We had a fresh 2 cm of snow overnight Monday. In the morning it was -2 with a windchill of -11C but it didn't feel as cold as that when I went about my chores of filling the bird feeders and putting out the garbage. This morning it is the exact same wind chill so we'll see how that "feels" when I go out in a little bit. Our annual spring problem is the snow off the roof fills in our front walkway and we never get direct sunlight in this area to help speed up the melting. I had to use an ax to create steps in the snow that hardens during the overnight freeze ups.
Anyway, let's focus on how the season is moving along. Below is what I think is a juvenile White Crowned Sparrow I photographed in Amelia's backyard last week which gets full sunshine all the time. The light in her little house is always lovely. I was amazed by how this one blended in so well with the early spring frozen ground cover, I almost missed him.
In my internet rambling I found two quilt patterns I would love to stitch right now. I had to hold myself back from giving each of them a go.
One is a Jen Kingwell design and I know you think of bright multicoloured fabrics when Jen's name comes up. But this one uses much more subdued shades and is a pattern I think even I could put together. It's called Sunny Day.
Here it is at the Fat Quarter Shop that offers the pattern in a free PDF form.
I subscribe to Rachel Hauser's lovely Substack Stitched in Color column and she recently made a gorgeous log cabin quilt that I fell head over heels in love with. You can take a better look at her finished version there...Rachel's Scrap Cabin Quilt. Rachel is a real pro at using scraps beautifully.
But with only two hands and hours in the day that seem to absolutely fly by, I must stay strong and stick to finishing what is here on my plate right now.
And I am pleased with how my own present projects are moving along. More of the stars and hexagons have been prepped and stitched. I'm cutting my diamond templates out of old calendars and flyers.
And it's really fun to stitch this appliqued border for one side of the Baskets Love project too. I love this chocolate and camel woven fabric that is so soft to handle. I'll try to get a better photo of it.
On a completely different topic, I've been meaning to ask...are any of you ordering from Temu? I've not yet as I'm not sure I trust it. Items seem ridiculously cheap even in Canadian dollars. But I did watch a lady on YouTube who shares what she buys from there all the time. It appears like she is getting mostly amazing bargains.
Tony was just on the phone to the local hearing aid folks inquiring about how to get one of his hearing aids fixed. He had to repeatedly ask the girl to speak up as he's hard of hearing and his hearing aid is broken. ha ha
I used to think of March as a very long month, but this one is zooming by. Is it just me feeling like this?
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It is snowing here right now but will likely not amount to anything. All of our snow piles are gone. I want to keep it that way!
Jen kingwell’s patterns are gorgeous but convoluted and detailed.
The stars are coming along nicely.
I have a friend here in NZ who buys from Temu, she ;ikes what she gets and has, as far as I know, no problems. Hearing aids, mine have settings ,...for my iPhone, hearing aid, or on speaker. And I can turn up the volume in either one, from 0 to at least 40!!! But I did have some problems with the first 3 models, they were all returned, no cost, until the firm I was visiting changed to another brand.That's still a lot of snow, and Tony, I so understand when you have to ask someone to talk louder!!!
I have heard from various people to not order from temu that the stuff is low quality but I have never ordered from them personally so don't know - the prices do seem very cheap so wonder if they are cheap knock offs. So much snow still - sorry for you needing to shovel and make steps in the hard snow - sometimes you wish the sun would shine where it just won't do it don't you. LOve your quilts they are looking really good
I really need to finish a project. Thanks for the motivation!
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