WE HAVE SNOW!
Hello All! Or just you, or just to myself. (I know I have no audience, but that's okay). So yesterday we were under a "weather advisory" and they said that we were to expect 6-12" of snow. We accumulated only about 1/2" and then it quit snowing. This morning we got another dusting, but we can still see our grass. As usual, Anchorage got more. We are expecting more snow on and off for the next few days, but I am not expecting a lot. Anyway, I love the first snow, don't you???
Halloween is only two days away. This is pretty much all I did for decor this year.
Even though I'm slowly trying to let go of my Halloween stuff, I did splurge on buying a second skeleton because my other one has been too lonely for too long and I thought he needed company. So I call them Mr. and Mrs. Spinalzo (from the Arsenic & Old Lace movie). They are sharing a lovely meal of candy and yukking it up, having a great time together.
I did finally finish all three of those FPP pumpkins!
By the time I got the third one done I was much better at it and only had to rip out my stitches once. I gave that one to Steph cuz it turned out the best.
This is how the back turned out (hope you can see it okay).
At this time I'm not going to attempt making the witch or the cat, but by the time I get to those at another time I hope I won't have to relearn how to do it. So I can now say I don't hate FPP as much as before, but it's still not my preferred method of sewing, so I will say that I don't really like that much. On a scale of 1 to 10? Maybe a 3 or 4. There's too much thinking involved and a lot of fabric is wasted, but I guess that's okay if you want to get rid of scraps.
So now I am working on this project.
I got this pattern from an email that I used to subscribe to. I think it was Better Homes & Gardens, and every week they would email me quilting patterns (I don't subscribe to it anymore). This is a pattern for a "mystery quilt" that I guess was running a long time ago and now they were putting it out there for free. Supposedly in the past they sent people one block pattern per week (or month) not knowing how the blocks would be laid out in the end, thus a "mystery quilt". But now that they were offering it for free, they made all of the block patterns available for print, and also the layout of all the blocks, so I guess I am sorta cheating and taking the mystery out of it because now I can look at this and know where a particular block will go in the quilt. Right now I am making block #7. I decided to make them all out of Christmas fabrics because I have a large collection of them.
In the meantime, that kitty quilt that I was making for PW is still on the back burner. I am procrastinating on that one because the next step is to put the picket fence border on it, and I'm lacking the confidence to do it. I know I just need to do it and get it done.
Besides working on these Christmas blocks, I have been working on my Christmas cards already. Hopefully I will get them done early - one less thing to do later when things get busy. We are sorta planning on spending Christmas in Fairbanks this year.
Since my last post we took a trip to WI for one week. I didn't take very many pictures because mostly it was just visiting family members. We hopped around the state quite a bit, and had a really good time visiting everywhere we went, and we had perfect weather the whole time.
Here, Chuck's brother-in-law is taking us out in his boat on the Flambeau River.
And here, we took my brother on the chair lift at Granite Peak in Wausau.
And we did some hiking there too.
And here, we got to see my niece's twins, 5 months old.
Chuck had the easier one.
We also went hiking at Devil's Lake again.
After we got home we had more harvesting to do.
We got a huge load of potatoes! These should last us awhile.
The only thing I don't like is that the skins are scabby, which I guess is a common problem. I guess you can fix that by adding sulfur to the soil, which we didn't do. I need to find out where we can buy some.
But I am happy to say that just a few days ago I put the last of the ripening tomatoes in the freezer, so now I am officially 100% done with this year's harvest!
Now we can start thinking about next year.....
That's about it for now.
Peeka sends you greetings with her "love blink".
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