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Well. Sewcialites is just about a finish for me. There are a couple more weeks in the sew-along, but I really want to put a cap on this project and finish it up. I made a couple of extra 6-inch blocks to fill in the blanks and figured out my setting. The setting I chose […]

I had to share this new cookbook I ordered from Amazon. All the recipes are for two. I have had good luck with Taste of Home cookbooks and recipes over the years and thought I would give it a try. The recipes all have large colorful photos, and the book is in large print, so […]

I had a few precious hours on Sunday to work on my Serendipity row quilt. I am on Row 4, which featured a block I did not care for at all. It seemed overly complicated, in not a good way, so I switched it out. The block I ended up using is called "Economy" and […]

April was a great reading month for me. I plowed through 10 books. I started an 11th one, but became annoyed with it and stopped about halfway through. Life is too short to stick with a book you are not enjoying. Here are my reviews of 5 of my April Books. I will tackle the […]

Sorry for the lack of content this week. Honestly not much is happening. Eva and I finished up the week and she is now enjoying Spring Break. Her other grandparents, who have been missing her so much, have rented a room at a local motel and are coming up to see her this weekend. They […]

So. We know paper piecing is kind of inside out, upside down and backwards. Sometimes it is really hard to figure out what fabric or color goes where.  More times than I would like to admit, I have gotten things so wrong I have had to toss the entire block into the trash. I have […]

Well, actually I did not batter this block into submission. I failed utterly to make Lissa Alexander's Sewcialites Block 19, "Unity". I do not know what the problem was. Maybe the instruction measurements were a tad off, or I was making some sort of error. I must have tried three times to make that block […]

This is ModaBlockHeads 3 Block 37 by Vanessa Goertzen. Look at that. 12. Count them. 12 square in a square blocks. My nemesis. They always come out wonky. Or at least they used to. Now that Fatquartershop.com has come out with paper piecing tablets for this tricky block, there are no more problems with it. […]

How is your week going? Mine is pretty great. I love making these tiny little paper pieced blocks. I am reading a couple of good books. Homeschooling is going well. I really can't complain.  Regarding the blocks above- The brown and cream one front and center is adorable, and the buzz saw red and brown […]

Things have gone a bit topsy turvy on me in the past week.  My 95-year-old dad has had a small stroke.  It was a scare at first, but he is doing quite well. His symptoms are relatively minor, mainly a weakness in his left arm. He was hospitalized briefly.  And this is not a great […]