First of all, a Very Happy and Blessed Easter to all of you who celebrate Easter. It’s a beautiful spring day here in Minnesota, with the sun shining and a high temperature today should be in the upper 50s. Pretty nice!
So, the stash report. For a change (LQS is now closed), nothing in this week; 3 yards out that went into a tote bag done in a group this past week (soooo cute — photos follow). Here are the YTD stats:
Accomplishments this week were quilting a donation quilt for our guild, one customer quilt almost completed, and a cute bag made. A step backwards this week was the red socks I was knitting. They kept getting bigger looking all the time. I did a search on line to see who else made these socks, and they said they ended up more like slippers. So I ripped out a 2/3 done sock and it is now a nice ball of yarn, waiting to become a sock another day.
The bag — if you have this magazine, McCall’s Quilting (Beautiful Patterns for your Home) April 2009, Page 12, you will find The Big Bag Theory by Penny Sturges.
The only problem with this pattern is that you want to make one for everybody you know, and life just isn’t that long! (There should be a wooden button on the red flap, but the handwork isn’t done yet.)
And just a little bit more Out My Window photography from this week. I just love springtime, when all the wildlife is returning north or crawling out of its winter hidey-hole. As a bonus, the trees aren’t leafed out yet, so you can see so much more. We watched this woodchuck (or groundhog, if you prefer) munch its way through the wild grassy area behind our house:
Then he would hear something, and stand up. Doesn’t he look like a little bear?
He was about the size of a medium-sized house cat, and I imagine he was finding tender new sprouts to munch on underneath the dried vegetation.
Well, I better get cooking or we will be having Easter dinner by candlelight, which wouldn’t be all bad except I promised dinner at 3:00!!!
Sue
