ICE

This is what we woke up to this morning! Lots of ice, on everything! Branches down all over the place. Luckily though, no power outages, so far.

Here's is my poor ice covered Weigelia. It's up against the house just like the Holly bush but somehow the Holly bush looks much better. No ice.

Here are a few of the scrappy things I worked on yesterday. My first selvage creation. A covered mini notebook with a little hand embroidery.

I also dug into the red scrap bin and made these mug rugs for the family room.

Today I'll keep myself busy doing bindings and working on some new things.

Last of the Painting!

Christmas Bazaar is this weekend! I'm adding these books to the ones I made before.  

I've made a few more potholders. There are two of these made from Kate Spain's 12 Days of Christmas. The mug rug above also includes 12 Days of Christmas.

This set has a dishcloth to match. I couldn't get it to photograph any better. 

Ok, back to painting!,

Saturday Scrapbag

These are the blocks for a secret quilt I'm working on now. Sorry I'm not going to say anymore about it yet. Remember these small leftovers from my Brights Log Cabin ? Well, I've created a mini quilt and I still have a few left. I have plans to make wonky stars with them. We'll see how it goes.
It's going to be very hot here again today. Guess I'll get lots of quilting done!

Small Accomplishments

I've done some scrap sorting today. I'm almost done, only 2 more bins. Too bad I didn't start out organizing my scraps instead of throwing them all together. I could have spent this time sewing. Lesson learned. I have a lot more blue scraps than any other color. So I've had to make some changes to my original scrap storage plan. It's really strange because I have mostly pinks and greens in my yardage stash.
Tonight I will sew the binding on the UFO I just finished hand quilting. Yippee! One UFO done only 20 to go! LOL
I was going to work on my Sherbet quilt, but I've had to put that aside. I thought it would make a nice baby gift, but I found out the baby is a boy. So yesterday I pulled these fabrics from my stash and I'm trying to decide on a pattern. Any ideas? I'm open to suggestions. I was thinking about a controlled string quilt or Broken dishes. I still have some time, I think the baby is due in June.
Lastly, it looks as though we're in for another snow storm. Spring just can't get here soon enough. (this is for my DD, Morgan) Happy Quilting! Yes it's a Holiday!