Love your hook on your lamp, great idea.

Hand sewing the binding Dow is the best part of a quilt

I love your babbling! 💝

I would love a project box parade. Don't be embarrassed... I would wager that most of us have way too many projects going on at one time... I know I do. But it makes me happy.

Yes project box show!! Safe travels take care 🐝well

It’s A Wonderful Life, Elf and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation are such fun movies, I live all the older movies. Brings back favorite memories with my parents. Our Thanksgiving will be very small. We need to keep everyone safe! Enjoyed your live event with Becca and Audrey, I was laughing out loud😍

Beyond Christmas is a real oldie on Prime. 40s

No Anna you are not babbling too much lol💗💗💗 Girlfriend I could listen to you talk all day 💗 Thank you for keeping me company at 3am when I can’t sleep it’s like having one of my very own quilting buddies with me in my sewing room. Good luck with your house hunt can’t wait to see the new Beehive 💗 Totally get needing to be with the Grandbabies - mine are my life’s greatest treasure 💗

Cute pins

I know you will find the perfect home for you, Greg, and your Beehive! We moved at the end of August to our forever/future retirement home and none of the rooms were big enough for a sewing room so I ended up with 2! A main sewing room and another for storage, my Sweet 16, and another table where I can sandwich quilts. It was a good compromise. Have a very Happy Thanksgiving and continue to stay safe.

You will love being closer to your children and grandchildren, to be near enough to have family dinners, or pop over for visits....Your Hive will be lovely wherever you resurrect it! Just another adventure to have a new space to set up for stitching! Would love to see your project boxes, but don't create more stress yourself. And Thx for showing your HOME pillow front...now I want to order it.

Hi, Anna. We just moved from a 2 story to a 1 story house in August. Deciding what to "pack" away for a longer time and what to "leave out" (or be able to get to easier) was a process, but - you are right - by limiting your choices of projects to work on, you really can focus and make good progress. Please go a quilt WIP and Kit Parade!! I did a WIP/KIT Parade of my quilting, cross stitch and counted canvas work projects for my one year FlossTube anniversary in May 2020. I have a playlist of those 10 videos that it took for me to go through everything! Ha-ha! So, don't be embarrassed. :) Seeing and touching all of your projects again will likely re-ignite your passion for some and get you thinking about how you can finish others. (For example, I had two quilt projects I had partially cut out and made a handful of blocks on. I wasn't keen on continuing to make big quilts using those patterns. So, I freed up the fabric from one to make a baby quilt for a cousin and decided to make the other project into a table runner. I'm so happy those projects are no longer filling me with dread and guilt.) Have you and G considered building a new home? Or renting a home until you find one to buy? Happy stitching and quilting! -- Becca Klash in Georgia

I live in Eagle Crest. Love the area. Visit Sisters all the time.love Acorns and Threads. I miss it. Sewing down binding and watching you. Enjoying it my quiet time.

Dare, dare! Another thing you and G need to be thinking about and planning, is the intro to your future Quilt Roadie videos. I have always loved the current one, of the streets of Sisters, with G's music, you need to plan the next one for the Portland area. I feel like I am waiting for season 2 of my favorite show, anticipating what your next beehive is going to be, I'm so excited! My she shed doesn't have a bathroom, I have to walk across my garden area to the house, I guess I will have to strap on a depends if it gets to be a problem as I age 😆!

Yes

We are locking down in Illinois again to, no dine in, only carry out. They have been allowing carry out cocktails here for months. I am working on an every other week basis one week remote one week in person. This week I was able to complete a baby quilt for a co worker, I was glad to get it done just in case we get shut down completely again. Christmas lights went up around here soon after Halloween. I hope to have a couple more quilts to the binding stage soon. One Christmas wall hanging and another lap size. Stay safe and Happy Holidays.

You can babble on...I sew while listening to you and feel like a friend is in my sewing room. I am very fussy about Christmas movies, no Hallmark ones for me. I love the classic ones, "White Christmas", "Holiday Inn" "Christmas in Connecticut " (original only), etc. Even "Home Alone" is one of my must see every year. If you like Hugh Grant, "About A Boy" is wonderful.

I finally got moved on Tuesday. Am now living in a castle of boxes so still no quilting. However, every day sees a little progress. We are lucky that there is still no lockdown again in our area but we are keeping a low profile. Glad to hear you are too. Would love to see your project boxes. Maybe you have more than me but probably not. Always enjoy your talking, you cheer me up. Hugs

I would like to see the medical personnel make a video of how the stress is really affecting each other. It’s showing up for sure.

My husband has NEVER watched Hallmark or Lifetime Christmas movies in the 30 years we’ve been together....but this year when they started playing on November 1st, he sat and watched one with me....and got hooked! We have watched 2 every night since about November 7th. You have 4 a day (or night) to choose from...2 from the 6:pm slot and 2 from the 8:pm slot, so he chooses one and I choose one...it’s been great!

I’m happy for your move. I don’t envy your house hunting. We will together for Thanksgiving. No year is guaranteed. We will be just fine. Freedom is more important than anything. Christmas, the same. Love Christmas movies... White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Christmas in Connecticut and The Bishop’s Wife. Have fun stitching.

I'm babbling back if you could hear me lol😁. Our daughter's working over Christmas rather than not being able to be with us and home alone. Our Christmas is just the three of us and so far the government Lockdown could change to tiers that keep us apart anyway. My favourite film to watch at Christmas is 'The Snowman' (by Raymond Briggs) listening to Aled singing 'Walking in the Air'.

One of my favorite restaurants is in Portland. It is called La Provence.(may not be spelled correct) They have the best croissants and raspberry jam. Their entrees are amazing. Enjoy this time. I keep telling myself that 2020 is for getting projects finished and sewingroom better organized. Keep smiling and wishing you well!

I'm with you on cocktails to go. Lol I think it's the ambiance. You know you're there to chill. I miss my peeps too. I've always thought myself a friend of a loaner, heck after this, I realize I need people. Barbara S made a song lol

You make me 😊

Hello! It was the Bonnie and Camille Shine on Sampler with the big bee; rainbow, etc. I remember because I had signed up for it and right after I had you mentioned in a video you had just signed up. I just got my fist block. Good luck with your move and searching for a new home. It will be so amazing when you find the perfect place - and you will! Happy Thanksgiving!

The BOM you cancelled was Shine on the one with the bee block. I tried to get in on that BOM but was sold out. Bummer. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 🍁. Enjoy your grandchildren. One of my favorite Christmas movies is The Family Stone with Diane Keaton.

In Pennsylvania we have strict liquor laws, but the restaurants are allowed to make drinks to go. The drinks must be placed in the back seat for the ride home.

Have fun with your house hunting! I don't envy you searching at this time, but I know, it's always a challenge. I'm in my 11th house right now and I see another in the future. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We are staying in, have the lake to sit and watch. Or get out on a paddle boat. Have great grands a mile away that visit, cause they home school so they aren’t out in the public.

Oh wow....Portland. I grew up my teen years in Camas, Wa.... Just across the river. Oh my goodness. After my husband passed, I moved from Camas to Idaho. No quilt shop....ugh...

My husband and I are in complete agreement that our next forever home will be one level! NO STAIRS! Happy house hunting!

A really good old Christmas movie is the Bishops Wife with Cary Grant!

Anna you are so funny! Here in New Orleans Louisiana we can walk around w/ a drink in our hand. We also have drive thru daiquiri shops. So you pull up in your car order and drive away w/ a gallon or a glass of frozen deliciousness. You and G have to come visit one day. Love ya girl

Best of luck Anna. I’m in LA and my grandchildren are in Camarillo. Not that far to drive but their world and activities are keeping us apart. And I’m in tears over now not having seen them since last January in person. My health doesn’t warrant taking any chances so I don’t know when I’ll be able to hug them again. It’s a sad thing but I saw a statement recently that said better we’re separate now so that when we can be together again no one will be missing. Amen. Nice to see you always and follow along your journey. Be well and safe!

Yes, yes let’s see those project boxes! I have no problem with the cc. I just go to the menu and it pops up. I’ve seen Christmas decorations around Fresno too. We’ll probably decorate early too. We were supposed to have our family Thanksgiving today, Saturday, but we decided not to go. My sister was going, which I didn’t like, but our great niece was exposed to COVID, and that’s the house we were going to. Then today, my sisters daughter told her that her husband and his sister were both exposed! It’s getting too close for comfort. Are you keeping your condo in Portland too? Good luck on the house hunting.😍

Gonna show my age, my two favorite Christmas movies are White Christmas and Silver Bells. Enjoy your Thanksgiving

Best wishes for you both in house hunting. I’m sure you will find it soon. Going down stairs and outside to main house to the bathroom sounds like too much! Christmas movies. Hmmm. The Christmas Chronicles is good for recent years movies. I like some of the older ones mostly. My husband watches them with me to get along. So I don’t really watch too many so he doesn’t want me to watch some of his choices. 45 years of marriage does that. Ha. Your BOMs will keep you busy. Fat Quarter Shop will have plenty of them in the future. Enjoy your quiet Thanksgiving! Lynn in Indiana

Thanksgiving is going to be tough, we were going to TX to see my grandchildren but we are staying homebound and even here at home we will not see family. So just give me a normal day and i will be fine. Lots of floss tube, I am into homesteading videos and Last Homely House.

Thank you for sharing your day with us ❤️ I've never tried almond milk in mashed potatoes, think I will try that. For the last few holidays I have been buying gluten free dressing mix at Trader Joe's and it's excellent! Think I will need to live three lifetimes to finish all my block of the month projects, I love them all!

Be close to the Grandkids because they quickly outgrow being cuddled and loved on by Grandma. Love on them while you can. Good luck finding a new forever home.

The search for a new home is always fun but I'm picky, too. I'm enjoying watching the old classic Christmas movies and Hallmark ones. Today, I'm binding a quilt and watching KZfaq channels I haven't seen for a few weeks. Thanksgiving will be quiet here. No getting together with family. Just me, myself, and my 12 lb turkey with trimmings. Project box flip--yes! Love to you and G and Happy Thanksgiving!

Oh my gosh Anna! A project box peek would be such a treat! Yes please!! It was lovely catching up with you again as I happily sorted through my next project. I’m cheering you on Anna as you and G go through this transition phase and I’m sure the perfect home and beehive will reveal itself in due course. Love, x

Love Actually!! No one ever mentions it, and it’s my favorite movie that I watch several times a year. I’m curious about your Bee Hive hunt because in about 2 years I’ll be looking for my perfect Bird House, and the rest of the house will go with it. Retirement home, much smaller than what we have now, and I won’t be sewing in an unfinished basement as I am now. I want NATURAL LIGHT!

No Thanksgiving for us but Sew Trendy MN is having a Zoom all day of sewing and quilting with online quilt girlfriends! Black Friday is my 65 birthday, that will be hard for me with no kids and grandkids to visit. We aren’t decorating for xmas this year because we are trying to get remodeling done which is a slow process with COVID. But we are putting up lights outside. Good to see and hear you girlfriend! Happy thanksgiving anyway!

Oh thank you for answering a question I had for you! So you will still be maintaining your Sister's address for now! Do you not get mail at your pied a terre in Portland before or after you find your new home? When do you have to be out of your Sister's house? Oh my gosh - that pillow is huge! Looks like it will be a comfy pillow! It is going to be fun to follow you with the monthly adds to it! We put our house lights up yesterday because it was sunny out and NOT WINDY! I cant believe I missed the Live Stitch group! So mad at myself!

A project box .....Sounds like a great idea.....DO IT,🐑🐑🐑💕

The only Christmas movie I watch every single year is "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation". It's silly and goofy but it makes my heart happy every year!

A look at your projects would be so much fun. Also it would give us beginners ideas. If you are looking for good Christmas movies, Lifetime Network has some really good ones and not all of them are looking for dates!!! I’ve enjoyed a few already this year. New movies come out on Sat & Sun nights. If you get this channel, then check them out. There’s always Hallmark channel known for their Christmas movies and some of them are good too. Do y’all have a condo in Portland that you currently stay at? Be safe going over the mountain. Love & Hugs! ❤️🎄❄️⛄️🎅🧵❤️

In my group we call that the scissor walk when you have to go and you try to get there fast before you have an accident 😂

I finished piecing the wall hanging version of the Welcome Home set this week and now I'm on to the wool applique. Thanks so much for the motivation to get this project out of the box and hopefully up on the wall for the new year! I can't believe how big it is. In my head, it seemed much smaller.

You will find your next forever home and perfect Beehive. Hope you and G have a nice quiet Thanksgiving. I was planning to go to my daughter's but with an increase of Covid in our area decided it best if I stay home. I bought a small turkey breast and will make stuffing, etc. Will probably do some stitching and watch a Christmas movie. Hoping we can get together for Christmas or that will really suck! Stay safe and see you next time.

So glad to see you smiling and laughing today! Love your plans for varieties of projects - you sound just like me when I pack for a vacation. A little knitting, maybe some sewing, needlepoint, cross-stitch, etc. So that what ever the mood, the lighting situation, or the amount of other activity going on, I have something I can work on :). Wishing you the best and hope you enjoy your quiet Thanksgiving :)!

Project boxes sound like so much fun!! Do it!!

Embarrassed?? Nah!! Would love to see your project boxes!! Safe trip home! See you soon! Thank you Ann!

I'd love a project box look see! I would also like to see you work on O Tannenbaum and the Autumn Buttermilk Basin quilt you were working on. Your not babbling, that's keeping us company. Chin up, we will get through this.

Oh, yes... I think you should show us what’s in your project boxes! That would be so much fun to see😀

I enjoy listening to you. 💝

LOL...I take a gander inside all your project boxes for sure!! Hidden gold I'm sure! The only "new" Christmas movie I loved was The Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russell. Now they have a The Christmas Chronicles 2, which I have not yet watched. If you haven't seen the first one, you should. It is a hoot. Loved it! We don't normally do anything for Thanksgiving, as that's just "our" holiday. We don't have kids, only fur babies (cats). However, at Christmas I always go down to see my 6 nieces and nephews and 9 great nieces and nephews. I sew them something every year. This year, the visit is out of the question, but I'm mailing them all snowman pillowcases. I'm going to miss them. I am praying for a fun 4th of July as I'll be in Sisters on that day enjoying whatever fun is to be had there. I've been listening to Christmas music for the last 2 weeks. It makes me happy. Hugs!!

What a blessed friend you are.

What needle do you typically use when sewing down binding - you seem to be zipping along...I struggle to get the needle through! Do you leave a quarter inch of binding to fold the binding over? Love all your videos! Wish you the very best in finding your new home! While it will be a lot of work you will thoroughly enjoy being close to your family! I am so very fortunate to have all of my kids near by and I absolutely love it! When I was raising my kids I didn’t have that luxury so definitely going to soak up all that I can! Can’t wait to see the new Beehive! Take Care! Happy Thanksgiving!

I would love to see what's in your project boxes! I've prioritized my (22 qn size quilt tops) projects on a spreadsheet and I have friends pick a number between 1 to 8 to decide which one to focus on in order to actually make some progress. Otherwise, I'm like your chicken picking at all the pieces of corn too!

Ok - I tried to go through & like all of the comments that voted for the project boxes - promise I will only ooohhh & ahhh over any and all you choose to show! Thanksgiving & Christmas will be a bummer- haven’t seen my grown ups in forever. I looove Christmas movies - there’s this one - “The Man Who Saved Christmas “ - with Jason Alexander - about the man who invented & manufactured the Erector sets - now who remembers those??!!

With so many people moving out of Oregon, California, and Washington you should be able to find a suitable new abode. Patience. Moving is stressful even when it is something you want to do. So be good to yourself and to each other.🙂

It is so lovely to see you today! I enjoyed your "babbling"! Hope you've had a safe trip "over the mountain" and that y'all will have a wonderful Thanksgiving, even if it is a little different this year. I am hoping to do a bit of stitching that day; movies sound like a wonderful idea, also! Thanks!! I think seeing one of your project boxes sounds like fun! Don't be embarrassed; we are friends, right??

Could you tell me more about The French General BOM Swoon ? I can’t find anything mentioned on their website.

Please show us your project boxes Anna!!!!👏🏼🤗👏🏼😊👏🏼

Hallmark movie. City girl goes back to small town home for Christmas. Reconnects with old boyfriend. Decides to give up her wonderful job in the city and stay in small town with family. So.many.of.these. Give me a good Scrooge instead. Our rental house sold and we had to find another in 30 days. I was frantic. We found a much nicer one just down the road but higher rent. Pulled the plug on satellite TV and that was half the money. Found other ways to economize and made it work. I got a much bigger sewing room.

A project box reveal sounds fun. Safe travels.

Oh how fabulous to look for your new forever home. Did your cross stitch get that far out if hand .

I am with you! I like sewing my binding down by hand. I just think it looks so much better1

I was able to get CC (auto generated) for your video. I just clicked on the upper right corner of the video and three dots come up. Click on the dots and the option for CC comes up.

We were invited to Thanksgiving, but decided to decline. Our teeny tiny town has had 10 new cases this week. Now our daughter and granddaughter are coming over to visit a couple of people visiting in that home. Ugh. Christmas has me worried!!!! So want to go because our precious grandson is coming home from the Navy. He’s been on ship since April first, with only 3 days shore leave on a quarantined beach in Guam around the Fourth of July!! Talk about tough!! There are thousands of people on his ship. He is working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. He is supposed to come home Christmas Eve. I want to be there!!! So Swanson TV dinners for us this year, for thanksgiving, hopefully not Christmas, too. Take care and have a great holiday. Happy house hunting. I vote for a project parade!! No need to e embarrassed.

Such a great time watching and listening while I sew and cut along.Take your time looking for your new beehive,it will be exciting and fun following your journey.Hand sewing binding on is such a relaxing thing for me also.Would love to see a unboxing,it's fun to see and know we aren't alone.Happy Thanksgiving to you both and remember you aren't alone you have each other.

I enjoy your "talk"! Would really like to see what is in your project boxes. Don't be embarrassed to show. We are all friends here. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Project box reveal sounds great. Hope you have a safe Thanksgiving. It will be Hubby , our daughter and me. Very small and quiet our grandsons will be with their Father (they are teenagers). But we will have them for Christmas.

Good morning from California! Thnking seriously about moving to Sisters. Its been my happy place for a long time. Any hints?

Good to hear from you. Happy stitching and deep breath. I haven't see my kids over a year 😕 but it's what it is. We'll be through this.

The house will come, just keep packing and planning and it will show itself in due time. I'm glad that you're getting some time with your grandsons in between house hunting. A perfect respite. Agree that current Christmas movies are silly and lacking a plot. They don't make them like they used to. Show us your project boxes! There's no shame, lots of us have lots and lots of projects in the works ;-)

Do it. That would be fun. Love WIPs. Thanks

the HOLIDAY!!! one of my favorites!

LOVE the babble! Not getting to be with any family this year. My mother is 89 and I have spent every holiday with her for 66 years! This is a first. But when we get our day, boy are we going to celebrate!😁 My daughters and sons in-law and grandkids are all going to zoom. Our plan is to try and talk my mom through it. Kind of a hit and miss with her success.😂 Talk about putting your big kids pants on....this is the year to wearing them all the time!! Your home pillow is going to be wonderful. Love the quilt. I do not find binding relaxing! 😬😁😬Hope your search for the perfect place goes smoothly! It’s out there!! Your positive attitude is contagious! Thank you so much!

The problem with take out cocktails that you are going to drive home with is you will essentially have an open container in your vehicle. So there are a lot of laws that are federal, state and local about alcohol. And that isn't even getting into the insurance consideration. I'm pretty sure you signed up for Fat Quarter's Shine On Block of the Month Club. There is a bee block. That's why I think that is the one you might have signed up for.

Yes! I want to see what’s in your project boxes. 😍 HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🦃🍁🍽

I’ve been sewing small project bags while visiting with you. They are gifts 🎁 for a few of my friends. I need to make a few more for my projects. Blessings.

A project box flip would be awesome. I might have a few of those too!!

Yes please let’s see what’s in all those project boxes together! I can tell in your voice you are so much happier! Grandchildren can do that! Wishing you and G a Happy Thanksgiving and happy home hunting! It’s out there and you will find it!🦃😊

Sorry you're not finding your forever home, Anna. Is there anyway you could install a commode and sink in that potential beehive? Convert the closet, perhaps. You'd have to store your fabrics in another fashion. Neither of my daughters and theirs are coming, so my ex and I will do dinner and play scrabble. We're cooking either roasted pork hocks or ham with scalloped potatoes and acorn squash! Yummmm We don't usually make too much of Christmas, with no small children around, or family for that matter. I just wave at my neighbours kids across the street (sort of "borrow" them for a few minutes). You can babble away anytime, Anna. I love it!!! Okay, off to stitch and binge on The Crown. I can't handle those sappy, bletch Christmas movies. The acting is always so terrible. Luv ya and Have a great rest of your day and hugs from Canada.

Always good to take it a little slower so you get what you need and want,, you will find the right home I am sure,what an adventure! Enjoyed the friendsgiving yesterday, it was good to laugh and see you all laughing and happy too. I also have Through the River to do too...thinking I will start in June.

You are so funny thank you. From Switzerland

Happy Thanksgiving to you and G! Safe travels

Yes! Show us your projects!! Show and tell is always fun! And don't be embarrassed.....the rest of us have more projects than we want to admit to also 🤫

My favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life. You're killing me with your Home pillow. I just love that but keep telling myself I can't afford that. Trying to stay strong. would be great fun to see your project boxes! C'mon, let's go for it. Have a blessed Thanksgiving to our Queen and G Bees, and all us worker bees.

Just got my HOME pattern, can’t wait to get started.

Instead of packing up the beehive - why not live in the Apartment in Portland for 3 months - Nov to Feb - similar to what you do down in Arizona - that way you can keep the Bee HIve. The way how I learn to label boxes was put numbers on them and have a notebook that you write what is in that box, that way all the removalist have is numbered boxes with no idea of what is in them.....less chance of boxes disappearing.

People are decorating for Christmas early in Portland. I have seen a few trees on top of cars this last weekend. Happy Holidays to you and yours.🦃🙏🎅🤶🦌🎄

One time my husband and I were traveling with another couple in our 5th. wheels. We were in New Orleans. You could have a drink as long as it was a closed container. They considered a Styrofoam cup taped shut but with a straw a closed container. We would stop at a daiquiri place(had 100 flavors) then go to a mud bug place and get a couple of pounds. Sit at our picnic table and have a feast. So fun!

What pattern is the Home Pillow?

Anna, keep on doing what you do! I sit down with my first cup of tea in the morning, pick up my I pad, and I can’t tell how happy I am, when there you are, waiting to chat to me😄. You set me up for the day. - (and I would love to see your project boxes) x

My favorite Christmas movie is "All Mine To Give" very old, hard to find. The true meaning of love at Christmas.