grandchildren

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Back of the same bag in dark grey cork with multicolored trim and a zippered pocket.

iCases bag

If you’ve read this blog in the past, you’ll know that I like many of the various bag patterns from https://byannie.com. A few days ago, one of our grandsons stopped by with his iPad Mini, and I was horrified to see that it was “naked”! What if he dropped it? […]

lighted back of freestanding firehouse in red and black fabric with cream embroidery

Firehouse

It’s done! I have to say that putting the pieces together is pretty hard on thumbs that have some arthritis in them, but the alligator clamps that helped to grab the little “nubbins” and the button clips that held them in place afterwards made a difficult/fiddly task somewhat easier. I […]

Embroidered pieces of an as-yet unfinished firehouse -- red fabric, cream embroidery.

Firehouse

I’ve started another project, but this one is proving to be a bit more time-consuming than I’d anticipated. I’ve done a few little free-standing embroidered appliqué projects, but this one is much more involved. To give a bit of background information, one of our grandsons is a firefighter, so when […]

Hard at work

My granddaughter started working on a jellyroll quilt at the beginning of the summer after we’d given her the jellyroll and backing/binding fabric for her birthday in May. As soon as the rush of end-of-school activities was over, she came over to my house to sew, but a long list of scheduling conflicts […]