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Not a lot of sewing got done once again – I need to get myself organized once again.  The binding will get sewed onto The Rose Garden one of these days!  One Jigsaw block got done.  Soon I will get all the units that I have made over to the design wall and pin in […]

I sewed the binding strips together for The Rose Garden and pressed them – they are ready to be stitched down – maybe today? I really need to get busy on that.  I have put off making another unit of Jack’s Chain until the table is cleared off – I need the room to sew […]

I sat down in front of the quilting frame Sunday night looking at Noriko’s Star and just started to quilt – didn’t really think about it all that much as I had been thinking of how I would quilt it as I was loading the quilt on to the frame.   I no longer think about […]

The Rose Garden – the sides were all trimmed after I took the quilt off the frame on Saturday night and now I will be making binding and stitching it down this week. I will try to get an outside photo after the binding is on and the quilt is washed and dried.  It kind […]

First let me say I am having server issues once again and it is barely letting me on here some days, I’m not sure how long it has been going on now.  All I can say is I don’t know what to do about it but wait it out.   If I try to start a […]

So the hexagon quilt Noriko’s Star is squared up and ready for quilting.  By time I got done sewing around the edges and squaring up the deck was kind of shady and I will try again today and see if I can get a good photo without the shadows, but here are some I took […]

I decided to finish off Santa with a white strip above the head to separate from the tree as I thought it looked like the tree was growing out of his head lol.  It wasn’t hard to do.  I cut a strip of the white and folded the edges over a quarter inch and pressed […]

Wow – 3 years and 10 1/2 months of English Paper Piecing (EPP by hand) and the top of Noriko’s Star is done – well that is I still need to sew around the edges (I do this 2 times) and cut straight sides – that is why I sew around the edges to make […]

It was such a long dark dreary rainy Saturday – we knew it would rain and it was raining fairly lightly all day but steady – the kind that soaks into the ground which is what we needed.  I did a lot of reading and organizing leftover flannel.  I chose what to cut up next […]

This quilt full of hexagons is coming to an end – in fact this corner will be done today I do believe and then it just needs to be joined to the top.  I decided to lay out the final rows and thread baste as I needed to find a couple more black colors to […]

Progress has been made the border of the Rose Garden on the edge I was working on is done I rolled it down and was ready to start on the left side again – my go to starting point (if I don’t work from the middle out) This is where it stands now – one […]

Note:  I am back to having server issues again so be warned the blog might be in and out again for a couple days  – I don’t have a clue why they have so many problems. Did some machine work and have part of the top and part of the bottom sections put together of […]

Finally yesterday I sat down and worked on Santa for quite awhile it seemed like but I’m sure it was only an hour or so.  Overall now I need to sew the top row together.  Several more steps to go before it is all joined adding narrow strips of white flannel here and there according […]

Another row of hexies on Noriko’s Star – and yes it is nearing the end and I have not decided what my next hand project will be – several have run through my mind but I’m not in a rush.  After this second white row the last flower will be put in. More sewing on […]

Another day of not really feeling like sitting at the machine – maybe today, I do have a late afternoon dental appointment so we will see.  More was done on the hexies and even though I am getting towards the end I needed to go through the last of the paper hexies that I have […]

Finally I got back to the Santa in Silent Nights – not much but a little And got some cutting done and ready to piece today maybe or I might just do slow stitching – this is the bag that Santa is holding in his mitten covered hand, I need to cut a red strip […]

Yesterday was another day not at the sewing machine.  It was time to figure out where to put the house plants and set up plant lights that I decided to get this year.  I did get some more work done on the hexies though so will show that first – I planned on stitching that […]

Once again it was not a sewing day.  I had a hair cut appointment which was long overdue.  I was going to get my haircut back in early August before my back surgery but with scheduling doctor appointments, CT scan, MRI I just didn’t get to it – when I was recovering I didn’t feel […]

A little more hexie work done today but nothing on the Santa – I picked out pieces for the next row. I wasn’t done sewing a row on main piece though and didn’t want these to fly away or get out of order so I fold the liner over it – I do this most […]

I didn’t get a lot of work done on Santa for Silent Night but I did get a little more done.  I was also outside working in the garden getting rid of those weeds.  Right now I am trying for every other day in the garden giving me a recovery day in between.  We are […]