Afternoon Walk-about!

Yesterday warmed up to a very balmy 70 degrees here in the Piedmont area of North Carolina.

70 degrees in January?!

I knew it wasn’t going to be long lasting, but I threw myself out the door with my ipod playing in my ears to see what was out and about in my neighborhood.

There are definitely signs of things beginning to emerge from the ground, and trees and bushes getting ready to push forth into Spring, but I hope it is not too early!  There is a storm system coming, and a cold front following that – this ALWAYS happens in Winter here.  The end of January and the month of February can bring ice storms that take down trees and wreak all kinds of havoc.  ((I love the word wreak!  How come I only use it with the word havoc attached?!))

For instance – look at these forsythia about to burst forth:

It was so warm I tossed off my usual over-throw of denim shirt over t-shirt and tied it around my waist as I went up one hill and down another.

I was sweaty when I returned home!  It’s rare days like this when I would rather be outside up above than inside down below in the basement.

Quilt Cam was fun last night!  My Eatonia chugged right along ---poor thing.  We decided she sounds either like a motor boat, or a lawn mower ----and then the thought came that I should name her SHERMAN, as in TANK!  I sewed until her long bobbin ran out and we got to demo how to wind a long bobbin live on cam.  A bit scary for me as I hadn’t wound one on this machine before, but we did it!

Pile-o-strip-sets!

My goal today is to get these pressed and subcut – I’m just making 4 patches.  My plan was to use them in a border and I hope they give the look I want.  If not, I’ve got Quilt Seeds for another project!  Sewing strip sets was just an easy task to try out this new machine find.

One thing I'd like to mention about Quilt-Cam.  I'm getting emails from people asking if they could be personally notified of when Quilt-Cam is going to be.

If you have signed up for my email updates in the right side bar of the blog, what you are getting is a digest of posts that comes at the end of the day.  I can only choose one time of day for the posts to be sent.  I choose end of day because I write several times a day.  There is no option for notifications to be sent with each and every post individually on feed burner that I have found.  And do you really want THAT MANY notifications from me in your inbox? :c)

If you want to know WHEN Quilt-Cam is so you don't miss it -- you need to come to the BLOG itself.  Not wait for the digest to come.  I mentioned twice yesterday, once in the morning and once in the afternoon that Quilt-Cam would be at 9pm last evening.  If you rely on the email notices you are going to miss reading the information.

Other places that you can get posts closer to real time is to add me to one of your circles in Google Plus. I share my posts when I write them with Google Plus.  You need a gmail address for google plus, but if you have a blogger id, you've already got that.

If you are on Facebook, my blog feed is pulled directly into our Quiltville Friends list and will appear in your news feed so you can stay up to date with my posts that way.

I hope these options help you.  But seriously ----check out the blog in the mornings.  That should help you plan accordingly.

BTW -- our next Quilt-Cam is planned for Thursday evening ((tomorrow)) Jan 31st at 9pm Eastern.

I hit the road on Friday!  My time home is almost over again ---this time I’m headed for the first of 2 trips to Georgia within the month of February.  It’s going to be a lot of fun --- and it’s a driving trip, which means ----ADVENTURES!!  Can’t wait to see what kind of trouble I find myself in, there are lots of thrift shops and antique malls in Georgia!

Not to mention my route takes me right past Mary Jo’s in Gastonia NC heading down I-85!