No I haven't filled our 12th spot. Would love to have you join. PM me. Whoo hoo this will be so great. I was going to post a request for anyone who knows anyone who might want to join us and now I won't have to. Oh wait I just did. LOL.

I had 17 UFO's that were either in the making or I wanted to start. I have finished 2 and I am almost finished with two more. Yeah. The two that are almost finished are going with me to Australia. Gotta love having a time schedule to get one in gear and finish something. I go to a quilt class at my senior center and we are starting up again next week. Every month Lyn gives us a swap and we get a pattern for making a quilt with the swap blocks. So that is 5 quilts per semester. The she has a semester quilt that we get instructions every week and then to add to all that she gives us a year or 52 week quilt blocks. for the year. this year is it going to be Christmas. anyone can look at her quilts for our class and get the patterns free at lynbrown.com

Thanks for the link. That was interesting and when I have more time I'll explore it some more.

Here it is the 6th of January. I am preparing for my trip to Australia and getting to see my adorable grandkids. I look forward to Feb when we start. I hope all of you in the cold area are safe and ok. I know what it is like to get cold temps when you area is not use to that cold temps and wind chill. Stay inside and just sew.

Safe trip and enjoy your grandkids,nothing like it!!!!

Yep, it's the 3rd day of snow here, about mid-thigh now, not shovelling much because the college is closed, and the place I work at is closed and there's no reason to go out... Just about finished with a baby quilt top that I started when the snow started!

I was very busy over the holidays. I finished my grandson's duvet cover. My daughter did not want quilts as she has no place to store them. Hmmmm store them?????? I thought we made them for people to use. Anyways she was ok with me making a duvet cover for their comforters. The older two were done last Aug. I just finished the youngest one. This is like one giagantic pillow case. The top is all quilt squares. LOL Got my daughter on that one. Then I made a large quilt for her mum-in-law. All chickens as she likes chickens. I had to have these two done for the trip to Australia. Then I made a baby quilt for my new grt. Niece. I made a quilt for me. I started this one in 2004. It has appliques cats on it and it is done in cat material. I will be hanging it above my bed. I also made two rag quilts that I am donating to our church to go to the Indian reservations in Arizona. So I have been a bit busy. But now that I have a few days left before I leave, I am going to get the material out for this swap and decided on a pattern.
For all my friends and quilters in the cold areas, put some more quilts on and stay warm. I won't mention what the weather is like here in Southern CA.

I work with an American Indian. She is so happy to be away from the reservation. Thanks so much for donating quilts to go there. I'm sure from her stories that there are lots of people there who need a bright spot coming into their life.

I am hoping to go there someday. Our church has a group that goes every month to bring supplies and things. Our knit group at the church makes hats, scarves, blankets, baby clothing, etc. They go to Arizona where they go to 4 different Indian reservations. I am part Cherokee as my Grt Grt grandma was one. But I have never lived on a reservation.

We need one move person in our group so ask your friends and we will see what happens. LOL. Off to Australia tomorrow. Am I excited.......YEP. Grandkids here I come.