Design Wall Monday Week 6

Here is my wall.  Top right is Feb.5th's Bl-a-day, I have the rest of the blocks for this week cut out just need a few hours here and there to sew them.

The center group are my Many thanks Blocks; about all I did this weekend besides shovel snow, was hand stitch the verses on these blocks.

And the far right is my Misty Pines wall quilt.  I hope to quilt and finish it this week.

  I'm standing at our sidewalk--behind me the longer part of the driveway and around the back is a lovely cake frosting smoothness.  They say we got about 22", that might be the official totals but the picket fence around the driveway is 3 1/2 feet high and you can only see the top 6 inches...2 feet, 3 feet what ever it is-

it's a lot of HEAVY snow! 

Tomorrow, as long as I can move, we will dig out the lower 40!

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I did sew this afternoon and I'm going to do some hand stitching tonight unless I fall asleep. Zzzzzz.


Edit:  Paul did finally get home this evening about 6pm!  He had to work  Friday night and then got stuck there, as the roads were so bad. 

A Snow Day

Where is my sidewalk?   It's there between the lamp post and the valentines day flag.  I shoveled it out last night at 10pm!  This is 7am and it's still snowing.
Here is the "view" out my front door after I shoveled it open. 

And these are out my deck door.

I shoveled a path to the steps, but you couldn't see the steps when I got there.  The snow is still coming down, only 3 more inches before noon. 

I think I'll be trading in my needle for a shovel today. 

Paul had to work last night.  

He just stayed there and slept at his desk. He has to work today too.  Just as well; I don't think he can get in to driveway.

Block-a-Day Week 5

I think I have 7 "christmas fabric" blocks now.  I've changed how I'm storing these--I had them in date order but now they're by size.  

Yesterday my friend Libby and I had a sew/gabfest here at my house.  She got here about 9:45 and we cleaned up a little after 4pm!  It's amazing how much we can get done while talking :)  I worked on Feb. and March's blocks for my Many Thanks BOM quilt. I still need to do the hand embroidery on them so they're not finished yet.

 I also worked on my bl-a-days.  

I started the Misty Pine paper piecing wall hanging I got on that quilting bus tour I went on this past fall.  I finished putting it together last evening. 

And finally, I don't think I showed a picture of February's Monthly Mini. 

Design Wall Monday Week 5

I have crumbs on my design wall!  This is the first time I've ever tried these.  It's fun. I didn't have a big pile of little crumb pieces so I think I'll get a few more made and then they will have to be put aside until I accumulate some more.
I cut each little block to 5".  I think I'm going to sew them together into 9-patch blocks as I have them on the wall now.

Block-a-Day Week 4

The 3 in the bottom row are in "christmas fabric/colors" -trying to make the next 12 blocks that are 12 inches in the Christmas fabrics for a bed quilt for me.  

I'm finding that piecing 12 inch blocks uses up FQ quickly-quicker than I would have thought. 

This bunch went together surprisingly quick-taking into account my own errors of not paying attention and sewing something backwards...  

I'm getting into a routine with these. I cut all the pieces for a weeks worth and then try to sew them in 2-3 sittings. 

 It's working for now.

Zen, a quilt and a few more quilts

This was a wedding gift for one of my friends' daughter. 

 I used and all-over 'water ripples' to quilt it.

 The pattern is called Zen the designer Amy Walsh. It was in Amer Patchwork and Quilting Magazine Feb 2009 issue.
This quilt measures 63x75. 

I don't think I've posted this quilt before either.  The pattern I used called it Crazy 9-Patch. (64x90)The pattern was given in our Western PA Shop Hop 'passport' from '09.  

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This is my Harmonic Convergence quilt (57 x 78), this picture is before quilting-