Donna Young

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This border layout is close to the first one that I tried last year. I could write about why I chose this border layout over the second one, but I really don’t want to. I will just show a photograph of it and say that the border strips are pinned and this is about how […]

For me, it is time to work on a quilt again. I have a 7 day opening to work on it. Last year on June 21, I wrote a blog entry with photos showing where I was at with the quilt. The blog entry is here: As the Petals Unfurl. Shortly after that, I put […]

Last weekend, my son was in town for something to do with Civil Air Patrol. I asked him to bring his laundry so I could clean it. He normally does this himself, but I do not mind giving him a break and I usually find something that needs mending. This time it was a towel. […]

My helpers the sewing machine, the iron, and the cutting board were my companions today. Later I visited my tiller and hoe. Lunch, plain chicken and a large apple, was called sustenance because that best described it. I did not have to cook, just warm the cooked chicken and slice the apple. The other […]

Not long ago, I declared my vacuum cleaner useless and I threw it in the garbage. Shortly after that, I ordered a vacuum cleaner from Amazon to replace it. The vacuum cleaner that I chose is a very cheap model, even cheaper than what is normally considered cheap for a vacuum cleaner, just $69.99. […]