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I have been moving so slow on the binding for The Hunters Star quilt I have the 3rd side just about finished – it will be too wet to display outside for awhile so I guess it is ok to take my time – give me another week LOL I still have one block to […]

I have a sneak peak for the Fat Quarter Shop quilt that I am making their name for the pattern will be English Ivy – I will be giving it a different name when I finish it.  I will be able to share it around May 10th I believe.  So right now I really can’t […]

Yesterday was all about being outside.  I planted 10 small very healthy tomato plants and two pepper plants – one sweet red and one orange.  It is always surprising how fast these will grow – within 6 weeks or so they might be to the top of the cages. Honeysuckle growing and smells so pretty […]

When the spring time almost summer time weather comes I find it harder to post things about quilting because I am spending more time outside.  I’m also spending more time rushing to make progress on the quilt that I am making for a promo for the Fat Quarter Shop as time is almost up – […]

Progress has been made quilting Carpenters Wheel and the fix to keep the frame a little more stable seems to be working for now.  I think I have it all figured out now for the quilting design One side of the binding is done on Hunter’s Star and the second side was started.  Linking to […]

Mike came up with a solution to try to see if he could make the quilting frame less wobbly causing the rods to slightly move out of place – now to see if it works.  As I stated the hand quilting frame is 30 years old and I really love it.  I used hoops before […]

All is back to normal here at home.  Thanks for those that reached out and wanted to know if we had water damage from the water pipe – no it was all outside thank goodness but the water needed to be shut off until the repair was done.  You never know how much you depend […]

A little of everything done yesterday.  It was an off and on light rain day so I got a little more done in the sewing room then I had been. First I had ironed on my freezer paper templates for Georgetown on my Mind and then got them cut.  Some of this is done with […]

The binding was put on Hunter’s Star and it is ready for the hand work over the next week or so – it is all folded up here on the couch handy for me to work on – these are just some of the colors on the binding. Today I hope to get started picking […]

Inside and outside – it was a beautiful day but quite warm by mid afternoon.  I got all the binding cut for a rainbow binding for the Hunter’s Star but I still need to press it and sew it on today – then I can finally get back to the RSC quilts – two to […]

I worked on Friday evening when I would have been exercising in getting the Carpenter’s Wheel on the quilting frame.  This one went on very easily considering the size and took barely over an hour to get all three layers in place and the room back in order!  I love it when it goes on […]

I finished Hunter’s Star Thursday night – and got it off the frame.  I did get all the excess cut off the sides  and it is folded and ready for binding to be added when I get to it which I know won’t be for a couple days at least.  I’m linking all my yellow […]

Hunter’s Star is coming to an end and the next post it will be finished.  Last night I sat down to quilt the last block and today I will take it off the frame.  There are a few things that Mike needs to tighten up on the rollers before I load the next quilt.  I […]

Another top done – I have two big quilt tops in the basket waiting to be quilted now along with the fabric for binding and wide backs – there is even batting on the shelf for both of them.  I will use the white with blacks dots for the binding. Carpenter’s Wheel, complete – 104 […]

We are still very hot here for the last week of September and we have been for the past week and another week to go yet before it even begins to look a little like fall temperature wise.  Our extended outlook – Not until October 7th do we even drop to the 70’s! the a/c […]

I think the half way point of Arkansas Traveler is coming up if I counted the rows right but I forgot to check at the very beginning exactly where the half way is so I’m guessing without unrolling it.  Linking to Midweek Makers today Quilting from Monday night Halfway?  Wish I could have gotten my […]

Yesterday I finally managed to finish thread basting hexies for the section I have been working on for about a week now I guess, some days only 30 minutes of basting was done so it did take longer than it probably should have.  One again I found I had counted wrong and had some left […]

All of the rows are finally put together – now to press this and measure and come up with a simple border.  I do not want to spend time on a complex border just simple sashing.    There is actually not a lot of black in the quilt is there – when I was making it, […]

Yesterday I just didn’t feel like doing much of anything.  I did manage to get one more row sewed onto the Carpenter’s Wheel – 2 more rows to go – it is folded over the edge of the quilting frame again until today – maybe I can force interest and get it done?Linking to  Quilting […]

Oh what a stack of fabric I have to press over the next week now – I will not even try to do it all in one day!  I treated my batiks to hopefully prevent bleeding and followed instructions carefully. The ironing stack – I will pick out the colors I will use to make […]