The Most Quilting

I decided to up my quilting challenge and made a rather stitch heavy table runner. I made it to be used as a very large pot holder so there is a double layer of batting between the two layers of fabric.

By the end of the process my sewing machine was very, very upset with me. But it worked out and I am really happy with the result:

A closer look at the stitching, the right hand side picture is the backing, despite being one solid piece of fabric the stitch pattern makes it look interesting:

Post Christmas

We de-Christmas'd our house today. We had one very, very dry tree. Here is some of the carnage:

I really had no idea how dry it was until we started taking the ornaments off - I was happy to be wearing glasses since the needles seemed to fly off the branches!

Winter Find

I wonder what else will be revealed when the snow melts?

New Years Eve

After a wonderful evening with friends followed by fireworks I looked like this:

I was also wearing snowpants and monster big boots - I was prepared.

Happy New Year!

PS. None of the fuzz is real fur!

Plant Sitting

Greg and I volunteered to plant sit our neighbour's peace lily while she was out of town over the holidays. Our instructions were: you will know when to water it, it will wilt.

So before heading out for our own Christmas vacation we filled up the plant with water and hoped for the best.

This is what we came home to:

This is most certainly not the plant we left and were hoping that this is just what wilting looks like. Thankfully we were right and after lots of water and less than 12 hours it came back:

A true Christmas miracle!