Quilting, quilting, quilting

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It seems everywhere I turn I’m hearing about quilting! As in….

  • Trina (sadly blogless) told me about this First Saturday group at the Cloth Carousel in Winters.
  • Theresa continues to quilt!! Go Theresa!
  • J3 asks when I’m going to finish his quilt! The top has been done since Nov 2004!! That’s 3 years!! Poor guy!
  • Various other people are starting it or restarting! In fact, someone keeps coming to my blog via the search term “quilting again” – I hope they find what they are looking for!
  • And I want to start again too!

I’m pretty excited about this First Saturday group (sadly, no blog or website). I guess if you complete your monthly block you get the next pattern for no charge. I love the idea! Just the motivation I need to get back into it. (Trying not to think of all the things that might keep me from completing it. No need to dwell on the negative!)

Here’s some pictures of my first quilt:

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Sadly, I don’t have one of the finished quilt top… but I think Theresa might. I’ll have to email her to see if she’ll send me a copy. Or I guess I could go find it and take a new picture. But that room is so cold!! LOL

Knitting in the new year

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After Christmas I had an urge to finish things.  So far all I have left is to block Baby Susannah’s dress (well, and mail it out) and my boxers.  I’m making good progress on my boxers…and it feels good to be making progress.

I’m not so in love with the ‘pretty in pink’ scarf I’ve been working on.  Maybe it’s that I’m anxious to make some socks.  I’m really excited about the Firestarter Socks – have you seen them?  Oh my – they are so cool!

I’ve got yarn to make some socks for my Dad and stepmom.  And, I want to make my brother a hat – but I want to make a certain one and I don’t have the yarn.  So, I’m trying to decide if I want to just knit him anything … nah, I won’t be happy with it.  I need to wait until I can get the yarn.  Not sure that he reads this – but on the off chance that he does…no more talk about that.

My mom’s birthday is coming too – I’d like to make her something.

I just realized this really a post about nothing! LOL  Oh well…it gave me a chance to think some things through! 😉

“Hello Refrigerator lightbulb – I love you!”

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This was how my MIL greeted her open WORKING refrigerator after 27 hours of no power! I laughed but when I got home I turned on and off lights and ran my garbage disposal – just because I could!! 😀

We are heating up our house again with a slight concern that the next storm that is expected any minute might undo the work that PG&E did.

We are all well and safe. My sister’s family has no power still – and for them that means no running water too. So, please be praying for them.

We plan to still have J1’s squire birthday party in a matter of hours, but at least I don’t have to prepare the food by candlelight!! PTL!

Off to post yesterday’s video since I wasn’t able to get online!