Friday Post

should be my week's worth of bl-a-day blocks.  But alas, they are still in a nice neat pile waiting to be sewn together. 

This has been my main focus for the week.

Clearing the sidewalk...

clearing the deck...

...not quite there yet. 

And of course clearing the driveway:

Those are my tire tracks.....I got out yesterday....woohoo! I have just enough room to back out of the garage. 

They're calling for more snow on Sunday night....

Today I'm getting out again; while the gettin's good!

   

A Winter Quilt Show

 I got some "new" quilts out to rotate them. 
I'm taking pictures to get everything digital.  So here is my latest batch. 

A  Little Quilts quilt, hand blanket stitched and quilted, made 1/1998.

This is my String Stars. It's a Fons and Porter pattern. I made this in 1996. The fabrics are really starting to fade. 

My Amish Bars quilt, it's 32" x 32".  I made it in 2000. I hand quilted it. I always wanted to make a traditional amish Diamond in a Square bed size quilt.  This is as close as I got.  (so far, I'm not dead yet! -it could still happen.)

I call this one Space Mountains. It is 51 x 51 inches.   I did an invisible machine applique method for this quilt. I made it in 2005. The pattern was in an Amer. Patchwork & Quilting magazine in '04, I believe. This is one of the first quilts I machine quilted on my domestic sewing machine.  I just SID around the shapes and a large stipple in the outer border.  

This is another one of those mystery squares quilts.  I blogged about them before. You cut 120 2.5" squares mix them up in a bag and as you pull them out you have to lay them out.  So hard for me to do. This was made  in May 2004. It's 20.5 x 23 inches. It's hand quilted.

 

This is just a little stitchery I made a few years ago. I added a border and framed it last year.

This is a reversible table runner.  

 

I made this checkerboard table topper in 1998.  The book was called Fun, Fast and Fabulous quilts.  I've never been happy with the background fabric, too dark.  I hand quilted this one too.

This is a table runner made using "Circular Patchwork" templates. It's an amazing technique, no batting inside, it's a finish as you go type thing.  I made this in 2006.

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.