Jingle

We retired a year ago, so we don't have to go anywhere if we don't want to. I am staying busy making donation quilts for 1st part of Dec. 2018.

My husband is getting cabin fever because it is too cold for him to be outside. It may warm up some next week.

zozee

It's bitterly cold and windy here in MD, so staying inside was just lovely. My son's school was delayed, and then closed, so no carpool duty was wonderful! I did ask him to work with me on purging stuff from his closet; he's good at decision making. Not too sentimental, but just enough that he is not a wholesale "dumper" just to get it done. While he was doing that, I sorted a big bin of scraps, magazines, and books.

I also made time to walk a mile on the treadmill. Tell myself I'm sculpting my "MOB Bod" (mother of the bride body). I have six months to go from fat to fab. LOL

Betty J

News of your big freeze was on our news tonight. Here in Australia we are having heat wave conditions. Guess it is either one or the other, but fortunately we don't get snow and extremely cold winters here in the sub tropics. I am sure all of you quilters will have projects and fabric to carry on with, I just hope that it doesn't last too long for all of you. Stay warm.

nwm50

Made some pillow cases.... hot pads...double hand mitts

meanmom

I am off of school today due to the cold. Wind chills of -15 to -20 today. I am getting ready to start a BOM. I plan to make it mostly from my stash using my precious collection of Kaffe Fasset fabric. I need background fabric to pull it all together. I am heading to the LQS to find something. First I need to make sure they are open as sometimes they close when the schools do. I ned to finish up a quilt top I am making for my DGD first. The blocks are all finished, I just need to put them together. I am making her the Valentine Candy quilt that I saw on here. Thanks JENNR8R for the instructions. It was exactly what I was looking for. I am using a pastel batik charm pack for mine. Everyone stay warm.

rryder

Beiing an introvert, having to stay inside and play (I mean”work”) in my studio due to the snow and extreme cold are a dream come true for me! I also enjoy the extreme heat and humidy of summer for the same reason LOL!

I’m working on an art quilt that I “painted” using Inktense pencils- I started FMQing the outlines of the design yeaterday and will get that finished up today which will stabilize the layers. Then I need to decide about thread painting it and doing any fill/background quilting. If I get stuck for a while on that I’ll either work on UFO (there are many to choose from) or one of my other current WIPs (there are 4 of those besides the art quilt).

Rob

Clarice29

I am playing catch-up after Christmas but I plan to try a square of the tulip quilt Jenny Doan showed a while back. I plan to do that next but have to work the bugs out first.

chris_quilts

I had plans to at least sandwich the current quilt in progress but DH asked me to work on dishes. Hard to say no to that because he rarely asks me work on them if I'm hot on a quilt but ..... I'll do the silly things then work on sandwiching it. Wish the dishes did themselves. Its okay, I'll think about the quilting (what I want to do) while I'm working on them.

Jane Quilter

I am over run with UFO's. I always have something to work on. I wish we had snow so hubby could pull the grands around on a sled with our ATV (we have 40 acres). But alas, no snow. Cold, but no snow here in western VA.

Mkotch

We in the northeast have been in the deepfreeze for a couple of weeks. I sandwiched and quilted a top that's been sitting around for a while, using a new technique I read about in Leah Day's new walking foot book. Yesterday I sandwiched another UFO and will start on it today. In past years, I've made string quilt blocks and blocks out of selvages. Depends on how much thinking I want to do, but sometimes I start on a new project, just to reward myself for living in the north country.