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December 5, 2025
Catching up from My Sewing Room

Wow - I just lost a whole day and a half.  Tuesday morning I did some laundry and baked gingersnap cookies in the morning.  By noon I felt so tired and sat down in the recliner for awhile before going downstairs to sew.  I ended up sleeping off and on most of the afternoon and evening.  Wednesday was mostly lost as well. The only reason I had a blog post on Wednesday was because I wrote it while baking cookies Tuesday morning.  I had a fever, couldn't get warm and ached all over.  Thursday I woke up feeling mostly normal ...

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Cross stitch fully finishes from Just Sew Sue

Whilst I am thoroughly enjoying opening my advent calendars from Stich Supply Company and Studio 7T7, I felt I should accomplish something every day. I decided that some of my cross-stitch pieces should be finished and ay frame that I no longer like, will be redonated to a charity shop.


The first of four framed pieces this week designed by Barbara Ana. Some of her designs are available in her Kofi shop Support Barbara Ana designs and some are available from Creative Poppy until they close their doors.

This was a simple framing job as no painting was required. I ...

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Snow Day from Lovin' Life At The End Of The Dirt Road

I guess I should have waited a day to take the pictures of the Christmas quilt I posted yesterday because this morning we woke up to thisThe mountain had disappeared into the cloudsWhen you hear 'Snow Day' what do you think? Curl up under a quilt with a good book? Sew? Do a little baking? Sit by the fire?The answer? None of the above. Although I did spend time by the fire.DH came in at 7 and

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Lightning Srike from Wendy's Quilts and More

Each year in January I like to start a new Kaffe Fassett quilt.  This year I chose Lightning Strike from Quilts on an English Farm.  




When I made Kaffe quilts I like to take inspiration from the books, and use fabrics that I already have in my stash.  I love mixing up older prints with the new ones.  

This pattern is just giant half square triangles but the placement gives the quilt real movement.  







I love a soft, hand quilted quilt with wool batting and that's what I've done here.  I quilted the whole quilt with a variegated ...

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Cross Stitch Update: December 5, 2025 from Jo's Country Junction

I had a little more stitching time than I expected this week. We had a snowstorm last weekend. Some of my kiddos were planning to stay several days, but everyone ended up going home on Thursday or Friday, as the storm was scheduled to come in overnight on Friday. That left me with more of …

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Three! from Quiltville's Quips & Snips!


It's Friday again!

And here we are at part three of our Lupine & Laughter Mystery.

Part one focused on one unit.

Part two had us creating two different color ways of geese!

Guess what part three means?

Three different sizes of half-square triangles!

Don't worry - this trend isn't likely to continue, but I thought since the tutorial for all of these was basically the same we'd make some major headway by getting these done at the same time.
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FLYIN HIGH WITH A GAGGLE OF GEESE from Kwilty Pleasures

I used to despise making FG quilts.
That is til this one.

Several years ago Kim Hensley gave me the
pattern and a Layer Cake to make this quilt.


It didn't take too long to make.
AND I didn't cut off too many geese noses!


I also had some yardage in my stash to make the backing.


A great black and gray stripe for the binding, also in my stash.


A fall day presented a great photo op



I love how this gaggle of geese hangs in the dining room


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Finally in the Dye Pot on Off the Wall Friday from Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre

 Yes, I did it.  I gathered enough courage to make the dive into the wool dye pots.  You wouldn't think it would be such a big deal since I've been dyeing my own cotton fabric for the last 15 years.  But dyeing wool and dyeing cotton are two totally different things.  One thing is the same though, there is no set way of doing it.  Just like when I did the research on cotton, everyone seemed to do it a bit different.  There were a lot of YOU HAVE TO'S and NEVER DO'S but what there ...

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Lupine mystery clue 2 from Beryl the Pearl

 I can’t believe I’m caught up on the first two clues. Next clue on Friday   Clue 2. Some of the geese will require creative sewing. I think mine got worse the more I did

I’m also starting the Magnificent Mystery, it started in September so I’m way behind. 

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Cleaning Day & Baking from Quilting My Way

This morning, Patrick was golfing. I was able to sleep a little bit. Then I got up and ordered some sugar cookie cutters, squeeze bottles, and some different size cookie rollers. I will be ready for sugar cookies and want to be "professional" with the designs. LOL - good luck with that!

Then I vacuumed and did laundry. Woo-Hoo! Once all that was done, I played till about 2 pm. Then headed downstairs to get some backing and batting done to take a couple quilts to Colleen tomorrow. 


 Cutting batting for 6 quilts and backing for 4. I figure I can ...

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Cowboy Panel Finish! from Quilting & Learning

Hi and welcome!

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December OMG and Table Scraps Challenge from Quilting & Learning

Bonjour and welcome!

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Doris and Becky from Kat & Cat Quilts

Happy Friday, quilters! I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving and ate lots of turkey and pie. 

This week's quilts are tops made by Becky and quilted by Doris. Thanks so much to those ladies for their fabulous work.

It's been cold and wet here lately, winter has made itself known. The kitties are missing their porch time. Fudge will go outside for a few minutes and then come back in to warm up. 

I tried to have him wear his sweater the other day when it was particularly cold, but he pouted and refused to move ...

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» Beehive Quilts


 This is a quilt I made this fall using a panel and some coordinating fabric I purchased from Swifty Stitches when it was still open. I call it Steam Punk I. Steam Punk I because I purchased another Steam Punk panel while I was in process of making this one and that quilt will be called Steam Punk II whenever I actually make it.

I made up the pattern myself as I had only so much coordinating fabric. Afterwards I went to Cali Quilts and purchase an orange Minky fabric for the backing. I hung it on my wall during ...

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» Beehive Quilts


 This is a quilt I made this fall using a panel and some coordinating fabric I purchased from Swifty Stitches when it was still open. I call it Steam Punk I. Steam Punk I because I purchased another Steam Punk panel while I was in process of making this one and that quilt will be called Steam Punk II whenever I actually make it.

I made up the pattern myself as I had only so much coordinating fabric. Afterwards I went to Cali Quilts and purchase an orange Minky fabric for the backing. I hung it on my wall during ...

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Gosh, it's been a long time. from Beehive Quilts

 It has been a while since I have signed on here. It has been so long that I could not remember my password! It has taken me close to a half hour to finally get on here. But here I am. A lot has happened in the past 5 years since I posted anything.

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Gosh, it's been a long time. from Beehive Quilts

 It has been a while since I have signed on here. It has been so long that I could not remember my password! It has taken me close to a half hour to finally get on here. But here I am. A lot has happened in the past 5 years since I posted anything.

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Hashtag Christmas from Lovin' Life At The End Of The Dirt Road

When I saw this pattern from Cluck Cluck Sew, I immediately thought it would make a great scrappy Christmas quilt.I made a different scrappy Christmas quilt in 2018 And I thought it was time to make another and hopefully whittle down my Christmas fabrics a little.I like that the pieces in this block are big enough to show the fabrics.The white is a white on white print from my fabric pantry

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December 4, 2025
Thrift Store Success!! from Jo's Country Junction

I had physical therapy last week. It just so happens that my favorite thrift store is right next to where I go for PT. In complete disclosure, I picked that PT facility for that very reason. HA!! Better yet, the thrift just did a complete remodel and expanded its square footage by more than doubling …

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I Like Thursday #297 from The Knitting Quilter


It's time for I Like Thursday! Please visit LeeAnna at Not Afraid of Color to link up with more participating blogs. Well, it's time to display all our Christmas decorations. The first thing I always do is change up my table runner. I made this bargello years ago but it's still one of my favorites! The cats used to pull the ribbons but they leave it alone now that they're a little older.


My husband is starting to decorate outside. He just put this Christmas/Kissing ball up yesterday. It looks nice against the snow.


I ...

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