Georgia Snow

Atlanta is getting slogged in by the most wonderful snowfall! I wish it meant a day off school, but I'll take a quiet Saturday at home. This is outside my front bedroom window.And this is looking across to the right at the driveway and big white pine tree:
And look at what I found when I was out this week. I was looking for a gift for a co-worker when I happened on to these blocks. There was only one set (it would be nice if I found a set for Jan Patek, too), so I will take these Blessings blocks to Mom when I go up in April. She has something for me too, and I am dying of curiosity. But I can wait to find out, if I have to. I think it is enough of a treat for me to be going to see Roberta Horton and Mary Mashuta with Mom during the Quilt Guild of Greater Kansas City's 35th anniversary celebration. I am seriously thrilled I get to attend!

Egypt? Not even close.

Last year Spirited Quilters had a challenge. I showed you the winner of that challenge in a previous post. My quilt didn't get very far down the road to stitched. I kinda got stuck in the oh-I-need-to-purchase-brown-fabric phase. Honestly, I completely forgot to be a quilter and was quite happy to be a fabric collector.

But today I decided to dump the brown fabric collection onto my cutting table and see what I could do with it. Ah, now I have triangles. The mystery was that it was supposed to represent Egypt. I chose the all-colors-brownish to be the "Valley of the Kings." I think that was what it was supposed to be. Really my excitement over having to shop for fabric overcame any sense of mission to completion.

I hear we can still claim a finished quilt reward bead if we bring our finished mystery quilts to the January meeting. Nah, I'm not gonna make it. I decide to name this quilt "Good Dirt" for it's brownness.So now I still have this much fabric left to cut up. I am determined to cut at least a few triangles from each piece of fabric I collected for this quilt.

Then I remembered Brannock & Patek's Looking Back line of fabric for MODA. Yes! There are some beautiful brown fabrics in that collection!

I especially love this tobacco colored floral!

Adding to my confusion.

When I was at Harper's in Prairie Village, Kansas, I purchased some black fabric because I thought I needed to round out my stash with a bold neutral. So I purchase these beauties:

Then I got home and discovered I already had Brannock and Patek blacks from their "Looking Back" line for Moda. Oops. I should have remembered! They are really beautiful! (Thanks Mom!)

I am trying to get back to work in my sewing room, but, honestly, what a dang mess!

The books Mom gave me when I was up there are in the fish tank, whoops, I mean the light box which is holding up some stuff; I don't remember why I put it there (the stuff OR the "light box").

And here is my sewing table. What a really big mess.

One major reason for the mess is I have neglected sewing all together because I have been having some health problems. Here's the skinny (intentional pun), they are trying to figure out why I was able to go from a size 12-14 to a 6-8 in 10 weeks. Part of the reason is that I was on Jenny Craig, but my weight-loss consultant sent me to the doctor because the rate at which I lost 28 pounds is unusual. I was planning to reach my goal by March in order to fit into a certain dress by family reunion time. I have been "cheating" plenty, but I am still losing weight. Honestly, I am kind of scared, so I have been to a general practitioner, a digestive health specialist and a gynecologist. So far we have ruled out diabetes. And, as of yesterday, we have discovered MENOPAUSE. What the heck?! So I had to buy this informative book (and Godiva chocolates) at Borders.

This cheer-me-up-shirt from Target:

And then I had to buy shoes. My feet have lost a full shoe size and all my shoes have become trip-and-fall hazards.

I wanted black shoes, but, alas, the Nine West store had none in this style in my new-smaller-for-me size, so I had to settle for red and purple which go better with the t-shirt anyway.

And, luckily, both pair of shoes go with the gold socks I found. Man, what luck! All the fabric I have played with has given me cross-over skills in the accessory matching department.

This is my formerly-size-10 foot waving good-by (for now).