It’s January and that means that it is time to look back at 2024 and see what was accomplished from the to-do list. Which projects were...

The last three months of 2024 have been particularly busy for us. We enjoyed family gatherings for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and my...

Besides quilting I have always enjoyed doing counted cross-stitch. I love when the design comes to life on the blank Aida cloth and the...

The Forest Acres Quilting Club was once again honored to be a part of the Veteran’s Day assembly at Freeman Public Schools on Monday,...

Time once again to check in and see what has been happening in the Hottovy household recently. We traveled to Breckenridge in July for...

The final stop on our Italy trip was Rome where we spent three nights and two full days. And they were very full days!  After dinner on...

As I mentioned in my last blog post, we enjoyed the small towns in Italy much more than the larger ones. Lucky for us the next several...

Two weeks after we returned from Italy last spring Tom asked when we were going back! While we probably won’t be doing that any time soon...

The Forest Acres Quilting Club had the honor of awarding a Quilt of Valor to Jeffrey Zajicek of Beatrice on June 27, 2024. It was a...

It is July already! I’m not sure how that happened but there sure has been a lot of activity in the Hottovy household during the past...

It was another beautiful morning on May 27th for the annual Memorial Day service at the Highland Cemetery in Adams. The program began...

Tom and I have been spending some time organizing our pictures from our 15-day trip to Italy - 1500 of them between Tom, me, and the...

On Thursday, February 22nd, Tom and I boarded a plane in Omaha and flew across the big pond to Italy - via Minneapolis and Amsterdam....

The first three months of 2024 have flown by which means it is time to revisit my to-do list to see if I have accomplished anything in...

If you have been following my blog then you know that I have been working for awhile on the Swoon pattern by Camille Roskelly. Since I...

Last fall I posted a blog about the first day of our two-day trip to the northeast part of our state and promised that I would post about...

The Forest Acres Quilting Club was honored to award two Quilts of Valor on the evening of February 8, 2024 in the basement of the...

It is time once again to look back on the to-do list for 2023 and see what was (or was not!) accomplished. Of the eleven projects with...

Two more projects were checked off the 2023 to-do list during the last three months. Finley’s Advent calendar was finished just in time...

The Forest Acres Quilting Club was once again honored to be a part of the Freeman Public School’s Veteran’s Day Assembly on Monday,...