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I have enjoyed a week of slow stitching while the home improvement project in the living-dining-sewing room part of our home continues. One thing has lead to another and the trim paint on the baseboards and doors and windows is also being redone. 

It will be lovely when it is finished.

(I will probably be asking to have the walls redone soon, too.

... shhh! ... 

Don't tell Mr. Scrapatch, who is probably ready to be done with this.)

I am really enjoying making the many little motifs in this book:

I started making these flowers and ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm so happy to announce there is NO NEW SNOW today. I repeat: No New Snow! This is a good thing. I saw this meme on Facebook this morning. It is perfectly timed for our spring weather.

Yesterday's goings on were pretty much as expected. I started some pulled chicken in the slow cooker and made some coleslaw. It was my day for walking, and I started watching a new Boston Strangler movie while I was on the treadmill. I'm a fan of true crime stories anyway, and I read the book decades ...

Good morning, my friends. I'm so happy to announce there is NO NEW SNOW today. I repeat: No New Snow! This is a good thing. I saw this meme on Facebook this morning. It is perfectly timed for our spring weather.

Yesterday's goings on were pretty much as expected. I started some pulled chicken in the slow cooker and made some coleslaw. It was my day for walking, and I started watching a new Boston Strangler movie while I was on the treadmill. I'm a fan of true crime stories anyway, and I read the book decades ...

Her work is so varied and delicate and beautiful! 

When I saw that her patterns were going to be published in a book 

I pre-ordered it on Amazon and it arrived on Friday. 

This is a wonderful book.  

I do have another book by a different author with similar designs but was never really able to follow the instructions to ...

Good morning, my friends. It's officially the last day of winter. Tomorrow...SPRING!!! Who isn't ready for that? We had a beautiful pre-spring day yesterday...a "false spring," according to Erik and Mae. We went to the Beaverton farmer's market. The sun was so bright it was hard to see what was at the market. We weren't complaining though. Before making our way through the different vendors, we bought our breakfast and enjoyed Erik's fresh squeezed orange juice along with the sunshine.

Good morning, my friends. It's officially the last day of winter. Tomorrow...SPRING!!! Who isn't ready for that? We had a beautiful pre-spring day yesterday...a "false spring," according to Erik and Mae. We went to the Beaverton farmer's market. The sun was so bright it was hard to see what was at the market. We weren't complaining though. Before making our way through the different vendors, we bought our breakfast and enjoyed Erik's fresh squeezed orange juice along with the sunshine.

The week got away from me and I did not show my favourite quilts from QuiltCon so I will show them to you in this post along with my stitching efforts from this past week.  I'll start with my stitching...

I have finished the flowers to the right of the rabbit in my Spring cross stitch picture and I'm now working on the carrots and beets under the rabbit and the flowers on the left side. I'm surprised all these flowers and vegetables have not been eaten by the bunny--that's what happened in our backyard when ...

Good morning, my friends. Our snowy world continues. Yesterday things seemed slushy, and at least some precipitation was falling as rain. Mike felt it was worth the effort to load the blade onto the tractor and plow our driveway. He also pushed all the snow out of our breezeway. In the process, he noticed the heavy snow had actually bent the roof gutters in one place. This morning, we awakened to about another inch of accumulation. You might want to plug your ears for a moment: 

STOP!!!

Ahem. It's okay. You can come back now. We've been in ...

Good morning, my friends. Our snowy world continues. Yesterday things seemed slushy, and at least some precipitation was falling as rain. Mike felt it was worth the effort to load the blade onto the tractor and plow our driveway. He also pushed all the snow out of our breezeway. In the process, he noticed the heavy snow had actually bent the roof gutters in one place. This morning, we awakened to about another inch of accumulation. You might want to plug your ears for a moment: 

STOP!!!

Ahem. It's okay. You can come back now. We've been in ...

Good morning, my friends. We were able to get out for a while yesterday afternoon, and I was able to take advantage of the sale prices I wanted. Nobody died, and so it was a good day. The scariest part of the drive was our driveway right here where there's a "dipsy-doodle" followed by a steep climb up hill. It's scary both coming and going. And since it stays in shade all day long, this is always the last place to melt when the temperature warms.

Good morning, my friends. We were able to get out for a while yesterday afternoon, and I was able to take advantage of the sale prices I wanted. Nobody died, and so it was a good day. The scariest part of the drive was our driveway right here where there's a "dipsy-doodle" followed by a steep climb up hill. It's scary both coming and going. And since it stays in shade all day long, this is always the last place to melt when the temperature warms.

Good morning, my friends. I hope your weekend is treating you well. And if you have tomorrow off, all the better. When I left you yesterday, I was heading off to the farmer's market with Erik and Mae. It was delightful as always. The weather was chilly, but dry. Erik and Mae practically bought out the place. They buy most of their food from the farmer's market. I picked up about a half dozen apples. I wanted some bell peppers too, but it's a little early for that, I'm afraid. I stopped off at a grocery ...

Good morning, my friends. I hope your weekend is treating you well. And if you have tomorrow off, all the better. When I left you yesterday, I was heading off to the farmer's market with Erik and Mae. It was delightful as always. The weather was chilly, but dry. Erik and Mae practically bought out the place. They buy most of their food from the farmer's market. I picked up about a half dozen apples. I wanted some bell peppers too, but it's a little early for that, I'm afraid. I stopped off at a grocery ...

I spent a little time each day this past week adding stitches to my Spring cross stitch picture. The rabbit is coming along nicely.  Finn is here for his annual visit while my daughter is busy at work and he doesn't mind lying beside me as I stitch.  He is used to doing that while my daughter works on her cross stitch when he is home with her. 

 Almost all of my sewing time this week was devoted to finishing the turquoise and gray wedding quilt.  Several hours were spent at the sewing machine, adding lines of quilting with turquoise thread using my walking foot.  The herringbone part of the quilt was quilted with diagonal lines following the pattern of angles of the turquoise strip piecing. 

The backing of this quilt is turquoise flannel--so soft and warm!

I did the hand stitching of the binding in the car.  I had some solid turquoise in my stash which was used for the binding.  I just noticed the thread formed ...

Always good weather to stay at home and do some slow stitching. 

My kitty crochet inspector is saying, "Time for my lunch break."

Cassian gets grumpy when he thinks it is mealtime.

This is a shawl for My Girl and she picked out the yarn and pattern.

The yarn is Metallico from Hobbii Yarn ~ Color 10

Hobbii often puts this yarn at about 40% -50% off, so if you are interested,

bookmark the page and watch for it to go on sale. 

This is shipped from Europe and it arrives very quickly.

The one ...

Good morning, my friends. It's a foggy morning here at the Three Cats Ranch. We're expecting warmer weather as the week wears on, but it isn't here yet. I had a nice morning with the kids at the Beaverton Farmer's Market yesterday, but we did get rained on. We'd hoped we could get in and out without getting wet. On the bright side, we found a table under a canopy where we could eat our breakfast, including Erik's freshly-squeezed orange juice. There's almost no better way to spend a morning than with my ...