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Good morning, my friends. When I wrote yesterday's post, I was thinking about quilting those straight lines on Grandpa's Bridges, and I was worrying I'd make my hands and wrists hurt. My plan was to use this Line Tamer ruler, which I love. It fits around the foot of my machine, making it easier for me to quilt a straight line. The quilt was waiting for me, needle down, and the ruler was in place. I'd already used it to quilt the first line across the first side of the first block.

Good morning, my friends. When I wrote yesterday's post, I was thinking about quilting those straight lines on Grandpa's Bridges, and I was worrying I'd make my hands and wrists hurt. My plan was to use this Line Tamer ruler, which I love. It fits around the foot of my machine, making it easier for me to quilt a straight line. The quilt was waiting for me, needle down, and the ruler was in place. I'd already used it to quilt the first line across the first side of the first block.

I woke up at 3AM Saturday morning with that darn nerve pinching in my hip area.  Hard to get to sleep after that.  I got up and moved to the living room and got a couple heat packs – one for the hip area and one for the quad which hurts bad when that happens.  […]

Good morning, my friends. It was a crazy day grocery shopping. It seemed everyone in town was there to collect on those quadruple fuel points. We grabbed everything we needed and made our escape as quickly as possible. We made two more stops in town, but then we were home just after noon. We had our lunch and we each took naps, and then I could get back to my sewing. As I've said many times, life seems to be a series of obstacles getting between me and my sewing.

Smitty was my helper cat yesterday.

Good morning, my friends. It was a crazy day grocery shopping. It seemed everyone in town was there to collect on those quadruple fuel points. We grabbed everything we needed and made our escape as quickly as possible. We made two more stops in town, but then we were home just after noon. We had our lunch and we each took naps, and then I could get back to my sewing. As I've said many times, life seems to be a series of obstacles getting between me and my sewing.

Smitty was my helper cat yesterday.

Someone mentioned recently that they had Hobbs cotton batting and it was very thin in places – I had ordered a pack of it late last year or early this year when I saw it was on sale and found when I was putting it on the frame that it was very thin in places […]

I heard yesterday and through today there are some of us having trouble with Outlook.  I wasn’t able to upload my photos until this morning when I all of a sudden realized I could get into Gmail and see if the photos were there and they were! so here I am now finally doing a […]

Good morning, my friends. It was an easy-going day yesterday. Y'all talked me into taking a break from the Zebra quilt. I was tempted to work on it anyway, but we negotiated a plan for finishing the blocks. There are ten blocks left to finish the top. The zebra and I agreed I would aim to make two blocks per day. If I stick with that schedule, I should have it finished in five days. It's a good plan. Two blocks is doable, and I can maintain my sanity at the same time.

As for yesterday’s comings ...

Good morning, my friends. It was an easy-going day yesterday. Y'all talked me into taking a break from the Zebra quilt. I was tempted to work on it anyway, but we negotiated a plan for finishing the blocks. There are ten blocks left to finish the top. The zebra and I agreed I would aim to make two blocks per day. If I stick with that schedule, I should have it finished in five days. It's a good plan. Two blocks is doable, and I can maintain my sanity at the same time.

As for yesterday’s comings ...

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 […]