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Good morning, my friends. For the third morning in a row, I'm writing fast. Mike needs some routine lab work done this morning. I'm tagging along. We'll get breakfast afterward, and then we'll do our grocery shopping. It's sort of a date, but not. But, hey! We have clean windows! The better to see you with!

Yesterday's sewing was mainly my attempt to stay out of Scott's way. There was time for slow-stitching before he arrived. That gave me time to start on the first block for the "Home is Where my Flock ...

Good morning, my friends. For the third morning in a row, I'm writing fast. Mike needs some routine lab work done this morning. I'm tagging along. We'll get breakfast afterward, and then we'll do our grocery shopping. It's sort of a date, but not. But, hey! We have clean windows! The better to see you with!

Yesterday's sewing was mainly my attempt to stay out of Scott's way. There was time for slow-stitching before he arrived. That gave me time to start on the first block for the "Home is Where my Flock ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast again this morning. I was writing fast yesterday in anticipation of Scott, the window guy, coming. It was past 10:00 a.m. when he texted and asked to reschedule for today. He said he was "having a morning." Frankly, I know the feeling. No problem. So today's the day. Hopefully he'll have a better morning.

Expecting him to show, I hurried and did my slow-stitching before getting myself around and dressed. I finished another name and place for the Shop Hop 4.0 quilt. Now I'm ready for ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast again this morning. I was writing fast yesterday in anticipation of Scott, the window guy, coming. It was past 10:00 a.m. when he texted and asked to reschedule for today. He said he was "having a morning." Frankly, I know the feeling. No problem. So today's the day. Hopefully he'll have a better morning.

Expecting him to show, I hurried and did my slow-stitching before getting myself around and dressed. I finished another name and place for the Shop Hop 4.0 quilt. Now I'm ready for ...

Good morning, my friends. Our window guy is coming today. It's been over a year since he's been here. With all the dust stirred up when Mike mowed our overgrown field recently, the windows can use some work. Our "window guy," Scott has been washing our windows since 1990. He's kind of like family. Still...I'd like to be dressed and showered when he gets here. It'll be nice to have clean windows.

Yesterday's slow-stitching had me finishing up the 11th of 12 blocks for Grandpa's Bridges.

Good morning, my friends. Our window guy is coming today. It's been over a year since he's been here. With all the dust stirred up when Mike mowed our overgrown field recently, the windows can use some work. Our "window guy," Scott has been washing our windows since 1990. He's kind of like family. Still...I'd like to be dressed and showered when he gets here. It'll be nice to have clean windows.

Yesterday's slow-stitching had me finishing up the 11th of 12 blocks for Grandpa's Bridges.

Finally after a week I believe I can say most of the time I am feeling better.  Still a ways to go but I am slowly moving around better and even made supper last night – granted I had froze a half of a meat loaf a couple weeks ago when I had made some […]

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. It was a busy and lazy day yesterday. I had baking to do for our dinner with the neighbors last night. My first stop of the day was to bake this Skillet Cherry Cobler for Two (times two). This was one of my mother's friend's recipes, and I've scaled it down to one-third its original size so that I can bake it in a 6-inch cast iron skillet. 

Good morning, my friends, and welcome to Monday. It was a busy and lazy day yesterday. I had baking to do for our dinner with the neighbors last night. My first stop of the day was to bake this Skillet Cherry Cobler for Two (times two). This was one of my mother's friend's recipes, and I've scaled it down to one-third its original size so that I can bake it in a 6-inch cast iron skillet. 

I did get outside for a little veranda stitching before the heat wave returned 

I started with the RISE pattern from Woodbury Way.

It is a great starting point. The directions for the basket alone are worth the price of the pattern. But, I did branch out and design some blocks of my own, many using scraps and leftovers from previous projects. The blocks using the bear’s paw and pinwheels were that way. The black balloon in the lower left and the green/blue one on the second row up are modeled on pictures of real balloons. So many options! So much inspiration! (SIDE NOTE: I used flying geese in the border rather ...

Good morning, my friends. Day by day the place seems a little more back to normal. We've moved from the big jobs to the small jobs, including little bits of housework. 

Yesterday's small gardening job was to tie up the echinacea into a tidy bundle and let the light shine on the plants hidden underneath. If you look closely at this image, you'll see black spots on the flowers. Those a bumblebees. They aren't aggressive, but I put on long sleeves just in case. You can see the size difference between the pink echinacea and the ...

Good morning, my friends. Day by day the place seems a little more back to normal. We've moved from the big jobs to the small jobs, including little bits of housework. 

Yesterday's small gardening job was to tie up the echinacea into a tidy bundle and let the light shine on the plants hidden underneath. If you look closely at this image, you'll see black spots on the flowers. Those a bumblebees. They aren't aggressive, but I put on long sleeves just in case. You can see the size difference between the pink echinacea and the ...

This fun and whimsical grid border design is based on a series of loops and echoes. It can be used in a wider border with some simple pre-marked lines. This playful border design looks great in modern quilts or quilts intended for children.

This fun and whimsical grid border design is based on a series of loops and echoes. It can be used in a wider border and a few pre-marked guidelines will help tremendously with stitching this design out evenly.

Pattern Tutorial

This loop-based border design takes a step back to move around one of the loops before continuing ...

This past week was crazy busy, with something to do, someplace to be or an appointment to keep every single day. Most of it was fun, though, with a wonderful drive with a car club on Wednesday through the lush green of summer in the mountains. The weather was nice, with wispy clouds, and our drive took us past fields and farms, mostly in the valleys and then to Saluda for lunch.

I love seeing fog on the mountain top like this, as we drove by.

Then, on Thursday, I went to the Asheville Quilt Guild show and it was ...

Good morning, my friends. We're looking at another day of gray skies. We only caught the edges of the recent storm that blew through, but it gave us a quarter-inch of rain over several showers throughout the day...a good amount. A little more would be appreciated, but we'll take what we can get.

As time wears on, our energy levels are improving a bit. Mike and I were talking last night, and he admitted to being as tired as I am. We agreed that the trip was long and tiring (especially the last day's drive to ...

Good morning, my friends. We're looking at another day of gray skies. We only caught the edges of the recent storm that blew through, but it gave us a quarter-inch of rain over several showers throughout the day...a good amount. A little more would be appreciated, but we'll take what we can get.

As time wears on, our energy levels are improving a bit. Mike and I were talking last night, and he admitted to being as tired as I am. We agreed that the trip was long and tiring (especially the last day's drive to ...

well recovering has not gone as planned but maybe now it will.  After I got home late on Tuesday from out patient surgery for a ruptured disc all went well at first – the pain and how you expect to feel but I was having a horrible headaches.  The headaches continued to get worse and […]

Good morning, my friends. It's dark as I'm writing, although it's well after sunrise. Clouds moved in last night, and it rained a little this morning. We're told we could get about a half inch of rain, which would be great. After several hot days in a row, a good wetting down would work wonders for the landscape and green things up.

I was lazy again yesterday. My only excuse is that I'm still recovering from our trip. On a positive note, I actually did a little housework yesterday...emphasis on "little" part of that ...

Good morning, my friends. It's dark as I'm writing, although it's well after sunrise. Clouds moved in last night, and it rained a little this morning. We're told we could get about a half inch of rain, which would be great. After several hot days in a row, a good wetting down would work wonders for the landscape and green things up.

I was lazy again yesterday. My only excuse is that I'm still recovering from our trip. On a positive note, I actually did a little housework yesterday...emphasis on "little" part of that ...