September 2010

Magic Jack Update

September 30, 2010

Since I had posted a while back how much we love Magic Jack, I wanted to share with you a part of an email I just received from a blog reader: > Judy, I have learned something interesting: MagicJack just recently (in > August) started blocking calls to many rural areas served by small telephone [...]

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Look Who’s Home

September 30, 2010

My beloved Bernina 1230 was ready to be picked up yesterday: It’s so good to have it back.  On Friday, it was delivered to Timothy at Top Stitch near Versailles, MO, though his address is actually Barnett, MO.  On Tuesday morning, he called to tell me the main circuit board was not bad but a [...]

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I Must Be Doing Something Right

September 29, 2010

Maybe not!  Do you remember what Vince got me for our anniversary?  A lime green weed eater!  I wasn’t too aggravated with him because my old weed eater had the older kind of batteries that didn’t last long enough to get the sidewalks and driveway edged, let alone any real weed eating. Last week Vince [...]

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Want to Knit Socks?

September 28, 2010

Many of you have mentioned that you want to knit socks.  Here’s a post where I talked about knitting socks and I list the pattern I use in the post.  Last night I found the second sock so this is now a pair. I will finish this one tonight so that will be a second [...]

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Who Did It?

September 28, 2010

Who sent me the duck whistle? It’s so cute and it sounds like a duck!  Well, it sounds a little like a duck!  I can’t wait for Chad to see it.  You can bet he’s going to want to take it from me!  Thank you for thinking of me . . whoever you are!

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Note to Self – Step 3

September 28, 2010

Time to make the blocks that create the corner design.  Here’s the whole quilt for reference. Here’s the block for today.  It looks like there are so many steps but there aren’t.  The way the instructions are written, you won’t have to piece your black strips into a bunch of squares.  Just follow the steps [...]

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