Star Block

I've always been partial to star blocks and this blog has a tutorial on a lovely and large star. The fact that its 14 1/2" is appealing to me, I like to get things done. She did use some lovely fabric.

I have the turkey out defrosting, my Mom is baking apple and pumpkin pies and I should do some rolls too. Not sure who will show up for Thanksgiving dinner, our life is kinda up in the air a bit as my second granddaughter is in the hospital again with pneumonia. She has asthma and this contributes to this tendency; I had a dream last night that they had a wonderful new medicine for her. Wishful thinking so in addition to dreams, I am a firm believer in prayers.

Back to cooking. Lila at Indigopears posted about a crazy pumpkin bread that you actually bake and can in jars at the same time. Have you ever heard of such a thing? It sounds wonderful to me as I have two pumpkins just sitting around getting in the way. Wouldn't it be nice to just open a jar of bread!? I will have to try this soon.

New Day

We have a tiny bit of new snow on the ground. I did finish my customer quilt yesterday but ran out of steam on many of my other chores. Relaxing a bit seemed more important.

I did get an email from a new website that lists many quilting blogs here . The list might be a way to check out a few nice places.

In January our guild will have our regular sewing session which is one of my favorite parts of belonging to a guild. We meet to sew on UFO's, help others tie a quilt or baste a quilt and in general just get a lot of talking done. This month I am doing a demonstration with this block:

Four of these blocks form a whirlygig type block which are very sweet. They are also easy to do and use up scraps so I am hoping our members will participate. Maybe a few will even read my blog! These would also be nice for our guild's President challenge which is to make a whole lot of quilts for a pediatric oncology department in Green Bay.

I am also thinking a lot about the cold weather and those without quilts or blankets. There is such a need and always a place or person to give a quilt to. I am thankful today to have a warm home and much to give me comfort.

Christmas Past

Christmas is sneeking up on me again. I am working on some very simple quilt tops for the grandkids, just easy strips with fabric that they might like. The one for the "horsey" girl is pieced and I think it will turn out cute.

The border and sash fabrics are bandana fabrics. I'm in the process of a kitty quilt, a Thomas the Train quilt and a princess quilt for the oldest princess.

A customer stopped by yesterday and we got to talking about Christmas and I told her how our guild does a really nice Christmas challenge each year. If you do the challenge, you end up with a really neat wallhanging for the holiday every year!

This is one of my favorites that I did. It started with a movie and the saying, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" and then I was doodling and a horse showed up and a snowman and it just continued on.

I always thought the horse would give the snowman his present and then snatch his carrot nose!

Our guild has a Christmas party each year where our challenge quilts are displayed as decoration and then voted on. It makes for a nice addition to our party. This year is different, they are each making a star block and then one winner will be randomly drawn. Just not the same really. I always looked forward to seeing what everyone came up with in their designs plus it was fun to sit amongst all the cheery quilts. I hope this is a onetime thing.

Deer season is upon us in Northern Wisconsin. The orange horde has descended and I have to make sure my dog doesn't leave the yard or even get to close to the woods which is our own but that doesn't seem to make any difference. We live in town by the way so I don't know why hunters come this close. I am not anti-hunting by any means, just too many hunters here thats all.

I have a customer quilt to finish today plus maybe get a little more Christmas presents worked upon, do laundry, scrub a floor, clean the bathroom and vacuum much labrador hair. This is Sunday isn't it?