Snow

It has been snowing like crazy here today.  Officially at the airport there has been 97.0 inches for the season.  Just a little over 8 feet.  I live 15 miles north of the airport and we have received more.  I didn't keep track this year and have the feeling that I should have.  Here are some pictures of the snow and 2 of the dogs out in it.

Hey!  There's something in here!

A view out of the window, this tree was clear this morning when I got up.  By 5 it looked like this.

After dinner, I'm going to work on those totes again.  I need to put zippers in and I don't like zipper installations.  I have procrastinated enough and done enough on the computer for today.

Stash Report

I worked on my totes for the ufo challenge and made a couple of small totes for my quilt guild. We also had our snowed out Christmas party at guild, and 2 yards left for a new home, but I brought home 2 yards . 

I also bought some fat quarters for my monochromatic project.  I seem to be going the wrong way and need to stop bringing in the fabric.

Used this Week:               6.0 yards 
Used year to Date:           8.5 yards
Added this Week:            6.5 yards
Added Year to Date:       9.5 yards
Net Used for 2011:          - 1 yards

Paint for the sewing room walls

Dear hubby had to get some stuff from Home Depot this afternoon and I decided to ride along.  While he was looking at stuff, I decided to look at the paint.  I will be painting the sewing room from the pastel green that it currently is to anything else.  I have a great spring green that I was going to paint it.  But I started looking at their screw ups.  They had this really great teal color that I just fell in love with and it was a great price,only $5.00 a gallon.  The only problem is that it is a gloss instead of semi-gloss.  The walls will shine and sparkle, I have the feeling.  I also picked up a gallon of indigo paint.  I thought that maybe I would paint the bottom half of the kitchen walls with that and either white or a pale blue for the top half of the wall.  Currently the bottom half is forest green and a butter color on the top. We have not painted the kitchen since we moved in over 14 years ago.  I guess it is time.  There are other rooms that have never been painted by us either.  The sun porch is one of them.  Maybe in the spring I will empty it out and paint it.  It currently is DH's office and work room.  The other room I would like to see painted is the mud room.  It is the same pastel green as the sewing room.  The previous owner must have gotten a deal on that paint as 3/4 of the house was that color.  We painted some rooms before we moved in and said that we would do the rest later.  Later is finally here as far as I'm concerned.  Hopefully the hardwood floors will also go in this spring. 

Cleaning off sewing machine cabinet

Today has been busy.  I have been trying to clean off my cabinet for my Bernina.  I had 6 projects stacked up on it, fabric for my stash, a few of my DD's items to be made and a bunch of books and magazines.  Now I just have to move the books and magazines to the book cases.  The fabric was put into labeled totes so I will now where it is.  I found the book I have been looking for for about a year now.  It was in the closet with a bunch of my DD's stuff that she brought me a year ago.  I apparently picked it up and put it with her stuff.  It is with its project now.  I'm all set for Judy L. to draw that number now.  I found part of another project while I was cleaning also, so that can be put with the rest of its parts.  I'll take pictures tomorrow of what I found.

Design Wall Monday week 2

I know, it's not Monday, but I've been busy with quilt guild stuff and home and grand babies.  

Here's whats on the table today or Monday as the case was.

This is DH coat, the puppy chewed it and DH split the zipper which had dry rotted.  This is an old military style jacket and a real bear to work with. Here's a picture of the culprit Deedle Dee.

 I also finished up my quilt block for guild and made a bag for our Christmas Party.  We had it this month because of the bad weather a month ago.  We were in the midst of getting 3 foot of snow.  That kinda slows us down here.  A few inches(up to 6 inches) is a common every day occurrence, a few feet not so much.  We are use to some but not in the foot a day every day for 3 days, a 1day break, and repeat for the next 3 days.

Our block exchange this year was illustrate a Christmas song that you picked.  I picked Holly Jolly Christmas.  I could only remember Burl Ives singing it in Rudolf, the Red Nose Reindeer.  So that is what I did and put the holly at the top and some mistletoe above the deer.  The darker colored one has a red nose.  I fused and machine appliqued everything down.
The other thing that I did was to make a bag for our fabric exchange.

3 fat quarters and you have a cute tote bag similar to gift bags that you buy in the store(size wise).  It takes about an hour to cut and sew one bag.  I'm sure that I'll get quicker as I make more.  I plan on making more of these and having a few on hand instead of paper gift bags.  I may add a snap to the center top or Velcro.  The pattern is from thehappyzombie.com.  It is her Poochie bag and may be made in 3 different sizes.  I used the one with the big boxed corners or milk carton corners as she calls them.
Here is a picture of my DD and granddaughter at the Christmas Party.  DD is a member of the guild and I'm slowly teacher her how to quilt when she has time.

Stash Report

I decided to do the stash report after all from Judy L.'s Patchwork Times.  I cut out pajamas for my grandsons.  I have one pair made except for the elastic in the waist as I don't have their waist measurements.  So I'll only count the one pair for this week and add the rest to next weeks total.

Used this Week:               2.5 yards 
Used year to Date:           2.5 yards
Added this Week:            3.0 yards
Added Year to Date:        3.0 yards
Net Used for 2011:           -.5 yards

No Quilting Today

I was too busy to quilt or sew today.  Gwyn, my 5 1/2 month old granddaughter was here.  She is cutting teeth and is very cranky according to my DD.  Well Gwyn wasn't that cranky for Grandma.  She coos and laughs while sitting in her high chair playing with a few toys.  She likes to watch the computer screen if I have the laptop set up.  She loves when the dogs or cats get close enough so she can touch them.  The critters are very tolerant of her and like to give her kisses. 
I did read a magazine while she slept for half an hour before DD arrived and took her home.  DD was upset that  she couldn't stay longer as she wanted some of the jambalaya that I made for dinner.  Her hubby wanted to go out for dinner. 
Maybe tomorrow I will be able to sit and sew.