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I love chain piecing – it is mindless at times but I usually get a lot done.  Yesterday I didn’t do any sewing until late afternoon and then I decided to work on the signature quilt some more.  Signatures are still coming in – I’m not sure how many more – I actually lost track!  […]

I had one block cut and ready to sew so I did that yesterday morning before I moved on to the signatures. All nine – with the signatures up on the wall I have no place to lay this one out other than the floor and I just didn’t feel like it LOL A tiny […]

Well maybe not old but that you have had for awhile – don’t you wonder at times why you bought them? Will you ever make them? If you start will you finish?  I have many books on my shelves and many patterns that I do wonder these questions.  Periodically something will remind me of the […]

Still a ways to go in getting A Charming Country Christmas quilt done but two rows of blocks out of the five needed are done – and then there is the sashing of course that really makes this quilt pattern come alive.   EDITED:  (the tiny squares are not meant to be in any color coordinated […]

This quilt is coming along really well of course I have put in 43 hours of work on it since I put it on the frame a month ago.  It is now more than half way finished. This part was finished on Saturday night And I rolled it down and started some of it yesterday […]

At the beginning of January I took part in OMG at Elm Street Quilts and now at the end of the month we post if we succeeded in our goal.  I did!  I said I would finish block 3 and 4 of my quilt Alaska and I did – I had already finished block 1 […]

Oh I do so love the bright colors on this – I am so glad I decided to use bright bold batiks and not anything else.  I think I mentioned I was ordering some 5 inch charm packages and a jelly roll in the same batiks to make sure I have plenty for this quilt […]

Finally I have dug out the signature quilt.  I thought I had a  plan in mind for it and then saw another pattern.  I knew the fabric I was going to use was the same batiks that I had for Brimfield Awakening – that quilt came from a kit I ordered several years or more […]

I never got the 6th Christmas block stitched yesterday but it is ready for me to work on today. Quilting on Williamsburg Beauty And a little more crochet Yesterday was a little busy in the late afternoon I had to run to the dentist once again for a minor adjustment of a tooth, the bite […]

Seeing as I was doing Slow Sunday Stitching yesterday I didn’t work at the sewing machine at all taking a break from the Christmas blocks instead I picked up neglected Morning Glory and worked on needle turn applique while watching a movie which I lost interest in half way through (The Irishman with Robert De […]

Y’all will get tired of seeing Christmas blocks soon and I’m sure I will work on other things as well to show.  But I got one more block done for a total of four now and I really like the mixed backgrounds.  I wasn’t too sure on this last one, I was thinking maybe it […]

I am really getting into the zone on this block.  It is fun to sit down with the fabric and the layout pattern and start cutting pieces and putting them in the spot I want – stand back and look at it and possibly change out a few pieces and then start to sew.  I’m […]

Don’t you just love seeing the antique machines?  Yesterday my niece who lives in Kuwait teaching school there attended an event and she saw the most beautiful machine and took a photo of it to send to me on messenger.  I had never seen this one and she wasn’t able to get a ID number […]

Yes for a change I will be working on a Christmas quilt this year – actually two as the Alaska is in Christmas colors as well be more muted and could actually be used for any time of the year.  Actually a Christmas quilt can be used anytime of year especially if there are no […]

Finally I can see my table again!  I cut more hexies yesterday and pressed strings that had been piled up in the plastic box.  I have a small handful of pieces that can be cut into hexies still and I will finish that small amount and then put the boxes away that they are stored […]

My morning yesterday was spent cutting hexies and I almost filled my box back up but there are still plenty of scraps left on the table to use.  I intended to keep working on them most the day today but I must admit I tired of them and didn’t touch them much in the afternoon […]

Yesterday I said I was going to work on Morning Glory and I did but not until late afternoon.  Earlier in the day I decided to go through two “small” boxes of scraps to continue cleaning things up – it is amazing how many scraps can fit in two boxes – but I can now […]

After Friday night’s storms we went into a cold Saturday and I stayed in the house all day – other than checking the mail – I was going from sewing another green block to crochet and some washing of quilts.  We had a little light rain most of the day and  sleet Saturday afternoon but […]

I tell you Lynn from Sew n’ Wild Oak makes a really good pattern –  what a neat quilt Country Charmer is  -great cutting instructions, the block layout guide, instructions on construction,  pressing instructions – this will make this RSC quilt so much easier to make 53 pieces in an 8.5 inch block and it […]

Yes finally getting started on my new RSC20 quilt – the color choice was announced on the 1st of the month but I have been clearing off the table of other patterns and finally have a clean table to work from. I am using a pattern called Country Charmer for this quilt and will do […]