These are some fabrics I picked up at my favorite thrift shop the other day, they came through the laundry this morning and I am going to fold them and put them on the shelf. They are some very nice greens and purples with a sort of Asian pattern. Very pretty, I will have fun planning what to do with them.

This is some pink I picked up at Jo-Ann's this morning. I am gathering together pinks to make the Log Cabin Heart, but I won't be ready to start that for a while.

I basted Tumbling Stars, but I forgot to take the camera upstairs, and I didn't feel like running down and getting it. I had a bit of trouble basting it because I must have measured wrong and the back wasn't big enough. I had to take it off the table twice and add strips to it to make it bigger. The first time I thought that it just wasn't wide enough until just before I was finished basting it and found that it was about 12 inches too short. Sigh. I did get it done and wound bobbins, then Ambrosina and I went to Jo-Ann's. I got needles and bobbins for the Singer and the pink fabric, and she got fabric to make bow ties for the boys. They've decided they want bow ties, they do that every so often, and she makes them each one. I have done it in the past, but David doesn't like them so I don't have to unless I want to for some reason or another.

I am late today, and dinner is almost ready, it's smelling awfully good. I need to get the fabrics put away so David can have his side of the bed, I guess I'd better get busy, so until tomorrow.

Watching Saturday Night Live on Youtube and laughing my head off between coughing. I love the Weekend News Update.

This family has a cold, the entire family are feeling pretty rotten, it has been hanging around for 3 weeks, and we hope it will leave us soon.

I'm getting quite a large pile of Pinwheels of all colors, both sizes. The belt broke on Vanessa the little green New Home vintage machine

that I am working on the Drunkard's Path with so I've been spending more time with Ernestine, the treadle. The belt came yesterday and I started working on her again. I am also getting a pretty good pile of those too, I haven't counted, but I estimate there are about 7 or 8 left to do before I start joining them together. I might never get all these tops quilted, but I might as well store them as finished tops as cut out pieces, especially since I enjoy sewing on my old machines so much.

I took the new machine, the vintage Singer, upstairs this morning to try to use it, only to discover

that I don't have any bobbins that fit. I just assumed she would take the usual size but she doesn't; I also discovered that I am out of needles, so a trip to Jo-Ann's is in order tomorrow, weather and my cold permitting.

It hasn't been a day to get a lot done in, with no one feeling very well and other things, but we muddle through somehow. Now this late in the day a little more machine sewing, some hand sewing and a cup of coffee. What better way to spend a cold afternoon is there?

It's been a lovely Saturday morning and I spent it piecing a back for the next quilt to be quilted, Tumbling Stars. Not pink. Also part of the morning was spent being Sammy's coach while he played Rummy-O with his mom, he didn't need a lot of help, just sometimes when it came to the more intricate plays.

My 1st assistant Happy was restless today, I wonder what she was planning?

Blue Rose is finished, I bound it this morning and we took a picture. A very cold picture. I am calling this quilt Blue Rose as a play on words. It's blue and it's a Row quilt. The rows are panels of machine embroidered panels and quilt blocks, that are basically pieces left over from other quilts. I didn't want to waste them because of all the time and thread put into them. This isn't one of my better quilts, it's mostly made up as I went along, but it's finished and can be used as a utility quilt. There is a spot on it and if it doesn't wash out I won't be able to try to sell it, so we will see.

I still can't get over this cold, and it's going into my chest so I am trying to get warm and doing a lot of resting, trying to sleep but not a lot, between sneezing and coughing. Still, nothing that lots of others are not going through at the time, some of them in the house here. David was coughing a lot last night so he's kind of crabby with being sick.

Ambrosina was looking through her seed catalogues and planning her garden, can spring be far away? Just over two months until the spring equinox, but that doesn't mean it will warm up, but we can always hope!

Yesterday was my once a month class for my mental disorder, and so I didn't get a whole lot done down here. I didn't get a whole lot done anywhere for that matter, I am still in the throes of the cold that is making the rounds of the family and I didn't feel like doing much.

Today was better though, I still have the headache but my throat isn't sore and I got a lot of quilting done on Blue Rose.

Fat lopsided butterflies. I don't think this is going to be a favorite quilting pattern, I guess I can't hit it right on the nose every time. The quilting is going fast though and I think I may be able to finish it tomorrow and bind it the next day. The tub where I keep the unquilted tops just got two added to it, so I won't be getting the ones out of the attic anytime soon, but I want to keep anymore tops from getting 20 years old so I will quilt them and then go back to the ufos. I already know how I am going to quilt Tumbling Stars, so I won't have to take my sketch pad and figure that out. The next one after that I am not sure, but it will come to me.

I am going to take a nap to see if the headache will clear itself up, then do some work on the treadle if I can get warm enough, I might even turn the heater on for a while. I discovered yesterday that the remote that turns the heater on sometimes turns the tv on, go figure, definitely odd, so when I turned the heater on just now, the tv came on, but I'm not ready to watch anything. I wonder if anything else unexpected is going to happen today?

It's a very cold and miserable Tuesday, several of the family, including me, have colds with sore throats and headaches. A good day to snuggle under the quilts with hot drinks.

I finished En Provence this morning. I think I like my own patterns better. I don't think that I get the same feeling of satisfaction from someone else's pattern the way I do my own. It's ok, even pretty, but it doesn't feel like mine. It will now wait until it's turn to be quilted. There are two ahead of it. The one that I am quilting now, and Tumbling Stars. Probably only a couple of weeks, now that this top is done I will concentrate on my quilting. It's going on my bed, so there is no hurry.

I am now going to get under the covers and take a nap, maybe I will feel better afterwards and be up to some sewing on the treadle, if not I won't worry about it; the pinwheel blocks are going pretty fast, and I have quite a few of them done so there is no hurry. For now though, I need to warm up, it's cold!

Pinwheels in two sizes. I will alternate the small ones with large ones, so far in just pink and burgundy in the small size but I haven't gotten down very far in the tub where they are stored. The block on the left are half-square triangles that I didn't have enough of one color to make a pinwheel. All the leftover small half-square triangles I will turn into those blocks and put together a tops from. I think that if I have to store the scraps and pieces they might as well be stored as tops and I will get the fun of sewing them. I have a lot of these particular scraps, I will get at least 2 tops, maybe 3.

I got moved into the shelf David put up. I don't have a very large stash, but it's nice that I can see it at a glance, then I can plan more easily what fabrics to buy when I have a project in mind. I also cleaned down here in the bedroom and tomorrow I will straighten up the sitting room before it gets bad, I'm keeping caught up yippie skippie!

I am almost finished with En Provence, tomorrow I will finish and hopefully I will have a picture of it; it's been nice to have Juki back, she is the best of the upstairs machine for piece and quilting, with Brunehilde better for embroidery and fabric construction. A girl can't have too many sewing machines though, like diamonds, although I don't have any diamonds and I'd rather have sewing machines anyway.

It is supposed to get really cold for the rest of the week and snow. No surprise for this time of the year, although we aren't turning on the heater down here because of the electric bill. I see more coats and socks in the future, treadling on Ernestine will keep the circulation going, and it's only two and a half months until spring, by the calendar anyway. David put plastic on the windows down here in the basement although they are up so high we don't feel a draft, but Leon wanted it so he did it. I'll live but it seems like it will be a long two months. I think now I will go out and do some treadling, I'm getting cold and I need to get my circulation going!