Lisa:
I can't imagine how cold it is in Michigan. My granddad use to call it tree snapping weather. It gets so cold the sap in the trees freeze and the tree explodes. It never gets that cold here. Here is like the weather in So Calif. In the winter the coldest it gets here is about 32 at night then goes into the 50's and 60's during the day. Not bad. My sister lives in Ithaca, NY and it gets really cold there too.
Thank you, and the others, for the compliments on my design. Got the basket weave blocks out of a 2003 quilting magazine. They used it to make a quilt from japanese kimono fabric. I cut out the teddy bears from extra fabric from the back and fused and handquilted them onto the blocks, also handquilted the border and machine quilted the rest. I like combining hand quilting with machine quilting.
Penny