What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

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 […]

Good 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 ...

Good 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 ...

This is the fifth tablerunner in my current binge series of tablerunners: Onyx at Christmas Tablerunner by Jessica Dayon.

It is also for Sparkle Jane and her family in their new house.

Just so you know…I have two more runners planned or in progress. When will it end? Perhaps not for a while.

ps–I love diagonal striped binding!

I sure hope there are no more mistakes in Timeless, I looked the blocks over good.  The final four baskets are done and in place on the board.  After I took the photo I took the lowest blocks off the bottom of the wall and moved them up higher before Raven would decide to do […]

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.

We had a little bit of rain again yesterday and maybe more on today on Election Day – please everyone if you didn’t get out to early vote please do your duty as a citizen and vote. I sat at the machine for only a little while but the Timeless mistake on one of the […]

Good morning, my friends. Well, my extra hour in the day stretched to accommodate all my favorite activities: Cats, Gardening, Quilting, Cooking, and Photography. So let's just see where it all began.

In the cooking category, I baked a batch of Chocolate and Pistachio Biscotti. I've made these before, and they're supposed to be dipped in more chocolate. We liked them as is, and so I bagged the whole chocolate dip at the end. These will be nice with our morning coffee.

Good morning, my friends. Well, my extra hour in the day stretched to accommodate all my favorite activities: Cats, Gardening, Quilting, Cooking, and Photography. So let's just see where it all began.

In the cooking category, I baked a batch of Chocolate and Pistachio Biscotti. I've made these before, and they're supposed to be dipped in more chocolate. We liked them as is, and so I bagged the whole chocolate dip at the end. These will be nice with our morning coffee.

Good 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 ...

Good 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 ...

When I saw Lumiere by Timeless Treasures, it was love at first sight. Thank you Timeless Treasures for providing me with these beautiful fabrics.

I cut my strips 3.25″ to yield 5″ finished hexies using my First Choice rulers by Studio 180 Design..

From the same 3.25″ strips I made 10″ kaleidoscope Star 60 units using Deb Tucker’s Star 60 Tool.

I wanted the fairy to be gazing up at the moon and the stars, so I made 5″ and 10″ Framed 60 ‘s from the beautiful coordinating fabrics using my Star 60 Tool and the Framed ...

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.

Okay, and I had a lot to do in the kitchen yesterday, as I'd planned. My first task was to bake some cornbread for last night's dinner. I've made cornbread many different ways, but this recipe from my dear friend, Debi, is the ...

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.

Okay, and I had a lot to do in the kitchen yesterday, as I'd planned. My first task was to bake some cornbread for last night's dinner. I've made cornbread many different ways, but this recipe from my dear friend, Debi, is the ...

I am ready to deliver my donation quilts next week, so I made the effort to finish these last three before the end of October.

They have all been made from the one pack of 10 inch squares from a layer cake. I had sorted them into colour groups. Some had 9 squares and others had 12. The blue quilt was in a post back in September.

First up, the orange quilt.

Simple blocks with sashing and corner stones. Here are close ups of the fabrics.

I used the alphabet fabric for the backing and an orange spot for the ...

 Good morning, my friends. Things are pretty much back to what passes for normal around here. Our weather hasn’t been as bad as anticipated. We get a little rain each day, but then we can also get blue sky and puffy white clouds. It’s cooler than earlier in the month, and it seems some kind of coat or sweater is a good idea when we’re out and about. 

So I got my pedicure and had some lunch when I got home yesterday. Then I went to work quilting the vertical sashings on the Cats in Pajamas.

 Good morning, my friends. Things are pretty much back to what passes for normal around here. Our weather hasn’t been as bad as anticipated. We get a little rain each day, but then we can also get blue sky and puffy white clouds. It’s cooler than earlier in the month, and it seems some kind of coat or sweater is a good idea when we’re out and about. 

So I got my pedicure and had some lunch when I got home yesterday. Then I went to work quilting the vertical sashings on the Cats in Pajamas.

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 ...

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 ...