Covered Porches and Wooden Screen Doors

 Written  3-19-2018 -- Dementia.  Saying it out loud.  Writing it on pretty paper, typing it on a keyboard doesn’t make it any easier to deal with – my Mom has it. Her Mother, my Gra...

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You always have time to do the things you put first.  Well, in my life--it's not quilting. I work full time, have a home to take care of along with two high maintenance pups that think they are ...

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I may not own the barn... but I have the dream and the quilt for it.  It's a North Star block. Don is going to frame it for me in gray weathered wood and I'll hang it in my house.   I h...

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In typical fashion--- I'm late to the party....  But I'm still playing.  My favorite quilt blocks are the North wind and just about any variation of a flying goose block.  Never fails-- it is ...

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It's a Quilt.  Finally completed-- Binding and all. A Brenda Riddle pattern, Bliss,  it is called.  I completed the center in January and procrastinated about the border.  It was a new t...

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Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings is holding a stitch Along for Christmas here .  Chelsey and I have decided to work on the blocks.  I want my quilt to be bigger so each block pattern I'm ma...

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Never leave home without it..... a hand sewing project. It's been raining off and on this afternoon.  I've been enjoying myself --- catching up with Carolyn and hand stitching on wool applique...

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The clock on summertime is ticking…. I was picking up in my sewing room when I came across 3 Blackbird Designs charm packs.  Beach House is the fabric line. Love then name, love the colors, th...

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DNA demanded it…. Chelsey’s started quilting. While I felt like she labelled me as the ‘dork’ of the family—Quilting has become the ultimate in cool.  It’s been a  great bonding mo...

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The baby quilt was pieced and quilted and sent on his way.  Made entirely of a friend's son's shirts who was a volunteer fireman.  He was to be Uncle Billy to a new generation of Pestor ba...

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83 hours later - It's finished.  Granted, the 83 hours was over a span of two years, but I'm still just as proud of it. The quilt started off as an experiment to see exactly how long does i...

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Memorial Day -- finishing off a 3-day weekend. Today has been sunny and 82 degrees. Beautiful.  The other two days have been cloudy intermittent showers --- permission to quilt. I have always...

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I was ready to move onto the borders for Sunflower Gatherings.  I hadn't read ahead much.  Figured on cutting four lengths and beginning the last of the wool applique. I opened up the last pack...

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I loved Sunflower Gatherings from the minute I first saw it.  A 2014 Summer Block of the Week program, I had to have been one of the first ten people to sign up.  I was enchanted with the d...

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God Created Pumpkins.... I've never seen an ugly one....

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The seasons are changing fast.... Autumn is in full swing. I run my two pups daily and seldom do I come home without a leaf, an acorn, a dried branch of something. A perfect time for...

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Hand work is my permission slip to sit still on the couch and listen to television at night.  Don doesn't get how I can be into a tv show without actually seeing it.  I don't know.  It just wo...

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While it may not be strawberry season-- it is definitely a strawberry quilt cover-up season.  I started this piece in January with a couple of quilting friends. I believe one used thirties ...

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I thought it was going to be a four week project....It wasn't.  Try six months.   But it was so worth it. Introducing -- My new kitchen.... The photos were taken from my cell phone.  M...

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Truthfully, he has no idea just how talented he is... We finished remodeling the kitchen. (Details-- next post).  With the additions and subtractions, we realized my buffet and dish shelf no...

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That is what this reminds me of.  It's pieced but not pressed or quilted.  I want to complete it with the black print for binding and ship it to my mom.  With a red splatterware pitcher,...

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For both my girls ---Chelsey and Carolyn.   A new recipe---I could have called and told them about it.  I could have sent it in a text or an email... but I wanted them to have the card with h...

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When I'm too tired for anything else, I reach for my sewing basket. There are more wool pieces to add.  They overlap onto the setting squares on each side of the block.  Right now they are...

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The countertops in my 'new to me' kitchen are black.  So I want to cozy them up.  That means a new table topper for my farmhouse table.  This is wool applique on cotton fabric. I decid...

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It's a Great Block....

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