It is already the middle of February the weather is fairly warm but bad storms are on the way.

The pic is a thread potholder I made in a CAL at Eri's and was a lot of fun. Pam usually runs these so I know they will be fun for all of us.

A lot has happened I have a new blog for quilting now and am involved in a mini quilt swap. My partner is Bea from PA and I can't wait to see what she comes up with. She is the hostess for the swap too and is very experienced unlike me. It is at HGTV which I have belonged to for quite awhile in the crocheting and gardening forums. I changed my mind and have decided what to make and got my fabric yesterday. I will be sure to post when I finish it.

I went to lunch with my friend Karol today at Applebee's and man it was so good. Their chili is wonderful and I had the Oriental salad. You can't beat it for $5.99 a pop.

Thanks for reading.

The holidays are over and I am so glad. We have been lucky here with the weather only a few light snows so far.
I have rejoined the HGTV forums and now go to the quilting one regularly and it is so fun.
There are several ladies who live in my area and we may get together sometime. I am doing some swaps there and some still at Scrappy Quilters.
I have started a BOM that will go on for 12 months and I am looking forward to that. The first block is tricky because the amounts given are for 4 blocks and I have to figure out for just the one. LOL. I am no math person.
On New Year's day we went to The Anderson's and looked around bought a few items, for one thing a new toy for Pancho and of course he just ignores it LOL.
I had lunch today with my friend KM at a Subway shop that was really nice. It was good to see her since we haven't met since about September.
Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday time and that they have a great year.

These are the blocks I made for the swap at Scrappyquilters.

I will mail them on Monday. All of the snow is gone since it was 52 Thursday but now it is very cold again in the teens this morning. I received pkgs. from the two swaps for Christmas I was in. Both were very nice the ladies really go all out for this. The one from Canada costs over $10.00 to mail from BC.

The one I mailed to Ky. she said she liked it all and that was a relief I always think I don't do enough for these. Second guessing is not good lol.

My friend Pam lost her father this week and that is so sad this time of year. My mom died Dec. 3rd in 1984 and it was rough.

I can't believe I haven't been here in over two months to post. Anyway we had our second snow yesterday and that is enough for me. LOL.

I have been working on more quilt blocks for another swap at Scrappyquilting and they are fun to make - it is the Jacob's Ladder block.

I also have been crocheting stuff for a Secret Sister and a Secret Santa swap at two different forums. It is a lot of fun to do this. The ladies are so nice too.

I have been doing a lot of reading when I have time usually at 4 in the morning when the dog gets me up (for which I could kill her) but it does let me read and drink my coffee in peace. And we all need some time for ourselves.

Our Thanksgiving was nice and quiet and plenty to eat for leftovers.

I may just put up my tree this year and nothing else. There is so much of it it's a lot of work

We have new carpet in the m-bdroom and it is so nice and pretty. The old was the original one 24 years old. It was in good shape but we were sick of looking at it. It was a lot of work for DH since he removed all of the old and the padding. He also fixed some squeaks in the boards.

I saw the Alan Jackson Tribute on CMT today and it was so good he is one of my favorites.

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I never thought I would see a hurricane in Ohio but that is what happened on September 14th. We had winds up to 75 MPH in gusts with steady winds at 40 MPH. Our lights went out at 3:15 PM that Sunday and didn't come back on until the following Friday at 4:45 PM. You talk about being in such a quandary with no TV computer or lights. I hadn't done the laundry for awhile so we were getting low on clothes. I was bound and determined not to go to a laudromat. The thing was the rest of the 550 homes came back on on Tuesday and 43 homes around the neighborhood were still in the dark. We called so many times about this I can't count. I guess when the majority of homes got their power it blew a tranformer to the 43 homes.

It really teaches you humility and I guess because it was summer and we needed no heat it took a little longer over 400,00 homes and businesses lost power. There were people really suffering because of health problems like oxygen users and such.

I made the tote bag during our blackout.

Anyway things are great again.

The cat quilt I finally finished it is not done in the pic.

Well the first week of September is almost over and today has been cloudy and cool but is now sunny. Went to breakfast and read the paper but not much else LOL.

I have been working on a quilt I started back in the 80's it was all put together but I didn't quilt it so slowly but surely I have been working on that and then I will bind it and voila a new quilt.

I finished the cat quilt and it turned out good.

For some reason I can't get into the crochet mood I guess I am burned out for now but I know I will be starting something for a Fall Swap at Eri's. I have never swapped there so hope things go well. I still do not have 4 blocks from another swap I am in but they are not too late yet.

My volunteer tomato plant has finally ripened some of the cherry tomatoes. It popped up in August and has grown so fast and produced fast too. I never had good luck with those before in pots. I guess a bird dropped a seed in the right place. My other tomatoes are just about finished the plants have died back a lot.

These are pics of the patriotic quilt I made for Scrappy Quilters. It is a table runner and fits on my antique box perfectly.

I have also started quilting my cat wall hanging I have all of the hand quilting done and have some of the machine quilting done also.

I received 4 fall blocks from the girls this week and have 4 more to receive. It is great because every one of them is so different.

The weather has been great this week not too hot and barely any rain but we do need some badly.