It was a full house with open seating, but we had seats in the ADA accessible row.
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In the studio: Closet Maid wire basket units hold a lot of fabric. Unfortunately they are ...
read moreIt was a full house with open seating, but we had seats in the ADA accessible row.
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In the studio: Closet Maid wire basket units hold a lot of fabric. Unfortunately they are ...
read moreThe weather cooperated Saturday morning for the spaghetti dinner delivery. All our "customers" (neighbors mostly) were appreciative. We had two of the dinners ourselves -- tasty!
Saturday afternoon I went to the last hours of an estate sale. The advertised German nutcrackers were long gone by the time I got there but I got a nice office chair on wheels for $7.00. The seat-lifter on the Steelcase chair I've had at my sewing machine ...
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The Quiltville FB group has photos of many versions of the design with different colorways and different sashings or settings or borders. I'm going to stick to the sashing as patterned but I may do something other than the checkerboard border.
I made six placemat flimsies from units in the parts department. The tan/green/red one has been around since 2007 (gulp!). I always thought I'd piece it into a quilt back. The one ... read moreThe parts department had two 80" lengths of neutral-squares-neutral (6.5" wide) intended for a border that I didn't use. I added another strip of squares, then sewed the lengths together, and cut into four 20" pieces.
I'm using the serpentine stitch to quilt these placemats. The photo shows the borders sewn on but not yet sewn down.
The pink Ohio Stars are a basted flimsy. 9" blocks = 36" x 45".
# # # # # # The ALA Retired Members Round Table Book Club met by Zoom yesterday. Instead of reading one book and discussing ...
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Thanks to everyone who's asked for our address for Stevens' birthday card shower. It's not too late--PM me to send the address.
Quick post this morning. The Running Doe top-a-long (what is that? read details here) is a flimsy.
I cut into a few Kaffe prints, including the spashy center flowers. I used up the large part of several others. (I'm trying to get over the "can't cut this!" hurdle.)
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In a small outport town in Nova Scotia in the last months of World War I a dead whale is stranded on the shoreline. In a ...
read moreDecluttering! A lifelong skill that no one teaches, but they should! Clutter creeps up because we don't have homes for the things we own. And we are notorious for buying MORE. For fun, look at this short video. Need I say more?
Here's something that I've noticed about myself. Years ago, I would quickly get bored at home. I know -- how could that happen? It wasn't boredom so much as the need to talk to someone. So, who did I talk to? Diane and Susannah at Ruti's Needlebed. I'd go over and chat for ...
read moreI've bundled up for two forest preserve walks this week. Fortunately the Kicks (S's car that I drive) stays warm so he is comfortable.
We are at the southern edge of the paper birch range. Hickory nuts. The icy snow sparkles.
All the Christmas decor is put away except for the wreath. Each year I think about going through the storage boxes and culling decorations that I didn't use this year (or last year or the year before....) Then I think what if I want to change things up next season? So I just close up the ...
read moreI know that I shouldn't be reading all these old magazines. I'm above that - toss them and be done with it. Buy no more than you can read. However, I have to say that I LOVE reading them. They are almost more entertaining than reading the current ones, which tend to be filled with patterns I'll never make.
Here's what I learned from a quilting magazine that is over 25 years old! The magazine is called Sampler Quilts by Quilt and has a copyright date 1999.
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Sampler Quilt magazine |
Didn't everyone make a sampler quilt ...
read moreThis year has been a record-breaker for me—156 books read, with 25 earning a perfect 5-star rating. Hours spent researching new releases, rediscovering classics, following recommendations, and tackling my ever-growing TBR list paid off with an incredible collection of memorable … Continue reading
read moreAre you moving during the day? I confess I did something I hadn't done for a long time yesterday: I read almost an entire book in one day. However, I can no longer sit in a comfy chair for long with this silly leg issue. By comfy, I mean the chairs in our living room. Even stretched out, they don't work. Although I sat there long enough to attract the girls, and they put on a show for me.
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MOM - can you see us? |
The two Waukegan-based P.E.O. chapters had their joint holiday party yesterday afternoon. Though neither is my chapter, I knew most everyone there. Just desserts, and delicious!
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I finished the table runner for the gift exchange at tomorrow's Rotary meeting. I searched the stash and eventually found just the right fabric. (I realize that I mispieced the Air Castle block at the bottom so it looks a little clunky. Too late!)
Now I'm working on the coral HSTs for the Old Town mystery. I made 5 sets Tuesday evening. Many more to come.
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And then at Rotary yesterday the president said we'll have a gift exchange at next week's meeting. $25 value. (Gender observation: the president is a woman. Would any group of men even think about a gift exchange?) Of course I'll need to provide Stevens' contribution as well as my own.
So here's what's on the cutting table. Two table runners coming up!
The AAUW luncheon is today, we're going to a dinner tonight, the P.E.O. luncheon is tomorrow, and we're going ...
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The tree is up.
The boys are back. (The big one never went away....)
My mother started our nutcracker collection in the mid-1980's with one of the twins on the mantel (#2 or #10) and later with #5, #6, and #8. The others came from estate/garage sales and TJMaxx. They're all German.
I try not to acquire more Christmas decorations, but if I come across German nutcrackers at good prices I will indulge.
The November stash report shows that I didn't indulge much compared to earlier this year. Fabric IN: 60-1/4 yards, $80, average $1 ...
read moreOH! I'm so confused now.
I went back TWO months with the online data and in my Fitbit. I entered them into a spreadsheet, which didn't take too long.
We get a summary from The Conquer monthly that gives us our monthly KMs and the running total for the year.
In September, I was shorted by 52 KM, which is a lot. The number on the left is the number on the website, and the number on the right is the FitBit Number.
And this was the summary from September.
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September summary |
That number exactly matches what was ...
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