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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Thinking About A New Machine

 I'm thinking its time for a new machine,my Singer has always been my backup with the Brother digital being my main machine but my last move parts got separated ,anywho the ole Singer is starting to be a pain,the tension messes up every time! i change a bobbin out,the bobbin shank pops out 

Anyways I've been looking at this one,reviews seem to be good on it,I finally found the manual which has to be downloaded


I especially like this bundle with the extra  large extension tray

Today was a day for no streiod pill for Grace,she takes it every other day now & I can tell  it makes a difference in her pain level & so can she so I encourage her to lay down & rest snuggled up beside me & then that aww feeling hits her lol 






Friday, February 20, 2026

Still Stitching Along

 Spent the morning looking for pj's for a friend who was admitted to the hospital,that didn't turn out well  so I felt like I was sent on a wild goose chase lol but I did meet up with my great niece -n-law at World Market & of course came home with some new  herb tea flavors






Got home just in time to walk with my neighbor,!I shared some of my teas with her,,she wanted me to stay & have a cup with her ,when I got back to the house ,me & Grace went to or a burger 🍔 I  was too tired  to cook & hungry ,after giving Grace her meds for the night,I got the patch quilt out & started stitching on it some more, it's getting close to the finish line!


Thursday, February 19, 2026

When You Want A Quilt So Bad 🤣

 Grace is definitely doing better,today we start tapering off the steroids,which is good,they make her sooooo hungry!I was trying to measure the blue flimsy to the pink quilt that is the same layout,as you can see she quickly shot under it so I just worked around her 🤣


For the backing I will use the blue checkered sheet,it seems like it'll  be wide enough even with a border but if not I can pull from the fitted sheet





Im thinking a 1 & 1/2  to a 2" checkered border & a 2& 1/2" border of the blue 
& yellow tone floral print


I'm having to unstitch a few rows on Livvys quilt top,ohhh this machine is going to get a bashing with the hammer 🔨 🤣


I'm also thinking of adding a cat to one of the blocks in her quilt,the pattern says applicade but I'm thinking  of  adding it with an eraseable pen & stitching it  since there will be a lot of hand stitching throughout the quilt



Wednesday, February 18, 2026

When It Rains It Pours

 Even in a trencheral downpour the birds will come ,some of the cardinals were so wet they looked like you could squeeze the water out of them 😄












Monday, February 16, 2026

You Know You're Tired When....


 I'm not sure if it eas tiredness or seeing good😄 last night I noticed I'd sewn an extra row on this X 😄 so I figured I'd better call it a night, I'm not even going to bother taking it out seeing that its purpose is to hang out here with me lol

Grace is helping me make sure that's the only one & seeing how many more X's in the blocks to go

 

I came across an idea to use up your scraps, I'd already made up my mind that these scraps were nit going into another quilt🤣but yet I thought I'd give it try & see how I feel about them,so I do have scraps & yardages of white from sheets I've used for backings so I'll randomly make a few 5" scrappy blocks here & there,no overthinking " ok maybe a little "just grab um & sew & see how many quilts come out of the scraps that were destined for the trash




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