Still stitching hearts. 🪡💓🧵 Something very peaceful about summer #sewing, the sun still shining on tall redwoods, birds chirping, chickens already in the coop due to a nearby mama fox with three kits! All things for some reason. 😉 #quiltsky #epp #handmade #slowstitching

Saw the #sunset last night as the sun slipped behind the cloud bank. I'm glad we left early, otherwise we would have missed it! Very windy at Samoa Beach; #Humboldtcounty can be fickle weatherwise. #Summer needs one clear evening for time on the #beach. 🌅 #Pacificocean #ocean

Feeling prayerful on this #Peace Round the World Wednesday, keeping those who love Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero in my thoughts. 💔💔 We are here to #love one another. To #care for one another. To #uplift one another. 💗 Praying for more #justice in this world. 💜 #epp #quiltsky

Every other evening I stitch on this Warm Hearted #epp #quilt. I'm working back to ten #hearts per sitting, keeping my shoulder from being overtaxed. Seven hearts tonight, all of them so necessary. 🧵💓🪡 #quiltsky #handmade #patience #joy #perseverance

Back to working on this #epp #quilt. The safety pins seem apropos, as though necessary to keep my heart in one piece.💔 At other moments I'm eager to remove them, unbinding that marvelous #love muscle! Such is the world these days.💜 🪡💗🧵 #Englishpaperpiecing #quiltsky #patience #contemplation

#Deer and #chickens yesterday afternoon. Mama doe and her twins hung out for over an hour and didn't mind the poultry interlopers. ☺️ We're still amazed at how close this doe comes to our house. She makes eye contact with us, but the fawns aren't overly fazed. 😆

Crocheted by my grandmother fifty years ago, this blanket adorns our guest bed. 💙 Blue is still my favourite colour. ☺️ #handmade #crocheting #keepsakes #love

It's Wednesday and I didn't work on the Peace Round the World #epp project. Grandkids are visiting, and we went to the beach. ☺️ Yet I'm pondering that collection of wovens, so here's a shot of what I managed while my BFF visited last week. Next week for sure! 😆🪡💗🧵 #quiltsky #joy #handmade #beach

My husband has a head cold. I put the #chickens to bed a couple of nights ago, though they were reluctant to head into the coop. Snapped all eight that evening; only one, Cami, was looking away. ☺️

A mama and her fawns have been visiting us for a week. I snapped them resting near our house, and marvel at how they feel comfortable this close to people! #deer #nature #trust

Contemplating a #contemplativelife this marine layer morning. And how better foam earplugs might improve my life, contemplation notwithstanding. ☺️ Hexie top for the grandson of my BFF. Stitched the flower ages ago, perfect for now. Kinda apropos in a grand scheme way. 🧵💗🪡 #Englishpaperpiecing #joy

Peace Round the World #epp, being it's Wednesday. ☺️ Fave fabrics (Karen Nyberg, Anna Maria Parry, Guicy Guice) go into something of this magnitude because it's long term and super hands on and the kind of thing you go ALL IN on. Gotta love the #crafting. 😆🧵❤️🪡 #quiltsky #handmade #creativity

Hand-quilting this gorgeous heart and I had to pause for a photo. The pink, yellow and teal-ly flowers caught my eye in a This is why I hand-quilt kind of manner. 💓 I'm gifting this when it's done, so I won't admire this heart later. Best to savor life as we live it. Fabrics too. ☺️ #joy #quiltsky

A warm #summer day in #Humboldtcounty. Less wind than previously. Few clouds. Roses decorate the ancient dog run now christened the Broody Hen Condo. #Chickens trill in the background. Wind chimes and chirping birds accentuate the breeze. A book waits nearby. Pretty darn perfect. Yup, #summertime. 💗

Reminiscing about an #epp #samplerquilt, sunrises, not bearing regrets, #gratitude, #grace, and reveling in no marine layer this morning! Post can be found on my blog, link in bio above. As for the #quilt photos.... Jodi Godfrey's Seedlings Quilt, Feb. 2020. 😊🪡💗🧵🌞 #quiltsky #englishpaperpiecing

We've had our #chickens a year. If you're curious, check out the #blogpost, link in my bio. Everyone's happy, healthy, and currently not being held in Broody Hen Jail. 😊 But they AREN'T keen on scratch in a flat pan. 😆 And Ruthie has since lost that last remaining tail feather, bless her. 🐔💗

I cut fabric for the next round of my Wednesday #epp #quilt yesterday; not super exciting to look at, but I counted the squares twice AND still ended up with an extra. 😆 Kind of like being on the other side of the solstice, as now all rows lose four squares. One day I'll be done. ☺️ 🪡🧵💓 #quiltsky

Another Peace Round the World Wednesday. Didn't accomplish as much #epp as usual, but I'm pleased for what I managed.🧵🪡💖 #Chickens are a year old today. Maybe some treats for them later. I'm sure they would approve. 😆🐔❤️ #handsewing #slowstitching #handmade #joy #quiltsky #Englishpaperpiecing

Kinda heavy on the greenish-blue side, or maybe just the tint from my camera, lol. Calling this the living room #quilt, as that's where I began the #sewing. Too many stacks of squares in various sizes = whatever this turns out to be. 💚😊💙 #quiltsky #creativity #joy #designwall #machinesewing

Broken hearts, mended hearts; this applies to the photo as well as what I realized for a character in one of my still-to-be-written novels. LOL. Yet backstory matters, because our histories make us who we are. Even if we're fictional. 📚😜💗 More in a #blogpost. See link in bio above. #storytelling

Working on my Peace Round the World quilt because it's Wednesday. Finished one side, now to plot out the next few squares... 💙 Wovens from Guicy Guice, Anna Maria Parry and RSS. I'm also using fabric from Karen Nyberg's Oceans line and some Anna Maria swans. 💗🪡🧵 #quiltsky #epp #handmade #happiness

Hand-quilting this beauty, yet my right shoulder continues to protest. 🙄 Okay, fine. Time off provides other pleasures like enjoying our slice of summer once the marine layer burns off. 😊 #quiltsky #handsewing #creativity #Englishpaperpiecing #joy #patience #epp #slowstitching #handmade

Twenty years into my #selfpublishing journey, Can't Be Done Alone: The Hawk Book Five is available! 🎉📚🎊 #Womensfiction mixed with #magicalrealism set in 1960s America; if that appeals, check out my blog, link in my bio. Dreams do come true. Just keep #writing, #creating, #persevering. 😉💗😊

Basted and am now securing the perimeter of this Warm Hearted #Englishpaperpiecing #quilt. I plan to hand-quilt this beauty, assuming my cranky right shoulder cooperates. How I LOVE this project! 💗🧵🪡 Blogged about it, and other hoo haa. Link to blog in my profile. #quiltsky #handsewn #creativity

23 days since my last post; I'm moving in the right direction. 🤣 Sometimes I write a #blog post about #love, #quilting, #innerpeace, #joy, #humannature, #lifelessons, and #emotionalhealing that makes me smile. Today is one of those days. Link to said blog in my bio above. Have a peaceful day! 💗

Haven't been here for.... Four months! Dude.... Anyways, #chickens and a fiction #excerpt 🌈 and #quilting and getting a smidge older and #peace and #grace and #sunshine and #writing and #randomnonsense all in a new #blogpost. Link to said post in my bio above. Have a splendid day! 💗 📚🪡🧵🫶🐔

Yip yap: a #chickens #blogpost. About eggs, #hope, #emotionalhealing, #faith, #gratitude, #innerpeace, #prayer, and free-ranging. And how unexpected gifts fall into one's lap, with only a smidgen of poo attached, lol. Link to post in my bio above. And happy new year!

Yip yap #chickens in a #blogpost about how they actually lay #eggs even if it's winter and they're not quite six months old and why I am apparently so wigged out by them doing what they're meant to do. LOL! 🐔💖🥚 Link to blog in bio above.

Yip yap #quilt finish! #Kawandi inspired, #Englishpaperpiecing and #LucyBoston bound, lots of Why did I do this, and Don't give up a MEH-today dream because tomorrow might be the perfect moment. Oh and #handsewing. And #happiness. #quiltsky #quilting #blogpost #handmade Link to blog in bio above.

Yip yap why I wrote The Hawk. A #blogpost about truths found during the #storytelling. Including an #excerpt from my next novel, which is much about #grace and #healing and #magicalrealism and #hope. With a smidgen about chickens, lol. Link to the blog in my profile above. #creativity #writing

Yip yap #chickens and their recent adventures. And me working on #writing. And me wondering how it all came to where I am today, fifty-nine and a half years old, happily shoveling chicken poo every few days and, well, yeah. 😆 Link to my #blog in bio above. #gratitude #grace #beinginthemoment

Yip yap #reflections about #Englishpaperpiecing, #dietaryrestrictions, #crocheting, #creativity, #lifepaths, #aging, and #hobbies amid times far more traumatic for others than myself. But sometimes life feels HARD, so I write a #blogpost about it. Link to the blog in my bio above.

Yip yap #blogpost conflab with Future Me about #Draft2Digital, spag bol with ground pork GF meatballs (recipe included), #self-publishing hoo haa, #shamelessplugs about my books, #authoritarianism (sigh), hopefully getting to #vote again and other random nonsense, lol. Link to my blog in bio above.

I found this in the Old Testament book of Zechariah last night, verses 7: 8, 9, 10. Pass this on to GOP politicians as a reminder of their faith, as most attest to belief in God. As their sister in Christ, I too will share the prophet's message. #Scripture #Jesussky #governmentshutdown #resist

I released a new #book today; Home and Far Away is available for free at most online retailers. A blend of #womensfiction, #sci-fi, and #timetravel, but mainly a #lovestory set in 1971 yet so relevant to society today. Check out my blog, link in bio above, for info. 📚💗 #author #writing #allegory

Yip yap a #blogpost about #aspirations and #writing and an #excerpt from my next book hopefully coming out tomorrow. How cool is it to dream big then find those dreams as reality! 🎉📚💗 I'm so grateful to my support staff. 😉 Link to my blog in bio above. #Lovestory #Scifi #joy #selfpublishing

Yip yap #blogpost but is it also a synopsis for my next novel? How much does a synopsis need to resemble a synopsis? How many times can I write synopsis before it becomes irrelevant, lol.📚 Here's my latest quilt #WIP on the wall. Both it and said synopsis are in my post, link in my bio above.

A new banner for today's #NoKings protest. Fifty-five by forty-five inches, the hearts are attached by a running stitch. 💗🌈💗Hoping to add more hearts as necessary. #quiltsky #machinesewing #resist #rainbowquilt

A new #blogpost mostly about the writing and my books. With a little about the quilt pictured below. 😊🪡💙🧵💗📚💜 Link to the blog in my bio above. #writing #self-publishing #creativity #joy #aspirations #EPP #Englishpaperpiecing

Six years ago this month I completed the hand sewing on this Cherish #epp #quilt. Pattern is by Jodi Godfrey. When it was finished I gave it to my youngest daughter and her husband as a wedding gift. Recently she told me it's her fave cozy. ☺️ #Englishpaperpiecing #handsewing #quiltsky #keepsake

My question to Republicans, ICE, those who support the administration, RFK Jr., etc, etc, etc.... WHY DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD MAKING OTHERS HURT? #resist

Yip yap not so much about #chickens as about the current state of America. But Owl Chicken does figure prominently, if you don't mind taking on the persona of an isolated, lonely chicken. God (💚) figures prominently too. annascottgraham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... #resist #Scripture #Jesussky

An unexpected #allegory upon reflection. And, spoiler alert; Owl is just fine! 😊 #chickens #chickensky #humannature annascottgraham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

The Warm Hearted quilt I finished during summer. Because all hearts matter, always. 🩷💙💛💜🩵🤎 #quiltsky #quilting #epp #Englishpaperpiecing #love #peace #handsewing

Made a quilt top. Because my shoulder is meh. So I can't do any BELOVED hand sewing. 😭 But uncomplicated 8" squares have their own charm. I used Alison Glass batiks, which AREN'T conducive to EPP. And some RSS prints. And went a few years back in time. Before Kawandi entered my life. ☺️ #quiltsky

God said, "Make a sign please." Here's my sign. #love

Yip yap perseverance blah blah blah.... Where a cranky shoulder threatens a coup, but I'm not listening. And other life and sewing silliness. #blogpost #perseverance #handsewing #hope #LucyBoston #epp annascottgraham.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

Yip yap cluck cluck... A #blogpost about #chickens! Specifically their (and my) morning routine. 🐔💖🐔 #chickensky annascottgraham.blogspot.com/2025/09/morn...

Such simple, bright beauty in these appliqed Lucy Boston blocks, as well as random scrappiness, lol. As safety pins disappear, wholeness emerges, an unexpected thrill that these blocks are even being used. ☺️💓 But now it's time to feed the chickens, hah! #handsewing #Englishpaperpiecing #quiltsky

Heaps left to applique (note all the safety pins, lol), but this is the last 2" hexagon affixed! Now to some EPP for the rest of the evening, other than a quick trip to the chicken run to get everyone into the coop for the night. ☺️ #handsewing