A long time ago when our kids were all little and I likely still had one in diapers, I did a big splurge for me at the time. I was in the grocery store and they were selling church cookbooks from a local church. I bought one. This one… The cookbook is likely one of …
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I have a fun story for you today and it comes from Karin….she writes: “Jo, you have THE MOST incredible, generous, thoughtful, and TALENTED blog reader ever! You may recall, my husband and I “adopted” a 92 years young lady from our local assisted living center back at Christmas time. One of the gifts we …
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read moreIt’s a parade courtesy of Ray today. He has a finished quilt and mail to share!! Ray writes: This top is from an anonymous donor. Many thanks to the creator as the top is so wonderful. I love the way it just winds its way around a center strip to get bigger and bigger. Wonderful …
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read moreOn January 15 Husband came inside after running the snowblower and said that he thought we might need to make an appointment with a cardiologist. He hadn’t been feeling well lately–tired and such–and we had attributed it to fatigue and stress. However, his father had his first heart attack at 40. Five heart attacks and a massive stroke later, he was dead 10 days before his 65th birthday.
I looked up a phone number. Husband called. After telling his story, the person on the phone said he should hold, and he was transferred. A woman introducing herself ...
read moreCross-stitching hasn’t happened here much for me this week. I have gone to bed early to get to early morning appointments for my cancer treatment. In the evenings I’ve had lots of phone calls and have been trying to get things done around here in case everything goes well and I can be treated which …
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read moreThis was the week… It was my week to find out if the oral chemo and diet were working so I could be treated with Radioactive Iodine. If you’re new here- I have thyroid cancer and have since 2015. Mine is resistant to Radioactive Iodine which is the only way to treat it so I …
read moreOn Saturday our daughter Kayla called and asked if I was up for a visit…ALWAYS! So I started scrambling to think of something I could make that I could eat and they could eat. Hmm. I called our daughter Kalissa to let her know and to say if she wasn’t working, maybe they wanted to …
read moreI need to stop & write more frequently. I begin and end a project and need to document it but, I don’t take the time. Just last week I began another baby quilt for my best friend’s first grandchild. And I’m thinking about what to make for a niece that’s expecting later this year. So, […]
read moreThis week’s prompt was the hourglass…block, shape or other interpretation. This was an easy one for me. I love hourglass blocks. The accuquilt makes it so fast and easy to cut the 1/4-square triangles I need for the blocks.
I had a need for a doll quilt to gift to a new big sister. I decided to go with colors that matched the baby quilt. I used the Accuquilt to cut a fast bunch of triangles. They went together so quickly! I shrunk down the quilting design I used on the baby quilt, too. I’m loving ...
read moreI thought I wouldn’t get much stitching time in this week because I had company coming for the weekend but I managed to still get quite a bit in. On Sunday after the dust cleared and the house was mostly back in order, I decided to heck with it and sat down and stitched for …
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read moreI thought I would continue with a little check-in and let you know how my cancer treatment is going. As of today, I am on day 19 of oral chemo. How’s it going…meh. On Sunday the face acne kicked in. All of the little red dots are the start of zips that were forming. About …
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read moreEvery so often questions and comments come from readers that I think others would like to hear my response to. That’s when I feature them on the blog. This is one of those days. Today’s questions are about quilts. Question #1 comes from Gloria. She found this vintage quilt and is wondering if someone knew the name of …
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I love February! For a lover of hearts and pink and all things Valentine’s, it’s a beautiful month even if the weather doesn’t agree! Often in the Pacific Northwest, it’s also the time of year we get what I like to call “False Spring.” We get a few days of very pretty, hopeful weather that gets all the gardening people excited…then it settles down to rain for weeks. One of the other things I love is making baby quilts and there are a whole bunch of new babies on the way this spring. I found ...
read more| I did an EQ8 tutorial earlier this week -- in celebration of Valentine's Day. The EQ tutorial shows how to draft a template that can be used to cut two pieces of fabric that could be woven together for a single basket. In the video, I share three different template options from Electric Quilt 8. Cutting manually. Creating an SVG. Exporting an image and tracing in an Electronic cutting system. I also share how I used these items with Cricut Design Space. Then learn how to weave your fabric for your own 3D basket. . |  V-Day Card using the 3D Swedish ... |
I had put this book, The Summer of Songbirds by Kristy Woodson, on my Libby waitlist and finally, after a few months of waiting, it became available. After just reading a sad Holocaust book the previous week, I was ready for something light and not so serious. Here is what Amazon had to say:“Nearly thirty …
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