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 Yesterday was spent blissfully putting around the sewing room doing lots of organizing and sewing up of odds and ends.  Call it a quilte...

I have a lovely little stack of Dear Jane blocks wanting to have a little bit of handwork done to them.  They are all tucked away in a ...

Having applique blocks ready to go makes it easy enough to pick up a baggie and take a stitch or two when things calm down from time to ...

So my day off started with a trip to the dentist, a visit from the air conditioner repairman and a piano lesson.  By lunchtime I was all out...

For most of the day I sorted and trimmed and organized.  By the end of the day I had two things. An empty scrap basket.... and a dining ...

This morning I got almost entirely caught up on Orca Bay. I still have a pile of blocks and parts waiting for ironing. As soon as that is...

Just pulled the Carolina Crossroads quilt off the frame.  It was a Bonnie Hunter scrap user pattern from Quiltmaker Magazine.  I didn't ...

Just finished the back of Scraptastrophy.  It is a modified courthouse steps arrangement that used up an odd assortment of blue hued fabrics...

 I've been doing nine patches as leaders and enders for a while now.  I thought I might have enough for a top, but I think I'm proba...

Last week a couple of the neighbors were getting new trees put in.  Last winter was unusually cold and there were lots of dead palm trees ar...

It always happens when Kurt is out of town.  It seems like a nice calm week until everything implodes.  We were getting some trees put in.  ...

Yesterday was another busy day. We had a make-up lesson for ice skating which overlapped with an academic team match. Kurt and I did the k...

There is no other explanation for the explosive growth of my scrap basket. I'm sure it couldn't have been more than a couple of wee...

I'm feeling very virtuous after spending time today organizing, ironing and cutting scraps. My scrap basket is entirely empty! I dug d...

I finished up the nine patches that I needed for Mom's pillow shams. Pillows are pretty small compared to beds, so I don't think I...

I spent most of last week sorting through the scrap basket and turning everything into squares and strips. I'm trying to get the study ...

The kids were up bright and early in search of Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies. They spent the morning playing with the kites and outsid...

I was surprised when my mother-in-law wanted to go to a quilt show together, but I was happy to oblige! had so much fun looking at all of th...

Sydney learned a new song in music class. It starts, "Slow and steady, always ready, I will get there some day soon." Then the s...

I signed up for a scrap exchange a while ago. I have mine ready to send off, but haven't popped it in the mail yet. However, I got thi...