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On the design wall that is.  I have been playing with the Crossed Canoes/Lemoyne Star blocks and I think I have solved the puzzle.  After moving things this way and that I think this is the layout.  So for a name?  Rainbow Stars?  Certainly shorter than Crossed Canoes/Lemoyne Stars! It is of course hard to […]

Yesterday I managed to get the second strawberry bed done and move some more dirt to one half of the third bed and cover it with cardboard so the heavy rain last night wouldn’t make a mess of it – I put some rocks down to hold it in place.  It will be really wet […]

Finished the 3 blocks that were cut out and realized I had looked at the amount of rows/blocks wrong while I have been working on this – I like my quilts close to square – I know a lot don’t make them that way but do rectangles instead but I like a lot of overhang […]

Yuletide Gatherings is coming to an end – the stretch I am doing now is a little wider than what I had been doing so I am thinking 5 nights or so of quilting and it should be done.  I had finished up on the right side of the quilt – forgot to take a […]

The second star point is coming along – faster each row of course – I had the 6th row stitched together before the end of the day and then attached to the body of it by early evening. When this second star point is done it will be easier to start sketching out the area […]

Yesterday was some house cleaning, a little piecing, a library Halloween party and a little quilting in the evening. Two more Crossed Canoe blocks made – 8 more to go.  One is laid out and ready to work on today and I hope to get a couple more made as well. This quilting was done […]

Yes that is right 10 crossed canoes left to make – I got 3 more done yesterday giving me the final 2 rows to fill in.  I am linking to Small Quilts and Doll Quilts this morning. Noriko’s Star – I finished the row I was working on and thread basted the next row. A […]

A rainy all day light rain we had on Saturday about another inch of much needed rain but when it rains like that sometimes it just makes me so lazy that I tend to sit around reading all day instead of work on projects.  I did get a little done though as I knew I […]

Turned down Yuletide Gatherings again and it is getting closer and closer to an end – finished up this end on Thursday night – I’ve been asked do I notice a big difference in quilting flannel versus regular quilters cotton – I change my needles a lot more frequently but it isn’t taking longer to […]

Yesterday was just one of those days where I just didn’t get a lot done.  I really don’t know where the day went – I made two crossed canoes but didn’t get them up on the wall – I need three more to do a row so I will probably wait to get that done […]

Yesterday I went through the fabric bins pulling out pieces for the final 20 blocks of the Crossed Canoes – well make that 18,  I had two cut out that weren’t sewn yet. I cut 6.5 inch squares and pressed Then I got busy and cut for about 10 minutes and I was done – […]

I hadn’t laid Noriko’s Star out for awhile so thought I would do that to get a look at what adding the second star point would be like, only 3 rows of the star point done and it is not attached – that is done later after the whole section is done.  It is going […]

Finally Arkansas is getting some rain – and it is from the hurricane that hit Mexico – it all has to do with the way it came in – so last night we were getting a soaking rain but the news said it would be heavy at times – it is welcome we need it. […]

I’ve had a lot comment on the Crossed Canoe block and is it as easy as I say it is to make – here is a photo tutorial from Saturday’s blocks – I made two blocks in just over 20 minutes yesterday – I know because I had set the timer in the kitchen for […]

Well this little pumpkin runner was started last year in September I think and then got put aside and lost and found again this year in late summer so finally done!  I did leave out a few details that were in the pattern but I’m pleased with how it turned out.  It fits the tv […]

Yesterday was spent getting the crossed canoe blocks in order and start work on them.  I had left pieces cut in the box and didn’t remember what I had so instead of starting with the light green color for October I decided to finish what was in the box which were the same colors made […]

Finally yesterday I started out much better since I got sick on Saturday-viruses usually clear out of system fast but the energy is slow to come back.  By doing a little bit at a time and then sitting and reading I made progress.  First the Carpenter’s Wheel blocks were taken off the wall and I […]

I thought I would show the tops I have made so far this year for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge 2022 – all are caught up through the light blue of September.  I accidentally linked the wrong photo to the So Scrappy site – but it is colorful too – but here are the RSC quilts. […]

As mentioned yesterday I decided to do a 2 block quilt design for the Lemoyne Star quilt in order to make it larger – I felt like the stars needed to be broke up in some way and this will work out – I don’t know what I will call it now – first I […]

I did not touch the sewing machine again yesterday even though I meant to.  Instead I was outside on the porch listening to a book again and working on hexies – and sketching up a sample of how I might do the star points.  In the afternoon it started to get stormy and there was […]