from Emily the day before - 


I love it!! I'm going to use it for my embroidery. 

I played a game yesterday and then had to go get mom around 1 pm. I was a little late, but oh well. I searched her suitcase thinking I put the necklace in there. She had cleaned it ...

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December 25, 2025
Merry Christmas Eve! from Quilting My Way

This morning, I slept till 9 am. Patrick didn't go golfing like he said he would. So, I slept anyway. 

Got up and got a few things done. Started laundry. I wanted to get some of that done so I didn't have a lot to do after tomorrow. 

We went early to Safeway and everyone one was there! We didn't have to wait too long in line, but it was busy! We picked up a few things that were on sale that we needed. It was one of those things, we decided to get a few things ...

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December 24, 2025
Gone All Day Today from Quilting My Way

This morning, Patrick went golfing and I slept in. I got up around 8:30 am. Didn't want to get up but needed to. I sat and enjoyed a few hours to myself. 

When Patrick got home, I had an hour before I had to leave. I was scheduled to go to moms and take her to the grocery store. She asked me yesterday to take her to WinCo. So, I left around noon and took her shopping. She got what she had on the list. I told her to look around to see if she needed anything else ...

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December 22, 2025
Two Busy Days! from Quilting My Way

Yesterday was the day we were collecting money for the Borst Park lighting show. I picked up some chicken at Safeway and then headed over there by 4 pm. Once that was done, we ate before getting ready for the cars to arrive. We ended up with 523 cars going through for the show. We got our donation check and will get another one later, after they figure out how much of the "keep donation" goes to our group. We had a blast. There was 6 of us and we handled it perfectly. 

Today, was our tea "date" with Sandy ...

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December 20, 2025
Got Started Early Today from Quilting My Way

This morning, Patrick went to Safeway and moms. He went to help mom move her clothes from the dresser to the spare room. She's getting a new bedroom set, a little at a time. 

While Patrick was gone, I boiled potatoes to make the family Lefsa recipe. I noticed our recipe is a little different from what is out there. I think mom and dad added to their recipe over the years, but I had the one I got from mom back in the 1970's. 

When Patrick got home, he helped me with cooking the Lefsa. I found ...

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December 18, 2025
Productive Day - Sort Of from Quilting My Way

 This morning, Patrick was up way before me. He was going to go golfing, but the weather was still rainy and windy. So, he was watching the news. 

I was up and found the water was off. Patrick had to go check on the well. Then he called our systems "people" and they found that the motor was buried out. So, after 8 hours of no water, they fixed the problem. I needed to get my accounting updated, so I balanced the checkbook, and then wanted to add some income in there. EXCEPT I got a message asking me if ...

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December 17, 2025
Physical Therapy And Moms from Quilting My Way

 Today, I had PT at 3 pm. So, first thing today, I cleaned. I got the kitchen cleaned and in order, vacuumed the house, and worked on laundry. 

Then I went out for a walk. Once all that was done, Patrick came home from golfing. I played on my tablet for a bit and then had to head over to the church to pick up 3 quilts that were ready. Once all that was done, I headed to moms. Dropped the 3 quilts off with her and Debbie's quilt to see what we could do. Mom was going to ...

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December 16, 2025
Spent The Day At The Casino from Quilting My Way

This morning, I was up and moving around. Patrick asked when we should leave for the casino. Told him around 10 am would be good. 

We stopped and got moms prescription at Walgreen's. I hate going in there! I have to wait FOREVER for them to ask what I want. I ran into a friend of moms, and they asked about her.  Then they told me he does wood working and asked if I would like one of his pieces. Said sure. Then he took me out to the car and gave me the only piece he had out ...

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December 15, 2025
Play Day from Quilting My Way

This morning, I was up shortly after Patrick. He seems to be up around 7 am anymore. He used to sleep till 10 am. Now that he golfs so early, he seems to get up early. 

We went to the play at the theater in Centralia. It was "The Best Christmas Pageant" or something close to that. There were a lot of kids. Now the theater is full more often than not. It was pretty full today. Patrick said a month ago that he had a hard time finding seats for 2 of us. They were good seats though. 

Came ...

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December 14, 2025
Getting Closer To Finishing The Quilt from Quilting My Way

 This morning, I was up before hubby. That's unusual. But was nice for once. 

I had my war game at noon and then back at 4:30 pm. So, I wanted to get some work done downstairs in the meantime. It was time to get back to my quilt tops. 

I had to trim some of the side borders. It wouldn't fit the blocks that go in the corners. I had to take a break when I was to this point. 

Came back downstairs and found that I had to take this apart and cut a longer piece ...

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December 13, 2025
Casino Day from Quilting My Way

We left for the casino around 10 am and didn't make it home till around 6 pm. That goes to show how much fun we were having. We pretty much came out even on the deal. We were winning, but not enough at times. lol We just had fun playing on their money. We had been close to getting 3K but it just didn't happen. We were okay with at. 

Both of us needed to get out of the house. Patrick hasn't been able to golf for a week, and I have been pretty much lazy all ...

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