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 […]
read moreGood 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 ...
read moreThis 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 […]
read moreFall 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 ...
read moreGood 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 […]
read moreGood 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.
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 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 […]
read moreGood 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 ...
read moreGood 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 ...
read moreI got just the kind of mail you like to get. Fabric packages. First I got the next installment of Timeless, pattern for the next border and the fabric – when this border is done the quilt should be 66 x 66 inches – I say about because I’m never accurate. Three of these fabrics […]
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.
I have very little to blog about. I did literally nothing yesterday but nap off and on. Mike and I stayed up late on Tuesday watching the election results. We were disappointed with Arkansas results as they were very red like usual. We so hoped for some other candidates in that race but we loved […]
read moreGood morning, my friends. We had an epic grocery list yesterday because we hadn't been to the grocery store in nearly two weeks. On our way home, we passed by this pretty tree decked out in its fall colors. I've seen a few of these around with three colors of leaves on a single three.
Thankfully, the shopping was all done and the groceries put away before noon, which left me lots of time in the day for sewing. My first stop was to clip the Cats in Pajamas and get started hand-sewing the binding. Before I stopped ...
read moreGood morning, my friends. We had an epic grocery list yesterday because we hadn't been to the grocery store in nearly two weeks. On our way home, we passed by this pretty tree decked out in its fall colors. I've seen a few of these around with three colors of leaves on a single three.
Thankfully, the shopping was all done and the groceries put away before noon, which left me lots of time in the day for sewing. My first stop was to clip the Cats in Pajamas and get started hand-sewing the binding. Before I stopped ...
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