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Good morning, my friends. It was good to have a relatively "normal" day here yesterday. There was no going anywhere. We had leftovers for dinner, so there was mostly no cooking. Of course, I checked in on the seedlings in the greenhouse, but the day was mostly reserved for sewing. I'll have to get a little busier today. The bird feeders are all empty. I'll have to check in on the seedlings every day now. Oh...and the peonies are just about to burst open. I've noticed color on the Lavender Whisper peony...it's the one ...

The new photo challenge cards have been a bit more involved then the previous two packs.  It's been taking all of us a bit longer to come up with photos. My Guy and I spend most of our time in a small town, which can limit our photo opportunities. My Girl lives in the big city, but she now has a full time job, with a commute. So she doesn't have as much time as when she was a college student. Consequently, we seemed to have shifted to a monthly schedule on our photographs. We're just going ...

We are having sew much fun celebrating the second annual Jolly Bar Day with our wonderful quilty community, and we can’t wait to see what sweet creations you cook up today! This afternoon, starting at 1PM CT, we invite you to join Kimberly for a special Saturday Livestream on the Fat Quarter Shop YouTube Channel and sew the Jolly Bar Hearts Door Banner together. If this pattern doesn’t have your heart, keep reading for a roundup of all our free Jolly Bar Patterns, a look back at our lineup of Jolly Bar Books, and sew much more!

Don ...

The good news is that with shorter and slower walks and lots of ice, I'm doing OK. Better than OK, and that makes me happy. 

However, someone is very unhappy with the short walks and is protesting. Every time I was near the front door, guess who was there? Demanding that I take her for another walk. How does she know her walk was shortchanged? Lexi is just happy to get out and doesn't care how long the walk is. 

However, the morning walk with Murphy was bizarre. I think I had mentioned that we had some lightning ...

It was a beautiful day in the mid 60s yesterday.  My company and I went to my son's house ...

That's all I needed for one of my current RSC projects.   Just two orange blocks, the colour for May, and one extra for the corner, which I stitched in yellow.  Nice bright colours to go with the black on grey  funky dinosaurs.

The last three blocks

That was nice and easy, so then I set about webbing the blocks together.  Somehow I got one row tangled up and around the wrong way, goodness knows how that happened.  It all worked out fine in the end though.  The borders were added over a couple more days, as I don't ...

I was able to get some Rainbow Scrap Challenge blocks done. I finally moved on to orange, and I’m enjoying working on these bright, colorful blocks.

I got two of these finished. 

And, two of these sixteen patch stars.

In my head, I call them the “biggie stars”. The blocks are 16”, so they look really big to me. I should be able to make a good sized quilt with them. Oh, I have a problem; I am going to run out of the background fabric soon. I have looked for more, including online, and can’t seem to ...

I have a finished quilt to show you…It’s Twirl Around from Bonnie Hunter’s book Addicted to Scraps. You can find the book HERE. I did some modifications so if you’re interested in making one, I’ll tell you what I did. The coloring from my pictures isn’t quite true. The real color is this…They are MUCH …

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Got up this morning and just played my match games for a bit. Patrick went golfing. 

Around 1:30 pm was my war game, so I had to play that for an hour and a half. Didn't do good but think I made it to the next round, or at least I think I did. 

We left right after my game to pick mom up. We took her down to Longview to have supper with my brother. Red Lobster is the place we meet up. It works out great. We treated mom to a Birthday and Mother's Day ...

I had a lot of books on Libby in my waitlist…nothing looked like it would be available soon, so I went on a hunt. I wanted to find historical fiction, but not WWII. I came across the book As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner. I’ve read other books by her and was hopeful this …

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At which point my exasperated right breast said, "Hold my beer."

Many of my latest gel plate prints, made with doily-like stencils, look like this.

My newest rubber stamp

Random pieced improv triangle mandalas that ...

 If you will be near Walla Walla  on May 12th I will be doing a trunk show for the Village Quilters Guild. It starts at 6:30PM at Blue Mountain Community Church, 928 Sturm Street. Because I'm driving I'm able to bring many of my larger quilts to share.

If anyone would like to purchase something from my Etsy store I can bring it. It will save shipping charges.  The link is HERE. 

Also I still have the Lost Garden of Heligan on pre-sale discount! Check that out HERE. 

Good morning, my friends. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. We have three birthdays in a single week, followed by Mother's Day. With PT in the mix, it has me feeling as if I've been on the run. (No wonder I got a speeding ticket.) Mainly, I'm just doing things not a part of my usual routine. Next week, Mike will have a cataract surgery on Wednesday, and so I have just a few days to enjoy a relatively normal schedule.

It was a good day to spend some time in the greenhouse yesterday. The ...

Good morning, my friends. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. We have three birthdays in a single week, followed by Mother's Day. With PT in the mix, it has me feeling as if I've been on the run. (No wonder I got a speeding ticket.) Mainly, I'm just doing things not a part of my usual routine. Next week, Mike will have a cataract surgery on Wednesday, and so I have just a few days to enjoy a relatively normal schedule.

It was a good day to spend some time in the greenhouse yesterday. The ...

I had sew much fun quilting my beach-themed Village Quilt!

This quilt came together as part of Tracy Mooney’s Quilt Along.  The quilt along is still active, so follow along with Tracy at Sew Supportive. My houses reminded me of the bathing houses at Dendy Beach near Melbourne, Australia.

I added a fun beachy fabric for the back chose a simple wave machine quilting design that felt like the perfect finishing touch for the beach theme. Sometimes the simplest quilting designs are the most effective, and the wave quilting finished this quilt beautifully.

Of course, quilting plans have a ...

April 2026 was one long roadtrip!

I started out at the New England Quilt Expo in Manchester New Hampshire. I was invited there By Bits “N” Pieces Quilt Shop to be the keynote speaker and teach a One Block Wonder workshop. And what a great workshop it was. I can’t wait to see their finished OBW’s!

I was home a week and then off to teach at AQS Paducah. What an honor to be invited to teach there. I taught 4 classes and gave a trunk show! Studio 180 Design Certified Instructors have a tendency to run in ...