Happy Anniversary Jack and Mary
Two years ago Mary joined our family when she married Neil’s best friend Jack.Following a beautiful wedding, their honeymoon was a bicycle tour of Italy. I found bicycle fabric and made this quilt to...
View ArticleYour Cousin Carter Would Approve, They Look Homemade
I LOVE pumpkin, I love scones, I can’t ingest milk products. When I found a recipe for Starbucks pumpkin scones, Pop pop made them as soon as I brought home some canned pumpkin. The scones were...
View ArticleHappy Halloween and Tuesday Update
One of my favorite holidays because it involves candy, cute kids, and lots of smiling happy people! I am expecting as many children here as we had in our old house, although I doubt we will see any...
View ArticleWelcome Baby Oz
One of our faithful blog readers and her husband recently welcomed a baby boy to their family. In addition to being one of your friends Katya and Unity graciously allowed us to stay in their home last...
View ArticleVicki and Dave’s wedding quilt
Vicki has been part of our family from the time you met her at Suffolk University. How could I not fall in love with the free-spirited, animal loving, food addicted person who has been a faithful...
View ArticleEvery once in a while Neil has a Birdie
We are delighted to have Birdie Ingram visit us occasionally. She is an adorable dog who is lucky to have Claudia and Wallypop as her full-time parents. Neil and I agreed to dogsit Birdie when...
View ArticleWonderful Week
I hope you put some pictures of Christmas week on our blog. If you don’t I’ll have to resort to posting some of mine. I don’t have the practice you have of taking pictures of Julian…man in constant...
View Article10 reasons I haven’t blogged lately
10. I have had nothing interesting to say. 9. I was tired of this season of Project Runway’s “make a beautiful dress in a day” format. 8. My camera (which isn’t very old) is really slowing down when I...
View ArticleBirds at Bev’s
I am thrilled to show you the family of sandhill cranes that wander around the neighborhood. I think I’m fascinated by them because they are 6 feet tall. Thats a lot of bird! Kitty would like these...
View ArticleMy Tuesday sewing group has been busy
I love my “Its Tuesday I’m sewing” group. Everyone is so talented. Here are a few of the recent works of art they have made. Judy has gone a bit dotty: Every piece of fabric in this is a dot....
View ArticleU(n) F(inished) O(bject)Challenge
My quilting group that meets Tuesdays at Judy’s house is doing a ufo challenge this year.We are choosing 6 items we want to complete this year. Every two months we reveal a complete ufo. To make it...
View ArticleWe ALL finished our UFO’s
My Tuesday sewing group is participating in a challenge to complete an unfinished project, Quilter’s terms a UFO. WE ALL DID!!!! Here they are. (WordPress did something fancy to the pictures.)
View ArticleI’mThankful
A few years ago, you wrote a daily entry for a month about things you which you were thankful. That might be a good way for me to resurrect our blog. In addition, I read an article that reported that...
View ArticleWhen friends give you scraps
This quilt top started Mom Mom and my obsession with scrap quilts. Claudia (Birdies Mom) and Nancy taught a workshop for this design. I missed Dad cutting fabric for Mom for this quilt. Only Mom, or my...
View ArticleScrap #2
We continued our scrap adventure with this top. This is one of my favorite tops of our scrap series. Yes, we are being artistic and working in a series!
View ArticleA few finishes
Our dining room table was set with my grandmother’s China, Neil’s mother’s silver and we enjoyed a delicious Turkey dinner on Thanksgiving. Today, I ripped off the tablecloth, and replaced it with a...
View ArticleDid you know that Josh makes FABULOUS chocolate chip cookies?
In preparation for our Christmas celebration, I stocked up on Bev Friendly Chocolate chips. Josh’s cookies are the perfect size(big), and he NEVER burns them. I don’t know what recipe he uses to...
View ArticleJudy’s sewing group
Cindy B. Is a prolific quilter. She likes small pieces,scrap quilts, and reproduction fabric. Once she starts, she keeps going on a project until finished. I love how she used dark blocks around the...
View ArticleThinking of Vicki
Serendipity. It warms my heart to think about your fortune to have made and kept friendship with some very dear people. Vicki has been on my mind, first because you had dinner with her last week....
View ArticleHow sweet is this in several ways
When my sewing friends learned that Mom mom was making scrap quilts, they gave her enough scraps to keep her sewing for many years. The fabric from this baby quilt was one of the donations she...
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