Very warm day today and spent it in the basement.

The temperature got up to 24 degrees today and it is March 19th.  We normally have tons of snow left, slowly melting at this time of year and it is much much cooler.  Not complaining.  I can take it.  It has been overcast for most of the day and we were to have a thunderstorm but it hasn't happened yet.  The dog will be thrilled if it does.

I have been downstairs working on Shirley's quilts and have tamed my fears of doing the feather meander type of quilting I have been doing.  It has gone better than expected but I am beat right now.  I hope to be able to finish it all tomorrow.  I can then bury the threads and give them back.  Yeah!!!  I can then quickly quilt the quilt for the silent auction.  I bought the fabric for the border and binding last week and finished sewing it on and making the binding on Saturday.  I also did the final border on my Crabapple wallhanging so that is ready to quilt when I have time.

I will finish the last batik quilt for the customer that lives out of town and her daughter will pick it up in April.

I can then dedicate time to quilting Sandra's lovely hollyhock applique quilt.  I pretty much know what I will quilt on it.  I am going to love doing that quilt.

I finally went to a MPQ meeting on Saturday and re-joined.  There were three women who had met Bonnie Hunter in Sarasota this winter and they told their stories and showed off some of the Quiltville quilts they have made.  It was great to see a completed RRCB and Orca Bay.  That inspired me to start working on my Orca Bay again.  I finished cutting the black triangles that I needed and I have started to sew some more of the red strip pieced squares.  I still have a lot of work to do on them and I am hoping to just use up all of the red fabric that I have instead of buying more.  I am sure I can squeeze them out.  What a blessing to have received those "scraps" from Rita.  I have used a lot of the blacks that she passed on to me and scrounged some red strips from the 1 1/2" pile that she gave me.  I am close to being able to start piecing the blocks.  Yeah.  Still a lot of construction left.

Time to finish making supper.

Happy stitiching.

Holy Snow Day Batman.

It has been snowing non-stop since last night and boy has the snow accumulated.  It starting to really blow with 50 - 60 km winds this afternoon.  My DH snow blew the walks and driveway but will have to do them again because it has drifted in again.  The dog and I just got back from a walk around the park and the path has really drifted in.  Good exercise any.  I am in my pajamas at 4:30 already because my pants are soaked and I didn't want to put on my jeans.  I am not going anywhere tonight anyway.

I tried to work on my customer quilt but I could not stand at the machine for long today.  Hopefully my gift will have settled down a lot by tomorrow.  I hope my doctor can do something for me.  This is getting old fast at 55.

Anyway,  I did sit at my work desk and started to sort some of the fabric that Rita gave me.  What a lovely selection.  I am sure there is enough there for me to finish my Orca Bay quilt and enough blue and beige squares to get a start on a Blue Ridge Mountain quilt.  The squares are 2 1/2 inches and the pattern calls for 2 inch squares so I will have some trimming to do but I don't care.  I may change up the pattern and use 2 1/2 inch squares and see how that works.  There are larger HST's in it that would have to then finish at 4 inches and that might look large.  I will have to do a mock up or see if there is a sample using those sizes to see if it looks too big and unwieldy.  I think it should be ok.  Maybe I will. Why not.

Well I should go feed his Lordship and start our supper.

Happy stitching