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I worked some more on the house/star panel for Silent Night and that section is now done and I will make the last tree for the top half of the quilt or start to today that is.  The bottom half has four more trees and a tall Santa. More hexie work got done – Melanie […]

Noriko’s Star is growing and growing and the 3rd corner might be done any day now.  I worked on it a little more off and on yesterday and last night.  The next two rows have 3 white hexies and one black and it goes down in the count from there. I have not been putting […]

Only in the 70’s yesterday – it felt so nice!  I was outside a little looking over my houseplants to see what needs to be re-potted before I bring them back in.  One of the Xmas Cactus’s has a bit chip out of the top on one side and a crack – I’m surprised it […]

Well after fixing the mistake on the house (thanks to one reader who noticed it wasn’t the windows wrong it was the whole section turned upside down!! lol) it looked a lot better – I only had to take the brown strip off turn the section and sew the strip in the right place – […]

Yesterday afternoon I got busy cutting and piecing the new flannel house for Silent Night – I’m satisfied with the change. Started with cutting sections and then sewing sections Late in the afternoon I quit as the storms were coming in and I could hear thunder in the distance – it was time to unplug […]

I didn’t work much on things yesterday.  I did get other flannel colors out started to look at those and I do believe the beige flannel will be the house – now to decide on colors of windows and other things on.  The door maybe the light purple, the blue for the windows – green […]

I am so tempted to start another quilt for more variation but I won’t LOL – I know the Christmas quilt won’t take a long time to make so I will wait until I’m done but I will start thinking about it in the meantime and I do think it will be something to use […]

Some progress was made with the flannel.  And the second tree panel was done – once again there were a few cutting mistakes which I didn’t notice until I picked up the pieces somehow they had gotten turned to the reverse side of the fabric before I cut making the angle go in the wrong […]

I can now say The Rose Garden is half way done! From what was quilted on Wednesday night What it looks like rolled down last night Noriko’s Star – the rows are getting shorter and going faster Silent Night – I got the angles cut off on the next tree, the heart appliqued in place […]

Every couple months I change the quilt on my bed – I like to rotate them out so they all get some use.  With these photos you can see why I make my bed size quilts so large – I have a high off the floor bed and I like a lot of coverage – […]

I like to work on a little bit of everything, I have a hand piece project going – the hexagons.  Hand quilting and machine piecing.  If the new quilt goes as smoothly for the rest of the blocks I should have this top done in about 3 weeks!  Linking to Wednesday Wait Loss 450 Silent […]

I showed the flannel the other day for Silent Night and totally forgot to unfold pieces to get to the second layers – almost every green piece actually had another piece behind it.  Two pieces folded together – I knew I had ordered a brown piece and didn’t see it.  I started to unfold pieces […]

I decided before I could get started making the flannel quilt  I needed to clean off the table and put things away.  I had fabric and the fabric still sitting out from Under the Big Top and a box of extra gray fabric that needed to be put away.  That was done first and I […]

I was glad to see my package arrived and that everything was in the box – I say that as it was sitting by the door this morning obviously having been opened and a piece of duck tape holding it shut with a note on it saying ” sorry I opened this by mistake” – […]

Back to summer weather for the next 10 days – it looks like last week the weathermen screwed up when they said September would be cooler than usual – we are looking at 90/95 for the next 10 days – oh well I enjoyed some nice days on the porch for the past week. More […]

Once again I sat down for a very short while and got a tiny bit of quilting done on The Rose Garden – every little bit gets me closer to the finish line. You can barely see where I quilted because of the color of the prints and thread but there are 3 straight lines […]

I showed the Christmas quilt pattern yesterday that I had gotten  It is called Silent Night and it is a Edyta Sitar design.  I think this one would look good in flannels.  I thought I had plenty to use for some of the quilt from my scrap boxes but I didn’t have near what I […]

I have another older ufo finished. This was a quilt I saw at a local quilt shop. I really liked it, and they were happy to cut the fabric for me. I had it made right away, but, as usual, It has been in a pile that needs to be quilted. The date on the list is 2011. It is about 43 x 48. I think the reason, I didn't finish it, is that I wanted special quilting for it, and, I didn't feel like I had the skills at the time.