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 While I was away my Janome had its own spa week. I picked it up from the shop on Monday and it's back in business.

And Janet is working on doing the quilting on this top that Marg finished a few months ago. Here at home I finished a quarter log cabin quilt top design called Townhouses. And then I brought home ...

This summer marks 30 years of our Road Scholar adventures. Stevens and I began traveling with Elderhostel, as Road Scholar was then called, in 1996 when they changed the minimum age requirement.  My parents traveled with Elderhostel, too, so I'm second-generation.   Click on the tab at the top to see the entire list.  

I went to Peru because I didn’t go to Scotland.   That is, I registered for the mid-July session of The Best of Scotland but that was cancelled due to low enrollment. I was able to sign up for ...

Welcome back for week 22 of the Sewcialites 3 Quilt Along as we celebrate our amazing quilting community! Each week, one of the 25 oh-sew-talented designers we’ve teamed up with is bringing you a new block pattern. This week, we’re excited to introduce the grounded Down To Earth Block by Wendy Sheppard!

Down To Earth by Wendy Sheppard

This week’s designer is the amazing quilt pattern designer, Wendy Sheppard. This week, she brought us the intermediate-level Down To Earth Block, made with flying geese and plenty of piecing! You can join Kimberly for a live ...

Sophia and I finally got some sewing time yesterday, and plan to do lots more today.  She had that wrestling camp Tuesday.  And she has been going to the gym with grandpa each morning to get in her workout.  Wednesday afternoon we did go to both quilt shops here in town, where she chose fabric for a couple of projects.

Sophia's first project a year or so ago was adding borders onto a panel to make a throw quilt - which I noticed she has with her right now.  Her second project was making herself 2 pillowcases.  She decided she ...

Panels like this one are always enticing. I really like the motifs, but then I get them home and they sit because I can’t decide what to do with them. I loved these Santas, but I don’t need another Christmas wall hanging or lap quilt. So, what to do? I began looking around on the internet for inspiration and spent a lovely Sunday morning noodling on Pinterest. I saw a quilted laundry bucket that I was stunned to find out was a Walmart ad!! Well, this panel could be something like that!

I’m going to show this ...

I am definitely a creature of habit, and if I go outside that world, I'm in big trouble!!!

I had pretty much packed my suitcase the evening before, so not much to do in the morning except have breakfast. But I thought I would give the wardrobe one last look. I checked the drawers - nothing. But when I opened up the hanging clothes area, there were THREE of my things in there. Good grief!!!!! 

I never, never, never unpack my suitcase, and so all my clothes are hanging around or in the suitcase in the room. That would not ...

I was going through some old photos on my phone and found an early photo of me. My grandfather had stood me on the hood of a car holding my Easter basket.  I appear to be roughly 4 years old, but I could be off a year either way. 

Another pile of scraps turns into another baby quilt

The four large print pieces came together. Great fabric, but not enough to make a quilt with.

I dug through the scrap boxes and found reasonable matching cream, pink, red-ish and brown pieces that turned into 9-patch blocks. (The colors look better in real life than they look here.)

The finish is shown here with my saddle and chaps that my father made. I lived on a horse for years. No horse in my life now, but the memories remain. I was a baby cowgirl, once up on a time.

I don’t even know where to start. I have a lot going on right now. Yesterday was quilt guild, but I didn’t stay for the workshop. The workshop topic was collage quilting, and I had enough of that this week with the 4H kids. I have been working on getting caught up with customer commitments plus my own stuff. 

I had already done 23 so now I’m up to 27. I need 30 blocks for my quilt, so I need to push through and get these completed. I do them ...

I don’t have a lot of progress to show. We’ve had the grandkids twice this week…and remember that elusive garage sale we are having? Well, I’m still working on it. I’ve been through so much stuff in the house. It’s been a while since I’ve shown you the whole piece of Consider the Lilies. Here …

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This morning, we were up and ready to go. I got moving on getting some laundry going. Adding stuff to the luggage for our trip. Really don't need much, but I tend to over pack every time. 

Vacuumed and got the kitty litter taken care of. Then I came in the computer room and got some things done with QOV. I had to update the Facebook stuff. Then I had to go down the list of veterans for our excel sheet. I still have about 100 names to add. It's getting closer to being done. I just need ...

Saturday, I drove over to Osage, Iowa, to the Stitchery Nook. They were holding a 4-day open retreat, meaning anyone could attend. I opted to go just for Saturday. I’m still trying to catch up on life at home and only spared a day to get away. I almost didn’t go, but I wanted to …

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