February 26th
A box from my dear friend, Christine, arrived from Paris this morning. What a lovely surprise! Christine, (who recently became a new grandmother — congratulations!) is a very talented quilter, and she kindly offered to do some machine quilting on a finally-completed UFO. Remember this and this? Yep, I really and truly began this quilt way back [...]
December 2nd
I woke up quite excited this morning as today was the day I was to attend Frau Edelhoff’s Christmas breakfast for the ladies in the neighborhood. Since I have only met two other neighbors since moving here last June, I was eager to meet the other woman who call this street (and area around the little park) [...]
November 25th
The invitation came at 10 o’clock this morning when the doorbell rang. It was our neighbor from behind our house, Frau Adelhoff, whom I have only met on one other occasion, inviting me to her annual Christmas breakfast for all the ladies in the neighborhood on December 2nd. She was most eager for me to [...]
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September 28th
Here in Stuttgart, we went from warm comfortable days with temperatures in the 70’s during the first two weeks of September, to a chilly spell which began suddenly around the 14th. It remained cool all last week — with highs in the 50’s during the days and dropping into the low 40’s at night. It has [...]
September 8th
We quilters know the term U F O’s means unfinished objects. Some people cringe at the word. UFO’s can be pesky little reminders that we didn’t complete a task we originally set out to finish, and this makes us feel guilty. I have many UFO’s in my studio tucked here and there, organized, and stored [...]