My husband has a few days left before his severance kicks in, he’s applying for jobs every day but there’s NOTHING out there, our biggest “worry” is really health insurance for our family, I know COBRA is going to be expensive.

We’re open to recommendations!

On the home front, we haven’t done that much this week, we went to our friend’s house for dinner one night, Easter Sunday we had my in-laws over for dinner. And Bjorn sang in the church choir on Good Friday

The girls also made pretzels last weekend and I tried my hand at sourdough bread in the bread machine, the pretzels were awesome, my bread was terrible

I had some sour dough starter from a friend and after the first fail I figured I’d try the bread machine again but sort of just add a cup maybe of the sour dough starter instead of all the flour, and it worked!

a regular white load called for 3 and 11/16cup of flour so I added the 3 cups and sort of eyeballed almost a cup of the starter, it was a sticky mess so I knew it wasn’t the whole cup anyways and it tasted great! Didn’t taste like sour dough, but more like a normal loaf of bread.

I used to make bread in the bread machine a lot, years ago, but then stopped, now I might go back to that.

Here’s my 2024 project list!

Anything I’ve worked on this week is in red

#1 (Jan 2021) Gnome EPP project- #3 done worked a bit

#2 (March 2022) EPP flowers- working on blocks if I’m outside

#3 (June 2022) Black patterned and grey and pink quilt Bunny Slope LARGE- top done ready to quilt pattern in my shop

#4 (Jan2023) Hunter star rainbow blocks- pink, blue and green done- using them for backing for another quilt

#5 (Jan 2023) Washington puzzle rainbow blocks- DONE!

#6 (Jan 2023) Crossed Canoe rainbow blocks- 4 done

#7 (Jan 2023) Butterfly rainbow blocks- top done ready to quilt

#8 (Jan 2023) Priscilla rainbow blocks- working on more blocks

#9 (Jan 2023) Arkansas Traveler rainbow blocks- using them for backing for another quilt

#10 (Jan 2023) Morning star rainbow blocks- using them for backing for another quilt

#11 (Jan 2023) Tangled Star blocks – 2 blocks done turned into a pillow

#12 (Jan 2023) Chimney Sweep blocks- top done, ready to quilt

#13 (Jan 2023) Storm at sea blocks- 9 done

#14 (Jan 2023) Road to Fortune blocks – 12 blocks done top done ready to quilt- put together with butterfly blocks!

#15 (Aug 2023) Scrappy Florence- Done Get pattern here

#16 (Aug 2023) red and light blue Contained- Done Get pattern here

#17 (Sept 2023) Charm Arrows quilt- working on blocks

#18 (Oct 2023) Fruit Log Cabin- DONE! pattern here and KITS here

#19 (Nov 2023) Teal and black quilt no name- DONE pattern coming soon

#20 (Dec 2023) Tied with a ribbon charms – DONE! pattern here

#21 (Dec 2023) Window Charms – DONE,  Get pattern here

#22 (Dec 2023) Charm bowtie quilt – DONE, pattern here

#23 (Dec 2023) Jacob’s latter charms – top done ready to quilt pattern coming soon

#24 (Dec 2023) Charming pinwheels – DONE, pattern coming soon

#25 (Dec 2023) Charm Wrench quilt – DONE pattern coming soon

#26 (Jan) Pineapple blue and red quilt – DONE

#27 (Jan) Angelic charms- DONE, pattern here

#28 (Jan) Beachcomber jacket- DONE!

#29 (Jan) Safety scrappy – DONE!

 #30 (Jan) Sweet Dreams sort of scrappy – top done ready to quilt

#31 (Jan) Coin Toss scrappy – top done ready to quilt

#32 (Feb) FQ dreams temple court quilt- top done ready to quilt, pattern coming soon

#33 (Feb) Optical baby quilt- top done ready to quilt

#34 (Feb) Providence quilt – top done ready to quilt

#35 (Feb) Pink white and grey Kaleidoscope quilt- DONE

#36 (March) Star and Cross and Pineapple quilt- top done ready to quilt

#37 (March) Signature circle- top done ready to quilt

#38 (March) Bluey Crazy Cat quilt- working on blocks

#39 (March) Red White and Blue charm quilt- top done ready to quilt

#40 (March) Cowboy churn dash quilt- DONE

#41 (March) Jungle quilt- working on blocks

#42 (Jan?) Rainbow block of the month- working on April’s block

#43 (March) Bee Yellow and black quilt- working on blocks

#44 (March) Scrappy Green and Teal trapezoid signature blocks- working on blocks

I’m still looking for more pattern testers, if you want to be added to my list, just email me