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The binding was put on Hunter’s Star and it is ready for the hand work over the next week or so – it is all folded up here on the couch handy for me to work on – these are just some of the colors on the binding. Today I hope to get started picking […]

Inside and outside – it was a beautiful day but quite warm by mid afternoon.  I got all the binding cut for a rainbow binding for the Hunter’s Star but I still need to press it and sew it on today – then I can finally get back to the RSC quilts – two to […]

Well it got very dark for a little bit and the temperature did drop as they said it would.  We were lucky and had very few clouds yesterday and had a perfect view at home without driving anywhere like so many did. I got the grass cut early as I didn’t want to sit out […]

Yellow is the color of the month for the RSC quilts and I didn’t get much further than picking out two yellows to start with – really do not have a lot of contrast in this bunch.  I might need to swing by the little quilt shop at the end of the week and see […]

Finally I got the second border on New York Beauty– top and bottom about complete – it turned out to be a little more in length then I needed – 118” long so I will be trimming about 3-4 inches off top and bottom making it closer to 110” and then the long sides will […]

The second border is getting close – I finished the last block for that border and in the process of putting it together – the fourth block was finished. Added to the wall – some of what is up there is sewn together and I hope to finish this border today so that I can […]

I have been outside working on odds and ends, helping Mike stack firewood for next season and cleaning up some of the workshop.  It has been nice outside so we have been nice doing odd jobs outside.  I got the garden fertilized and snail repellent put all around.  Got some new netting ordered that will […]

I didn’t think I was going to have another block to share on NYB today but I managed to finish one more yesterday –  I was this far before I stopped to make supper I decided to finish it as there wasn’t much left after I got the kitchen cleaned up and before I would […]

Can you all believe it is the end of March already – it is crazy I swear the days, weeks and months just fly by.  Once again I didn’t get a lot done in the sewing room – it was just too nice outside. I did manage to make myself make one of the 4 […]

It has been so nice outside (other than the wind) that I have been outside a bit more than inside last couple days but I have gotten closer to starting the next border for NYB – I picked out colors for the 4 blocks that I will be doing next – usually I do one […]

I hadn’t mentioned this quilt in awhile as it had been put aside while I was catching up on the applique of the circles for Happy Daze and the Mercantile sew along.  The other day I finished thread basting the hexies for the next section I am working on so before I got to any […]

First I did get some accomplished yesterday and will link up to SoScrappy today for the RSC group.  I have the 3 Happy Daze blocks ready to applique to the background squares.  (the Mercantile block is on the right side).  Also linking to Patchwork & Quilts – I also have the first Mercantile quilt block […]

Off and on I worked all day long and the purple circle was done.   Ended up slightly wavy in places but I should be able to get that to lay flat with the applique to the background block.  First I got the center circle appliqued in place. Then I worked on piecing the outer ring […]

It is purple this month for the RSC group and I am busy with my purple block for Georgetown which has 9 large blocks and then a lot of smaller ones.  Right now I am making one large in the color selected a month – it takes about 2 days to do each block so […]

I mentioned I was going to be out of town most of the day and I was and didn’t get done with much here at the house but I did do a little. I will finish the last NYB block today – I came close to it last night but decided it could wait for […]

I just didn’t get done with things yesterday that I had planned to, instead Mike and I were working together on some outside stuff and just a little sewing got done. A little hexie work Pieces are cut and ready to piece for the last NYB block Hunter’s Star quilting from Saturday night linking to […]

But I didn’t get around to making the block or even prepping the pieces.  I have the pattern ready to use though – I am linking to Quilting is More Fun than Housework –-Life in Pieces – The border which I know I have rarely shown is this But if I want a scrappy border […]

New York Beauty – the blocks are just about done – one more block to make after I finished this one yesterday – this block is called “Echidna” – 35 pieces in this one with the very long spikes – I do like those spikes What is a Echidna – it is sometimes referred to as […]

Only two more blocks left to make for New York Beauty and then the border – hard to believe it is finally coming to an end.  When I first started it I wondered if I would make all the blocks – and I admit there are a couple I skipped and replaced with a second […]

Yesterday was this and that and not sure what did I do all day besides read?  It started out so warm – got up to 80 briefly setting a record high for February – I went outside to the porch at about 11 for some reason not really looking at the temperature and it felt […]