It is cold outside, brrr!

After spending the weekend and monday recovering as best as I could, still not 100% myself decided to open a kit which I received for Christmas, Hedgehog Hollow quilt kit.

The fabrics have a Liberty tana lawn feel to them, which was a great surprise.

After looking at the pattern and reading it, it is a simple and quick top to make.

Ironed the fabrics for the blocks, then late yesterday afternoon had an unexpected pocket of time and cut pieces for the blocks.

Sewing will begin on these when I am better. Our back garden has disappeared under the snow, the table is just about still standing under the weight of the snow. For how long, that is anyone's guess.

A tickle in my throat…

Late yesterday while we cleared away some more snow, my throat that began as a scratch turned to a tickle. This morning my chest hurt and I knew it is a tickle no more. The guys cooked breakfast and they are going out in a moment to snowblow as much as they can. Just looking at the table in the backyard 40cm plus has come down and the snow is still coming down a lot.

Our road and path has disappeared.

A bit if sewing happened during the course of the morning yesterday.

Tried very many fabrics next to these scrappy blocks, this tiny floral is the best one so far, except all I have left over from a baby quilt are these four scrap pieces. While looking for something else last night, discovered a bag of scraps above, which will be sorted and used for different blocks.

Snowstorms and projects.

When the view from your sewing space looks like this, ice and snow! We have another storm arriving today, we do not have space to put anymore snow on the front lawn. The snow mountain is too high to add to it. Our muscles is telling us just how hard they have worked the past week with all the other storms that came through, since last weekend.

My go to solution, start another project. Blue fabrics which was going to be used for a Tahoe quilt, except I never found more companion fabrics to go with them. So a mystery quilt project needing only four fabrics is perfect for them.

Prepped a lot of parts and spread them out in various places.

Creative cutting of fabrics scraps have started too. More treasure hunting will happen with scraps today, escaping into a world of colourful fabric. Who knows what discoveries will be made.

Some green stars.

Those extra green pieces got turned into twenty five green stars, the cherry on top? A happy accident. They are the exact size for the Ancient Stars pattern, which stalled last year. They have been added to what is already finished.

Knitting continued on the socks, the heels have been started.

We had snow on the weekend, more arriving tomorrow.

Blue.

Blue is the called for colour for February RSC25.

Ladies of the Sea corner blocks are now started, they are identical and there are four of them.

All paper pieced, which makes sewing them a lot easier.

The blue sock has grown too.

Winter.

Winter is here, it is cold, snowy, rainy, icy and super windy. Sitting indoors is only a small option, we have to go out to run errands and so much more. Walking with icers on our boots helps us to not slip on the ice!

Monday while waiting at an appointment, some knitting got done. February RSC25 colour is blue, so perfect for this sock.

Mystery quilts is the stash busting effort for this year, one blue one and one scrappy one. Need to add a dark blue for the blue one. All the other scraps are in a rubbermaid, larger leftover pieces from Bargello quilts over the years.

The oops (made it the wrong size for Old Town Mystery) blocks with the green square in a square, the flying geese trimmed pieces was used to create triangle squares. Also had too many squares for the four patch units. What to do with them? Played a bit and then created two block units. They need to be assembled, before they can be sewn into a new design.

More hand quilting has happened on the quilt currently in the hoop.

A belated Christmas present arrived in the mail this past week.

Old Town mystery is a flimsy.

Old Town mystery is a finished top. The border strips got added to the center piece this past week.

These pieces have been sitting on the cutting table for the past month.

This top can now be put into the rubbermaid to be quilted in the future.

During this week we celebrated a birthday and our wedding anniversary. Last year hubby said he wanted to go and see The Lion King, so we did just that. It was a great way to celebrate! This theater was smaller, but the production was amazing. The costumes was incredible, the detail and the way every part worked really well together.

Kate said to me the other day, when you finish one sock : cast on the next one. I did with the other yarn so when these two socks are done, their buddies will be cast on too. Have some appointments which requires small travelling project, this is it for the moment.

The borders are quilted and the center can now be quilted, decided to do the lilac bands first. It is a little bit warmer, not a lot. Enough to notice it.