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A new collection from Elizabeth Hartman is here and ready to become your new fabric craving! The Popcorn Collection by Elizabeth Hartman for Moda Fabrics is a playful riot of color, and Kimberly shared it in all its vibrant glory during our Behind the Seams livestream on Friday, September 4th. If you missed it, we have the replay for you down below, along with a closer look at all the fun fabrics in this collection. You’ll also get a peek at the What’s Poppin’ Jolly Bar Quilt, made with the free pattern included in your Popcorn Jolly Bar ...

Good morning, my friends. All my to-do's were finished early yesterday, and so there was lots of time for sewing. Three more blocks were quilted on Grandpa's Bridges. I'm just adding quilty details to the embroidery.

Here's another peek at the back.

That completes the two bottom rows of blocks. I'll start on the top two rows today.

After that, I moved to the sewing room and finished the fourth of six rows for the Zebra project.

Here's what I have for this quilt so far. I won't sew the bottom three rows ...

Good morning, my friends. All my to-do's were finished early yesterday, and so there was lots of time for sewing. Three more blocks were quilted on Grandpa's Bridges. I'm just adding quilty details to the embroidery.

Here's another peek at the back.

That completes the two bottom rows of blocks. I'll start on the top two rows today.

After that, I moved to the sewing room and finished the fourth of six rows for the Zebra project.

Here's what I have for this quilt so far. I won't sew the bottom three rows ...

Thanks for the advice on the Christmas cactus. It did cross my mind that this may not be the best time to disturb it. I'll just keep adding water and leave it alone. What is it about neglect and this type of plant? I may just move one of those tables to the kitchen window, just a few feet from where it resides today, and put the bowl on that table to give the plant more room and support. 

And KUDOS on the experimenting with the sock knitting. If you get it right the first time, you are not ...

Ok I think I will start with Timeless great progress on it.  I actually finished Silent Night Tuesday night but I left it on the frame for most of the day so I could use it as my extra table for borders. Here is timeless stretched out getting the borders in order. and here the […]

 Today, is Veterans Day. A day to thank veterans and appreciate what they have done for our country. 

We had the presentation at the museum (will post photos later), and then we went to the Lucky Eagle Casino for the Veterans Day Dinner. 

Starting with the museum presentation - The museum had a ceremony that we were a part of. The speaker was a gentleman that is on YouTube, book writer, and has been featured on new stations as well as PBS over the last 25 years. He talked about meeting the veterans and letting them tell their stories of war ...

As many of you know, Ray is part of the Community Quilt team. He is super active, and I always love hearing what Ray is up to. Every year since I’ve known Ray, his church puts on a Veterans Day meal. It’s often a day or week before Veterans Day. Ray is a HUGE part …

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Tuesday afternoon at the lakefront. Another mild day.

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In 2009 when Stevens retired we combined the contents of the parsonage with the house. We rented a storage unit to contain everything that wouldn't fit--furniture and books.  A few years after that we shuffled things around and downsized to a smaller unit.    As of Monday afternoon (with the the help of V & J) the unit is empty!   

As Ann Patchett observed in Whistler when they were sorting through the contents of the house, "Every teacup comes with a short documentary film."  The cherry table was in the Hilyards' big house ...

Rick has been so busy. I’ve hardly seen him. The other day, he asked me if I would run to the pharmacy and pick up his medicine. I said sure. I love a chance to get out of the house…and of course, that means I could stop at the thrift store. I had so much …

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Beautiful Geometry, and a Little Adventure

I can’t believe it, but it has been more than a year since I went to Alaska with Stitchin’ Heaven! I was one of the two teachers on the cruise, and the quilt I was asked to teach was Alaska by Laundry Basket Quilts. The moment I saw it, I instantly said yes! I love working with triangles, diamonds, and even Y-seams. That is my jam! I think it’s the points and angles that get me. There is something so beautiful about the way all those shapes come together.

The Alaska quilt ...

Trad Wife by Sarah Langan

If this isn't the best of the "trad wife" thrillers, it's darn close. The prologue makes it immediately clear that this is folk horror and then the book spends a lot of time introducing the reader to Jenny, a journalist who is just desperate enough to accept an assignment travelling to Black Swan Farm to write about Mia Wright, one of the most popular influencers online. Jenny's story is interesting on its own. She's a fully developed character, not just a young woman out to write a hit piece. Mia is ...