Wednesday Weather Report #42 - 3/7/18

Last week Chantal was cruising on the evil website to look for weekend projects. I was really enthralled with one of them so Chantal said we should make it together.

The basic premise was to baste 2 mini charm packs onto 3/4" hexies. Another 2 packs were sewn together as the background. After sandwiching, the hexies were then quilted onto the background in a crosshatch pattern.

Chantal didn't have matching mini charm packs so she cut a regular charm pack into minis and went from there. She's finishing her binding so hopefully she will post hers soon.

I only had one 1 mini charm pack in a small enough scale so I basted them onto 1" hexies and sewed 3" white grunge squares into a background. It wasn't quite big enough for the doll cat bed so I added a border and grunge hexies. It's a lot of white and the flash, last night, really bounced off the white but I like it. I think I have enough teal grunge to bind it and I found the perfect blue/teal/purple fabric in my stash for the back.

Not bad for a 5-day project, huh? I hope to get it quilted tonight so that I can share it at hexie club this week (we postponed due to last Friday's weather). And then I can get back to my tree skirt. I'm still on section 6 but that will be finished long before the weekend is over because Saturday is guild sit-n-sew.

And then there was the weather....Oh the weather...
I just never know what to expect any more...

60 - 34 - 30 - 30 - 29 - 30 - 35 F

Yipp. We started at a balmy 60, crashed right into that snow storm (hence the snowflake fabric) I shared photos of on Monday and got stuck in the low 30s. Apparently it's time to cut more blues because I have both dark and light purples stacked out the wazoo but it looks like we won't need them for at least another couple weeks.

It is soooooo gonna be fun next year comparing rosettes and how weird the weather has been...

How has your weather been? Can't wait to see your hexie rosettes:

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The Bibliophile Files - 3/6 /18

I have to say that this is the most depressing book report to date.

I haven't finished one. single. book. in the last month.

I've been chipping away at World Without End which is 36 CDs long!! It's been a little hard to get in to and, heck, it's the length of 4 or 5 regular audio books. For some reason, all the story lines clicked over the weekend so I'm hoping I can keep my weekend streak going...

My excuse? I've spent a lot of time stitching on my Christmas Tree Skirt and that means lots of DVD watching. I also haven't been walking very much. Pathetic but it's real life in my neck of the snowy woods.

Let's hope you have some better progress to share.
Don't forget you can share any novel, quilt pattern/book, magazine or cereal box!

Feline Monday - 3/5/18

Did all ya'll miss me on Friday? I missed you!
Ya see we had this little snowstorm and Momma got to stay home! Woot!

It was snowing pretty good when Momma and I went to bed on Thursday but those weather people never get it right so we didn't think we would get anywhere near the predicted 22".

Well! What do you know?! Those weather peeps CAN get it right once in a while!

When I finally dragged Momma out of bed for my breakfast, this was the view from Momma's quilt lab. While the weather usually comes from the front/right side of the house, this weather came from behind the house - we were especially surprised to find so much snow built up on the windowsill and on top of my bird feeder at the front of the house.

I growl and hiss at the snow to tell it I don't like it.
Do you do that?

Momma knows I like to go outside right after breakfast so she pushed the door open as far as she could. I think she was crazy cuz I ain't going out in that much white stuff. My great uncle Carl had so much snow just outside his door that he had to kick out the bottom panel of the door to move the snow. Yikes!

Momma got the door open just a tad more so she could get out and start shoveling. I went to take a nap cuz it was gonna take her a while.

I think there is a car under there.

I knew she could find it! Well, at least half of it.

It took Momma an hour to shovel from the porch to the car, uncover half the car and then shovel out to the road. Our driveway is 4 car lengths and then the plows didn't plow all the way to the grass (there just wasn't anywhere to push it) so that was another 3 feet of snow.  How could it possibly have taken that long? That's cuz it was three shovelfuls deep - about 19". Maybe next time she should shovel a straight line...

After another hour of shoveling, Momma went back to finish uncovering the car. I think she had kinda lost it by then...

Finally, after 2.5 hours of shoveling a neighbor came over to blow out the end of the driveway. That saved Momma another hour of shoveling. She was and is soooooooooooo grateful.

By now Momma's back was KILLING her so she was happy that her boss let her take the rest of the day off.

Since Momma was home I did my best to entertain her! Yipp...I do have 3 legs hanging outside my crow's nest and that is my purple Puppy dogtoy.

I also did my best to help her rest her back. I thought sitting in her lap would do just the trick!

By yesterday the weather was drastically different. Look at those blue skies! And look how the thin bits left in the driveway have melted. Momma was walking to the local mini-mart for more eggs (molasses cookie time!!) so I thought I would follow her. I don't think she wanted me to but that's a whole 'nother story.

This is my favorite snow sculpture in the neighborhood. I wonder how long that snow is going to hang off the roofs??!!

And now it's time for another nap...see y'all this Friday!

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