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Yesterday believe it or not it got up to 78 degrees – as I was writing this last night it was still 68 degrees at almost 8 PM!!  I had an acupuncture treatment at 11 and when I got home around noon it was nice enough that if it wasn’t so breezy I would have […]

I decided on going large on the quilt – it just looked too narrow to me.   I have some more fabric I can cut up into squares and I have some fabric in the kit still to go through.  I can purchase a little on line of the fabric line if needed to finish […]

I have not decided how I am going to finish this quilt off yet so I posted two versions for me so I can keep track of how it looks – but more patchwork is done. I’m estimating right now – rough measurements for this version would be about 72 x 96 depends on finishing […]

More progress made and decisions to be made on it. The top and bottom patchwork was added and when I put it on the wall to get a photo  – afterwards I realized I had put the cornerstones in the wrong area.  They were not planned to be outside the patchwork area as that would […]

I will say another time for those that keep asking for the pattern  — The Rose Garden is MY name for this quilt.  The original pattern was called “La Rosaraie” and  I don’t know where you can get it anymore I haven’t looked to see.  I got it when it was offered as a kit […]

It seems like my normal routine for any day of the week is piecing and quilting – what to use for a title of a post? It becomes difficult to use something different. I started to work on the other long side of the Rose Garden – for me working with patchwork I seem to […]

One patchwork border is now done and attached – I was going to just pin it to the design wall but then went ahead and pressed it really well and sewed it on. Next up will be the bottom border and then the sides which will have the cornerstones attached to the ends.  The skinny […]

I was busy cutting squares in the morning and then sewing in the afternoon and pleased that the first border is almost done on the Rose Garden.  All the patchwork will just be pinned to the wall and then I will sew all the borders on one after another in a couple weeks when I […]

Yesterday we had a dreary somewhat rainy day – you know that kind of day where is it or isn’t it going to rain, then it finally starts light rain so you don’t feel like going outside kind of day – so sewing got done. Progress on the border for The Rose Garden and the […]

Fabric and thread wise I didn’t do a lot but I did put together a new little cart for a pressing/storage area.  I have to be picky with the skinny little spot I have for a pressing station and the little cabinet I had just wasn’t working out so I ordered this one – of […]

How long will this warmer weather last – it looks like through the first week of February we are back to the 40/60 daytime to 30/50 night time. How sweet it is – we knew it would happen but cold weather will not be completely gone we all know that – in the meantime I […]

I got better outside photos than inside of the log cabin quilt but it was a little breezy and there was constant shadow – so not great but you can see the design better. Here is a straight on shot but I almost cut off the bottom row and did cut off a corner!  I […]

I had mentioned that I have a quilt that I had put aside a couple years ago – The Rose Garden  that I am considering getting back to.  I just got kind of fed up with it a few years back when I kept running into issues with it.  It is a pretty pattern and […]

Oh no – there are more – some I actually forgot about and one I didn’t forget but forgot to mention it.  Some of you will be familiar with the one I call “The Rose Garden” – the actual name for this one was “La Rosaraie” – I got part way done with it and […]

We had rain – not a lot – but 3/4” is better than nothing and it was a slow light rain so it was soaking in.  Maybe more today and Sunday – I hope and it was much cooler in the 80’s the weatherman was saying though not to get used to it that we […]

This little quilt is growing slowly I am only working on it about a week at a time for the last couple months although the quilt was started last year (before I went and decided to make 5 RSC quilts).  To get these small Friendship Stars moving along a little faster I took time to […]

Just a few more stars done for the Rose Garden  – I was going to do more but I spent part of the morning trying out the new car by taking it to a doctor appointment that is about 35 minutes from me – the dermatologist – I had 3 things on my back for […]

Even though it is hot every single day we have been getting out a little bit – normal for us after we get a new car, we just want to keep trying it out!  We drove to Petit Jean State Park which is about 40+miles from us – it had been ages since we have […]

Finally got the Rose Garden back out to play with for a couple days – when I last left off on this quilt I had decided to put a border of “friendship stars” around it – I’m pretty sure that is what you all told me the name of the blocks.  I am using pieces […]

I tell you some days you make so many mistakes that you seem to make very little progress – I had been working on my little stars and two blocks I had to rip apart for facing half square triangles the wrong direction – I threw in the towel and said better luck today – […]