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Georgetown On My Mind – is a Jen Kingwell pattern.  This pattern is actually written for making by hand and applique and there are EPP kits available on line.  I think most of the stars go together very well by machine piecing the parts of the rings and then some I applique in place and […]

I spent the day sewing.  I got my blue block ready for the last applique by time the day was done. I finished the last of the applique of the gray circle down first. Then I brought it back into the sewing room and got the outer ring sewed. This part of it I find […]

The blue circle is moving along – the inner darker blue circle is appliqued down and I’m working on the gray one and I will finish that up later today and maybe get the outer ring machine stitched and then get that one on too – Linking to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching — Life in […]

All the pieces are cut  – the layout is all out on the table and the center star is done after mistake after mistake of turning pieces wrong – for no good reason – I knew how they went and I wasn’t paying attention.  But the very center is now done.  I am linking to […]

Cutting pieces, quilting, knitting and berries.  The sun was out and no rain.  Georgetown is moving along with the blue block – this block has a lot of pieces so it will take me another day or two of cutting and prepping before I’m ready to piece.  Here is a start.  I have mostly gray […]

We had light rain most of the day yesterday and it was unexpected – it wasn’t forecast.  I don’t think it cleared up until the middle of the afternoon.  So it was mostly an inside day again. I got out my blue boxes of fabric to go though.  I put the last two hexie hot […]

Yesterday was a light rainy day so I was inside.  I started to go through a project box to clean it out and found my left over half hexies from the quilt I did last month – I knew I had extra’s and intended to make hot pads or mug rugs with them – I […]

I spent part of the morning going though project boxes. I had a bit of fabric put in the box for the Sunny Daze quilt left over so first I went through that separating newsprints from the black and got everything back on the shelves.  Then I pulled out the project box holding the Georgetown […]

I just played around with pieces yesterday.  I’m not sure what will be on the design wall.  I decided to get the black squares out with the round pinwheel type of circles to work with first. None of this is as it would be in the end for sure – just playing for now and […]

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 […]

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 […]

One purple done and on to another.  I worked for two days on the Georgetown on My Mind quilt for  the  RSC group and I finished it in time to link up today on SoScrappy.   This is the circle pinned in place to applique I forgot to do the final press with spray starch to […]

It is purple this month for the RSC group and I am busy with my purple block for Georgetown which has 9 large blocks and then a lot of smaller ones.  Right now I am making one large in the color selected a month – it takes about 2 days to do each block so […]

The blocks and rows are all sewed together – I am undecided on the border – to use the border in the book or something else – not sure but will take a week or so off while I work on the two RSC quilts. Here are some photos without the border – it is […]

It’s about time that I get that last NYB block finished for some reason I dragged it out – this is a second Green Tree Frog blog.  A little crooked on one side but it will hide in the seam.  It was going to be the last in the final row but I noticed it […]

Another cool day yesterday but warmth comes back all week and that will be so nice.   hope to still make progress in the sewing room each day. I will also be doing some outside stuff Yesterday I finished appliqueing the circle of the red Georgetown in place – that makes two down 6 more this […]

On to the last step of the Georgetown block in red – I finished the outer ring and pressed the seams open and have it centered on its background block ready to applique in place I started to work on it but didn’t get it finished.  I will work on that and hexies for Slow […]