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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 ...

At our local guild small area meeting in September, fellow guild member Gail asked everyone to bring a brown paper bag with 2 fat quarters we really liked for an exchange. The bags were handed out in August, and were decorated with fall leaf decorations. In September, the bags were put on a table and everyone just picked one, not knowing who brought it or what the fabrics looked like inside. The idea was to take the fat quarters you received, and make a gift from them to return to the person who brought them. You could add fabric to ...

Well, I did it! I finished my Halloween quilt the day BEFORE Halloween. I knew I could do it! read more

For our sewing project for Fall Fortnight, I thought it would be nice to make something small that everyone can easily do on a domestic machine, then send to a charity to lift the spirits of the seniors and disabled folks on the Meals on Wheels client list. We need 275 placemats to meet their need here in my county. In order to help you decide what you’d like to do for yourself, your friends, or to help with our charity project, we have a special blog hop today of my fellow blogger friends, each one with a tutorial ...

So, it’s been a while and I found myself getting inimidated on how much I needed to catch up on so I’m just gong to jump in and give you a highlights reel kind of post.

Quilting

I recently finished this top from one of the Project Quilting Challenges. The theme was, I think, about vacations? I remember that I couldn’t get the top quilted in order ot meet the deadline and ended up doing a pincushion. The signal flag blocks spell out “Let’s go” if you read them from top left to right and from ...

You already know that I’ve been making more time for fun stuff. That also includes hanging out with my friends!

When the kids were little, so much of my time and energy revolved around them and their homeschool lessons and play dates. And now, little by little, they don’t need me quite as much. The house is quieter. Everyone has their own schedules, their own activities, their own lives happening.

And I’m realizing that this leaves a little more room for my people, too.

I’ve been having lunch with one friend every other week, playing pickleball ...

It's definitely growing.

You can compare it to here. 

This is a lifetime commitment ha ha.

I want it single bed size and that scares me. 

I'm not even looking to check how big that actually is.....don't tell me. 

This is made completely with Liberty Tana Lawn.

That's a bonus.

It means I need to keep buying Liberty Tana Lawn! 

I also gave in to temptation and removed some of the templates.

Very satisfying. 

I'll be missing for a while from today.

I'm going here.

Behave yourselves whilst I'm gone. 

x 

       

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Yay! It’s finally done. Mostly.

I have no doubts that if you’re one of my regular readers, you know that I’m easily pleased by little (and some big) things that happen around here. The Hubs overthinks construction on the level that I overthink everything else, and I have to admit that sometimes he has better ideas than me. Yes, I can own that. So while I had what I thought were “there’s no way it won’t be anything but this” moments, serendipitous epiphanies happen while you’re arranging and rearranging, and they make me happy ...

The Fall Fiber Fair is Saturday October 17th in front of Beginnings Quilt Shop. I have agreed to be a part of the it once again with a booth in front of their store. I pulled out all the things I have left over from the guild gift shop, and it is quite a bit. If you see something you would like, I will certainly sell it to you in advance of this event. I have more than plenty to stock a booth right now! This photo is from my table last year when I took way too much, all ...

Last week, my husband and the kids went to New Orleans to attend his grandmother’s funeral, and it’s one of those things that makes you stop and think about just how short this life really is. 

We’re all here for a little while and none of us get to know exactly how long that “little while” will be.

We might as well make the most of it.

The good days. The hard days. The ordinary Tuesday afternoons. The celebrations, the disappointments, the belly laughs, the tears, the mess, and all the stuff in between.

It’s all ...

The gallery wall needed another piece of art. Fortunately, I had a rainbow in my sewing studio. I have collected Kona solids for years—decades, really—so there was no shortage of color to choose from. Pulling fabrics for this project was … Continue reading →

The video explains it all! One of the most ambitious art quilts I’ve ever created. From the first pieces of fabric to the final stitches, this textile wall hanging became a much bigger undertaking than I ever imagined. So many … Continue reading →

I chuckle at all the higher-toilet comments. This might be too much information, but I am not a tall person (66"), and I'm not sure what my inseam is - probably around 30". When I am sitting on the toilet, I need to be at a certain angle. I find the higher toilets are too high for my comfort. So I'm going to keep doing my standing squats so I can keep using the lower toilet! It's hilarious—but I can't use the higher toilet! How do vertically challenged people cope?  

Thanks for the recommendation of The ...

Yup. I know. I missed last week’s newsletter. It was bound to happen. 

My husband left town for 5 days, life got a little extra busy around here, and by the time I came up for air, the week was over. Sigh. 

I could’ve spent a bunch of time feeling guilty about it, but instead I decided to just pick up where I left off… and feel just a little bit guilty about it. read more

What’s the Project? Learn how to sew a microwave bowl cozy that sits right under your bowl while it heats. This easy quilt-as-you-go project uses fabric scraps and microwave-safe materials to create little handles for grabbing your hot bowl—without doing that awkward hot-hot-hot! shuffle back to the counter.

Microwave Bowl Cozy Pattern

You know what shouldn’t be surprising anymore? That the bowl you just heated in the microwave is HOT.

And yet… I still grab it.

A microwave bowl cozy solves that problem. Your bowl sits right inside the cozy while it’s in the microwave, and ...