What I've Been Doing

Carol here ~

I forgot to show you my new quilt-y socks I received for Christmas from daughter Vanessa.

Lemoyne Stars, one of my favorite quilt blocks.  She got them at The Sock Shack in Portland.  I love them!

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening. Today would have been my father’s birthday. Dad would have been 107, I believe. Too bad he only lasted until 75, still miss him. He taught me most of what I know, I could probably say he taught me all I know, because one of the biggest things he taught me was that I could do most anything I wanted, if I was willing to try.

Dad, me, brother Greg

Quilts & Family

Carol here ~

The town finally got some sand down on our road on Monday so I managed to get a walk it yesterday.  Sunny, no wind, temp in the 20's, was very refreshing.

Dan mentioned last week that he pieced 45 quilt tops in 2025.  🙄 I have quilted 23 of them and bound 15.  Don't think I'll ever catch up.  Here are 8, 9 & 10.

2025-8

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday, New Years Day, hopefully you all had a happy healthy holiday season. We finish up our season with celebrations with daughter Vanessa’s family hosting Friday. We are certainly too small here during the “stay inside” season. 

I guess it has been quite a long while since I rambled last.

Catch Up

Carol here ~ 

Sorry we've been MIA for the last few weeks.  I guess we needed a bit of a bloggy break.  Plus, not much going on around here.

I have been keeping fairly busy with Lena Longarm and bindings.  2025-21 is on the longarm now and I just finished up the binding on 2025-14.

I think the last quilt that I showed you way back in August was 2025-4 so will attempt to catch you up with the finished quilts since then.

Last Show Quilt

Carol here ~ 

Happy Thanksgiving week! I made vegan bread for the vegan grandson yesterday, will make yeast rolls for the rest of us today.  Yum!

This is the final quilt that we entered into shows.  It's a doozy! 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Thursday evening, in the studio. It is a tad too chilly for a fire. It’s a good evening to cuddle up under a few quilts. 

Today I spent some time and cut up more of a blowdown that blew a large oak tree into the Mud Pond. I got what I could last winter off the ice. With the water level low now I put my new waders on yesterday and removed a bunch more from the pond. Today I worked on the 12’ or so that was on the land. After managing to cut it up I had to split it once with a maul and splitting wedge so this old man could even lift it. It is all up by the shed and split and stacked. A nice little round wood pile, all hard wood.