Newest Quilt Project 2026

My Daughter asked me to make a quilt out of her old Rilakkuma t-shirt and fabric paraphernalia.  I've only managed 7 blocks out of the 16 I need for this project.  Wish me luck because the black t-shirt fabric that I got to be the background for the blocks is slippery and the sewing machine likes to eat it.  I have tried not to cuss, but so help me, it has been a struggle.

This was the center piece that I started with. All others will go around it. It is made from 4 handkerchiefs with the different seasons on them.

I will need to re-do this on as I messed up the lower black edging.  The fabric moves like a snake.

This was not finished when I took the photo. The 2 wash cloths and the 2 t-shirt pieces are totally surrounded by the black fabric.

This photo was taken before the black fabric outline was sewn on.

Books Read in 2025

 

The total books read/listened to was 54. However, I was working on a complicated quilt for one of my great-nephews, selling items on eBay, and pissing my life away on TikTok. I'm sure there were tons of other things I accomplished but I can't remember them at the moment. 

Books

Extreme Prey - John Sanford

In the Shadows: A Dark Stalker Romance - J. A. Owenby

For Whom the Belle Tolls - Jaysea Lynn

So Thirsty - Rachel Harrison

Escape Clause - John Sanford

Golden Prey - John Sanford

Deep Freeze - John Sanford

Twisted Prey - John Sanford

Holy Ghost - John Sanford

Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan

Neon Prey - John Sanford

Bloody Genius - John Sanford

Find Me in The Dark - Dea Poirier

Holly - Stephen King

Masked Prey - John Sanford

After I Fall - Melisssa Sercia (Repeat)

After I Run - Melissa Sercia (Repeat)

Never Flinch - Stephen King

Ocean Prey - John Sanford

Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Living Dead in Dallas - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Club Dead - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead to the World -Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead as a Doornail - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead and Gone - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dead Locked - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

After Dead - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

Dear Ever After - Charlaine Harris (repeat)

The Push - Ashley Audtrain

Last Rites - Ozzy Oasbourne

Jack the Ripper - Jackson R. Noble

Audio Books

Holding - Graham Norton

Forever Home - Graham Norton

Slow Time Between the Stars - John Scalzi

A Promised Land - Barack Obama

 The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor Lavalle

Mile 81 - Stephen King

The Egg and Other Stories - Andy Weir

Frankie - Graham Norton

The Life and Loves of a He Devil - Graham Norton

The Dark Water Bride -Marty Ross

Certain Dark Things - Silva Moreno-Garcia

Inside Jobs - Ben H Winters

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

Cut and Run - Ben Acker and Ben Blacker

Bright Young women - Jessica Knoll

The Investigator - John Sanford

The Deep - Rivers Soloman

Mind Hunter - John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker

Wally Roux: Quantum Mechanic