Happy New Year! Here's to a better year than 2012. Cheers!
We had a quiet uneventful Christmas and New Year, thankfully, and now on to a fresh new start. I just finished undecorating the house and tree but I have left up a few snowmen that do not look Christmassy. We bought a new narrower artificial tree and were very pleased with how it looked. The branches fluffed out very full and I was able to hang all of my many Christmas decorations. I love all of my ornaments and look forward to visiting them, like old friends, every year. I still hang all of the antique baubles at the top of the tree and I will carry on that tradition as long as we keep putting up a tree.
I have been having fun with the 'Easy Street' mystery quilt and have pretty much kept up with the steps. Bonnie Hunter revealed the last two steps, which included the grand finale, over New Years and I just love it. I most likely will go downstairs and carry on with putting together the blocks this afternoon. I am still on the second last step, which is putting together the side and corner insets, and then I will carry on with the blocks. As much as I swore that I would not buy anymore fabric this year, I must find border fabric. I do not believe I have enough of any colour to use as sashing and border and I think piano keys would be too busy. I could play around with it to see and use up all of my left overs. If it looks crappy, I can put it in the backing.
I want to sew together all of the large print black and white fat quarters that I have for a backing for 'Orca Bay' because I think they would show through to the front if I used it for a backing for 'Easy Street'. So many projects on my wish list this year. I have been sewing four patches together as leader and enders while I piece 'Easy Street' and that has been a help. Maybe I will get that put together this year. I have such plans. I hope that things go well and I can get some of those projects completed this year.
Well time to get cracking,
Happy stitching.
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