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Finally a sunny day even though it rained again early Tuesday morning the deck was dry by early afternoon and I got photos outside and on the bed where I can get the stitching to show up so much better.  First the stats, I started the quilt in September 2023 and finished it the end […]

Yesterday I mainly worked on The New York Beauty but as I was getting my blog post ready last night the quilt was finished! but it was in the dryer as I had finished it late in the day and put it in the wash and then the dryer.  I need to putit on two […]

Yes that was a bit for one day’s work.  Today I need to figure out what fabric to use for the last block of Georgetown – I have a lot sitting on the table that I pulled out of boxes. Of course color won’t look the same on everyone’s computer screens/or phones but most are […]

The purple block was working on most of Sunday afternoon – and then it was ready for the applique to the background square I sat and listened to my audio book (Nora Roberts a 14 hour book?) I’ve been listening to this one all week and still have about 4 hours left in it!  I […]

Finally I got all my pieces cut out for my star circle maybe I will start the machine work today and then one more to make – and I didn’t even realize that I cut another section out wrong until I looked at the photo just now – the light purple around the center star […]

Yesterday I was going through boxes of fabric trying to figure out what colors I will use for the last two circle star blocks for Georgetown – to remind you this is what it looked like last you saw it: I was going though one box after another and ended up taking all out of […]

More handwork again today and other than grocery shopping I did laundry and that was it for the house.  I had gotten a new audio book so it was entertaining me while I stitched.  The book is a new one by Nora Roberts called “Hidden Nature”  so far I like it – I do admit […]

I think I was sitting most of the day yesterday working on binding and hexies.   I was “house work lazy”. Progress on hexies – 3 bottom complete rows and part of the fourth I worked on binding on New York Beauty – a lot left to do on this – close to a half of […]

I was able to get The Rose Garden on the quilting frame Saturday night and even started to quilt a little bit deciding what I was quilting at the time I was doing it. I am mainly outline stitching the stars and filling in straight lines here and there Here is a close up I […]

Friday night I completed the last part of the border of New York Beauty I unrolled it right away to take it off the frame – it could have waited until Saturday but why wait? LOL I really had no place to put it so just bunched it up and it was laying here for […]

I ran out of room in this box so thought I would start the piecing of the hexies and thread baste more of the white ones in awhile – I think I had about half of them done. I got my flannel board out which is not quite wide enough of course so the long […]

Yesterday I was working on hexies again for Noriko’s Star – it is amazing how many you can get done off and on all day if you sit and listen to a book and just get down to business – I do want to get the first corner done to see how it fits and […]

A little more progress on Georgetown – one more star point to make and two of the big blocks – I wonder what color July will be for the RSC group – we have the main colors already done as far as I can see. This one was ready for the applique and it got […]

Again yesterday I was listening to my book and working on hexies – I was able to be out for a little bit in the morning but I actually slept later than I normally do and it got hot fast again today – hotter than it had been today hitting 93 by early afternoon. So […]

I think I spent most of the day working on hexies while listening to the book “The Second Gentleman” by James Patterson and Bill Clinton.  So far the book is good it is one of those that switches every chapter or two to two different sets of people.  At times if you are not paying […]

That is the way I make circles – I was asked to show how I make mine.  I start with a template a  mylar circle – (that link will take you to the Fat Quarter shop) I have a lot of these all different sizes some are from Karen Kay Buckley and some of what […]

I have been having trouble with the blog so if you have trouble opening it up I am aware but nothing I can do about it – Mike says it is something to do with the host server. A little work on this and that and don’t feel like I accomplished much at all.  I […]

As you can tell there is no rush to get this quilt done.  I have plenty more to finish but just taking my time this year.  I got my scrap pieces back out and the freezer paper templates and got a star point done – I will see about doing another one today – it […]

I have all my hexies cut and packed in the containers and work will proceed on the first corner of Noriko’s Star – about 1,100 neutral and 200 black are cut – I think that will be enough for all four corners- if not it will be close. I am almost done sewing the six […]

I had another busy day running to an appointment in Little Rock for my back pain to see a new doctor that I hadn’t seen before but is at the same clinic that I use for my hands – they have another whole floor for the back/spine.  Now I wait for scheduling for an MRI […]