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It was supposed to be hot yesterday I thought they had said near 90 I was surprised that it was 82 for the high and a nice breeze on the front porch – I spent more time sitting and reading outside than I had in a couple weeks.  The current author I am reading free […]

I decided to stick with those colors for the tree for now and if I want I can change it out later.  No matter how I changed the lighting the color would not come out right on the wall.  Way too dark. So I moved it and laid it down on the quilting frame under […]

I didn’t get around to sewing anything on the flannels but I do have one tree cut out – I’m not sure if I will like it in this color but I’m giving it a shot. If I don’t like it I have enough fabric still to make four trees – the one above would […]

I was able to sit longer at the sewing machine yesterday and I got another tree done for Silent Night.  This one done in blue.  I left the bottom strip off on that one as it connects to the one underneath it – if I need to fudge it a little bit by adding a […]

Three corners are done and on the quilt – Noriko’s Star is nearly finished.  One more corner to make and add. In certain light outside but I have not noticed inside is that the white in the quilt if you hadn’t noticed is actually white and cream.  Today in the photo you can notice.  The […]

I worked some more on the house/star panel for Silent Night and that section is now done and I will make the last tree for the top half of the quilt or start to today that is.  The bottom half has four more trees and a tall Santa. More hexie work got done – Melanie […]

Off and on yesterday I was mainly working on the hexies.  I did not sit at the sewing machine and the 3rd corner is done and ready to attach to the main body of the quilt.  After I worked some on it Friday night I was mainly just left with this much to do. And […]

Noriko’s Star is growing and growing and the 3rd corner might be done any day now.  I worked on it a little more off and on yesterday and last night.  The next two rows have 3 white hexies and one black and it goes down in the count from there. I have not been putting […]

Only in the 70’s yesterday – it felt so nice!  I was outside a little looking over my houseplants to see what needs to be re-potted before I bring them back in.  One of the Xmas Cactus’s has a bit chip out of the top on one side and a crack – I’m surprised it […]

Well after fixing the mistake on the house (thanks to one reader who noticed it wasn’t the windows wrong it was the whole section turned upside down!! lol) it looked a lot better – I only had to take the brown strip off turn the section and sew the strip in the right place – […]

Yesterday afternoon I got busy cutting and piecing the new flannel house for Silent Night – I’m satisfied with the change. Started with cutting sections and then sewing sections Late in the afternoon I quit as the storms were coming in and I could hear thunder in the distance – it was time to unplug […]

I didn’t work much on things yesterday.  I did get other flannel colors out started to look at those and I do believe the beige flannel will be the house – now to decide on colors of windows and other things on.  The door maybe the light purple, the blue for the windows – green […]

After making the flannel house yesterday I decided I did not like it – the colors just weren’t right.  I have enough of the flannel – enough to do it over again and so that is what I will do.  Although I thought I followed the cutting directions correctly some of the pieces seem to […]

I am so tempted to start another quilt for more variation but I won’t LOL – I know the Christmas quilt won’t take a long time to make so I will wait until I’m done but I will start thinking about it in the meantime and I do think it will be something to use […]

Some progress was made with the flannel.  And the second tree panel was done – once again there were a few cutting mistakes which I didn’t notice until I picked up the pieces somehow they had gotten turned to the reverse side of the fabric before I cut making the angle go in the wrong […]

I can now say The Rose Garden is half way done! From what was quilted on Wednesday night What it looks like rolled down last night Noriko’s Star – the rows are getting shorter and going faster Silent Night – I got the angles cut off on the next tree, the heart appliqued in place […]

Every couple months I change the quilt on my bed – I like to rotate them out so they all get some use.  With these photos you can see why I make my bed size quilts so large – I have a high off the floor bed and I like a lot of coverage – […]

I like to work on a little bit of everything, I have a hand piece project going – the hexagons.  Hand quilting and machine piecing.  If the new quilt goes as smoothly for the rest of the blocks I should have this top done in about 3 weeks!  Linking to Wednesday Wait Loss 450 Silent […]

I showed the flannel the other day for Silent Night and totally forgot to unfold pieces to get to the second layers – almost every green piece actually had another piece behind it.  Two pieces folded together – I knew I had ordered a brown piece and didn’t see it.  I started to unfold pieces […]

I decided before I could get started making the flannel quilt  I needed to clean off the table and put things away.  I had fabric and the fabric still sitting out from Under the Big Top and a box of extra gray fabric that needed to be put away.  That was done first and I […]