Snow Day Sew Day Ahead!

Good morning, friends!

I’m starting off this post with a bit of studio clean up while I watch the snow fall beyond the QPO window.

Just look at these two finishes hanging off the long arm rail – it makes me smiley all over!

Old Town on the left, and Huka Falls on the right.

And yes, that’s a bucket of your gifted aqua strings behind the take up roller just barely peeking out.

I will be happily digging into your aqua scraps for a long long time and I couldn’t be happier!

My job yesterday was to get the kits ready for my upcoming Craftours trip to Australia.

This little quilt is called BLOOM!

I’ll be providing the Essex linen and the printed overlay with the embroidery design and a chenille needle.

Quilters will bring their color of embroidery floss or 12 wt thread, a thimble, a needle threader, thread snips and a hoop if they use one.

We’ll be working on the embroidery as we travel around the land down under, and they’ll be able to add their patchwork borders when they get home.

Handwork projects like this are perfect in size – easy to finish, and easy to bring along for stitching on long bus rides, plane flights or sitting around the hotel lobby and visiting after a day of out and about.

Be looking for the PDF pattern for Bloom to be available in the Quiltville Store in February.

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This was Thursday morning when I went to feed Tula. And yes, Flash has been hanging around a lot more. In fact, he now has his own food dish.
He won’t come close, but at least I know he is not starving.
After making yesterday’s kits….I started in on a bit of clean up in the studio with the objective of returning home to a clean space ready for me to dig in and create, but then the snow started coming hard and I made the decision to come home early.
Hubster Dave had already moved the Subaru to the bottom of the drive, and told me to park down there, too. More snow was coming and it was time to switch into Rzr mode. It’s a good thing he suggested this. Look what happened:

And this is where we are this morning!

Time to fire up the big red tractor and get the plow blade into action!

Sunrise. Brrr!

14 degrees f is -10 c, ya’ll!

Even this silly girl says NO WAY when I open the door for her. Smart girl.

I’ll be back after we head over to feed Tula and check on things – this will be waiting for me.

I’ll finish up doing these….

And maybe i’ll be trimming up by evening time.

I’m getting itchy to start putting some blocks together. Wouldn’t that be great to have a few of them up on the design wall so I can come home to them in a few weeks?