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Sometimes, life gets in the way of life. That is the only thing I can say. It has been nearly a year since I have written a blog post. There are a host of reasons. I haven’t stopped quilting. I don’t think I would ever stop doing that. It is likely the only thing that keeps me sane. This quilt top was made during the guild retreat. It was a lovely retreat back in March. Much fun was had by all.…

The I am Mad Quilt LOL This was the quilt I worked on when I was mad and frustrated. I found it was easy to machine applique without thinking. While I am not always a fan of Scrappy, I find this quilt interesting. It was from Missouri Star Quilt, but they used two colors throughout, which I clearly did not. There are 80 blocks that measure 9.75 x 10 inches each unfinished. This quilt makes great…

Where to start? I often feel I am nearly a shell of my former self. I have heard these words come out of my mouth at a doctor’s office “You ruined my life” I know there are people that are suffering far worse than I am. I was just served a big old piece of not what I expected and not what you told me. I agreed to have the second spine surgery because I still had some spinal issues. The main…

And just like that another quilt top is completed. I am trying to complete some of those half-finished projects. Pretty sure this one was started 20+ years ago. While I remember that it was BOM, I have no memory of hand-sewing these blocks together. None whatsoever. It was during a rather dark time in my life, when I have fairly large missing time blocks for various reasons. Pretty sure this…

So, I have been working on this baby quilt. I love the cute whimsical fabric. I have the top finished. I hope to get it on the longarm this weekend. That is the plan anyway. It is set on point and a decent size for a baby quilt. So, I have been working on a couple of other things. I am dredging up some half-done projects to try and get them completed. I am an ADQ – attention deficit quilter.…

So, I bought this QCR Mini curve ruler from Sew Kind of Wonderful” a long time ago. They, of course, had a really cute dog pattern that I liked. That is how you get Lori to buy an expensive ruler. Put it with a dog pattern. Works every time. So, this was my experimental piece to determine how crappy I could sew curves. I’m gonna go with medium crappiness. . First, cutting. I hate cutting. You…

How cute is that? Nanette sent me this pattern a while ago to hopefully get me inspired to get quilting. I think it may have worked! If you aren’t familiar with Nanette’s blog, please take a look. I can only aspire/dream to do things as beautiful as she does. She is truly an amazing quilter. I love this quilt, but I am a crazy dog lady. I had cut it out quite a while ago, so it was just a matter…

I am still alive, recovering from my spinal surgery. I did manage to sew a few small things until I could barely move my shoulders. Not sure why, But I ended up getting multiple steroid shots in each shoulder. They are better now, not perfect but leaps and bounds better. Gnomie GNomes – I did finish this, but neighbor Carol needed something holiday for her table, so she went home with it. I…

Yep, I look like Frankenstein

So, I had the chance last month to donate some dog beds to one of my favorite Dog Charities, Hospets. They make having a pet as a Senior much easier. I think I may have had 11 this time. All are totally washable and have zippered covers. I also sent some bandana collar covers. I hope they can sell them for some additional funds. Why do I look like Frankenstein? Well, on October 10th I had to…

I really like Halloween things. However, you can only use them a few weeks of the years. That, however, does not stop me. I made this table runner almost a year ago at a mini-retreat with my quilting partner in crime, Lynn. I thought it was cute. However, this involved a lot of stitch and flip which I find annoying and wasteful. But I finished it. I had the blocks done last November, but finally…

Déjà vu

Yep, you’ve seen these before. LOL. Apparently, I had some sort of pack with these fabrics. These 2 make three and I am pretty sure there is still an unquilted one in my sewing room. Not sure what I was thinking or what I will do with these. I am on a mission to finish things up. There are several more table runners. Yikes. So many and a couple of quilts that need quilting. Who am I kidding?…

It’s Spooky time!

Last weekend I got crazy and used my AccuCut to cut some pumpkins and bats! It turned out pretty cute! I have a giant AccuCut. I had it long before it was popular. Maybe 20 years? So, I have a friend that is a teacher and she brought it home from school one time and I decided I needed to give it a whirl with fabric. She was cutting out shapes for her bulletin board at school. I loved it and…

I completed this table runner last weekend, but not get to photograph it until today. One f the many table runners that I made while recovering from my neck surgery. The Getting them quilted as time allows. Pretty simple design, but the fabrics don’t look too bad together. e prints were all part of The prints were all part of the same line of fabrics from many moons ago. Simple straight-line…

Look… I finished something

It truly is a bittersweet miracle. I started this quilt for my daughter several years ago when she was an actual bookworm. Now I think she reads a lot…on her phone. There are so many fancy bookcase quilts. Mine is not that fancy. But, I did include the titles of many of the books that she read. Not all the books have titles on them, but I would guess that about half of them do. Haley wanted to…

I am not a bag maker.

Nope, nope, nope. Making bags is not something I do very well. So, I made a test bag a few weeks back. It had issues, but OK, I tried. I decided that I wanted to make another, so I had 2 and I could make emergency “stuff” bags for my daughter and her future college roommate. I was going to make 2 more after the trial, but Haley loved the purple bag even though it had issues. That was the one she…

R U kidding me?

Literally just took this out of the package and decided to start it. take a few stitches and BAM, blood on a brand-new white potential table runner. Ugh. Could not figure out where it came from, but whatever. I am so annoyed with myself. I bought this table runner from Annie’s. It just has some red and blue embroidery and I thought I could do something quilty around it. I don’t have anything…

I don’t want to jinx myself

Two posts in the same week? Does that mean Normal is approaching? One can only hope. I have spent some time getting a few things organized and that helped. I now have things in baskets ready to sew, should the mood take me. Honestly, I am preparing for the fact that my daughter is going off to college. Not much time left (Sad). She has been spending a lot of time working this summer, so it has…