The Season of 'Chrimbo Limbo' -

What do YOU call the week in between Christmas and New Year's where you kind of forget what day it is?

Don't know if things are open or not so you have to google them?

Decide that things on the to-do list can just wait until NEXT YEAR to get done as it is less than a week away now?

We call it Chrimbo Limbo and that's just what it feels like.  Life is on hold as we wait for this year to run out so we can jump into the next one ready to tackle what comes our way.

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From Backing To Quilting!

It's the weekend after Christmas - I'm sure everyone is still pretty much in a holiday stupor, but hopefully getting things back together and able to spend some time recuperating in your sewing spaces!

On Wednesday (Christmas Eve Day) I spent a few hours at the QPO stitching the big pink behemoth backing together from the squares I had finished the previous day.

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Six!

Happy Boxing Day, friends!
"The Day After" can come with a sense of relief that we have made it through yet another Christmas season - 
I know many of you may still have family around and need something a bit lighter this week, 
So how about we put some more things together?

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Christmas Eve In Pink!

It's a crazy idea, right?

To spend an extra couple of days piecing a backing out of hunks and chunks of forgotten yardage when it would be SO much easier to just buy 3 yards of a wide backing fabric and be done with it and onto the quilting phase of things.  Right?

Maybe.  But then there are all of those trimmed margins of that extra wide backing fabric that would be considered good enough to save for future use - and then I'm just adding to the scrap bins instead of whittling them down.  

This is how my brain works on repeat!

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