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Keeping on doing

Once again I am running faster than my legs will carry me.  I think I am catching up and then I realize, no way!!  Working on the cross-stitch cuffs for three more stockings is taking longer than it...

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The Holidays are Coming Fast!

Holidays include Thanksgiving because I am writing this Thanksgiving week!  Finally able to light our wood stove because we have had a reprieve from electrical outages with our first snow.  With...

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Starting off!

A glance from my studio window.  This view reminds me of a Currier and Ives print, whether it is winter, spring, summer or fall.  All that is missing is a horse and buggy.  We had a beautiful white...

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Quilting, quilting, quilting!

Hand quilting four hours a day, hoping to get my Wreath of Flowers quilted for the Glendale Quilt Show, March 28-29.  Hope I am going to make it!  My wrists just can’t take any more quilting than that....

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Blast from the Past

Several years ago I was in charge of workshops at our guild here in Tehachapi. I designed a couple of mystery quilts for them and there was a great response.   Then out of the blue, it was brought back...

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It’s a Mystery

Do hope that all of you are doing okay with all that is going on. Before I present the first clue of the mystery to you, I just wanted to let you know that I did finish quilting the Wreaths of Flowers...

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It’s a Mystery II

So are you all still hanging in there?  These are very interesting times in which we are living.  Not many people I know have dealt with something like this before.  Although I do have family that went...

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It’s a Mystery III

Sorry about getting this to you after the fact!  It was all ready to go, but when I checked this morning, NO BLOG!  Don’t know what happened. I am running behind anyway, so this did not help! My two...

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It’s a Mystery IV

 Well here is the fourth clue! I am so looking forward to seeing the first clues from your Mysteries.  There is a lot of piecing, so if you don’t get started and make the clues each month, you will run...

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It’s a Mystery V

Time flies when you are having fun, or trying to get ten things done at the same time.  The Garden Party Row Along starts next month.  Marian Pena at Seams to be Sew is putting it on again.  This is...

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It’s a Mystery VI

The Garden Party Row Along starts next Tuesday, Sept 8!  So expect an email to check out my blog, because a list of all fifty participants will be available there. Here is a little snippet of my row....

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Merry Christmas!

A friend called me to tell me she had moved the day of her Christmas Party to the following week!  I had to think for a moment and realized, her party was supposed to have been this coming Friday!...

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Happy New Year!

We have a lot to look forward to in this new year!  Although 2020 might have made us think of perfect vision, it didn’t quite work out that way!  That is one thing about rational beings, we can always...

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Let it Snow!

Click on the image above for the link to the free pattern. We have been waiting for this snowstorm for weeks!  I know some of you are thinking, are you crazy?  Who wants all that snow!  Well, we need...

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Let the Destashing Begin

You are probably thinking what does she mean by that! I should have started this months ago, actually did but then got distracted!  Just do it! As my mother used to say, (long before Nike came up with...

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Trying to Catch Up

Have any of you been through a move after living in one place for close to 30 years?  Omigosh, I cannot believe what I am finding!  Things I haven’t looked at for 20 years or more, tucked away in the...

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Still Moving On

Well, our move is still going on, it is endless.  I move a bunch of stuff and then when I get back home, there is still more! At least we live close to where we are moving, so we can load up the...

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Summer is Here

It is very different living in town and in a smaller house.  Not even 5 minutes to the store and to church!  Very different to see children out playing instead of wildlife!  But, oh my, what to do with...

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Where has the time gone?

Half the year is gone!  Have you been as busy as I have been?  Looking forward to having company. Our daughter, her daughter, and our son’s daughter are coming to visit.  The cousins are ten years...

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A Very Special Summer

What a special summer!  Spending time with my daughter and granddaughters has been very special and wonderful.  I am telling all you grandmothers out there, take the time and make the effort to teach...

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