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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 ...

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 […]

Good morning, my friends. It was a fairly relaxed day of sewing. There were no to-do's on my list, although I did go for a walk on the treadmill. From there, it was sewing, sewing, and more sewing. Our weather is still pretty crappy, but it should be a little improved today...temporarily, at least.

There was just one more snowflake to stitch on the Snow Day piece, and I finished that easily. It still needed to have the Sticky Fabri-Solvy rinsed out. When it was dry, it was picture ready.

Good morning, my friends. It was a fairly relaxed day of sewing. There were no to-do's on my list, although I did go for a walk on the treadmill. From there, it was sewing, sewing, and more sewing. Our weather is still pretty crappy, but it should be a little improved today...temporarily, at least.

There was just one more snowflake to stitch on the Snow Day piece, and I finished that easily. It still needed to have the Sticky Fabri-Solvy rinsed out. When it was dry, it was picture ready.

We were busy yesterday and I really didn’t know if I would get any sewing done – but I did another border for Timeless.  Now I need to make time today to sew them all in place and then get the next border on that is easy strips.  All the green borders are pinned to […]

Another border done on Timeless, I moved the one I did yesterday to the side – it doesn’t really matter right now with the squares pinned to the wall – one more to go. This much quilted on Silent Night on Sunday night – and yes I do get up and move around to stretch […]

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.

 How nice to receive an unexpected family visit over the weekend.  Grand daughter Megan sent a message asking if I was free for the day as her and partner Michael wanted to come down.  She was even bringing lunch.  I did make me reflect that there wasn't much tucked away in the freezer for unexpected visits,  except a little baking, a feijoa slice, which I got out to defrost.   My excuse is that I was due for a grocery shop.  They arrived with a big bag of home grown grapefruit for me, plus a few lemons.  Delicious, I love ...

This set of borders for Timeless is going together really well.  Right now the borders are pinned to the wall – after the photo was taken I took the bottom border off and put it up higher so Raven won’t pick at the pins.  Next step is to make the side panels and put them […]

Fall is doing it’s thing in the Pacific Northwest and I love it! It was really crazy because about two weeks ago on a Thursday afternoon at 4 pm, the weather shifted. It seriously felt like Fall just fell…like, “Hello, I’m back, you had better grab a sweater and a scarf!”

After growing up in Southern California, I’m still amazed by the fall colors. There are a bunch of trees in my neighborhood that just glow in the Fall, like this one which was several blocks away. The sun was hitting just right and it looked ...

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.)

I wasn’t on the computer much and spent a good part of the day with the heating pad at my lower back.  I woke up the early morning of Saturday barely able to move – sciatic? I don’t know, I was glad that I keep the cane close to the bed every since the horrible […]

Good morning, my friends. It was a productive day yesterday. I'm closing in on a finish for the Cats in Pajamas. It should be an easy task to finish it today. Under Smitty's watchful eye, I turned the fourth corner on the binding.

It was a day-long effort, but all the while I was sewing, I was working on this Leek and Chanterelle Tart. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I used half chanterelle mushrooms and half ...

Good morning, my friends. It was a productive day yesterday. I'm closing in on a finish for the Cats in Pajamas. It should be an easy task to finish it today. Under Smitty's watchful eye, I turned the fourth corner on the binding.

It was a day-long effort, but all the while I was sewing, I was working on this Leek and Chanterelle Tart. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I used half chanterelle mushrooms and half ...

It was time to get started on the borders for Timeless.  I had most everything cut the day before but did have a little bit of cutting and instruction reading before I got busy.  I laid pieces out to prepare and then of course because I wasn’t thinking about room to pull the machine to […]

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a busy day yesterday. I had to drive into town for my haircut. Then, I stopped off at Wholly Too Expensive Foods to score some chanterelle mushrooms. The mushrooms were available, but packaged in 16 oz. packages. I really only wanted 8 oz., and so I quickly checked my Paprika app to see what I could do with the other 8 oz. No worries. I can make a Leek and Chanterelle Tart with those.  

Chanterelles in hand, I headed to our regular grocery store to return those dill pickle pistachios (perish the ...

Good morning, my friends. It was kind of a busy day yesterday. I had to drive into town for my haircut. Then, I stopped off at Wholly Too Expensive Foods to score some chanterelle mushrooms. The mushrooms were available, but packaged in 16 oz. packages. I really only wanted 8 oz., and so I quickly checked my Paprika app to see what I could do with the other 8 oz. No worries. I can make a Leek and Chanterelle Tart with those.  

Chanterelles in hand, I headed to our regular grocery store to return those dill pickle pistachios (perish the ...