Snow, sleet and freezing rain...makes ofr icy roads

From my front door. The car is safely in the garage. Not quite sure how I ma going to get down the driveway. Nothing is moving in my neighborhood. Hopefully when I do need to get out, it will be better.

Here is block 2 for the Civil War quilt. It is a variable star. Barbara Brackman calls it Northern Star.

I am continuing to work on RRCB. Here is one side border. I played with the inner border options. I thought about a medium green but then I saw the red on Michelle's quilt and since I still have some of that red left, I will go with the red.

RRCB coming together

While reading blogs this morning, I read Michelle of Quilts and Stuff. She has posted pictures of her RRCB which is really beautiful. She is completely done. I have finished the main body but have yet to do the borders.

So many little pieces and so many seams..

My inner border will be a medium green with little red flowers in it. But I need to take a break, as I have been at this since this morning with few time outs!

Wild Willie is again checking on the progress. Henry is on the couch waiting for a nap partner! Spooky? he's about somewhere. He really likes my closet as there are some quilts on a chest in there.

The house is getting cool early today. This morning's sun and blue sky are gone and the clouds have moved in. Must listen to the weather report to see what the forecast is now saying. Snow..sleet..ice...all of the above...just not nice!

Now I think I will make the second block for the civil war block of the week.

Snow coming?

I keep plugging along on RRCB. So many pieces! I have all 50 blocks made for the center and I decided I wanted to see how they look. My brown/pink blocks are not the same in each block. I guess I missed that in the directions. But I like mine just fine..so there. Lots more to sew, figure out the inner border and then begin the outer pieced border.

Wild Willie needed to put his paw of approval on my work so far!

I have been watching the Civil War Quilts site and now that the second block is posted, I decided it was time to make the first block. Just what I need - another project. I am enjoying her commentary as well. This block is called "Catch Me If You Can". And speaking of more projects..Bonnie posted a new one on her site this morning. I luv it but I will contain myself until I finish RRCB.

The weather forecast for the next couple of days is not great. Talking about more snow. What happened to global warming? It can snow-I have cat food and spaghetti. I went out to Groovy Girls this morning. I wanted to make sure I had thread if the weather turns really bad. I never got around to last month's project-no punch for me this month! But I have been busy with RRCB and our Thimble swap. This is almost done-just an outer border. Should be able to complete this tomorrow.

Not really maudlin (sp)?

January is kind of a dark period of the year-days are short and mostly it is cold. Cold for me is 30 by the way. I live in the South now! At any rate, I was reading Nancy's blog and she was talking about a death and how the family involved dealt with it. I work in a SNF (Heaven's waiting room) and we have lost 2 residents in the past two days. It is not uncommon around the holidays. Death usually comes in threes, so we have one more to go. Funny thing is that usually one of the three is unexpected. The 2 so far this week were both on hospice. And on was a long time resident who had spent a good portion of his life there. It is a loss for those he leaves behind but I can celebrate that he is now in a better place-free of pain.

On a much brighter note...all the stars are on the swap quilt. I just need to add a border and she's done! I need to get back to RRCB. I have wacked all of the string pieces in half and need to sew them together. If there is nothing on tv, I just might sew a few tonight. Still have 22 of the other blocks to finish constructing.

Spooky sat on my lap while I finished a book on my Kindle this afternoon.

Happy New Year

I've been doing some serious sewing for the past two days. Working on Roll Roll. Cotton Boll as well as the Thimbles Swap. Plugging along on RRCB, so many little pieces.

The swap top is almost finished. I have decided I am not finishing it as it is in the book. I don't like that the stars are not finished around the edges. So I am thinking I am going to finish the points as part of the first border. Then I guess I will decide whether or not to put on the flying geese units. Perhaps the geese have gone South?

Feeling a little lazy. I did make the bed, showered and changed into fresh jammies. Only wish there was a sappy movie on-that would make it a perfect day!

Farewell 2010

Bonnie Hunter published step 7 this morning of Roll Roll, Cotton Boll. I so wanted to work on this today but alas, I had to go to work. (And that is another story!) But I did manage to construct one block this evening. My plan is to do some serious sewing on this project as well as the Thimbles swap quilt. I have made 24 blocks on that one and need to start putting it together. I need to make progress on these two projects because soon I will be dealing with Comfort and Joy.....what was I thinking. I sure hope my support group is out there waiting for me. If it weren't so dang pretty, I would not do it it but I luv, luv, luv it.

I am not sure what Wild Willie is thinking about in this picture. He looks like he is a bit annoyed. But he has been fed and watered, his toys are all over the place.

To all my friends in blogland, I hope you have a very happy new year and all your quilty dreams come true! Looking forward to 2 quilt retreats-one in Feb and the other in August. Also pretty excited about the cruise on the big boat!

Roll Roll Cotton Boll-Part 6

Cranking out the sections for the half square triangle units..ended up with 598 instead of 600.
But after a quick fix, I have completed this part of the mystery ahead of Friday!!!

And now maybe I can do a little work on our Thimble swap top-Morning Star