This week, I am sharing some of my favorite quilts from the 2023 Maine Quilt Show with no comment. I always wanted to attend this show, and never guessed that the first time would be as a resident of Maine!… Continue reading

      So just after congratulating myself on how much I got done this first half of the year, I decided to make a spreadsheet to track my Sew Sampler Box projects and filled it in.       … Continue reading

     We are fully enjoying the best of summer these days… beautiful temperatures, exploding gardens, and, of course, plenty of sewing time!      The August Bowl fillers have released– I have a customer always asking for watermelons– well,… Continue reading

     I predicted this in January, but having a sense of omniscience is of no comfort now that I have arrived!      I’ve been working less and less on more and more projects, until nothing is getting done… Continue reading

      I was planning on NOT having anything to report this past week– but we just had a wonderful family & friend filled time, it seemed a shame not to record it. AND some sewing even got done,… Continue reading

     We just got word that my son and his gang of three– fiance, stepson, stepson’s friend– will be spending the Fourth of July week with us! We are so happy to see them all and are really looking… Continue reading

     Here we go again… I am starting to wonder if we inadvertently relocated to Seattle!      And let me just say, right through the Fourth of July week, it looks pretty much the same. All this has… Continue reading

     Here is a picture I took down at the lake during the ten minutes it wasn’t raining, raining, raining last week! Thank goodness for an obsessive indoor hobby. I can tell I’m crushing it by how many bobbins… Continue reading

      I have settled into a beautiful summer routine of veggie gardening, chicken tending, and sewing, not particularly in that order. So one day just flows gently into the next. Blog writing has not been in my rotation… Continue reading

     Last week was like being a kid again at a summer camp in the wilds of Maine! Up at dawn, big breakfast, outside to play, afternoon visits to the craft cabin, and nightly kayaking on the lake… if… Continue reading