I think I’ve mentioned before in passing that we are currently apartment sitting/cat-sitting while our middle daughter is away on a three month temporary work assignment.   Actually… our daughter had been cat-sitting this cat for a co-worker who was on a temporary work assignment. When that work assignment became permanent, our daughter ended up with the cat which we are…
I haven’t made as much progress as I would have liked in the machine sewing department this past week, due to some issues with “Stitch.” “Stitch” is the name we’ve given to the Vintage Singer 201 that we gave our middle daughter for Christmas because it’s serial number starts with AH626. For those of you who might have missed the…
I recently started following a Low GL (glycemic load) eating plan. I’m calling it an eating plan rather than a diet because I am very loosely following the guidelines of 40 GL per day as described in Patrick Holford’s book The Feel Good Factor. I try to limit myself to 10 GL per meal plus two snacks of 5 GL…
Several years ago, I crocheted doilies for Christmas gifts for our daughters. One of the vintage patterns I used was an oval with a ripe wheat pattern. Around that same time I came across an article describing the symbolism behind the ever popular pineapple motif used in crocheted items. I wasn’t able to find that article to link to for…
In last Wednesday’s Work In Progress (WIP) post I mentioned that I had the fabrics chosen and the zippers bought for two more sewing kits. The kits have been cut out and all the pieces placed in individual plastic zip bags ready for me to start sewing. The Star Fruit Cushion would have been completed except that I got frustrated…
Karen over at Sew Many Ways has a post and link party up for people to share how they organize and store their thread and bobbins. For years and years, I made do with those plastic boxes with the plastic rods for storing my thread and the small plastic boxes with the rounded spaces for my bobbins. When I was…
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. Â And I’m so…
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Ours was a busy one. Saturday morning, I did a bit of fabric shopping at the wonderful quilt shop Sew Sisters. I don’t know how the owner does it, but her prices are so close to US prices on many of the items that this will be my go to quilt shop for…
Yesterday afternoon, I spent the afternoon sewing the blocks for my Independence Day picnic quilt. This is proving to be a fun, easy quilt to make. I started sewing blocks around noon and finished pressing the last block about 5:30. With a break for a late lunch and to go grocery shopping, I’d say it took about 4 hours to…
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…