Happy Blockheads Wednesday


                                                   This is the quilt I'm working on right now -

"Home for the Holidays" using 

Deb Strain's newest fabric line 

"At Home for the Holidays."

It's snowing here right now and my internet is

being freaky so of course I need to download something

before I can go any further.

I'm telling you all of this because my blog post will have to

go online later than usual since I'm downloading at the pace of a snail.

Hang in there and I'll post as soon as I can.  :)

Well, it took most of the day but everything 

got downloaded and then uploaded


I got up, made my coffee and fed the outside birds.
I always listen to the morning news on Fox
while I drink my coffee and I never listen
to the news until I've filled my outside bird feeder.
We have lots of cardinals and watching 
them helps offset and digest the news:)


Somewhere in there Jeff comes down and
gets a fire started in our woodturning stove 
in the fireplace.  


We have a ground source heat
pump to help keep the energy bills low but
a fire in the stove heats the brick surround and
keeps me toasty while I drink coffee and stitch.



I'm working on the middle block in the quilt
so I thought I'd give you an appliqué tip on
doing shutters and windows.


Instead if cutting a window and sewing shutters
on each side, I cut a shutter piece and appliqué a
window to the center - much simpler.

Our special this week is
Beeskeps and Violets, 
 one of my favorite wallhangings - the kit
is on sale.   You can go to the store to
get one by clicking here


And we've decided to follow Mary Etherington's

lead and ask our readers to send us picture of quilts they're 

working on.  They can be patterns I've designed or just

something you like.  Please send them to gotammiego@gmail.com.

Thanks ladies and have a great week with people and quilts that you love.

.


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