Coffee: the most important meal of the day ☕️🍳
Happy Monday morning!!! Welcome to Monday Musings! I hope you have all had a great week and got a lot of fun sewing projects done! This week we are having two days of winter – Monday and Tuesday – with temps in the 30s and 40s, and then we skip ahead to spring for the next few days! Our weather is schizophrenic in the south. Today Chicken Legs and I celebrate our 48th anniversary! After all these years we don’t get each other gifts, but just enjoy the day together. This year, since I am back on partial kid car duty, we did not go anywhere, but hopefully we can soon. Now let’s move on to the good stuff!!
Here’s how my story ended for the week of 11/3 – 11/9/25:
- Work on the big quilt will continue. PROGRESS MADE!! All borders, stitch in the ditch and about a third of the inside done!
- Maybe Sew Day on Wednesday?? I have some appointments this week, so we will see. NOPE!! I was nose down working on the big quilt.
- Whatever cranks my tractor! After one of our appointments we stopped at my favorite Mexican restaurant and had a great lunch! They make their tortillas and chips there and they are the best IMHO!
Plans for the week of 11/10- 11/16/25:
- Continue working on the big quilt.
- Hopefully start my December Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange project??
- Whatever suits my fancy.
Here is some quilty inspiration shared last week!
Thanks to everyone who linked up! If you want to know more about any of these, click through the links in the last Monday Musings post.
Now it’s your turn to link up projects you’re working on!
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Shopping…in case you need some quilty goodness this month!
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Specials at Fat Quarter Shop for the month of October:
– The Basic of the Month is Shades by Riley Blake.
– The Notion of the Month is Gutermann Threads.
– The Book of the Month is Primitive Gatherings Books.
– The Patterns of the Month is Primitive Gatherings Patterns.
– The Cross Stitch Sale of the Month is Fat Quarter Shop Cross Stitch Finishing Notions.
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Have a wonderful quilty week. Until next time…
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Congrats on your anniversary! I hope you had a lovely day 🙂
Happy Anniversary! Hubby & I are 10 years behind you.
Hope you had a wonderful 48th anniversary. We celebrate exactly the same way – being together is the greatest gift, right? Stopping for Mexican food after an appointment sounds so fun – were there margs involved? 😀
Hi Brenda, Hope you had an awesome Anniversary!
Happy anniversary! Enjoy your day. 😊
Happy Anniversary, Brenda! 48 years -a wonderful milestone! Enjoying the day together is perfect . I am sure you will go somewhere special very soon. I hope you are staying warm. This is good quilting weather. Hugs.
Thanks so much, Melisa! We will slip away at some point when GiGi Taxi time has subsided! It was definitely good weather to stay in and quilt this past week, but now we are back in the 70s! Schizophrenic southern weather! LOL Have a great week!
Happy Anniversary!!! that is a lot of great years together!! Enjoy it!!
Have a great stitchy week!!
Great meme today! Thanks for the shout out. Woke up to 7″+ inches of snow. It will be in the 40’s tomorrow.