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I decided to finish off Santa with a white strip above the head to separate from the tree as I thought it looked like the tree was growing out of his head lol.  It wasn’t hard to do.  I cut a strip of the white and folded the edges over a quarter inch and pressed […]

Melanie and I had never got shopping done on the weekend as we had planned and she had a day off today for a change so we spent the afternoon out.  We were gone longer than I thought we would be so I’m glad I got the bottom border added to Silent Night in the […]

Wow – 3 years and 10 1/2 months of English Paper Piecing (EPP by hand) and the top of Noriko’s Star is done – well that is I still need to sew around the edges (I do this 2 times) and cut straight sides – that is why I sew around the edges to make […]

This quilt full of hexagons is coming to an end – in fact this corner will be done today I do believe and then it just needs to be joined to the top.  I decided to lay out the final rows and thread baste as I needed to find a couple more black colors to […]

Note:  I am back to having server issues again so be warned the blog might be in and out again for a couple days  – I don’t have a clue why they have so many problems. Did some machine work and have part of the top and part of the bottom sections put together of […]

Finally yesterday I sat down and worked on Santa for quite awhile it seemed like but I’m sure it was only an hour or so.  Overall now I need to sew the top row together.  Several more steps to go before it is all joined adding narrow strips of white flannel here and there according […]

Another row of hexies on Noriko’s Star – and yes it is nearing the end and I have not decided what my next hand project will be – several have run through my mind but I’m not in a rush.  After this second white row the last flower will be put in. More sewing on […]

Finally I got back to the Santa in Silent Nights – not much but a little And got some cutting done and ready to piece today maybe or I might just do slow stitching – this is the bag that Santa is holding in his mitten covered hand, I need to cut a red strip […]

I didn’t get a lot of work done on Santa for Silent Night but I did get a little more done.  I was also outside working in the garden getting rid of those weeds.  Right now I am trying for every other day in the garden giving me a recovery day in between.  We are […]

Another Sunday has come around and for the link up with Kathy at Slow Sunday Stitching group I will most likely be getting in more stitches on Noriko’s Star last corner which has been coming along pretty good.  I will finish the link up this morning.  Also linking to Kate’s Life in PIeces On Saturday […]

First shipping said I would get my fabric that I needed to finish Silent Night on the 8th then it said the 14th and then it came yesterday – that’s ok, I was glad to get it.  Linking to Quilting Patchwork Applique today Even so I wasn’t able to get started cutting the first section […]

With all 8 trees the Silent Night quilt is getting near completion.  Now I need to decide will all the trees stay where they are or move around?  I have some white flannel strips to add here and there and then the Santa and the border.  I ordered a piece of red and a piece […]

I didn’t machine stitch yesterday but I did get another tree cut out this will be the last tree to sew for Silent Night. More hexies were put together and now I need to watch for placement of the flowers – I almost got this row thread basted when I remember it might be time […]

What started out to be a lazy Sunday of hand stitching and reading turned into clean up mode instead – we discovered the hot water heater was leaking all over the place.  It is inside of a closet area so we were getting rid of water, emptying the area of the closet close to it […]

My blog server keeps crashing so if you are having trouble opening my blog the last couple days that is what is going on – I have no clue when they will straighten it out it seems to do this every couple weeks lately. For this Sunday’s Slow Stitching with Kathy (I will add the […]

It was supposed to be hot yesterday I thought they had said near 90 I was surprised that it was 82 for the high and a nice breeze on the front porch – I spent more time sitting and reading outside than I had in a couple weeks.  The current author I am reading free […]

I decided to stick with those colors for the tree for now and if I want I can change it out later.  No matter how I changed the lighting the color would not come out right on the wall.  Way too dark. So I moved it and laid it down on the quilting frame under […]

I didn’t get around to sewing anything on the flannels but I do have one tree cut out – I’m not sure if I will like it in this color but I’m giving it a shot. If I don’t like it I have enough fabric still to make four trees – the one above would […]

I was able to sit longer at the sewing machine yesterday and I got another tree done for Silent Night.  This one done in blue.  I left the bottom strip off on that one as it connects to the one underneath it – if I need to fudge it a little bit by adding a […]

Three corners are done and on the quilt – Noriko’s Star is nearly finished.  One more corner to make and add. In certain light outside but I have not noticed inside is that the white in the quilt if you hadn’t noticed is actually white and cream.  Today in the photo you can notice.  The […]