Knitting progress

Blocked and drying! I mentioned previously that I was taking up knitting again after many years. My first efforts yielded a gift to be given at Christmas, but my next project didn’t go as well. Hmmm. Unknitting, anyone? However, during my trip to the Houston Quilt Festival, I ran across […]

Turkey, turkey, and more turkey!

As most know, yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US. We had dinner at our daughter’s home, and everyone brought something to contribute to the meal. I baked pumpkin pies and made cranberry relish, and DH smoked a turkey — he’s a whiz at doing mouth-watering smoked turkey! Others brought […]

Lax

7500 Member Block Yup, that’s me lately. I’ve been neglecting my blog (and other things), and I’m sorry. Unfortunately, I can’t promise to do better in the near future, since I’m having some eye problems that aren’t made any better by too much time in front of the computer. :S […]

Home again

I’ve been home from the big Houston Quilt Festival for just hours short of a week now, and I think I’ve finally recuperated and caught up enough to get my blog caught up, too. 😉 A friend and I flew to Houston on Wednesday (11/2/2011), arriving in time to dump […]

Current projects

I haven’t made a lot of noticeable progress on anything lately, but I do have a couple of projects going. The first is the quilting on my basket quilt. The lines of thread you can see in the photo are just the basting, which I’m clipping as I cross it […]

Shawl

I haven’t had much to blog about lately, but I did finish a couple of projects. One is a gift I can’t post here, just in case the intended recipient happens upon my blog, but it’s a little pin cushion for an exchange with an online group of quilters. 🙂 […]