I am fascinated by fog. It brings a stillness and quiet that has such an ethereal quality. We had a couple of mornings with fog followed by a rainy afternoon, perfect to hunker down and do some sewing and stamping. On this early morning, the fog is so thick that the next house down the …
Making the Flowers
When we left off this project, I had the vase, the stems and leaves, and the newspaper done. Next was to sew the flowers for the amaryllis. Because I have shifted to a dimensional plan, I put some red mottled fabric right sides together and drew petal shapes. Roughly cutting them out, I sewed the …
Safelight Project 2024 Update
The Safelight Project made great headway in the past two weeks, as case sets started coming in, and checks arrived. I was stunned at the amounts on several of them, in the hundreds of dollars! So much so that I can announce that we have exceeded our financial goal!! To say thank you seems so …
Sunday Chat
It has been bitterly cold this past week, and the birds are stuffing their beaks to get enough energy to keep warm. Of course, this means the feeder empties out quickly on some days. We have a pair of hairy woodpeckers that live here year round. Here the female hangs off the bottom of the …
Starting the Applique on the National Quilt Day Challenge
Now that the base for the wall hanging was done, I turned my attention to the appliques. Initially, my thought was to make them the same way as the vase. But when I did the vase, I found that the interfacing was fusible after all, and it fused to the underside of the applique. I …
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Mexican Soup
My sister-in-law makes a fabulous soup for cold days. When she and my husband's brother visited us, they brought a frozen tub of it for us to have for a meal. Her recipe makes a lot, and freezes really well. Of course, I had to ask her for it, and then (you all know me) …
Sunday Chat, and an Alarming Discovery
This past week had a couple of meetings, a delivery, and lots of time to sew. But did I get anything done? Well, not really. I could have made a quilt top in all the time I had, but it was eaten up with household chores, some piddling around, and a fair amount of just wandering, …
Finishing the Quilted Base
My project for National Quilting Day is a still life wall hanging. I completed the piecing of the top, and loaded it on the longarm to quilt. The idea is for the white quarter-square triangles to look like patterned wallpaper. I did the stand-and-stare for a bit, then dove in with the same quilting design …
Working on a New Project
National Quilting Day is coming on March 16, and our local guild does a small show to celebrate every year. Each year we have a theme or a challenge. This year, the challenge is a really creative idea. We got a fat eighth of the challenge fabric and a non-quilting magazine. It is our guild's 42nd …
Safelight Project 2024
This past week, I got an email from the shelter director at Safelight, Morgan Abendroth. She wrote "We have used up our last spa bag and I was wondering if you are still making them. They are such a great addition to welcome clients into shelter. We would love to get more if that is …
From My Carolina Home 