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
Since your lqs is now closed your stash busting numbers should be on the rise. Have a great week! Happy Easter and happy stitching.
That is a beautiful bag! I can see why you would want to make many more as gifts too! Here, we have the return of the robin’s to mark spring and they were all fluttering around today in the s-n-o-w. Cheers! Evelyn
Make any progress on the Irish quilt?
What is the need of an appraisal on the Irish quilt if it’s a gift – or is that in question?
I just have to say that since I found your blog that I am enjoying your animal pictures. I grew up in a small town so we really never had anything running around, then moved to a city in Florida and suprisingly had a possum, wood storks and the cutest little owls. Now we are in Tennessee on 4 acres and have had deer and squirrels and i just love having the wildlife around. I also wanted to say that I love the bag and will now have to go out to buy that magazine!