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It was such a cool rainy day yesterday – Melanie got bronchitis so was home from work Friday so I’ll volunteer in her department on Monday instead, she is on medications so should feel better then.  I do craft type stuff with her and a little shelving and not trained for other areas (special events […]

I’m sure with the amount of sewing I am getting done with the last couple days you can tell it is back to being chilly outside – it has been too chilly to do more than wander down to the garden and cover up the strawberry plants to protect against the chill in case there […]

Yesterday was a very colorful day of working with rainbows of color.  First I got some knitting done and some hexies then I moved on to the sewing machine.  A lot of hexies to stitch on all week but this star point for Noriko’s Star is coming along nicely. On Saturday night the quilting frame […]

Our early spring has gone away and we have a chance for freezing on Tuesday and it has been nothing but chilly weather (40’s) for several days now – I knew our cool weather was not gone – but that means with this rainy chilly weather and an audio book to listen to that progress […]

Yesterday I got 10 more diamonds done leaving 12 more to do – I will try to finish those today.  These are in pairs – two of each. Added to the wall – this project was started last year with the Snails Trail block with SoScrappy’s Rainbow Scrap Challenge, just the bottom portion to go […]

It was a rainy day yesterday so I was kind of busy going from one project to another – one of those kind of days dark and dreary that if you didn’t stay busy you would fall asleep – which I almost did at least once! First I got the rest of the pieces cut […]

I took way too many photos yesterday to share them all so I need to be selective – LOL – I have enough for three post at least so I will trim it down to fit in one.  I did get busy on the Snails Trail pieces yesterday and now today I actually need to […]

Although I didn’t sew a lot of diamonds yesterday I did get a little done and have more of the background rectangles cut out to work with today.  I will soon need to cut more of them though and more diamonds.  I have been doing that as I need to and pulling fabric from the […]

I didn’t get around to stitching any diamonds until evening after my treadmill walk.  I decided to cut my quilting session just a little short in the evening as I hadn’t made any diamonds since Friday I think – in a half an hour I made five of them (36 more needed).  Today I will […]

I know a lot of you (like I) do not go back and read comments left so here is a note Melanie left those of you that commented on her library program: “Thank you everyone for the kind comments about the Stuffed Animal Sleepover. Most of the kids have picked up their animals and loved […]

You know it started out so nice outside yesterday morning even if it was cloudy – but I knew the rain was coming and with it the temperature was to drop so instead of 78 that it was the previous day it kept dropping into the low 60’s and then the rain came too – […]

With just a little left to attach on the triangle segment I am working on with the hexies it will sit and rest again for a couple days after I finish this little bit for Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy – as you can see I almost finished that work on Saturday So keep in […]

I’ve had several people say they have never pieced where you sew directly onto paper to get accurate seams and asked how to do it.  So here is a step by step on how I do it – others might do it differently.  This simple pattern really doesn’t need to be done this way but […]

More pieces were prepped for the foundation squares and progress was made in that area – ten left to make and then on to the diamonds. I’ll switch location up here and there on the colors when needed – right now I have some on the left side to fill in and then the bottom […]

what would you do if it was 74 degrees in winter!  Be outside and take a walk.  I did get some stitching done but I got done with a few things outside too and took a walk.  Cooler weather returns today – it was nice while it lasted. The trail had so much junk washed […]

Hardly any time was spent on piecing yesterday but I did add a few more squares to the wall. Three more rows of squares needed for a total of 21 – I will need to cut more but will use what I have first. I rolled Rainbow Crossings down on Monday night and realized I […]

Yesterday I had some errands to run and wasn’t in the sewing room a lot but I did get all the foundation papers printed that I need to finish the Snails Trail Underneath all that paper I started to make some stacks of fabric for the square above – still more to pull – thank […]

I moved pieces of Snail’s Trail around on the design wall yesterday so I could add two more rows to the right side of the design.  Would you believe I have just enough snail trail blocks made to add one row of pairs to the right side and the bottom.  I was surprised it came […]

Well make that some sewing and some reading.  Right now I am on the 9th of the Rizzoli and Isles series by Tess Gerristen – I think there are 13 in the series – I have been reading them for the past month now I guess.  It was raining off and on all day – […]

I was working on three different projects yesterday – and a little cleaning and laundry and a little yard work pulling fall leaves out from the iris’s – I have another area of iris’s to clean out but we are in for a bit of rain the next 10 days so I guess I will […]