Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Matthew 6:21~
Haniya and Naomi finished this quilt today. We began it months ago. It wasn’t hard to do, just hard to find time. Most days, the girls would rather play with their goats than sew. This quilt is for our new nephew, Braydon. When his older brother was born, I made a quilt (see here for [...]
Just finished! (It is folded in fourths.) I hand-stitched the binding to the backside this evening while watching Becoming Jane and the newer Pride and Prejudice. Actually, P & P is still on. I’m having a hard time getting to bed! I will deliver it to my friend tomorrow. I know she is going to [...]
As of this morning, this is how the Fence Rail quilt sits. I could have gotten farther yesterday but I made a mistake. As usual. I made 9 additional blocks, no problem. Then I sewed them together in a row and put seven of them — yes seven! — in wrong! To make matters worse, [...]
You never knew it left because I didn’t mention the departure of my sewing machine. I got my sewing machine back yesterday after having it repaired. For the last year, the hook timing has been off. I would get skipped stitches with the needle in the left-most position. This meant: no buttonholes, no (wide) zigzags, [...]
We presented our finished quilt to the congregation yesterday during the service. I was sad because more than a handful of the ladies who contributed weren’t there and didn’t get to see it. Even my girls weren’t there because Haniya was ill. The congregation was pleased with the quilt. On Wednesday I will take the [...]
Back in the spring, our church’s ladies and young ladies constructed blocks out of fabric I handed out to them. I am finally putting the quilt together… and really in the nick of time because the auction fundraiser of which it will be a part is October 4th! This project totally got buried in my [...]
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