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Good morning, my friends. Welcome to a new week. How bad can it be with Pi Day tomorrow? I have in mind to make a Dutch Apple Pie for Two, but I could change my mind between now and then. 

For now, I'm busying myself trying out a new recipe for Orange Rolls. They can be made two days ahead, and then baked off when you're ready. I made the rolls first thing yesterday morning...well...maybe not the first thing, but close. When they went into the refrigerator, they looked like this:

Good morning, my friends. Welcome to a new week. How bad can it be with Pi Day tomorrow? I have in mind to make a Dutch Apple Pie for Two, but I could change my mind between now and then. 

For now, I'm busying myself trying out a new recipe for Orange Rolls. They can be made two days ahead, and then baked off when you're ready. I made the rolls first thing yesterday morning...well...maybe not the first thing, but close. When they went into the refrigerator, they looked like this:

  This is the fifth challenge of Season 14 of Project Quilting.

Cherry Not Square

Kim announces a challenge and you have one week to create something quilty.

Prizes can be won and it's a great way to meet new blogging friends.

The rule in this challenge is to use NO SQUARE SHAPES.

It must include either applique, piecing, or have 3 layers stitched together by hand or machine.

No ...

Happy frosty morning to you, my friends. It snowed most of the day here yesterday. It was hard to believe it was still coming down, particularly with temperatures above freezing. Nevertheless, the temperatures aloft were colder, and the white stuff came down, down, down. Yeesh. I'm thinking it might be gone by July. It was a pretty sunrise this morning, though.

It almost looks likes its own frozen forest scene. I can remember the first time I saw frost on a window. It was at ...

Happy frosty morning to you, my friends. It snowed most of the day here yesterday. It was hard to believe it was still coming down, particularly with temperatures above freezing. Nevertheless, the temperatures aloft were colder, and the white stuff came down, down, down. Yeesh. I'm thinking it might be gone by July. It was a pretty sunrise this morning, though.

It almost looks likes its own frozen forest scene. I can remember the first time I saw frost on a window. It was at ...

  This is the fourth challenge of Season 14 of Project Quilting.

Vanishing Stars

  This is the third challenge of Season 14 of Project Quilting.

54-40 In Miniature

   This is the second challenge of Season 14 of Project Quilting.

Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting
and

this is the 10th year I'm participating.

Kim announces a challenge and you have one week to create something quilty.

Prizes can be won and it's a great way to meet new blogging friends.

The rule in this challenge is that some shade of pink must dominate this project.

It must include either applique, piecing, or have 3 layers stitched together by hand or ...

  This is the first challenge of Season 14 of Project Quilting.

Kim at Persimon Dreams hosts Project Quilting
and

this is the 10th year I'm participating.

Kim announces a challenge and you have one week to create something quilty.

Prizes can be won and it's a great way to meet new blogging friends.

The rules in this challenge are that the project must feature the number one.

It must include either applique, piecing, or have 3 layers stitched together by hand ...

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday's weather was a slight improvement over the previous day, but it's raining hard again this morning. It might be time to start building an ark. We had a long grocery shopping list for yesterday's enjoyment, and that's all done. We won't need to go back again until after we get home from next week's camping trip. It's always good to have that job behind us. Today, I have a few housekeeping chores on the agenda, but then I can sew to my heart's content.

Before we left ...

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday's weather was a slight improvement over the previous day, but it's raining hard again this morning. It might be time to start building an ark. We had a long grocery shopping list for yesterday's enjoyment, and that's all done. We won't need to go back again until after we get home from next week's camping trip. It's always good to have that job behind us. Today, I have a few housekeeping chores on the agenda, but then I can sew to my heart's content.

Before we left ...

 It's Joy season!

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I hope this little Santa Gnome ...

 It's been blustery and cold here...definitely good sewing weather. I spent the whole live-long day going at it yesterday, and I have some finishes and near finishes to show you. First, I sewed the binding on Mrs. Claus' Cookie Team. This was fun to make.

 It's been blustery and cold here...definitely good sewing weather. I spent the whole live-long day going at it yesterday, and I have some finishes and near finishes to show you. First, I sewed the binding on Mrs. Claus' Cookie Team. This was fun to make.

We had grocery shopping to do yesterday morning, and so I wasn't able to get to my sewing until late afternoon. Fortunately, the items on my to-do list were not time-consuming. My stitching cats helped me finish off the binding on the Scrappy Snowflake. You see here the Stitching Cat and the Emergency Back-up Stitching Cat. One must always have a ready supply of stitching cats on hand while sewing on a binding.

Here's how it looks from the back. I used fabric from the cut off end from ...

We had grocery shopping to do yesterday morning, and so I wasn't able to get to my sewing until late afternoon. Fortunately, the items on my to-do list were not time-consuming. My stitching cats helped me finish off the binding on the Scrappy Snowflake. You see here the Stitching Cat and the Emergency Back-up Stitching Cat. One must always have a ready supply of stitching cats on hand while sewing on a binding.

Here's how it looks from the back. I used fabric from the cut off end from ...

Have you noticed most of my sewing since arriving home has been either fall or winter related? It's just a coincidence of timing as things moved along the conveyor belt of quilting projects. Yesterday I had my long-awaited pedicure with a new nail tech. I'll say I was just a little anxious about having my nails done by a complete stranger. It's an intimate experience for both when someone is washing and massaging one's feet, and so I was hopeful we'd be compatible in whatever way that matters. 

There was a little time left before ...

Have you noticed most of my sewing since arriving home has been either fall or winter related? It's just a coincidence of timing as things moved along the conveyor belt of quilting projects. Yesterday I had my long-awaited pedicure with a new nail tech. I'll say I was just a little anxious about having my nails done by a complete stranger. It's an intimate experience for both when someone is washing and massaging one's feet, and so I was hopeful we'd be compatible in whatever way that matters. 

There was a little time left before ...

October is here which means we have been in our new house for almost six months. Seems like one would have all the boxes unpacked at this point but nah… there are too many other fun things to do.

For instance, we had my mother in law here for a visit last week. She had not seen the house yet. It was super fun to show her the area. Like me, she is a fan of beach combing so we spent a lovely afternoon wandering at the water’s edge picking up shells ...