A bundle of greens.

The last two green fabrics arrived, in the mail yesterday. Waited until everything was here, washed and ironed all the fabrics.

Stacks have been cut and these pieces have been prepped to cut with the AccuQuilt strip die. This will happen this morning.

Needed to cut one strip manually from each fabric, so that also got done in the afternoon.

These fabrics will be used to sew a bargello jewel tone wedding quilt, it will be the very first jewel tone quilt that I will sew.

A little bit more progress.

After last weeks snow we all ended up with a few pulled muscles. We forget as we grow older, that we are not as young as we think we are.

A friend has one of these, we have one now too. It works on both, on managing the pain without meds and relaxing the muscles. So we are still recovering and the next snow will be on the ground when we wake up in the morning.

This morning we went on a field trip, always a good idea in winter. The roads was clear, the sun was shining. Knew I wanted a piece of linen and some more needles.

On our return, the mail had arrived.

Still need to find two green fabrics. The lilac floral was shown as more mauve on some pictures, so it was a pleasant surprise when it arrived.

Playing with fabrics and colours.

Yesterday was a tidy up the cutting table, sorting what was left and packing away the leftover bits.

Also prepped the next strips for Tahoe, this will be diamond set number 14.

After that playing with the fabrics started, one box for pinwheel blocks and another for applique for Afternoon delight.

Auditioning the fabrics for blocks.

Ordered fabrics for the jewel tone quilt, some arrived from Sewsisters.com The colours and fabrics shown on the online shop was exactly what arrived, so happy with that.

Greens.

A Texas Low came barrelling through last night, fast with lots of wind and snow. We woke up to this in the morning. The plough came during the night just to make a path on the road for cars to be able to drive on said road. Old winter has been active, after waking from his deep slumber long into winter. He is making up for lost time, by gifting us with lots and lots of snow.

A few green blocks have been sewn for RSC23 for the month of March.

Some strips for Ancient Stars have been cut as well.

A good thing this all happened before the snow shovelling.

Red one inch foundation triangle squares that was done in February got trimmed as well. As for the rest of the day, the plough game by and did a great job. The best part was it was the young woman who understands where to put the snow, she is amazing! We are all now relaxing and hope this was the last big storm with snow before spring arrives.

Jewel tone wedding quilt.

A request from hubby, while we were outside shovelling snow. Can I make a quilt for his cousin who just got married? While he was chatting with her, I already thought about it!

So he sent her a message, she loves sapphire, emerald and amethyst.

These came home from the quilt shop, still need some more shades. It will be one very vibrant quilt. The fun of planning a new quilt, filled with joy!

February Pinks.

The blocks are done and these Ohio stars up to now, have 22 block so far.

Sawtooth blocks have 9 done so far.

Finished the blocks for Finding the way as well.

The Mystery quilt, aka the Jeopardy quilt is finished. Found the pattern, had all the parts still after all these years. Moving house a few times, countries and continents. It appeared in McCalls Quilting magazine in 2007 over the course of a year: "Hearts-All-A-Flutter" designed by Gerri Robinson.

The original was done in sweet colours, mine was done with French General fabrics.

Hand quilted while watching Jeopardy, started in September last year finished it yesterday.

It has been washed and the bamboo batting shrunk quite a bit. It is now 90 by 85 inches, instead of the 95 by 90 inches. It was pieced with fusible applique by machine stitched with a blanket stitch and hand quilted. This quilt was done in small bits over many many years, the journey was a slow one and enjoyed every step along the way.

Red and blues.

For a few projects I needed to get red and blue prints. Looked for a while, just could not find what I was looking for. One day a newsletter popped into the inbox, spent some time looking at all the fatqaurter bundles. Yes, there was one but at the time it had just come out. It would have to wait a while...

It came with four panels and one odd yellow fatquarter? One odd piece was good, so it was placed on the list. Ordered the bundle a couple of weeks ago and it arrived this morning, perfect to remind us summertime will arrive in a few months time. Something to look forward too!

These panels will be sewn into two quilts, with all the selection of little and bigger blocks. One could even stitch on each on with the red or blue thread to add a raised effect.

Never a dull moment, our driveway was encased in a crust of freezing rain, ice pellets more freezing rain and rain and ice on top. It was not melting and our neighbour had problems on theirs as well. Driving on to it was an issue as well. Yesteday afternoon was spent breaking up this layer and clearing the driveway. Sometimes we have to do stuff because we need to. Luckily the housekeeping was done before this all happened!