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I have 2 sick kiddos... we were up most of last night. One was croupy and not breathing very easily, the other has strep throat. They are fe...

Only 7 more to go! I've been working on some other projects this week, too. This doll really needed to not be naked, and my husband sai...

I sewed four of these blocks today and now I have 12 done, plus one that will either go on the back or get fixed--I accidentally made the ou...

Only 14 more to make!--I'm making a throw-size quilt with 48 blocks this time.

Here's what I've been working on the last couple days: It's going to be a table runner for a little table in my living room. A...

Back in July, I made a couple quilting bee blocks for Natalie of beyond the reef patterns. She requested that we use the scraps to make a q...

The knee on my son's corduroys ripped. (Pre-distressed cords are a bad idea, really, but they were the only brown pants we could find wh...

I'm so glad it's Friday!  It's been kind of a crazy week--the boys had 2 snow days at the beginning of the week and it's bee...

Here is Baby Maggie, short for Magpie. My husband has named several of the dolls in our house, including this one. The other dolls, because ...

My husband woke me up around 6 a.m. to let me know school was canceled. (He left early for work, that's why I got to get the news so ear...

Here are the new diagrams for my 13" square-in-a-square quilt blocks. 1/4" seam allowances are included in the measurements given...

I drew up these diagrams for my 13" (finished, they are 13.5" square until they are sewn to each other) quilt blocks with the meas...

These are last week's blocks. I guess I'm a little bit behind but right now I'm focusing on sewing for fun and not a schedule. I...

I look forward to making this collage every year. There were a couple more things I had hoped would be finished by today, but they're no...

My mom has 14 grandkids (and one on the way--my youngest sister's expecting her second in August!) and has made a quilt for each of them...

I took a bit of a blog break there... and then the last couple days I have been thinking, I can't post to my blog yet, the doll isn'...

Well, I thought about it and thought about it and couldn't resist. I'm going to make another 9-patch quilt, this time with 48 blocks...

Last week I finished some handmade gifts that I can't show yet, and one that I can. Here's Grandma M's quilt: and the back: I k...

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by my blog during giveaway week! I hope everyone wins something, somewhere! (Including me...) The w...