{"id":93468,"date":"2026-05-24T01:06:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T06:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/?p=93468"},"modified":"2026-05-24T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T14:35:09","slug":"cutting-the-border-stitching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/cutting-the-border-stitching\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting The Border & Stitching"},"content":{"rendered":"

I continue to work on Honey, Honey<\/strong><\/em> while I sit and take breaks from things during the day and I like how this EPP quilt top is coming along.\u00a0 It is easy to do and 5 pieces to a block – I will link this project to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>today when I get on the computer.\u00a0 Also linking to Kate’s Life in Pieces<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I was pressing fabric to cut for the border on Mercantile Sampler<\/strong> <\/em>and since last years back surgery I find most of the time I need to sit to press on the big board where there is more room.\u00a0 The fold up tall chair though is uncomfortable and I need to find something different, I got this one cheap and you can feel it!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>These are the stacks ready to arrange – I have about 5 in each group there so you really don’t see all the colors but there are about4-5 in each color group.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I had plenty left over so I folded the short end in and then rolled it up so maybe it won’t get all the fold lines back in.\u00a0 Plenty left for another quilt project before little pieces get put in the scrap boxes – these were fat quarters.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Today in between working on the garden, Honey, Honey<\/em> and whatever shows up I need to press these whites that I chose for the smaller pieces of the border and get them cut\u00a0 – they will be 2.5 inch pieces.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I didn’t think to take a photo before I rolled the quilt down but I was working on the far end and got this part done.\u00a0 And some before that but not much. Broken Star Log Cabin.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>After I rolled that section down I got this part too, I didn’t get done with all that much but it was a start.\u00a0 My lines can be a mess at times but it gets me going in the right direction.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We have had quite a few rainy days and the weeds in the garden sure have taken off.\u00a0 I got a little weeding done and Mike helped a little bit but was mainly sticking with working on where he is going to make garden pathways in between beds to keep the weeds at bay.\u00a0 I showed him what all was growing so he wouldn’t pull out some vegetables he has never really helped with the garden but I appreciate the new found interest.\u00a0 And yes those are short rows of bush green beans – don’t pull them out!! LOL “those are green beans!” yes!!\u00a0 I have a lot of bell pepper plants planted but I rarely have luck with them getting more than a couple peppers so I am really hoping for luck this year on them.\u00a0 I well need to reorganize the pantry to make room for Marina Sauce once again and I got a slightly larger crock pot for making it in this year as the old smaller one was about ready to give it up – you really had to work at getting it to turn on.\u00a0 Now to remember how to use the small pressure canner I got a couple years ago – I did stick the instruction booklet in it so that will help.\u00a0 I didn’t use it last year as I had such a poor crop.<\/p>\n

Seeing as I’m doing the link up today to Kathy’s Slow Sunday stitching and Kate’s Life In Pieces\u00a0 wanted to share the finish of Noriko’s Star<\/strong><\/em> to the people who check in once a week on Sunday and might not scroll back to see.\u00a0 Posted all the stats a couple days ago for those that want to take a look.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>GREEN FAIRY is having a 50%<\/strong> off sale on some Riley Blake fabric and Moda – time to get it for sure at half price – anything from charm squares to fat quarter bundles and there are some yardage available as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I continue to work on Honey, Honey while I sit and take breaks from things during the day and I like how this EPP quilt top is coming along.\u00a0 It is easy to do and 5 pieces to a block – I will link this project to Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching today when I get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,136,194,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-log-cabin","category-gardening","category-honey","category-rsc23-mercantile-sampler"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karensquilting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}