In addition to the secret Christmas projects that I’ve been working on this past week, I’ve been stitching away on the pockets for my Advent Calendar. I embroidered the last of the numbers this morning so now I’m ready to cut them into strips and add them to the calendar itself. The Advent Calendar is my October goal for A…
This is the time of year when there are lots of projects in various stages of progress but the majority of which can’t be shared until after Christmas. However, there is one Christmas gift-in-progress that I can share as the recipient doesn’t read my blog. When Lorna from Sew Fresh Quilts first announced that she was having a Quilt Along…
The months have sped by and here we are having entered the final quarter of 2015. I had hoped by now to have cleared my list of UFOs/WIPs. Instead I find myself rolling over several of the projects from Quarter 3 of the 2015 Finish Along. To recap, these are the projects I finished from that list: Seeds of Friendship…
I think I’ve got too many things on my list of things I want to get to this week! First up a new apron. I had purchased the fabric in the spring of 2011 with the intention of making an apron with it but life happened and later that year everything went into storage for three years. Usually when I…
I woke up to this text message from our oldest daughter who is teaching in Shanghai: Xin nian kuai le! Gong xi fa cai! Happy Chinese New Year! So I’m passing those wishes on to all of you. Let’s hope that The Year of the Wooden Goat is as prosperous for us all as it is predicted to be! …
It’s such a cold and gloomy day today after the bright sunshine we had yesterday that I’m tempted to choose another bright, colorful UFO/WIP for A Year of Lovely Finishes goal like I did last month when I completed my Flying Zebra Quilt. But I’ve already started the quilting on my Paper Pinwheel baby quilt so I’ve decided that it…
As I mentioned on Monday, all I needed to do was add the borders and my 4th of July picnic quilt top would be complete. I got the narrow border in Kona Snow added yesterday and I finished adding the second border in the feature fabric this morning. I really, really like how it turned out. And I’m so…
I’ve been telling myself that I didn’t need a cutting mat, rulers and rotary cutter because I had all those things packed away in storage. But there were projects that I wanted to work on that required those things to be able to cut them out without having to go through the laborious process of making templates of each piece…
I was going through all the pictures I took last week and realized that I had forgotten to post about the fun surprize in the form of a squishie that was waiting for me when I got home from Canada. While I was away getting our youngest settled into his second year of college, I got an e-mail from Impera…
Another of the major projects that I wanted to get done this year was recovering the cushions for our lawn chairs. We bought the set of 5 chairs in the fall of the year 2000 when we first moved to Maui to give us something to sit on (both out on the lanai and inside the house) while we waited…