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Finally the sun was out enough to dry an area of the yard so I could take a few new photos of the Postage Stamp quilt.  This quilt has at least 4,000 – 1.5 inch squares in it – wow that was a lot of little pieces saved over the years – I actually ran […]

I know I say that sometimes and you guys say– oh no you got a lot done – trust me – I didn’t get a lot done.  I was very tired.  I have not slept well lately and it was catching up on me.  I sat around and read a bit, ran into town and […]

A variety of projects are coming up.  Winding down on two and at least 3 still to finish.  The patchwork border of Murrieta Stars was finished yesterday – Now to measure backing and see how large I can make this quilt and still have enough backing to quilt it – I want to make the […]

The binding is moving along quickly on the Postage Stamp quilt – give me another day and it will be done but I won’t be washing it until Tuesday probably – storms and lots of rain this weekend and I need to run to Little Rock again on Monday – this time for the car, […]

Usually I know what fabric I will use for binding a quilt some time during the process of quilting the quilt or even as I finish making the top – putting the fabric aside while making the quilt.  But with a scrappy quilt that isn’t always possible  I was looking fabric over yesterday trying to […]

The Postage Stamp quilting is done – now on to the binding this week.  I spread the quilt out over the bed to take photos.  The quilt will be washed when I get done with the binding.  I laid the quilt out over the quilt that is currently on the bed so that couple inches […]

Yesterday was a very wet day – we had just slightly over one inch of rain on Friday, although it did rain again during the night it didn’t do much more but the rain brought in a cold front and it didn’t get above 55 degrees and very cloudy for Saturday.  I didn’t bother with […]

All of the stars are finished.  Now I need to press the big piece of yellow flannel and start cutting out the all the pieces that go next.  I think I have about 6 yards of fabric here so well be busy pressing and cutting.  The quilt will be set on the diagonal and has […]

I got Handful of Scraps back out to work on the second border – I never did get it appliqued in place I had got started working on the stars and the quilting on the Postage Stamp quilt and got side tracked.  Would you believe I started blogging 10 years ago!! Wow time flies. The […]

I said I needed to make four stars to have another row complete – I was wrong I needed 5 so I needed to trim some ends off and sew another – but now I have enough for 5 rows of the 6 needed for Murrieta Stars.  Five more stars to make and then I […]

Two lazy days in a row-wow I guess I better do something today!  Today I will take some slow stitching time for the quilt in the hoop – I didn’t touch it on Friday night so this photo is from the same spot I left at on Thursday.  I will be linking up to Kathy’s […]

Yesterday I had to admit finally that I had over done it with the outside work and didn’t do much.  I had lost my energy.  My green beans finally got planted and the grass got cut (I’m sitting for that how difficult is that) but after that I came in the house and between reading […]

wow what a busy day yesterday was – I have gotten my 10,000+ steps for 5 days in a row!!  The morning was spent on the garden – just distance shot here – lot’s of work to do still – I did get 6 tomato plants planted last night though so that’s good – mulch […]

I was outside almost all day yesterday – first I went to Lowe’s to get plants for the garden, stuff to kill weeds and fertilizer!  I was going to plant – but I didn’t! instead I got sidetracked – there is (was) a stack of old firewood near the garden that I wanted gone.  Most […]

Really not a lot got done yesterday – I woke up super early Tuesday morning and I was dragging all day.  Four stars added to the pile for Murrieta Stars – one short of half way done with them.  Maybe more today? Need to get some garden work done for sure! the Postage Stamp – […]

I have had many complements on the Postage Stamp quilt and the Border.  Some have asked where did the pattern come from or did I design it?  I can’t taken complete credit for the border.  I kind of used a pattern but yet I didn’t cut one piece out from the book it came from.  […]

Progress!! Down to the final border finally!  I started quilting this quilt in the middle of November – it should be done by now and would have if I hadn’t gotten out of my routine by dismantling the quilting frame to have a sewing room remodel.  Finally getting back on track though.  I spent last […]

Yes the tulips are still blooming – It sees like they have been around for a month!  I am surprised that they are still blooming and still getting new blooms while some of the older ones have fallen apart – nice to have ordered a mixed box of 50 bulbs – it has been such […]

Jumping in and starting the new quilt!  I just seem to be working on one new quilt after another recently.  After all I had all the pieces (most all) cut I thought why not.  I always like to start one and see how it goes together.  I did find that I want to cut the […]

I had intended to start making the quilt blocks yesterday for the flannel quilt – Murrieta Stars but there was actually a bit more cutting to do.  There were a lot of squares that had to be cut in half diagonally and the set of 30 or so large blocks had to be cut into […]