Hmm!
One line item on the news brought a chuckle from me. The essence was that with high fuel costs, Americans may need to tighten their belts and think twice before unnecessary social events. Good grief. Covid pretty much took care of ingraining that in our heads.
I may not start every day with high energy. I do sometimes think of curling up in a ball and vegging with the television on. It doesn’t take long and I am digging around to see what needs to be picked up to tidy on the first floor and then migrating to the studio.
I am looking forward to receiving a quilt pattern in the mail from one of the stitchers. I need a fill-in. That being said, I checked out a pattern book that has been open for some time. It remained open as I was determined to finish the min-quilt. Mission completion.
The open book has a pattern that would be perfect to use the cork fabric. I dug out the gun case-looking bag from Amanda at the Bernina shop that has quite a bit of cork fabric in it from her shop. It might be time that I make myself a bag to take with to the stitcher’s luncheon that would be large enough for items to take along to share. I will need to shake out some hardware supplies for handles to be put on the soon to be bag. It is all going to take time before I cut into anything. Measure twice . . . cut once.
The bitter cold winds are from the north and the west porch of our home is feeling it. It would be a lot worse if there were not a huge sprawling evergreen shrub on the northwest corner of our home. After this winter of nonstop bitter cold winds, the plan that we had to trim that shrub once spring was here . . . has been cancelled. I don’t mind it looking a bit shaggy.
Take heart and keep the faith in the warm temps coming this weekend.