Inspiration

As I told you yesterday, Vicki from Felines and Fibre Arts came for a visit.  She brought me stuff!  Oh!  I was so excited!

Wonderful fabrics and a great new book!  How lucky can a girl get!  I am so inspired! 

She also brought me another bag of scraps.  I can't show you those because I have already used a lot of them in these scrap blocks that I have been working on.  The rest are in my scrap basket.

Last summer I made a picnic quilt for my DD.  You can see it here.  It took me a long time to get my head around a quilt that would be put on the beach and sat upon.  But I finally got it done.  DD took her quilt on a picnic last weekend.  Now her friend wants one too!  So I took out my scrap blocks and decided I would make some more.  This kind of sewing is very relaxing to me.  I just take one strip after another and sew them together.  I will sandwich and quilt each block and then join them in a quilt as you go fashion.

It is still hot today, but not as bad as yesterday.  Mimi is not happy about the heat, but she continues to sit out in the solarium where it is the warmest of any place in our house.  Just to show you how fed up she is, here is a rather unlady-like pose for my camera.

"Meow!  Go away, you're making my head itch."

Sing Along

We are surrounded by snow, heavy snows and winds and traffic woes to the north, south, east and west of us. But here in Scarborough we only got a dusting. That is not to say that it isn't cold, because it is. With the winds it feels like -10C. So I decided to make the most of today with this little poem.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful,

But the view is so delightful,

And since I've got no place to go.

Let me sew, let me sew, let me sew!

I am making Christmas presents. Can't show you right now, sorry.