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This afternoon I worked on my block for Kerry of Tallwoods Village, Austrailia for the round robin bee.  (Love the name of your home town, Terry!) Kerry asked for a log cabin block, foundation pieced on featherweight interfacing. I have foundation pieced on muslin and hated it because of the extra bulk it places in

To my wonderful friends:  Thank you so much for following me to my new address. Wow, moving a blog to a new name and address is a lot of work. Importing the posts wasn’t bad, but moving buttons and links, etc. takes some serious time! But it’s been positive.  I’ve done the equivalent of painting

Look what has come to live in my studio! A 1955 Singer Featherweight! I have been lurking on Craigslist and Ebay for months watching for one of these machines that was in good shape and reasonably priced.  I found one, bid and won!  Woohoo…..until the machine arrived.  The seller on Ebay said it “sewed beautifully.” 

I had a nice quiet Sunday afternoon to myself to sew.  I just recevied round robin bee blocks from Alex of Canberra, Australia and decided to work on that project because I love the block she chose.  It is a simple paper pieced kaleidoscope block.  It is easy to sew but spectacular when grouped together.  It forms a