LC's Cottage

We Can Build A Snowman by Erica Plank

Posted on April 2, 2026 | 5 comments

I feel so validated as I share this post.

We are in the midst of a snowstorm.

Therefore, I feel pretty good about sharing that my hand stitchery project is all about the snowman.

No Easter bunnies here.

You know that I can never seem to do anything ‘in season’.

The first block is stitched. I am considering adding beads, but I have time to think about that. I have four more blocks to go.

The pattern is designed by Erica Plank from Unseen Hands.

I have had the pattern for many years, but when I was ready to settle down and make these blocks…well…I couldn’t find my pattern.

I am normally very good at filing my patterns.

While working through Karen Brown’s Declutter Challenge this year, I found the pattern. Right where it should be.

How did that happen?

Does that happen to you, too?

I am not sure that I will make the quilt, yet. I just really wanted to stitch the snowmen.

At my pace, there is all the time in the world to decide that later.

Have fun and carry on!

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March 2026

Posted on April 1, 2026 | 5 comments

What happened to March? Anybody know?

I didn’t go into the sewing studio until the last two days of the month.

The Hubster and I spent quite a bit of time outdoors. We cleared and burned a whole lot of brush. We do expect a ban on the use of chain saws and a ban on burning to come early this year. Like many parts of the country, we have had drought followed by a very mild winter. Not good.

We became great-grandparents on March 11 to a baby boy!

The little fam lives in Oregon, and we hope to visit soon. Wren Thomas was admitted to the hospital yesterday, giving us all a scare. He is very jaundiced, but after many tests, the little fella was declared healthy and discharged today (the 31st).

Our son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter visited for a few days. They came to celebrate the life of our daughter-in-law’s Mom, who had passed recently. Their stay here was too short, as always.

The Hubster got sick, so outdoor chores are on hold. Unfortunately, they will wait for him.

I finally have all of the parts sewn for Silk Path! Now all I need to do is get it laid out and sewn into a flimsy. This will be interesting, since I have no space to lay out such a large project.

I love it when the sunshine warms up the crocus and the petals open to reveal the bumble bees!

So sweet!

“Then from my heart will young petals diverge,
As rays of the sun from their focus;
I from the darkness of earth shall emerge,
A happy and beautiful Crocus!

Many, perhaps, from so simple a flower,
This little lesson may borrow,
Patient today, through its gloomiest hour,
We come out the brighter tomorrow.”

-Emily Dickinson

Have fun and carry on!

Bonnie Hunter Silk Path Update

Silk Path

One of These Does Not Belong

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One of These Does Not Belong

Posted on February 27, 2026 | 16 comments

I am pretty sure that you can tell which of the piecing does not belong.

I had a whole lotta cutting left to do for the Bonnie Hunter Silk Path project.

And as long as I was cutting anyway, I might as well make more of those 1990’s charms into half-square triangles. There are only 20 blocks so they will be a small project.