Snowing

blue car in snow

Dog in snow

Yes, another backdated post.  I liked both of these photos for January 25. It was snowing that day.  As soon as a little bit was shoveled, more was there to take its place.

Improv Quilt

Sherri Lynn Wood at Daintytime.net is writing a book and she put out a call for people to make a quilt following her "scores" and 160 quilters agreed to participate .  I am one of 20 people who are assigned to do this quilt, and only 1 or 2 will be selected to be published in the book.  I'm sure some people will drop out, and some won't be able to finish the quilt on time, and it is possible that someone may make a quilt too close to hers, and someone won't understand the guidelines correctly, etc, but I am also sure she will get quite a good number of usable quilts that she will have to choose from.

It is challenging - usually with an improv quilt, the only person you have to please is yourself, but I want to make sure that my quilt fits what she wants.  But it is a lot of fun too, since it is making me try out techniques I haven't used before.

Although I have changed patterns, I haven't actually made a free spirited improv quilt.  It is scary, but by taking it one step at a time, I am managing to trust in the process and make something without a pattern. Except that I am combining at traditional pattern in an improv way.

Since this could go in a book, I cannot say anymore, nor can I show you the finished product until next year.  (Which means the end of the year recap could be short a quilt!)  I may show you what I am doing with the leftover scraps.


  

Reading the Newspaper

When we were on our daily walk, someone walked by and said "Reading the newspaper."  It took me a while to understand since there wasn't a newspaper in sight.  He was saying that the dog was sniffing around to find out about community happenings.  Here his nose is deep in the snow smelling something interesting.

Snow on Dog

It snowed, big flakes, and I like how the snow drops look on Zeus.

School Crossing

A neon green school crossing sign reminding students to look left, right and left again before crossing the street.

Shoe Print in Snow

This shoe print in the snow makes an interesting texture.  The newly fallen cold snow looks like dandruff.

New Rug for Zeus