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 How is it already the end of July?! We don't live a crazy busy life, but our days are full and every time I turn around, another week...month...year ìs in the rearview mirror.If I didn't write this little blog, I'd look back and wonder what we did with our days. But I figure every time I step into my sewing room, I'm making progress on something. This month I  surprised myself and

 DH was away for 2 days at the first of the month and I spent much of it in my sewing room. I dug into my Tend the Earth quilt project and made 462 hsts. 288 went into this quilt topAnd the other 174 are trimmed and ready for a 2nd quilt once I settle on a pattern. I love the versatility of hsts.Later in the month, I spent some time cutting batting scraps and flannel down for a western rag

Progress slowed down in the sewing room this month, but that's to be expected with outdoor projects and the fire burning close by on our mountain filling the days. However, I was able to move some things forward before the fire started on the 14th.This month I managed to get Old Dirt Road into a top. The full blocks were made last month and I made the 20 half blocks this month. When I was

 Last month ended on a sad note. My friend, Jackie passed away. She was 85 and has been my longarm quilter since I began quilting, 18 years ago. The first 2 years I only made a few and I hand quilted or quilted a simple cross-hatch on those. This is the first quilt she quilted for me in 2010.It is well loved these days, but still a favorite. I probably wouldn't even still be a quilter if it

 After many years (I've had this pattern since 2017), I finally really settled in to work on Old Dirt Road this monthMarch 15th was a horrendously blustery day with 40 mph sustained winds and 50 mph gusts so for once, the weather did chase me indoors. I only ventured out to the barn to chore and spent much of the day in my sewing room...a rare treat.So this month I cut everything out and

 I worked on numerous different projects this month, making progress on 8, beginning 1, and finishing 2 quilts and 25 blocks.I'm not a tv watcher and  I don't have the television on during the day, but when I DO sit down in the evening, I need to have something in my hands and I just so happened to have a Christmas quilt that needed binding this month. Peppermint Bark Christmas was a

I know most folks don't love the month of January, but I'm in the minority. It may have something to do with where we live. We have sunshine over 300 days out of the year. Brilliant, clear blue skies are the norm here in our corner of the world, year-round. It was 12 degrees when I took this shot.So even though we get below zero temps, snow, and have bitter cold winters some years, I don't have

A belated Under the Needle post today: I'm fairly certain December was busy for everyone, but we had our first snow of the season December 4th and I made time to slow down and sew a little while it fell, although looking back; between 5 days at my in-laws, 4 days staying with E,  Christmas, and 4 days when our girl, Kenny, and L were here; I don't know when I did any of this. I bound 4

 I'm trying to be extra cognizant of the days in hopes that they won't whizz by so quickly. It's not working.  LOL. What's a girl to do? I'll just keep being grateful for and finding joy in each one. DH was away tending to our cows at the end of October and into November and I don't sleep well when he's not here so I filled the pre-dawn and post-sunset hours by stitching, resulting

These monthly posts help me keep track of projects, but they seem to roll around awfully fast. This month I cut and pieced this Arcade quilt top for a friend's son. It's a 3-yard quilt that I made bigger I took it, and the 16-patch top I made for his sister last month, to Jackie last week.I made the bindings for both quilts, plus another for a scrappy quilt I made a few months agoI worked on

 Closing out September already? That doesn't seem possible. It was a busy month both in and out of my sewing room. I spent one day in a place I hadn't been in over a year. I used to work at the Livestock Sale Barn on Mondays out on the block next to the auctioneer for 10 years. I quit when we moved, but my boss asked me if I minded filling in when she knew she'd be shorthanded last week

 I've stayed pretty focused this year and have tried to chip away at the long quilt list I made back in January. This S'mores quilt has been on the list for a long time and this month I finally dug back into it. I made another 100+ blocks, started on the setting triangles, and couldn't help myself from putting a few rows togetherI pieced all the blocks for this scrap quilt from pieces I had

 I was in my sewing room quite a bit this month, but I wasn't always sewing. But this month I managed to get my Land of Enchantment top together. I had made all the blocks earlier, but it had a pieced border so I completed that this month. I've been trying to use what I have, but I didn't have anything even close for a backing and I caved when I saw this fabric online and had to have

Is it just me or did June just whizz by? Somewhere along the way, I did manage to make some progress and get some stitching done. It doesn't happen every day, maybe 2 or 3 days a week most weeks, but that's a good balance for me. It might just be 30 minutes, but every once in a while, I manage to sneak in a couple of hours.  My big accomplishment this month was getting all of the HSTs

Zip. Zip. Blink. Blink. And just like that, another month is behind us, but between daily life projects and activities, I snuck in a few stitches.DH made a quick trip to visit his brother for a few days this last week and I thought I might get a lot done then, but I ran errands in town on Tuesday, the kids came for a visit on Wednesday (because they thought I might get lonely

 I've had quite a few folks ask how I accomplish so much. I guess it's all a matter of perspective because I don't feel like I get much done. All of us are busy in different ways and I think we all juggle our hobbies around the rest of the things that fill our days. When we have company, I don't sew a stitch and this month we had 3 different sets, totalling 8 nights. I love having

 Between having a houseful for a week, a 2nd batch of overnight company, spending 4 full days immersed in taxes, and ongoing outdoor projects, I was surprised at the progress I was able to make on the sewing front this month.I cut everything out for this Farmhouse quilt at the beginning of the month, got it pieced and binding made - the blocks are big and it didn't take long to put togetherI

 Last time I checked, there were still 24 hours in a day, but they sure are flying by. Seems like I just did the last Under the Needle post. In January, I started this scrappy Christmas quilt and got all the blocks made. I pieced the top  this month and made the binding so it's ready to hand off to JackieOur boy brought the quilt I made him when he went to college (2008), home over

 Sewing time has been negligible since August, thus, monthly Under the Needle posts fell by the wayside. Now that we've finally settled in, I've enjoyed popping into my sewing room every now and then again.We've still got lots of projects we're working on, but when DH is running the skid steer, working on a shared water line with the neighbor (he lives in town, but has property 6 miles from

 My knee has kept me from bellying up the the sewing machine this month. I gritted through adding the binding to the front of this quilt because I was desperate to have something to do while I was resting my knee in the evenings, but I will say, that Cortisone shot made a huge difference.I had picked up another quilt from Jackie and got the binding stitched to the front of it as wellI had a