Productive evening

Well, I guess I am feeling much better since I was busy last evening. Did some more dishes, made some cornbread muffins, washed sheets, and dug around to find green fabric for a baby quilt. One of the women at work is having a boy and avocado green is the main color. I pulled out my bin of 3" wide strips to see what I could find. I need to color sort these!

Then I dug thru what green fabrics I had on the shelf.  I even dove into my scrap bin and found a couple pieces. I plan on making a zig zag quilt with a white or off white fabric between each color. Here is what I found.

Then I got an email from another lady I work with that needed a boy quilt. I sent her pictures of what I had on hand. Zig zag

Courthouse steps

Improv

16 patch

Log cabin

She picked the courthouse steps quilt. I will get a label on it tonight since I will see her tomorrow at the meeting I need to go to at the home office. I ordered the longer spike caps for the snap closures and they are already on their way to me. This is the first time I have ordered from this company so it will be interesting to see how long it takes to get product.

Just a bit of sewing

I felt awful all day Saturday, but Sunday I was feeling better. I did some dishes, made a pot of soup, did two loads of laundry, and made two thread beds.

I wanted to put snaps on them with my new KAM tool rather than using Velcro as the closure.

I even made a plastic marking template so I don't have to measure where to put the hole for the snap

The problem was the fabric is too thick for the length of the cap spike. I am going to have to get caps with longer spikes.

I wanted to get some thread beds made for a woman to take to a retreat she is having. With being sick all last week and now running into the snap issue, it doesn't look like I will be able to get any done for her. She works at the Columbus office and I only see her when she comes to the home office for meetings. I will see her on Wednesday, but not again before her retreat. Oh well.

TGIF

I had a hard time dragging myself out of bed this morning. Besides still not feeling all that good, it was -6 degrees. Last evening I was tired when I got home from work so I didn't do much. Over the last couple of days I have been knitting a bit. I had knitted a scarf out of this yarn, but I didn't like the size of the scarf so I tore it out and I am starting again. This was expensive yarn.

It is going to be very cold all weekend so I may not leave the house. Have a great weekend.

Progress on the t-shirt quilt

I made good progress on the t-shirt quilt yesterday. I am now 58% done with the quilting.

It was so cold yesterday. It was -4 when I got up. By afternoon it was up to 12, but there were windy conditions. I didn't bother to look and see what the wind chill temp was. I bundled up and took out the recycling and trash. Then I had a small amount of shoveling at the bottom of the driveway where the plow had been by. The snow was very slushy and if it froze, that would make a big lump of having to get thru to get into the driveway so it needed to be removed. I did a bit of cooking and sat in front of the space heater. It is only day 6 of this cold and I feel a bit better today, but my head is still very congested. I'll be ok in a few more days.

Catching up on the goings on

Monday we get to work and the parking lot wasn't plowed. I got stuck a couple of time trying to figure out the best place to park and rocking the car back and forth to try and pack the snow down. Eventually one of the superintendents brought up a loader from the job site and cleared the parking lot.

I went to lunch with a couple of guys. I don't do that very often. We went to an Asian place and I got crab ragoon and a Philadelphia roll. The crab ragoon was great but I thought the sushi was mushy. I couldn't eat it all, my appetite is not great with this cold, so I took the rest with me. I felt so bad I had that for my dinner and did nothing the rest of the evening except sip tea and sit in front of the space heater.

Tuesday I had to go to the yearly company meeting. I took my box of Kleenex, cough drops, Excedrin, and sat and sipped tea all day. Here we are in line for breakfast. The eggs were barely warm.

The room was packed

The speaker in the afternoon talked about the Mexican dry cartels and how the majority of the drugs from Columbia and Venezuela are funneled thru Mexico by the Mexican cartels across the boarder and not by boat. I ended my day with this.

I took a sick day today since I feel lousy.  All the foreman, superintendents, project engineers and managers are at company training today. No one is working on site since it is -4. No reason for me to sit by myself all day feeling bad.

Quilting and shoveling

I worked on quilting the t-shirt quilt as much as I could, but between feeling lousy with another cold and having to shovel, at times it was a struggle. I am now 40% done with the quilting

I did get a few more pouch sandwiches made too. I don't remember exactly how many are in this stack, but it about 54. I am done with this step for now, so I will start quilting them soon.

I finally went outside Sunday about noon and started shoveling. There was 7 inches in the driveway.

I only got 2/3rds of the driveway done. My fingers were so cold I just had to go inside.

I warmed up, fell asleep and got something to eat. The snow plows showed up around 4 so I headed back outside.

There was another 3 inches! I had found my ski gloves. They are very warm and kept my fingers from getting cold. My neighbor came over and helped me shovel the rest of the driveway. This morning there was another 1 1/2 to 2 inches of snow so I shoveled that before I left for work. It was a slow crawl the 5 miles to work. Our parking lot had not been plowed so I got stuck a couple of time trying to park.

Batting used up and the red and yellow hourglass blocks

I used the last of my scrap batting to make more quilt sandwiches last evening. I will now cut some off the roll and continue to make sandwiches.

I was trying to remember why I had these red and yellow blocks.

With the way I made them there ought to be two of each fabric combination, but I only had one block. I was looking for a picture of another quilt and came across this quilt made in 2020. I don't remember why I made this quilt or who ended up with it.

I am glad it is Friday. A big snowstorm is predicted for the weekend. I am good with rations, so I don't plan on going to the grocery store. I didn't want to spend any money today to be in solidarity with the ice protests in MN, but I had to take my car in to get a headlight and a fog light bulb replaced. The low beam warning light for the passenger side started flashing on my way home from work yesterday. It was dark driving to work this morning and I am obsessive about having the lights working on the car. Sorry I am putting safety first, but I don't plan on doing any other shopping today. I was glad the shop was able to squeeze me in today. Have a great weekend and be safe wherever you are!