Ironically, we are so far north that many of these nor’easters pass south of us– not a flake fell from storm Hernando. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for our son and family who live in Plymouth! He plows for one of the towns and I’m sure he’ll be out there for days. This is a picture, one of a few he sends me from time to time to let me know he’s still alive, but it’s hard to even interpret how much snow this is!

Here’s a weather lady getting it totally wrong– some Massachusetts towns reported 40″. Fortunately, his family is all set up with a generator, but my heart is with anyone out there who is not– it could be days before power is restored.

Up here on Sugar Meadow, I pretty much touched “all the things” this week, which makes me perilously close to “doing nothing on everything”– you know, a little progress on many things. At some point, I’ll swing back to doing “everything on nothing”– my humorous way of saying, work just on ONE thing. I got deadlines this year– babies and weddings abound.

Just by working an hour or so here and there all week, I pretty much rulered most of this baby quilt. All that’s left is a little free motion flower on the peach diamonds. I am so pleased with myself I am getting this done so quickly as I have a STACK of projects ready behind it. I’m hoping this will be my biggest longarm year yet.

Posh comes along. This week, I cut all the fabric for the corner squares and now that they are ready, the next phase of these fourteen blocks should be a breeze. I’m hoping I can complete these in the next week. It’s so fun to slap together the colors for each block and I can’t wait to see all 28 of them laid out. I know this looks like a disaster, but me and my paper plates got this!

I was waiting for some extra fabric for Harlow’s first birthday quilt– a border and a background print. I ordered more of that red eyelet basic from Fig Tree, which is totally the wrong red. I can’t exactly remember what I bought it for–😂– maybe the binding, so I’m going to see if I have something else. I’m trying to commit to get that cake on the cake stand by the end of the week.

Last week, the DD had a doctor’s appointment that was a bit of a drive. She looked up a sewing store nearby so I would accompany her! What did I do to deserve such a wise daughter? I didn’t say I’d already been to that one– it’s in Belfast, and it’s my current favorite!

I am of the opinion if you go into a small, privately owned shop, you must buy something. I’ve had my eye on this pattern for a long time– lightning bugs are extremely nostalgic to me. You can’t buy the fabric for this online– you really need to see the colors, and they had three or four shelves of solids to choose from. I just had them kit it up for me.

That’s FOUR new and large quilts I’ve acquired this year– the alarm bells are all going off!

Then, I’ve been watching all the new Nashville Market cross stitch releases on Lindy Stitches YouTube channel while I was longarming– I’m not super interested in buying all the newest cross stitch stuff, but she is really funny to watch. Of course, this happened to pop up:

I have now pre-ordered that with all of the special Weeks Dye Works floss and specialty fabric. Because every quilt now needs a cross-stitch pillow, right? Isn’t it just perfect though– and it’s not too big.

I got a cute Irish Village out for March. Sales are lagging on this series– are we over machine embroidery cross stitch? But I’m still making the commitment for the series of 12 and we’ll just beat it to death, because I happen to love them!

There’s a lot of interest in Patriotic themes lately, so I may change gears to that for a bit. The Nashville releases were full of red, white, and blue!

At this point in the week, I succumbed to a nasty cold! Doing too much, no doubt. I had to spend a couple of days in bed. I’m now on the mend. I did manage to spend a little extra time doing my cross stitch when I got tired of bed. That sewing store had floss, so I was able to pick up some more needed colors.

I told you there were fifty colors in this piece, and forty of them are in those little cardinals I started in the upper right. It was– open up a new color– do ten stitches– put it away– over and over again. That got old pretty fast, so I have retreated to do more trees– the birch on the left. The stocking is really starting to take shape!

And finally– because I’m way ahead of schedule on this stocking and I’m allowing myself another hand project– this lovely got prepped for hand sewing!

It’s a big 16″ block and I need four of them in different color ways. Why is it always so much fun to start a new thing? I wrote in my planner book at the end of August– “Where am I on Sweet Land?” and then I’ll decide if I’m making the big quilt, a smaller quilt, or just a pillow. That way this won’t drag on forever. It just might be the first time I have ever simplified a thing.

I’m hoping to paint a couple of rooms when it warms up– my family laughed so hard when I laid out my color chips–it took me a while to understand the joke.

So that’s the week on Sugar Meadow, where we are very impatiently waiting for Spring.

xox
Carol