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I am just loving making little seasonal projects lately.  I had the day off on Monday, (woo hoo!), and I was gearing up to get back to Viola, when I happened to pick up a book just for a quick look. Do any of you have this book?  I buy far fewer books these days…

I know, how sad and pathetic is this?  A portable potty, a shower stool, a walker and a four footed cane. At long last, we sold the house we had Grandpa Larry living in.  It was on the market for over a year.  Most of the furniture and odds and ends had already been disposed…

Just look at this teeny tiny, just bigger than a coffee cup cozy, quilt.  It measures 10.5 by 11.5 inches and went together in no time flat.  Those half square triangle squares measure one inch!   It is called Hen Pecked and is one of the Kim Diehl Simple What Nots offerings.  Seriously, I joined…

There is a remarkable photographer in our area, named John Slot, who has gone into the fire zone every day since the conflagration began.  He has made a photographic documentation of what he has seen, and reported it every day on Facebook.  His news, both good and bad, has been such a relief to people…

I have to share this amazing story with you all.  My husband went in to work Monday to check on things and one of his employees had an incredible story to tell. Her father has a ranch in the fire zone, and on Friday night they were evacuating their livestock to safety.  Obviously you can't…

It feels like our world is burning up.   There are some terrible fires going on in California, and one of them is right near where I live.  We have been under "advisory evacuation" notice for a few days, and actually have our suitcases packed with valuables, medications and important papers should we need to…

One of my sisters has been going through her photographs and found this one of me.  I believe it is about 30 years old.  Maybe 1985 or 1986.  We were on a family vacation at Lake Tahoe, and I had brought along this project to hand quilt. I had pieced the quilt for my grandmother…

  Last weekend (it seems like a lifetime ago) I finished my star blocks for the Barbara Brackman Stars in a Time Warp Sew Along.  I have my blocks all laid out, but have not yet had a chance to sew them together. Just to let you know, so you all don't worry,  I may…

I won't say I finished my Bow Tie quilt.  A more precise statement would be that I ended it.  Those three inch finished blocks were fun to make, but my goodness, there were so many of them.  324  of them in my quilt.  And I was done.  The finished quilt is about 66 inches square,…

This is what 144 Bow Tie Blocks look like.  I need to make considerably more to have this quilt be remotely bed sized.  I keep thinking "What a nice center for a medallion quilt…"  But I will keep going with making more Bow Ties.  They are just such fun to do and even if my…