The last canned is done...7 quarts, 14 pints of beef plus 7 quarts and 5 pints of broth. With the price of stew meat at $3 per # I figure over $80 of meat. No idea what a can of broth costs.....well worth my day...of course there are growing costs involved.

I'm letting Time to Commit simmer for a while. QBUDDY thinks I should portion sections off with white sashing...but then this is not her type of quilt either...think she was shaking her head at me...

While waiting for canner to do its thing I pulled out my little houses..Have about 140 sewn..paired up houses and roofs on about 10 more and cut out another 10+. I have a plan for 200 of them. For the newbies..they are 3" finished...not paper pieced. Using up 1" scraps for the base and digging in 1 1/4" plaids as well as other pieces for the roofs. I'm using blue...darks and lights..for the sky..I've used up most of my 1 1/4" blue strips so have had to cut into bigger scraps for the sky..almost a sacrilege for me:D..if you are interested this is where I got the idea..I started the quilt along, but got behind when spring came to the farm..

http://buildinghousesfromscraps.blogspot.com/

Time to rest..

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Worth a double post, Ok, at 3:13 in the morning. Wow. Broth is about $1.19 per pint. And your project is great, but I would never have the patience for that.. I don't seem to have enoiugh patience to finish the bigger projects either right now as I want them all done yesterday!

Progress on the TT stuff brought inside. PW came over and she loaded up her car to the roof top for the third time since we started the project...found the dinning room table again and front closet looks neat! She stayed for supper of fried chicken legs, baked potato, gravy and creamed peas and carrots. I over ate, it was so good. Another new day for new adventures....enjoy the day everyone.

What i wouldn't give to dine at your table just one time NS lol.

Ok, I went to that link and she uses stamps to make the houses? I do love the idea very much. It seems that all the houses are the same except the fabric use to make them look different. I am going to look in one of my software programs to see what's in there. It is a great way to use scraps. I will definitely look in to this lol...I will paper piece tho.....

Rosy, Quiltmaker.com go to bitty blocks..cute patterns...

Rosy, we do have a guest room with a double and single bed in it. We could trade recipes and time in the kitchen and both of us learn something new! And the quilt room and EQ7 on the computer would be the icing on the 'cake'!

Actually got the guest room beds made up today, so there is progress on straightening up the house. With totes gone from the closet, there are more things that can be stored there, too. Just need to 'fine turn' some items yet, wash the remaining clothes and fabric in the boxes remaining yet. Have the vacuum seal bags to move all the knits into them and give away more clothing that I will never wear here. Not working that means I can literally wear blue jeans year around!:) Lost my Stack and Whack book again, but reordered a used replacement that will be here on the 1st of October, to see how the 'happy fabric' will work that pattern. Busy making a list of the vendors I want to see in DM on the 1st at the quilt show. All the favorite LA people will be there, the Bloc Loc business, etc., the list is growing.

Hope everyone had a good day. Enjoyed our conversation, Rosy.

This started out as a sew along...one house a day or 366 blocks...2012 was a leap year.

I have the block done in EQ, Rosy...P.M. me your email address and I will send the PDF.

Yes she uses a stamp. Originally she used templates or PPing...then had the stamps made and thinks she now sells the stamps. I make a 3" block, but as you know I can make the PPing block whatever size you want. The more I sew little bits, the more I don't my mind my little imperfections. I try to sew them correctly, but if not exact I often just let it go. I know it would drive some people, but on this small of a scale it's not that important to me. That being said, there are times I am very picky and will aim for exact piecing. For my pieces I go through my "precuts" which are often trimmings from my quilt friends or projects of my own. I have developed the habit of cutting scraps into usable pieces as I go. So the houses are very serendipitous and not planned.

Wow you are making progress, QNS... Tonight I cleaned out my pattern drawer...threw away patterns that no longer fit and the ones I made for DD when she was in high school and college...LOL as she graduated from HS 25 years ago...yes time to pitch...keeping some of the tissue to use in a crafty way.

Trying to get some of this done before starting full-time.

Thanks Honchey, I do have some of those saved lol. I did a couple houses in EQ 7 and made them PP at 6 inches square. Then I printed out one at 4 inches square. I will see how I like doing those and get back. I did print them out on freezer paper, so no sewing through the paper and that should work out just fine.

Nice chatting with today NS. I bet we would be riot sewing and cooking together lol.

Thanks Ok, I sent my email just now.

I have also been in a chuck and clean mode off and on lol. I still have the clothes to do and I have been doing this all along.....I am getting there little by little.