Barbara Burnham took my Button Box class last month when I visited the Faithful Circle Quilters in Columbia, Maryland. I love seeing finished class quilts!
I love Barbara’s fabric choices. Way to go Barbara, and thank you for sharing!
FYI: The Button Box quilt is in our book, Piecing the Piece O’ Cake Way, 2nd ed. You can find the book here, and the digital ebook here.
Steve and I went with Jeff and Celia to watch the Macy’s parade. It was 18 degrees! I don’t know how the folks in the parade managed to keep the smiles on their faces, but they did. I was especially impressed with the bands. Their fingers must have been so cold!
The crowds were light so we got pretty close. Even so, I saw a lot of heads…
But luckily the balloons fly above the crowd!
We gave up and went back to the warm apartment and watched the rest of the parade on TV with a glass of bubbly.
Jeff is getting ready to cook the turkey. We are thankful for it all :-).
Happy thanksgiving to you and yours :-).
I have mood swings… the socks that is :-). And maybe Pamela, this week’s winner, does too! If you are not Pamela and would love some fun socks, you can find them at pieceocake.com, at least for a while.
My phone just notified me that my screen time last week was down 28%. I only looked at my phone for an average of 1 hour and 3 minutes a day. That makes my head hurt! What exactly was I looking at?! Even weather kitty is not worthy of that much time.
Today’s Doonesbury hit home for me. It’s a reminder that taking the color out of your phone screen makes it much less attractive/addictive. I’ve done it before and I’m doing it again.
On an iPhone with a home button, click it quickly 3 times and the color goes away. On an iPhone X, click the side button 3 times quickly. Repeat to go back to a color screen. (If you have a different kind of phone, do a quick google search to find how to make it be gray.)
Even if the screen is gray, the photos and screenshots you take will be in color.
Thanksgiving is upon us and I plan to be present in the world, looking up at real people, rather than down into my phone. The boring gray screen will be a visual reminder to do just that.
That said, I will post color photos this week. When you do look at your screens, I hope you enjoy them!
Diane is the winner of this week’s giveaway, a set of Meadowland Bowl Covers, because… leftovers! (Bowls not included—this is just the washable bowl covers.)
Congrats to Diane! Be sure to find me at pieceocake.com and come back here next week for another giveaway.
Guess what?! Welcome to the North Pole has been re-printed, again! What that means is that this book is going to stay in print for the foreseeable future.
The random number generator chose Teri, who will win this copy of the book. If you are not Teri and you want to make this cute quilt, click here to shop for it.
Leave a comment/reply on this blog post to enter the drawing. A winner will be chosen by the random number generator tomorrow.
Brenda Godin sent me a photo of her Aunt Millie’s Garden—isn’t it lovely! I really like the way she handled the sashing, which is different from the pattern. Those little squares are perfectly colored and spaced, and they set off the blocks so well! Here’s what Brenda said in her email:
My passion is applique. I have made your Aunt Millie’s Garden. I did it with the red background and it hangs in my livingroom. It was accepted to the CQA show in 2014- that it the big show for us Canadians! You can see I love working with batiks!
Way to go, Brenda! Thank you for sharing your quilt!
