Quillows for my Grandsons!

I am making quillows for my grandsons. I never made a quillow before. I am using directions from Fons and Porter's magazine - Jan/Feb 2007, pages 94-97, and a pattern that was free from Connecting Threads. The pattern is no longer on the website. It has directions for a pieced pillow top and the quilt part. You can watch a video -- link is below. I have the labels made!

http://www.fonsandporter.com/aspx/fonsandporter/Videos/ViewVideo.aspx?v=1755

Mom's Quilt

I took a picture of it this morning before I shipped it to Florida. It was a kit I bought at Lilies of the Field in Easton. The pieces were badly cut. Some even had selvage as part of the measurement. So I had to do a little fudging here and there. Then I had the worst time quilting it. I spent a lot of time with my seam ripper. All in all - it is a cute quilt and it is finished!

Oh did I mention it came without directions!

Almost Spring

Saturday, as I was at my ironing board pressing fabric, I noticed a wren peeking out of the bird house. Yeah! This is a sure sign of spring when you see the birds building nests.

Both house are occupied.

Second Snow Storm

The second snow storm that hit had the ducks visiting the bird feeder even though I hauled corn and bread crumbs down to the water every morning (through the snow drifts!)

First Snow Storm

I love the snow! But this time I got snowed out of my quilt retreat. With AJ away in Florida, I needed to go home at night to take care of Scrappy. Sooo - I only enjoyed two days of quilt retreat an then 9 days home with snow! I was a happy camper.

This picture was taken Saturday, 2/6. You can see why I could not go over to the Narrows for the retreat.

Scrappy loves the snow as much as I do.

I will post more on the snow adventures and show what I worked on at the retreat.

Neglected my blog

Ok, I know I have neglected my blog, but I am ready to do my updates.

Here is last Saturday. A trip to the ocean complete with a blizzard. Poor AJ, he could not see out the windshield. It was a scary, beautiful, and fun all the same time. We went down for the Waterman's convention. I got to go into 1 outlet & 1 yarn shop. So we definitely need to plan a return trip soon.

We were going to have dinner at Jimmy's, but decided to just go home while we could.

The cows were running and frolicking in the stuff. I could not resist taking their photo.

As you can see, the snow kept coming.

Home at last!!! And are neighbors had fireworks.

I tried to capture the event.

Llama Yarn

I was lucky enough to score llama yarn made from the two in the picture.
Well, maybe not the exact ones, but the llamas are from Homestead Gardens and so is my yarn. I can't wait to knit some scarves for presents. So I found a large tube of the dark chocolate yarn and a cake of the golden brown - all for $7 at the thrift store. Yippee!!