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I am starting a new series called “Your Turn”. Here’s how it started. As a blogger, it’s easy for you to get to know me. I write about my family, crafts, my home, my health, and anything else. You all get to know me…but sadly, I don’t get to know you. So I’m starting “Your …

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Finishing at 14″ x 23″ open and 11.5 ...

Have you ever put together a quilt, quilted it, and thought, I really don’t want to add binding to this one. It’s perfect just the way it is! That’s exactly how I felt about this quilt. I loved my border! The strips were perfect, and I didn’t want to add another line around the edge that would run in a different direction than the strips within the border, which is what traditional binding would do. That’s when it hit me! Kathy Mac, a fellow member of my quilt guild, uses facing instead of binding. Facing ...

Good morning, my friends. Oh, my goodness. We've had some nasty weather the past couple of days. We had nearly half an inch of rain on Sunday. Yesterday brought at least another inch. We're also heavily overcast, making day nearly as dark as night. We're supposed to see just a little clearing today, if you can believe the forecast. As I’m writing this, the rain has stopped. It’s overcast, but not so dark. We’re expecting more nasty weather for the remainder of the week. The weekend looks pretty good, but then more rain next ...

Good morning, my friends. Oh, my goodness. We've had some nasty weather the past couple of days. We had nearly half an inch of rain on Sunday. Yesterday brought at least another inch. We're also heavily overcast, making day nearly as dark as night. We're supposed to see just a little clearing today, if you can believe the forecast. As I’m writing this, the rain has stopped. It’s overcast, but not so dark. We’re expecting more nasty weather for the remainder of the week. The weekend looks pretty good, but then more rain next ...

 We celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving this month with the family here as usual. The neat bouquet in a real gourd they brought me is hanging on. 

This is the last to do list for October.  I'm not panicking, but feeling a bit uncomfortable that the end of the year seems to be spiraling in on us faster than I'm ready for.  It's time to start thinking about Christmas and I just don't want too.  Maybe it would help if it felt like fall. We still need to run the air conditioning in the afternoons it's so warm.  

 I love your comments!!! It makes me smile before I start writing! And the blog will be late today because I slept in. I had trouble sleeping last night, and since I have a travel day (by car), I'm not in any hurry to hit the road. 

And yes -- I think Elle and I are within a few years of each other. People have tried to pin down the year I was born, and it would be easy to tell you, but what is the point? I am not defined by my age. I know what would happen: people ...

 Ich habe einige  Tops, die hier schon fertig aufs Quilting warten, bei anderen Tops gibt es noch unterschiedliche Dinge zu erledigen. Dazu gehört das Sugar Bear Quilt-Top, das bereits seit Juni 2021 bei mir liegt. Schon damals war ich mir nicht sicher, ob ich die schwarzen Cornerstones wirklich mag. Und nein, sie gefallen mir immer weniger. Manchmal ist es doch gut ein paar Jahre zu warten.

Mein Sugar Bear Top mit schwarzen Cornerstones

Kurz entschlossen habe ich den Nahttrenner genommen und alle schwarzen Teile herausgetrennt. Damit hatte ich ein löchriges Top. Es war mir gar nicht bewusst, wie kniffelig diese ...

Stay at Home retreat starts today, and I’ve spent a couple of days trying to decide what to take. I do not have any piecing project in the works nor do I have any planned. I’ve made all the Quilts of Valor, Safelight Shelter and Project Linus quilts that I am going to do for this year. I don’t need another lap quilt or bed quilt for my home. I only have one quilt in the concept stage for my sister-in-law and I’m a long way away from being able to start that one. I need ...

Today is a day I've been dreading for the past month.  Our wonderful cleaning lady is "retiring" to care for her elderly mom, and we're really going to miss her.

She has taken such good care of us for more than a decade.  I'm gifting a quilt to her as a thank you.  She came every 2 weeks for 2 hours, doing the things I'm finding it harder to do.  I'm hoping she feels appreciated for her hard work.

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I got 2/3 of a long side of binding hand sewn.  If I keep up this pace I'll get it done this month.

 DH finally has a date with his surgeon for a new hip. You would think a man that can barely walk and needs help with shoes and socks would be a bit compromised, but I am married to a different breed. Besides, thinking he needs to get the fence project done asap, he is concerned about a hunt he has coming up in January. He drew an Oryx tag and it's a once in a lifetime draw, meaning

We had a nice day last weekend, and we made the best of it. It was time to finish up the last of the lawn work for the season. I was on duty to pull up the impatiens around the house. I can do some of these tasks myself, but Rick is a stickler about …

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