Our First Big Storm:

The U.S. is experiencing all the joys of winter early this year.  The northeast is seeing massive snow storms and my favorite of all, "ice storms", which we experienced both in New York and Texas.  Airports have seen delays or closures and there is more to come.  Often what starts here in the west sweeps across the central states and causes major problems in the highly populated areas back east. 

I think I am just repeating the same photos I posted last year at this time, but it is Winter once again - coming all too soon for my liking.  While Roger shovels the 13" plus off our driveway, I stay inside finishing up my quilt projects.  I don't think Roger considers that quite a fair exchange, but....

I have been having fun getting more and more practice with my free motion quilting on my domestic Bernina.  No long arm in my future and I'm quite content with that. 

Below is a Martha Washington block quilt I made for the start of my tenure as president of my local quilt guild.  Another lady is in charge of a block of the month and the first one is a Martha Washington block.  I bought the fabric earlier, just because, (too many of those kind of purchases, I'm afraid)  and decided this block and quilt would work well with the fabric.







 We have also been invited to teach a first grade class of six and seven year olds about Christmas in Thailand next week.  After we told the teacher that in a Buddhist country there really aren't Christian traditions to talk about,  she Ok'd a few other holidays and Roger and I got busy diving back into our stash of photos.  Here is a photo from a favorite holiday and trip I took upcountry to celebrate the Phi Ta Kon festival with the AWC.  Such fun! And it was WARM.  Looking forward to getting back to Bangkok in January.