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  • Twelve Hours in May– Part TWO

        3pm So there I was, a good eight hours into my twelve hours of sewing day. Three quilts were readied for long arm, but outside, it looked the world was ending. I had just sent this picture to my… Continue reading

  • Twelve Hours in May– Part ONE

        It’s been a good seven months since I was able to dedicate an entire day to sewing. Everyone was out of the house on this day for the first time in a long time as well, so it… Continue reading

  • Getting What I Deserve…

          Another light sewing week, although a few things got an hour here or there. After sheet rocking my entire studio in a lightning fast two days, everyone on the homestead has had to get back to their… Continue reading

  • Big Things are Happening!

          A TON of progress this past week– just not on sewing… but my new creative space has walls! Here’s the “before”… So, just to NOT have disgusting insulation raining down on my head is a huge improvement…… Continue reading

  • Over My Head…

         I AM IN DEEP with everything in my life these days! I suppose it’s natural that whatever approach you take to quilting is probably the way you approach life in general, and in my case, this is so… Continue reading

  • Cutting Corners

          The leaf quilt has been carelessly set aside– that last 2-1/2″ border can wait. I am now obsessed with the Chatterbox quilt!      My mom always enjoyed telling the story about how I would sit on… Continue reading

  • Get it Together!

          Spring is here!     We are starting to have some beautiful sunny days in the high 50s as I emerge from my cocoon, feeling a little pasty-faced and weak from too many winter hours spent behind… Continue reading

  • Ten Brilliant Observations of the 2024 Eclipse

          It was about six months ago, I read somewhere about the coming eclipse and was delighted to see we were just inside the path of the moon’s shadow. Good thing it came to us– Mr. SFO and… Continue reading

  • Blue skies, nothing but blue skies!

          I am in a high good humor, way too happy for a person who suffered another foot of snow and another twelve hour power out this past week! Why, you ask? Because celestial and earthly events have… Continue reading

  • No Spring for YOU!

          So the day after my last blog post, when we were expecting 12″-18″, we got 20″! Time to clean off the cars again. Fortunately, it was the lightest, fluffiest snow I have ever seen. Not sure why… Continue reading