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Merry Christmas to all of you!  Thank you all for your kindness and comments all throughout the past year.  I appreciate you more than you can know.  It just makes my day to wake up and see your sweet words and little jokes each morning when I log on to my computer.  I haven't been […]

I am excited about another sew along that a number of big names in the quilting world are participating in.  It is a sew along inspired by a gorgeous quilt made by Lissa Alexander (Moda Lissa) that will appear in the upcoming issue of American Patchwork and Quilting.  I don't have permission to use Lissa's […]

I had a bit of time in the sewing room yesterday and instead of working on finishing my Nantucket stars, I got side tracked with this pretty fall foliage fabric.  In fact, that is what it is called–"Foliage" by Moda.  It looks like I will be having a crowd for Thanksgiving dinner and it seemed […]

Thanks so much for all your sweet good wishes after my unfortunate car accident.  Much to be thankful for–Eva or Grandpa weren't with me, I wasn't badly injured, my car is fixable, and the young man who hit me has perhaps learned a lesson.  Repairs are underway, I get a new car seat for my […]

Yup.  That's my car.  I was minding my own business, driving down the road toward the gas station, with only the thought of filling up the tank, when a 16 year old kid broad sided me.  Kapow.  Out of the blue, and my car is spinning out of control, ending up going in the opposite […]

I know.  This was the best I could do. My skill set is definitely not in the area of pumpkin carving. But Eva and I had a wonderful time, and it was all her idea to make a sad faced pumpkin.  We carved this guy after our nap, which was a long one.  Preschool wore […]

  Oh man, I have the starch taken right out of me, that is for sure.  How many boxes of Kleenex am I going to go through?  This one is a doozy.   However, unlike the gal in the cartoon above, I haven't had the luxury of lolling around in my bed.  I wonder if there […]

I am struggling so this week without a computer.  My daughter has generously allowed me to use her teensy little MacBook Air, which is quite a different beast from my big Dell laptop.  Everything is tiny and strange, and I am dying to get my own laptop back from the repair shop.  Hopefully that will […]

Do any of you take your sewing machine along on vacations?  There is nothing better I like to do!  My husband and I had a chance to trade our time share for a place up in Lake Tahoe, and I was happy as could be, thinking I could sit and sew the entire time I […]

Little by little, I am making progress with my Sunflower Sisters quilt.  I grabbed a few minutes today and got my flip corners sewn onto the sunflower centers and lattice blocks. I have made the decision to make my quilt top smaller than the size in the Buggy Barn's Autumn in My Garden quilt pattern.  […]