What project should I work on today?

This morning the dog and I woke up to a windchill temp of -41 below.  Brrrrrr.  Needless to say the dog and I have not gone for a walk today and he really is restless.  He has asked to go out ten times today just because he is bored.  I am not dressing up to walk ten feet and he turns around and runs home because his feet are freezing.  The temps are going to warm up by Sunday and next week doesn't look that bad so we can get some major walking in.  I hope.

I eventually made my way downstairs and pieced one of the crabapple blocks together.  It looks very dull so I will have to find some nice sashing fabric to bring some life to it.  I wanted to see if two blocks across would be too big for the wallhanging space I have and I think it will if I want to do a checkerboard border.  I am going to play around.  I am not going to buy any fabric for it either.  I must use up the stuff I have and not bring anything else in for a while.  If I get frustrated with this project I will cut the sashings for the hopscotch butterscotch quilt.

I am definitely not in the mood to quilt a customer quilt.  I may start picking out some of the quilting on the RRCB so that I can make the backing bigger.  Yes, I screwed up.  I pieced a backing and did not make it long enough.  What a twit.  I am going to make of strip of the left over blocks and add them to the backing.  I did not know what I was going to do with them anyway and this is a good place to put them.  They are the uglier ones anyway so they won't be seen.  I was not going to make pillows with them or another quilt so this is a great way to use them up.

I did quilt one of my customer's quilts yesterday afternoon and that went quickly because I just did a large meander.  This quilt is going to Africa with an exchange student that has been here for a few years.  It has all Canadiana type images on the fabric pieces such as maple leaves, bears, deer and pine trees.  It is quite a clever idea for something like this.  I have two more batik Magic Tile quilts from the same client to do and they will have simple all over designs quilted on them.  One will be ferns and the other will be swirls.  My legs and back are sore today so I think I will cool it with the standing.

Anyway, enough wasting time and back to work.  My DH will be home from his business trip tonight so I should make an effort to have the place tidy as well.

Happy quilting.