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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 […]

I will finish cutting all these hexagons this week for the four corners of the quilt but it is taking awhile – I feel for anyone that needs to do this with a pair of scissors and drawing templates on fabric – unless they really want to do it that way – the is – […]

Fabric was pressed and cutting was started.  I had so many neutral fat quarters set aside for Norkio’s Star, I had forgotten how much fabric was in the big project box for the quilt as I hadn’t cut any in awhile.  I need 1084 neutral pieces for the corners and about 208 black – I […]

Laying the quilt out on the carpet the other day to work on the hexies just didn’t work out well – it wasn’t pulled tight the rulers weren’t straight LOL – I started over again yesterday by having Mike help me get the dining room table pulled out the fullest it goes – we never […]

Very little sewing got done yesterday, I had an appointment in Little Rock late morning and that shot most of the day.  The rain was horrible driving there, could barely see the vehicle in front of us most of the way – that kind of rain!  At least it was barely raining on the way […]