quilting
-
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
The corn beef was completely sold out at the grocery store and a batch of maple syrup is on the boil until late today, so we’re settling for a pot roast dinner tomorrow. It’s still pretty raw here, but the… Continue reading
-
Spring is here… (sort of)
This is traditionally a very tough time of year for me, and this year, having had snow cover for three plus months now with temps often in the negatives, it’s even worse! Usually, all it takes is a visit to… Continue reading
-
No blood moon for you…
I had imagined beginning my blog with a fabulous picture for you of the red moon over our gorgeous frozen lake and I was even up at the required hour of 5:30am. The sky was clear, but with a temperature… Continue reading
-
We dodged a bullet!
Ironically, we are so far north that many of these nor’easters pass south of us– not a flake fell from storm Hernando. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for our son and family who live in Plymouth! He plows for… Continue reading
-
Hearts a-plenty!
Welcome to another week of running with scissors, sewing over pins, and leaving rotary cutters open. Don’t you love me? Let’s go! A Happy Belated Valentine’s Day to you– Valentine’s Day is appropriately my sweetheart’s birthday, so that took part… Continue reading
-
Happy Days!
I just had the most amazing, creative and fun week! With Carefree Highways off my plate, the juices are flowing and I spread myself thinly over several fun adventures, old and new. The week didn’t get off to a great… Continue reading
-
FREEDOM!
Six years ago, I mentioned on the blog I would love to digitize all fifty state birds and flowers, but the idea seemed overwhelming. Then the comment came in– well, why not just do one every two weeks and slowly… Continue reading
-
Stitching in the Snow
We survived storm Fern! So far this winter, we’ve had a dozen hits of 3” or so. This was our first bigger snow of 14.” I’ll show our pet snow boulder before and after to illustrate how much we got!… Continue reading
-
I only have one job.
Rise and grind, campers… for the past week, I’ve only been embroidering eagles on the Carefree Highways borders! Poor Mr. SFO– I’ve seen the look on his face after he’s seen the look on my face at the end of… Continue reading
-
Overthinking…
I’ve been overthinking, not doing this week! First of all, why did I have to write that first yearly post with all those quilts I want to make. Yikes. That’s a post that will age badly! I made a little… Continue reading
One Stitch at a Time 