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Sunday was a very chilly day for us – fall has been very mild and then wham! a cold front came though not giving my body time to adjust to colder weather coming – and windy too – I think half of the fall leafs fell yesterday they are all over the porch, right up […]

I continue to work on my two projects with no sewing machine work at the moment – I will probably start to look at colors for the machine project that I showed the other day – instead of “54-40 Fight” for a name for the new quilt I think I will go with “Tennessee Waltz” […]

I started to go through fabric picking out the colors for the next ring.  I will be showing the rings on the wall with the connecting triangles that connect all the rings.  This pattern is slightly different in some that you might have seen.  There are several ways to make this pattern I have learned.  […]

I guess for Jack’s Chain quilt you would refer to the “blocks” as “rings” because of the shape?  I have the first one on the wall while I look through fabric to see which green color to add to it – all the white is the same piece it is a very light beige maybe […]

I’ve been figuring out Jack’s Chain as I start to piece it together I finished all segments on Tuesday night and got pieces pressed on Wednesday. The first part of putting it together as I understand and it seems to be working is to sew a patchwork block to the center as this-leave a quarter […]

I continue to have server problems – no solution as of yet – my Instagram is karenquiltsetc. It was another work outside day for a little while anyhow – couldn’t over do my back but a little progress was made out there.  In the house as hand piecing and some knitting while listening to a […]

The first circle for Jack’s Chain is coming along ok, as it grows I will learn the easiest way to start connecting pieces but I know what I am doing for the first one (I think lol) this is where it was on Sunday night when I started to work on it when I was […]

First let me say I am having server issues once again and it is barely letting me on here some days, I’m not sure how long it has been going on now.  All I can say is I don’t know what to do about it but wait it out.   If I try to start a […]

So the hexagon quilt Noriko’s Star is squared up and ready for quilting.  By time I got done sewing around the edges and squaring up the deck was kind of shady and I will try again today and see if I can get a good photo without the shadows, but here are some I took […]

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 […]

Progress has been made the border of the Rose Garden on the edge I was working on is done I rolled it down and was ready to start on the left side again – my go to starting point (if I don’t work from the middle out) This is where it stands now – one […]

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 […]

Another day of not really feeling like sitting at the machine – maybe today, I do have a late afternoon dental appointment so we will see.  More was done on the hexies and even though I am getting towards the end I needed to go through the last of the paper hexies that I have […]

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 […]

Yesterday was another day not at the sewing machine.  It was time to figure out where to put the house plants and set up plant lights that I decided to get this year.  I did get some more work done on the hexies though so will show that first – I planned on stitching that […]