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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…

Well, this turned out somewhat better than I had expected.  With backing and batting and quilting, the light green background on this pumpkin table runner does look darker. My quilter used an adorable pumpkin vine quilting motif in green thread, which enhances the green background. It is still awfully subtle, but I guess it is…

I think I spent as much time unsewing these blocks as I did sewing them together.  The problem was the center. I needed to have two of the leaf blocks turn inward and I neglected to do that.  Also, getting those four stems to line up in the middle was a bear. Oh well, it's…

Our air quality is so bad from the fires all over the state.  I had some things I was trying to organize out in the garage and thought I would be "inside" enough while working on them for an hour.  Mistake. After an hour of puttering outside my house, I developed a full-blown asthma attack.…

These little Maple blocks from the Pattern Basket pattern of the same name are turning out so cute.  I decided to go with a pile of batik fat quarters I have had forever and I love how the colors work together.  Very organic and fall like.  Excuse my hairy design wall.  I haven't lint rollered…

Sorry for my sketchy posting this week.  Things are heating up around here with the start of school looming ahead of us in the next couple of weeks.  I will be homeschooling Eva and that will bring some changes to our schedule and our surroundings.  I know as time goes on we will find a…

This is a little bitty four-inch block I made last week for Moda BlockHeads.  This was block 26, Zigzags.  The idea was to make 1 1/2" unfinished half-square triangles and make your block 4", 6", 8" or 12", depending on how many HSTs you wanted to make.  I stopped at 4" and that's it. It's…

It seems I just cannot help myself.  I am like a crow.  I see the next shiny new thing and I want it.  The Moda All Stars Mini Marvels book I was telling you about yesterday has inspired me to start yet another project.  This is a small one though, so maybe there is hope…

I have entered this week at the pace of a turtle.  I did manage to get one block done in the weekly Piecing From the Past Sew Along.  This one is called Arizona. Today was the last day of school for Eva.  We will still continue to use the online learning resources the school has…

If you haven't been able to focus too well on completing a big project, I have a great suggestion for you today. Erica Arndt is a quilter, homeschooler and YouTube personality who I enjoy following  She has a tutorial for the adorable quilt as you go mug rug pictured above.  I highly recommend her tutorials,…