Good morning, my friends. The camper is unpacked. The bedding, towels, rugs, and quilts are washed. The birds have been fed, and what else is there? Oh yes...I needed to find room for five more refrigerator magnets. Standing in front of the refrigerator is discouraged at this point. Hard hats are required.

Matthew suggested we might need a new refrigerator if we are to do more traveling. 

Probably I've forgotten something I still need to do, but I spent a good part of the day sewing yesterday. My first task was to reorganize and figure out where I ...

Good morning, my friends. The camper is unpacked. The bedding, towels, rugs, and quilts are washed. The birds have been fed, and what else is there? Oh yes...I needed to find room for five more refrigerator magnets. Standing in front of the refrigerator is discouraged at this point. Hard hats are required.

Matthew suggested we might need a new refrigerator if we are to do more traveling. 

Probably I've forgotten something I still need to do, but I spent a good part of the day sewing yesterday. My first task was to reorganize and figure out where I ...

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 Many Hands and Many Hearts is still working on finding a place we can call its own.  But I am hopeful it will happen by the end of the year.  So I have been working on some projects to make the move a little easier.

I tackled the scraps this week.

We did have someone donate a bunch of small fabric cuts (less than a fat quarter) stored in some plastic tubs to us.  They were already sorted by color.  I decided to start there but add in all our other scraps.  I started with one tub for reds and ...

 Oh- looks like I have a new book to add to my list! Thanks for the recommendations! I love the idea of setting a "moving deadline" to motivate you to declutter. 

We just want to make sure that the deadline is doable, or we will end up feeling worse. I would like my deadline to be the end of the year, and I want to get the garage done! It won't take long, and it would be so nice to get rid of all the rest of the detritus. There isn't much, but it's still annoying and ...

The cooler and crisper days of autumn are perfect for a bowl of hot, delicious soup. I know I have my two favorites – my own recipe Butternut Squash soup with its wonderful fall flavor and the soup I have most often, Creamy Tomato Basil. But looking over the latest cookbook from Milk Street, I found a fabulous new idea for a savory soup made in under an hour. The best news for my readers with special diets, it is gluten and dairy free.

This recipe is so easy, with few ingredients and made all in one pot. It uses a ...

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Every week is a different adventure in the sewing room.  This week I started quilting this project.

I’ve changed what I call it three times.  The most recent name is Tropics.  I’m quilting a different design in each section.  It will either look really cool or be a hot mess.

I also stumbled across a church rummage sale this week.  I paid $1 for a ziploc bag with all of this in it.

The patterns will go on the free table.  I wanted the floss, needles and hoop and didn’t realize the ...

We finally got our autumn weather.  One day we've got heat indexes of over 100 degrees and the next our highs are in the 50's.  Talk about whiplash!  I had to dig out my warm slippers and a sweater yesterday morning before sitting down at the computer. The day before I was in shorts and a sleeveless tank while catching up on blog posts.  The forecast says we'll be back in the 80's by the end of the week. But the cooler weather this weekend is prefect for finishing up a binding and some quilting. Activities ...

Today I'm sharing mockups of the newly released Playful Panels quilt pattern!  This is a eye-catching pattern written for preprinted panel squares but also includes instructions for using a focus fabric instead of preprinted squares.  

It got down to 34 yesterday morning but I didn't see any frost damage on any of my plants in pots or the ...

 I attended my quilt club''s monthly stitching day on Saturday, its always a nice relaxing kind of day.  Morning tea is provided and we take a packed lunch along.  One or two of the members take their sewing machines, but I don't bother, it's much too difficult for me to unhook my machine from the cabinet, and it is so heavy to carry into the hall.  So  it's always a hand stitching project for me.

We hadn't been in the hall long, and had  barely got settled when we heard an extremely noisy "whup, whup ...

This morning, I got a few things done. I wanted to finish the sample for the cross-stitch class I was teaching today with the 4-H group. 

I stopped at Billie's to drop off the stuff I didn't have the day before. Then I went to Micheal's and picked up the floss they didn't get. Once that was done, I went to the fairgrounds to get ready for the class I was to teach. I wasn't smart enough to take pictures but then it wasn't that easy to think about them.

The background is actually ...