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I spent time outside off and on yesterday before the storms blew in – I pulled up some iris’s from an area that gets so much water run off bringing downed leaf’s and pine needles into one area that they pile up and bury the iris’s – no flowers for about 3 years now – […]

When I sat down to write my blog last night I had a hard time figuring out what I even did yesterday.  It seems I didn’t accomplish anything I had planned to do.  So I will try to finish up the Sunny Daze quilt today instead – the black borders are on the wall ready […]

Well a little hand work went on here on Sunday and some piecing by machine.  Garden work in that I picked strawberries and got over 5 cups of them. I was over eager and should have let some of these get a little redder but they are still tasty. Two of the black borders are […]

The top and bottom borders of Sunny Daze are now on the quilt and the borders for the sides are ready for applique. I moved one border over to the quilting frame for the glue to finish hardening while I worked on the table.  I did take one border into the living room while the […]

I am now ready to attach the top and bottom borders to Sunny Dazes and get on to the side borders.  I’m moving slower on it then I intended to as with the warmer weather comes garden work.  I hope to get the borders attached today and glue baste the half plates in place for […]

On Saturday was my blog anniversary – I forgot to mention that – I started this blog on April 19, 2007 – 18 years!! wow how time flies – my first post is here.  It was short and to the point – I think the first year was kind of like that, not sure what […]

One more half plate was appliqued down for the Sunny Daze quilt two more to go on the top border.  I can get done with these in less than an hour if I’m not distracted.  It shouldn’t take long to get them all done but as you know I get easily distracted.  It is all […]

Yesterday was an inside outside day it was breezy and humid and up to 80.  The A/C came on for awhile – it is that humidity that does it. The bottom border of Sunny Daze was completed for the applique, linking to Patchwork & Quilts & SoScrappy as finally I have some progress on the […]

I can’t believe the New York Beauty has been taking so long to quilt.  I can tell I have really slowed down but also the batiks are harder than usual for me to quilt through – possibly a combination of the fabric and my hands getting worse.  I will just keep on going with it.  […]

I decided to glue baste the half plates down on the top and lower borders for Sunny Daze and then machine sew those two borders in place – then I need to get the correct measurement of the sides for the side borders before I get those six plates glue basted down.  I do have […]

I finished getting the half Dresden Plates ready for the borders.  All in pinned in place last night so I could look at it before I start to get the borders ready for stitching.  The top and bottom borders ended up just a little short so I need to add a piece to each end […]

Yesterday I got a little more piecing done and hope to get more done on the Dresden’s today but I have a dentist appointment (just a cleaning not work) and a few errands to run so who knows.  Two more of the half Dresden plates to stitch and then get the half circle in place.  […]

On Sunday I managed to get done with a little even though I started late in the afternoon. The black sashing is added to Sunny Daze and now I am ready to make four more half Dresden Plates.  Then those will be glue basted to the borders.  The borders will not be sewn down until […]

The Dresden quilt has finally made some progress.  The yellow block is done I decided to take it all off the wall and put a black sashing around the 9 inside blocks  – cut and ready to sew.  Then the newsprint borders will be put back up and the half plates glue basted in place […]

Little by little a bit slower now and then but this quilt is coming along –this block is in the center of the quilt. I’ll work on this area last night – I was enjoying watching the latest 2 shows of Bosch Legacy Thursday night while I was quilting.  I think there are only two […]

But it sure felt like summer – it got up to 85 degrees for awhile yesterday – and a good breeze so that was welcome.  I went shopping for ferns and tomato plants – I won’t plant the tomatoes for another week to 10 days or so and will keep them on the porch just […]

Lots of color in my quilting room right now.  The purple Dresden Plate is finished and added to the wall.  Keep in mind there are more half plates to do and color will be rearranged when I get to those borders – right now they are kind of just tossed up there to stay out […]

I just didn’t get around to sewing yesterday –  in the morning and in the afternoon I was grocery shopping with Melanie – the store was packed for some reason – we assume with all the rain last week into the weekend that people stayed home and a lot got out yesterday.  On the way […]

I managed to get down to the garden yesterday without sinking to my ankles – I was surprised I think the ground must have been a lot dryer than I thought it was for so much of the standing water to disappear already – a lot is still there but I was able to walk […]

I managed to sit several times of and on Sunday and stitch another plate down.  It was so chilly I didn’t even go outside other than one time to dump the rain gauge out in case it got below freezing last night – I don’t think it will be we already had one crack earlier […]