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Curves, Still using the scraps from this one!

 Well here on the banks of the Great Lakes, we are still waiting for spring to arrive.  I'm not sure how much snow and cold this girl can take but I'm getting close to my limit.  More daylight has helped though, and I started a new sleep routine ...working back to my goal of 8 hrs a night...every night.  I'm quite sure I haven't done that since the early 2000's so this ought to be interesting.

The nights I'm getting over 7 hours, I'm ...

Something like this

This piece needs a Crop

Let's face it ... most pastimes come with a lot of rules.  Name a hobby, I'm sure we could name the rules that go along with it.  It's no different for quilting.  Really that has suited me just fine for 35 years since I'm a anal natural rule follower. Then there's the saying we've all heard .."You gotta learn the rules, to break the rules".  This week, it dawned on me that nobody said how well you needed to learn said rules.  Also, I'm an adult ...

Sarah Lyte, machine quilted Rough organic edge

Caro Ramsey  pulled tight on a board

As for effort....well think about it...how hard is it anymore to whip your phone out of your back pocket, pick a gift on Amazon and press ...

 Week 2 of this weird stuffy cold I have.  I wouldn't doubt its some Covid variant...stuffy nose...tired as all get out.  But that's it.  For a cold it's not too bad.  But it doesn't leave me much energy to get much done besides work.  

That said....I did manage to start a texture sampler.  What is that?  Oh, I'm so glad you asked!  One thing rug hooking and quilting has in common is that with both of them, you take perfectly good fabric, cut them up to form something new.  With quilting the ...

 I'm struggling with a cold this week, so I'll keep this short.  You all sure know how to make a girl smile.  Just when I needed a little encouragement, you're there to answer the call.  Nothing makes me happier than to see a post spark a conversation in the comment section like last week.  

I think we can all agree to coin  Julierose's phrase, "Wordy Person".  I 100% represent that.  If it has words involved, I'm in. I grew up playing word games, writing pretend newspapers and creating poetry.   Not to mention I'm the ...

Inspiration

 It's been a tough week.  Nothing like a crippling icy snowstorm to cramp your creative style.  The bright moment in the week was Cindi Gay's Rug Hooking class.  I really look forward to her classes.  They have just enough structure to make them productive but she doesn't mind going off on a tangent of everything rug hooking.  Because her background is originally painting, lots of times it comes with a fine arts bent.  

This week we finally summarized our Geometric Rug Journey.  What started off with how to do a geometric rug back in September ended ...

View from my window

Let's face it.  Saying you're going to reset and actually doing it are two different things.  This week, I set out to walk the walk to go along with all that talk last week.  To that extent I had to start digging ...

2023 Block of the Month Club Where I left it

 Here I am!  WoW, its hard to get back to the normal routine after all the hoopla of the holidays.  I hope everyone found peace and happiness as 2025 ended.  Our family was blessed for sure.  Just getting a break in the winter weather to celebrate Christmas was amazing.  Spending some quiet time with my inner circle was a gift too.  It seems that lately, I'm getting less and less time to do that.