Since I retired at the beginning of the year, it feels like I’m on a really long quilting retreat at home. I get up and exercise and stretch, eat and do my morning devotional, then attend to anything that needs my attention (getting everything in order is a longer process than you might think). And… Continue reading Home Retreat
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Sewing four-patches
The snow we’ve had this week has been the perfect complement to making the billion four-patches I need for my Sand Castles quilt. I gathered all of the ones I’d previously made and hid in my scrap bin, then I began sorting out some of the newer neutrals I’ve just been throwing into the bin… Continue reading Sewing four-patches
Ahead of February
This one seems like a Valentine’s Day block with all of the red. I really like it, and it came together very quickly without much of the hemming and hawing that I sometimes have when picking out coordinating fabrics.
Two blocks
I’ve been working mostly on the string pieced sections of the Sand Castles quilt, but I decided I just had to see how they are going to look as finished blocks, so I put together two of them. I went with a white-on-white print for the sashing strips because I wanted it to have a… Continue reading Two blocks
Random fun this week
Tissue paper from gifts – my husband was getting ready to throw away some from several retirement gifts he received last weekend. I grabbed them before he could complete the motion and mentioned that I could reuse or recycle them. And yes, I could absolutely reuse them as tissue paper in future gifts. But I… Continue reading Random fun this week