Check out Jo’s Country Junction Blog

| November 8, 2010

http://www.joscountryjunction.com You might want to check out Jo’s Country Junction Blog…….it is a lot of fun and she has made some beautiful quilts.  She made Judy L.’s CONNECT THE DOT MYSTERY QUILT all scrappy and I really like it…….you can see it below – or go to her blog to see it.    I love this […]

Max – and other success stories

| November 7, 2010

For those of you who do not know, my DH, Max, had a mini-stroke Tuesday.  It immediately made my LIST OF MY NOT SO FAVORITE THINGS.  It was pretty scary.  For awhile he couldn’t write or talk.  I AM SO THANKFUL AND HAPPY TO SAY THAT HE HAS RECOVERED – and we are at home!  […]

sao and PROGRESS ON THE SOCK KNITTING

| November 7, 2010

OK – so November 1, the sock knit along began (hosted by Judy L of Patchworktimes.com) and I have been having fun reading about the progress of these knitters. ME YOU ASK?  Well, let’s see, it is November 7 and here is my progress.  🙂 My problem?  I keep getting my yarn tangled and I can’t […]

SHADE TREE QUILTING AND MY SOCKS

| November 2, 2010

Hi Friends, I will NOT be putting up pictures for this post…  – but just imagine two circular knitting needles with tangled yarn – let’s make that BADLY TANGLED YARN – and you will be able to ascertain how I am doing on the sock KNIT A LONG hosted by Judy L at Patchworktimes.com.  We […]

Exploding Pineapple Block

| November 2, 2010

A year or so ago I took photographs of some quilters making an exploding pineapple block – and I didn’t realize this was a copyrighted pattern from a book.  I know several of you commented on my pictures and said that you liked the block.  I have removed those pictures from my blog – but […]