Thursday, February 04, 2021

Another Snow Day

 Seriously hate winter!

But, at least I can go downstairs and sew.

I managed to finish 20 more of the windmill blocks.


The fabric on the left is the backing for this quilt.  I bought it at Quilter's General Store in Rockford yesterday.  If you ever get to Rockford, IL - that's the quilt shop to see.  It's in an old farmhouse - actually working farm, and right on one of the main drags of the town!  Convenient to everything!  The owners are wonderful and their employees are all very friendly too.  I buy their sale fabrics for backings.  It's still nice quilt fabric and I don't have to worry about piecing donated fabric together for backs anymore.

I also started the last 20 blocks for the windmill quilt.


I was running out of thread (just a bit more left on the cone), so stopped piecing at this point and cleaned the machine.  I don't want to let it go too long without cleaning the lint out of it, so this was a good stopping place.  I'll finish these blocks next time and start putting the quilt together.

My 16 year old grandson is heading (with his father) to St. Louis today -- his team was invited to a volleyball tournament there this weekend.  I know he'll do well -- he's a good player.  Just praying they don't have any trouble on the road -- think this snow we're getting is probably all the way to St. Louis.

Steph is doing okay today -- keeping ahead of the pain from her hip surgery - but amazed at no arthritic type pain -- only surgical.  

Until next time....blessings.

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