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 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 ...

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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 […]

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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 ...

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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.)

While I was mixing these up, I was shocked to find I ...

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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.)

While I was mixing these up, I was shocked to find I ...

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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 […]

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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.

And, duh. A quilt with cats on both sides obviously needs two quilt inspectors. Sadie was happy to help out.

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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.

And, duh. A quilt with cats on both sides obviously needs two quilt inspectors. Sadie was happy to help out.

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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 […]

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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 ...

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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 ...

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I 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 […]

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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.

Having stitched that far, I decided to move my hoop up to be ready for today’s stitching. That takes me all the way to the top, but there’s still more on the left side.
There were a few things on my to-do list. I had one housekeeping chore, and…miracle of miracles…I’ve returned to my treadmill and Bowflex workouts. I’ve done one on each apparatus this week, so ...

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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.

Having stitched that far, I decided to move my hoop up to be ready for today’s stitching. That takes me all the way to the top, but there’s still more on the left side.
There were a few things on my to-do list. I had one housekeeping chore, and…miracle of miracles…I’ve returned to my treadmill and Bowflex workouts. I’ve done one on each apparatus this week, so ...

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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 […]

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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!

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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 […]

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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.

There's enough done on the left side that I decided to move my hoop to ...

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