Good morning, my friends. It’s another morning of writing fast. Matthew and I are meeting up this morning. I’ll say more about that in a minute.
It was a busy sewing day yesterday. With the Cats in Pajamas soon to be rehomed, it was time to think seriously about the next quilt in line to be quilted. Grandpa’s Bridges is next. This should be pretty easy. Already I have some ideas about it, and it’ll all be doable.
Good morning, my friends. It’s another morning of writing fast. Matthew and I are meeting up this morning. I’ll say more about that in a minute.
It was a busy sewing day yesterday. With the Cats in Pajamas soon to be rehomed, it was time to think seriously about the next quilt in line to be quilted. Grandpa’s Bridges is next. This should be pretty easy. Already I have some ideas about it, and it’ll all be doable.
Good morning, my friends. It was a busy day yesterday, but I managed to get it all done with a little time to spare. We'd run out of the biscotti I baked last week, and I had my eye on some Sweet Cherry Jammers. These are made with some homemade sweet cherry jam...cherries from our trees. Think of a thumbprint cookie, then slide the cookie out from under the jam and shove in a biscuit. I wrote a lengthy post about this back in 2012. (Yikes.)
Good morning, my friends. It was a busy day yesterday, but I managed to get it all done with a little time to spare. We'd run out of the biscotti I baked last week, and I had my eye on some Sweet Cherry Jammers. These are made with some homemade sweet cherry jam...cherries from our trees. Think of a thumbprint cookie, then slide the cookie out from under the jam and shove in a biscuit. I wrote a lengthy post about this back in 2012. (Yikes.)
This morning, I woke thinking I might have missed the challenge game I'm in. I did have the time wrong but was ready to play at 11:30 am today. Patrick went up to Olympia for his ultrasound. I played my war game. I came out in the middle of my group, then our group came out in 3rd out of 4. For a minute, I though Sux was there, but she gave her account to Coco. (Nicknames we use). I do miss that gal!
I headed downstairs while I waited on Patrick to come home with a pizza ...
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Cutting out the lining fabric for my jewellery pouches.
A template cut from wallpaper, pattern weights, tailors chalk and some beautifully soft cotton voile.
These linings will be embroidered at the top edge.
French knots and Swarovski crystals on one and French knots with pink sequins on the other.
I best crack on.
Thanks so much for your messages after my last post.
Keep taking the tablets they say.
Good advice.
How are you all? I want to tell you something and I feel sure you all will understand this. I debated sharing because I also don't want to upset anyone. Since last writing to you, I had a few days where my mood was deep down in my boots. It came out of the blue; just woke one morning feeling like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. I coped like I always do when this happens with pushing myself to keep extra busy. I vaccumed and mopped all the floors here, made more trips with bringing ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. Yesterday looked a lot like the day before. It was kind of a busy morning, but as always, my day started with embroidery.
Good morning, my friends. Yesterday looked a lot like the day before. It was kind of a busy morning, but as always, my day started with embroidery.
Good morning, my friends. There wasn't as much time for sewing yesterday as I'd hoped, but the binding is sewn on the Cats in Pajamas, and that project is on the home stretch. We had almost not a single bite of food in the house for lunch, and so we ended up driving into town for a second McRib. Usually, we limit ourselves to one per seasonal offering, but what the heck, right?
Before we left, I took some time for slow-stitching.
Good morning, my friends. There wasn't as much time for sewing yesterday as I'd hoped, but the binding is sewn on the Cats in Pajamas, and that project is on the home stretch. We had almost not a single bite of food in the house for lunch, and so we ended up driving into town for a second McRib. Usually, we limit ourselves to one per seasonal offering, but what the heck, right?
Before we left, I took some time for slow-stitching.
This morning, Patrick was up and out the door to golf. First time in about 3 months. He made enough noise this morning to wake the dead.
I was up shortly after he left. I needed to get moving. Had breakfast and then was out the door. I got my tea on the way to Georgie's. Funny too because I didn't need to stop anywhere beforehand.
I arrived after Sandy. It was just the 4 of us again. I had to leave around 11 to meet up with my PT, Bob, as he had some things he asked ...
read moreToday, I got up to find my box of threads already delivered.
Patti stopped by and dropped off a couple quilt tops. Now I have 5 ready to be quilted. My quilters are busy and one said she can't ...
read moreGood morning, my friends, and welcome to November! Sheesh. Can you believe we're into the "holiday season" already? And it’s my favorite time change of the year. For the past week, I’ve been making a list of all the things I’m going to do with my extra hour of time.
Truthfully, time seems to fly by any more. I feel as if we just got home from last winter’s trip south. It makes me think of a conversation I had with one of my graduate school professors. Her name was Maria, and her social work ...
read moreGood morning, my friends, and welcome to November! Sheesh. Can you believe we're into the "holiday season" already? And it’s my favorite time change of the year. For the past week, I’ve been making a list of all the things I’m going to do with my extra hour of time.
Truthfully, time seems to fly by any more. I feel as if we just got home from last winter’s trip south. It makes me think of a conversation I had with one of my graduate school professors. Her name was Maria, and her social work ...
read moreHere we go again, never ending circle of days. And we are back to Saturday. At least I don't have plans today, so I could start working on something I was thinking about.
I went downstairs to hook up my embroidery machine and see what I could do. My table runners arrived today. I had an idea for one of them, but when I was looking at it, it was too tall for the table runner. Took up too much space.
Good morning, my friends. There wasn't much time for sewing yesterday since I spent a good part of the day in the kitchen. Before anything else could begin, however, I needed to finish off the second block for the Quilters' Retweet.
Good morning, my friends. There wasn't much time for sewing yesterday since I spent a good part of the day in the kitchen. Before anything else could begin, however, I needed to finish off the second block for the Quilters' Retweet.
Two jewellery pouches in progress.
The white piece is almost finished. The patchwork piece is just beginning.
When these are drawn up with a drawstring they will be small, delicate and dainty with the base fabric measuring just seventeen inches.
Both will have an embroidered lining and a hand made cord to fasten them.
I am using exclusively Liberty 'Little Mirabelle' Tana lawn for the patchwork.
It's so very pretty.
Good morning, my friends. Well, I'm back after my "pilot episode" of this year's flu. Interestingly (to me, at least), I looked back at several years of posts to see how I'd reacted to these vaccines in the past. In 2025, we got both flu and COVID on the same day…no reaction…not even a sore arm. Then, I looked up my post about our vaccines from 2024, and I had a similar reaction to this year’s vaccine...fever, chills, and feeling generally ill. In 2023, just general malaise. I know the vaccines are ...
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