Holy Smokes....SNOW!!!

OK, just the other day I was looking at my plants trying to pop through the ground and yesterday we go 5 inches of snow in the greater Atlanta area! So to commemorate this occasion I made me a goofy looking snow man and took some pictures to show you how much we got. Signing off T

Signs of Spring.....

I did a walk of my property today. Amazingly I see some of my Lillies popping through letting me know they are ready to come out. Not just yet, the weather man has been threatening us with snow for the past 3 weeks and I am still waiting. The most we've gotten was a few drops before melting to the ground. I grew up around snow most of my life and I sometimes miss it. I was much younger when I was around it, then my bones could take it. Since living in the south, I don't miss the cold at all.

Heres are what they will look like when fully grown, this picture is from last year.


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Ok, now an update on what I have been up too! I have been multitasking. Here is my wholecloth almost finished....and my hand dyed quilt. Enjoy! T

Old Versus New

I am always on the look out to make my quilting job better and easier. I purchase some new gloves for machine quilting today called Machingers by Quilters Touch. So far I am liking my new gloves. I love the way to hug your hands giving you more control over handling your fabric better. They are soft and have a type of rubber tip for more control over your fabric.

Versus

My old ones were made of cotton and some other mixture and had rubber like dots over the whole hand for moving your fabric. I found with them are they lost their shape a little making them some what loose around your hands. Loosing control over handling your fabric.

In the end I like them both, but love the new ones better, and they both get the job done.

Still working on finishing up my whole cloth...stay tuned!

Have you spent your time creatively today? Signing off T

Whole Cloth Sneak Peak

Good evening creative friends!

I am so ready for it to warm up to a reasonable temperature around here (the current temperature is 51 degrees)and I know that is warm compared to some places, but I stay cold all the time and that is cold to me believe it or not. OK, I will be thankful and stop complaining!

I spent my weekend doing some research on whole cloth quilts and have been wanting to work on one for a while now. For now it will be a small square wall quilt study project about 30" x 30" roughly and I am loving what I see. I haven't decided how I will incorporate the background as of yet, but I am sure I will have it all figured out once the rest is done.

I have already started marking a larger one as we speak and haven't finished this one. Pitiful!!! Oh well I guess that's the way the ball rolls. So many ideals rolling around in there. I have been fortunate enough to have mastered my domestic machine for all my quilting needs and must admit, practice practice practice....is all I can say.

Stay tuned for further pictures of my progress.....signing off T