Leap Year

Happy Leap Year!  The day was more than half over when I realized what today was.  I had a computer crash almost two weeks ago and have been really working to get the computer restored.  I have completely formatted the hard drive, reinstalled the Windows 7 operating system, restored data files, pictures, accounting and some programs.  I now have a computer that works for the most part.  I'm still struggling with a few issues but it is so much better than I had originally thought it would be at this time.  I do not have all the games downloaded now that I had before the crash but that is a blessing in disguise.  I had been wasting a lot of mindless time there and now am sewing on a new quilt top.  I am still not getting the house cleaned but the desk is cleaned off and all that stuff is stuffed in a laundry basket for now.  Next-clean out the basket.  Thanks, Mom, for the cleaning tips.

Rose

Snow Day

This past weekend I had planned to take Mom and two of her sisters to Denver to see another Aunt of mine.  Mid week the weather forecast changed to a winter storm watch and we were expecting 8-14" of snow with 50 mph wind gusts.  We cancelled the trip in anticipation of the big storm.  Friday as we were to get the snow, we got this instead. Nothing. Just some drizzly rain. That's o.k. I have two days unexpectedly at home. So what is a girl to do? Clean house should have been at the top of the list but it was not.

Spending time at the sewing machine was my choice. But what to make? I went through my UFO (unfinished objects) tub and looked through patterns and my fabric stash. I had started a small quilt or wall hanging many years ago using two colors of green and making pinwheels. I had the half square blocks sewn so decided to put them together into a quilt top. I think I'll keep it and use it for a baby gift.

Then on Saturday we did get a couple inches of snow.  I wanted to sew some more.  I chose a pattern I wanted to try and decided to make one sample block to see how I really liked it.  The results-I made 21 of these blocks from my scraps.  I will need to make around 400 blocks to make a king sized quilt but I think this will be a good project to work on in between times of other projects.  A girl can't have too many projects going at one time, can she?  It would get boring if she only had one project at a time and finished it completely before starting another. At least that is my humble opinion. Here is a picture of the experiment results. 

I think I am beginning to like snow days or should I say I love "Sew Days". 

      Rose