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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. …

It was interesting to read the comments you all left regarding having someone copy your quilts.  It seems that no one who responded really minds!  The reason I asked is because I have a couple of friends who don't like it all that much.  They like the fact that they have created something unique and…

At the rate I have been finishing projects lately, I will probably get to these in 2016, but I did have to buy them.  Crows and Pumpkins from Primitive Gatherings, just because it is so darn cute and so Fall.  Abigail in Paris, which is a Heartspun Quilts pattern, designed by Pam Buda.  This quilt…

Thanks so much for all your kind wishes yesterday.  I am so happy to relate that Grandpa is doing better! When Eva and I went to visit him Monday morning, he was sitting up in a wheel chair, and dressed in his regular clothes.  I doubt he dressed himself, but at least he was out…

Hi there,  just a brief update to let you know why my blogging has been sketchy in the past few days.  Grandpa is very ill and has been in the hospital.  Over the weekend we had to move him into a convalescent hospital, as he is unable to do much of anything for himself.  It…

So.  This is the quilt that my friends Lisa (Stashmaster) and Thelma (Cupcakes 'n' Daisies) are thinking of making together.  Isn't this the funnest quilt you have seen in forever?     I saw it first on someone's blog (forgive me, I don't remember whose).  This blogger was using hers as a late summer, early fall…