Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all. Hope its prosperous and that everyone stays healthy. We are not going out tonight to celebrate as we have had a week of Christmas celebrating. We belong to a card club and our card party is Friday night at out house. Also on Saturday our quilt Guild has their 1st. meeting for the new year. It is a work session so we are there all day.
Finally got all the snow moved that needed to be. 20 inches is al ot of snow- even in South Dakota. Am anxiuos to get back to sewing but may be another week. My DIL and grandson offered to do some painting for me so can't turn that down ; ) Be Happy!!

Our snow

I won- I won

Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and that Santa brought you all you wished for. We were snowed in but our son and grandson managed to get here. Also our SIL and BIL. They had 4 wheel drives but very few people were traveling. We have had 16.5 inches of snow and expecting a couple more inches today plus strong winds so as soon as it quits we will have to clean it out.

I had a nice Christmas surprise as I won a gift of thread on sewcalgal's virtual Christmas show giveaway. Hope you had time to visit her show. I picked up some ideas from all the Christmas quilts and wall- hangings

Charming Chatter giveaway

Did you see Kelly at Charming Chatter is having a Christmas Memories Giveaway? She invites us to visit her store where there are lots of pretties. I love this FQ bundle~ Hushabye by Tula Pink. Although we have a few nice shops to find fabric~ no one carries anything like this!

My favorite memory is when our DD was bringing her friend home to meet us during the holidays. Before they got to our farm, a blizzard started and we were worrying about them (no cell phones then). She had told him to turn off a mile too soon and he told her they had just crossed the bridge and how far was it. She panicked~'bridge!! there's no bridge on our road!!' :-o There wasn't a bridge on our road and they were stuck. Luckily someone came along and helped them and they finally made it but were stuck in our drive where the car sat for 3 days. He got to know us really well and they did get married so it ended happily.

Gifts from Santa

Is everyone ready for Christmas? What did you hint for? I didn't ask for anything and we are cutting down on giving this year but if an angel came and quilted my finished tops I would'nt object. ; ) There are so many needy charities and we are helping when we can. I am almost ready for the holiday but they are predicting a snow storm to start on Wed. and last through Christmas Day.What a bummer. I have a ham and a turkey to cook so am hoping they are wrong. I hope you all have a happy Christmas and a healthy New Year.

A Christmas Wallhanging

I would like to enter this quilt in the virtual quilt show that sewcalgal is having. I made it for a challenge in my guild. The challenge fabric is used in the tree. The pattern came from a Leisure Arts booklet.

Thanks NeedledMom for the little push to get this done! :-) Good luck to all of us!

Signature quilt

This is a signature quilt that I exchanged blocks on a message board and also in my own guild. It is really a nice remembrance since several of the quilters in my guild have passed away.

Very cold in SD this week and I am writing Christmas letters. Keep warm! :-)

Another Wall Hanging

Good morning, Will soon have my home decorated for Christmas. Love doing it but don't like taking it all down. We had our guild Christmas party yesterday and had a fun time. lots of show and tell. They gave away nice big prizes like a Jim Shore Santa figurine and a couple Debbie Mumm cases and more. I won a rotary cutting blade. The committee did a great job planning.

I am working on some Gingerbread men this morning. Have a good day.

Cold morning

Only 7 degrees here this morning. Guess winter has found us. Wish you could drop in for a warm cinnamon roll. I just took some out of the oven and they smell yummy. The caramel recipe I have stays soft. I will share it. It is 1 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter and 1/4 cup milk. Bring to a boil- cool and put in a 9X13 pan. Put rolls on top and bake.
No sewing here today but will have something to show tomorrow. I am getting ready for our Guild Christmas party tomorrow. Am taking some fudge. Have a happy day.

Friends & Flakes

We had a few flakes today with wind and much colder. When it gets cold I like to stay in and sew or quilt. Have been sewing on my Jewel Box and marking my teal and brown quilt. Also trying to get some Christmas things out. This is a small door hanging I made just for fun.

Finished Quilt

Have this quilt finished and ready for the next grandchilds wedding. It was quilted by CBQ and I made it through the local quilt shop. It is a BOM sampler that I started in 2003- not very speedy on this one ; 0.