Beat the Winter Blues - Quilters' Blog Hop Party!!

Michele Foster, at the Quilting Gallery, is hosting a
     “Beat the Winter Blues-
           Blog Hop Party”

           from March 8 - 14!
There are tons of blogs registered to participate in the hop and all are having giveaways, including me!

So, what am I giving away this time?

Nope…not my sweet Yogiboy!!

How about this awesome new book?

It is chock full of wonderful felt projects!

They could be wonderful gifts to give

or just to keep for yourself!!

To enter my giveaway, first you must be a follower of my blog, (be sure to then leave a comment and tell me you are a follower!!)

and then share your favorite way to beat the winter blues!! We can all learn from each other!!

Also, I will ship internationally!! 
Winner will be randomly chosen on March 14th at 9 pm!

Click on the Blog Hop Party button above on my side bar to visit the list of participating bloggers!!    Let’s hop!!

Making Do!!

I finally have a finish to add to my sidebar list!!

Before, I always had my Big Board on top of my ironing board, so it didn’t matter how the cover on my ironing board looked…

But I will not be making any large quilts here, so the ironing board cover had to be recovered!

I found a cute 100% cotton décor weight fabric on sale at Joann’s.  I cut the fabric about 4” larger than my ironing board top and made a casing all around and used thin elastic for the gathering cord. I did add a layer of batting under it, as well. I think it looks perfect!  On to the next project!!

No design wall here…and can’t make more holes in walls adding one… so I bought a flannel backed tablecloth, folded one edge down to make a casing.

Bought a tension rod and slipped it in!!  Voila!

Portable design wall!!  YAY!!

So, I can put it up when I need it and roll it and store it in the corner when I don’t!!
Here’s one of the placemats I’m making from the bricks I cut from the Strawberry Fields fat eighth bundle.

We are in the middle of the “Snowquester” here in the DC area!!  

It is really coming down!

Schools and businesses and government offices are all closed!  So DH is home today!

We are both still in our jammies!!  Watching movies and had a frozen pizza for lunch!!

What are you up to today??

Nobody puts Baby in the corner!

Except me!  Sewing in a little corner will definitely take some getting used to…

especially after having everything I ever needed within reach in my old sewing room!

So, I’m still finding where I put stuff in totes that I packed and brought to the apartment,

and where I can put them here, in my little sewing nook.

There is definitely some shakiness with this small sewing table compared with my Horn cabinet…sigh…

I pulled out one of my fat eighth bundles of Strawberry Fields fabric and am working on some new placemats and a long table runner.

Yogi is missing his bed up on my sewing table.  I think the vibration of my machine lulled him to sleep his whole life and he misses it!

I’ve got this pile of scraps from cutting the fat eighths into bricks…

hmmm…toss or keep?