Thank you, jc, for posting step four.
I had plan to sew the next four days, but it is going to happen. Weather was winter mix, and now snow. My husband' s cousins and his wife are coming down tomorrow to play cards, and we all enjoy that. I will fix the dessert, so that will not take me long to do. Today dh wanted my corn-oyster dish and a hot lunch (boneless chicken thighs fried with gravy and a small baked potato), and that is all done.
My Christmas BS will be scrappy 'cause the background is taking more than four yards of fabric although I am using three colors....so will mix in the Kona 'snow' for background too. The traditional colors: red,white and blue has used up 4 1/2 yards of snow and I am not done cutting out the background. Continuing to strip for the background.