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Well this was a nice short trip for us – 12 days is short when you don’t travel in the motorhome.  We had a good time and loved both of the Airbnb’s that we stayed at and I will share the 2nd all week  – it had the most fantastic river right through the property […]

And it is off the frame!  And I managed to get the binding on it yesterday morning so I could take it with me to do the hand work.  There was enough excess fabric on the sides and top of the quilt from the backing fabric that I cut it in binding strips and didn’t […]

Well when it gets to be 87 here and very humid I do very little outside but stay in the house.  I did walk down to the garden and inspect it in the morning – I really don’t know why I do that as day to day little changes but I guess I want to […]

I should have gotten back to work on the Drunkard’s Path but I didn’t instead I did more reading and had a dentist appointment which seemed like a waste of time as they messed my crown up and now I have to go back in on Thursday for them to put the permanent one on.  […]

The purple block will be block number 6 in this quilt  named Love Letters (from the book called “A Cold Wind Blows” by Barb Adams and Alma Allen– I need 9 blocks total so one month if I decide I don’t like the color or don’t have enough I will skip that one and work […]

Yesterday I got all the applique templates ready for the purple Love Letters block and hope to get started with the fabric at some point today The square is ready for work – the vase is just sitting there for now I hadn’t started the glue basting. A little quilting on Country Charmer –– linking […]

Until I get this table cleared off today no work begins on the purple star blocks!  I decided to remodel the waist band on a pair of pants that is just a wee bit too tight for comfort so that stuff plus all the purple fabric is scattered on the table.  Of course it would […]

The blocks still need to be pressed but the sewing part is done on these two ready to join the stack of 36-patch blocks – I’ll try to get them pressed today and take a photo with the other blocks.  Then on to the star blocks. Quilting on Country Charmer from Tuesday night I didn’t […]

When I found out that June was the month for purple I knew I didn’t have a lot to work with but I searched through my purple box and came up with some – not a lot – but some.  Then on Monday night while quilting I stopped for a moment to move my foot […]

Purple is the new color of the month for June – and you know what I found out I don’t have a lot of it!  I tore through the box that holds pink/purple/burgundy and found very little – I looked through my pre-cut square boxes for the 2.5 purple and barely found enough to do […]

The grandkids were here – it was a great visit – short but sweet and now it is time to get back to the quilting after not doing any on Saturday.  While the kids were here I did finish the second sleeve of the sweater and now will stitch the parts together and work on […]

But didn’t do any sewing – we are getting a short visit from our grandchildren later today – our grandson who got married last month is stationed in Oklahoma with the army and his wife was in Tennessee getting things cleared up working out a notice on a job and hadn’t moved to be with […]

Finished off the border on Wednesday night and rolled the quilt down again to work a little more magic. Getting closer to the end. Although the garden is too wet to work in and after last nights rain probably too wet to work in for days! I did get some photos of the butterfly weeds […]

We ended up with  2 inches of rain by yesterday morning – every where that water usually stands it is there again – I had barely soaked in from the last time – I think I will give up even trying to get into the garden for a couple days.  I did get a few […]

Yesterday I got back to work on the Drunkard’s Path – I didn’t want to try to work in the corner of the design wall which is kind of blocked in by the quilting frame (ok no “kind of” about it – it is blocked in!) – this is what the design wall looked when […]

The Love Letters Red block is done – I decided to forgo adding the little red circles – mainly because it is the only block in the pattern that had them added and I think it looks just fine without them!  Lets call it done. All 5 of the blocks – four more to make […]

But not for awhile still – but the end is in sight!  This is what it over all looks like – from when I was getting the backing and batting cut and getting it ready for the frame – that was April 21st – a month later and after 42 hours of quilting I have […]

A Little quilting and a little applique and a lot of having a lazy early summer day.  And best of all no rain!  It is time to start more yard work if the yard will dry out that is.  Yesterday morning I walked down to the garden and was exploring seeing what seeds have come […]

Finally I got back to the design wall and have all the blocks sewn but need to do 3 long seams and then all of the blocks on the wall will be joined together and ready for me to cut more pieces and make more blocks – right now the top would measure 85 x […]

Most all my progress was done in the evening last night after the dentist numbing of mouth was over and before a headache started – but at least some was done.  A lot of times after a dentist appointment I have a headache and very sore jaw and this was not an exception just the […]