I think I’ve finally realized that I am addicted to fabric scraps. Some quilters may enjoy buying the most fabulous fabrics, but I really like getting their leftovers! My dear friend, Renee, scored 5 bags of scraps for a whopping $2 at a garage sale last weekend, and she passed them to me.

My wonderful hubby suggested I sort them into bags of color, therefore, the lovely horseshoe I’ve created while sorting the last couple of evenings.

Lots and lots of pre-cut 4 and 5 inch squares!!

And mounds of expensive and great designer fabrics!! 

You can see how much Kacey helped me with this chore!  But the best part about all of this treasure for me, is that it inspired me to dig out the string quilt I started months ago.  One of only 1,345,789 projects that are left, waiting to be finished in my closets!

OK, gotta go keep pluggin’ along!  The goal is KING SIZE!!

A few weeks ago we spent maybe our last official “spring break” with our girls and their boys.  We drove to Texas and our oldest and fiance, flew in from Washington state.  The baby……..

 is in grad school and will graduate this summer.  Since she is so busy, we all invaded her home for the week.  She and her fiance have a new huskie puppy, Charlee…..

The baby (she really isn’t any more, but was last out of my body, so she will always be!) sure does love her puppy!!

Can you see that life is all about the puppy right now? 

The baby did have another mission….to change her sista’s hair.  (This tends to be a touchy issue from big sisters past.  She was always VERY particular about who cut her hair and how they did it!)  The baby put her arm around her big sister and said, “Don’t worry, let me take care of everything!”  So the young one made an appointment and went for support.  Or I should say took the big sis so she wouldn’t back out!  Here’s big sister BEFORE……

Drum roll please, the AFTER….

LOVE IT!!  And sure love my girls! 

Thanks to the Texas kids for all that hospitality!!  We had a GREAT time!  xxxooo  Mom

More snow last weekend.  This means the ducks still aren’t laying eggs.  Seems to me they have their days and nights mixed up.  They stay under the deck all day when it’s bright and beautiful.  When it gets dark or starts to snow, they go to the middle of the yard and they sleep there all night.  Isn’t that backwards?

Kacey doesn’t particularly like the snow.  The neighbor dogs always want to play, but she won’t have much of that!

The only great thing about this white stuff is that it keeps me inside and addicted to my sewing machine.  I finished my second baby quilt for the month, which in itself is incredible!   That big word, FINISH, isn’t usually in my vocabulary.  So here’s one of my favorite boys, Arvo, with his new blankie.  I used the abundant scraps I had from the fabulous freecycle giveaway to make a pretty cute bug blanket. 

Big brother, Nico, pointed out all the bugs for Arvo.

I’m pretty sure that Nico has much more fun when the boys come over than Arvo does at this stage of the game.  Arvo just wants his mama.  Understandable!

Right now my obsession really has nothing to do with ducks, except that I do worry about them a little too much. They spend most days sitting in snow drifts and tonight we’ll see how they do in the minus temps. So far they don’t seem to be fazed by any of our nasty midwest storms, except that I can’t find any eggs.

THIS has become my indoor addiction…

I found it on a fabulous quilter’s website, Film In The Fridge .  I dreamed about it so much that I HAD to make it!   I’m hoping to make it king sized if I can stick with it long enough.  Of course, Kacey makes sure all blankets in the house are up to code (her code….COMFY!).

But then I decided I needed something to work on while I watched TV, so I struggled for a day and knitted my first sock!

“WOW!” you say?  Yep, I’m pretty proud of this one only because it was my first attempt.  Let’s just say after hours of youtube instruction and another hour on the phone with my superb knitter friend, Lauren, I finished sometime around midnight.  Mind you I started at 8 in the morning with very few breaks! 

Hubby says the per hour cost of my single sock may not be cost effective. 

What? I have to duplicate it!!??  AHHHHHHH!!!