White Christmas

It is snowing today in Maine, with a prediction of 8 - 12" of snow. It is the first White Christmas we've had in 15 years. Son #2 came down Saturday morning before the worst of the ice storm; Son #1 and family will try to get up here today, hopefully by noon.

In the meantime, we will have fried dough for Christmas breakfast. My parents were from Maine, and we had fried dough every year on Christmas morning. Never heard of it anywhere else 'til we moved to Maine, so it must be a Maine thing. After I was married, hubby carried on the tradition; and now my kids look forward to it every Christmas.

No time to do Bonnie Hunter's annual Thanksgiving mystery this year; but I've collected all the parts and look forward to making it at some point, and I'm anxious to see the reveal.

In fact, not much time for quilting the latter half of this year; but come New Year's, I intend to really put the pedal to the metal. I have a long list of UFOs and quilts for the family I want to finish this year. Not getting any younger!

I wish all of you the most splendid Christmas with your families and friends. Merry Christmas and enjoy the holidays!

Busy Week

Hope everyone had a dandy Thanksgiving. We spent a few days at Son #1's home and had a fine Thanksgiving. Only down side? No leftovers! So we made ourselves a roast turkey with stuffing and gravy for Sunday dinner, and I finished the leftovers for lunch today. Good stuff.

Had too many things to do on Monday so I missed Embroidery Group. I did however, spend some time at home continuing work on the Halloween quilt. I stitched out one pumpkin block and cut out the appliques for all the rest of the candy corn, so that's ready to go for this coming Monday.

I would really like to get the top section of the quilt together this coming week. Still have 3 candy blocks and one short pumpkin to stitch out in order to do that. Baby Girl will be here in less than an hour, and we'll have her over the weekend. Best I can hope for over the next couple days is just to get the pieces cut out for those four blocks.

I worked on some more dishcloths too, finished the fourth one this morning. One more and I'll be done with those for Christmas. Next up is a Scrubby Yarn dishcloth!