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Shoreline, CT, United States
I would love for you to join me (a retired senior)in my zany crafting adventures with quilting (waaaaay too much fabric); scrapbooking (will I ever catch up?); redwork; counted cross stitch; crossword puzzles; reading; and cooking.
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Saturday, October 4, 2025

SATURDAY SEWING, et al

Helga is set up with her walking foot...
(finally!! I think I have
mentioned before 
how I don't like how 
you have to attach this...) 

And so I took out my last year's
Easter quiltlet and
began to machine quilt....

I did all the sashings first 

That took about 1  and 1/2 hours of slow 
stitching... (with breaks).
I used my machine's 
"Fix" button to begin and end each row--
so no back stitching needed;)))
I cannot believe it took me so many years
to even find this feature!! 

[And, yes, I did read and re-read 
my booklet....
But evidently missed this one!!]

Here is the back with the wonderful
Easter Eggs fabric and two leftover 
pieces of  KF fabrics 
that just seemed to
"go with" them...;)))

I hope tomorrow to quilt the squares 
diagonally...

I referred to my favorite machine
quilting book 
for those of us who
do not do free-motion quilting: I
could never get the hang of free motioning.

I can only do short stints as my shoulders
and shoulder blades complain mightily even
though I do  try to sit as close as I can--
Perhaps I tense up????
(that is the extent of my sewing for today....)
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On Hiwmhi (Home is where my heart is)
the first 4 pages are all basted and
mostly done--i may add a few more little
bits and bob though--ya think???;)))
😁😀😂😃😄

So now, I am thinking about an Ocean page
as we have always lived close to the Sea...

Thinking of some kind of little landscape
I am reviewing Magpie's Mumblings"
beautiful landscape art as well as 
searching throughout 
Youtube for inspiration..

I made one little landscape piece
"yonks" ago for a close friend who had
sent my a postcard from South Africa
to commemorate her trip...
this will be  quite the challenge...

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Here for those of you who asked--
are the first little pieces of Winter Rye
poking up in my little planter box....
Can you spot them?????
↴↶↷↴
We've been watering each day to keep them moistened as 
S I G H --still no rain in sight here...

I hope you are having a wonderful weekend
Hugs, Julierose
La blageuse
(working-on-UFO's-euse)