Family

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Sleep masks

Sometimes it’s very difficult to fall asleep on an airplane. Actually, it’s almost always difficult to fall asleep on an airplane! I decided to try using a sleep mask the next time I take a long flight, but it seemed like very little extra work to make similar ones for all of […]

A couple of quick projects

The other day I ran across some adorable patterns for zippered bags at the Disorderly Threads site, and I couldn’t resist making them for a couple of equally adorable young girls, one of whom is our granddaughter (of course!). The other is the daughter of our younger daughter’s boyfriend. Our […]

Belated post

This couldn’t be posted back in March, when I made the cushion, simply because it was a gift that was only given this week. Our elder daughter and son-in-law celebrated their twentieth anniversary this week, and I wanted to make them a memento. The main side of the cushion came […]

Sewing Day

I’ve been neglecting my blog lately, mainly because my shoulder has been acting up, so I haven’t been able to do much quilting. I’m thinking I’m going to limit myself to smaller projects from now on to keep this from happening. At any rate, yesterday my granddaughter came over for […]

Cozumel jaunt

Last summer, my husband got the idea that a long weekend in Cozumel would be a good idea. He booked our trip for mid-January, so we packed and got ready when the time came. At 4:00AM on a Thursday, we were at the Las Vegas airport. At 6:00 we boarded […]

In memoriam

It’s taken me a while to decide whether or not to write this, but I’ve decided to go ahead. This blog is mainly about quilting, though there are the “and more …” bits, too. This is definitely not about quilting. My husband and I were away recently when we had […]