I’ve had something sneaky in the works for the past couple of weeks.
It was all a matter of “Would the dates work out?!”
And yes, since my extended add on trip to Arizona fell through, I WOULD be home!
And then the planning began in earnest.
I’m crashing a retreat! I’m really CRASHING a retreat! Hehehe!
And then snowmageddon 2018 happened and I was snowed into my driveway – could I get out?
I am so grateful to son Jeff who shoveled and shoveled that uphill driveway and got the van to the top by 4pm – I could drop mail at the post office (Since they couldn’t pick up from me, all about the driveway!) and head on over to Kernersville, about an 8 mile drive from the post office. It was slow going – roads in the rural areas are not plowed, and there was packed snow, ice ruts and all.
This morning’s view from the front porch of our little bungalow house in Wallburg.
Oh. My. Word!
I haven’t seen snows like this since we left Idaho, and let me tell you – after 19 years of Southern Living, we don’t even OWN a snow shovel decent enough to get me out of here.
And since we are Southern, we do ONE THING – we sit and wait for a thaw!
And we have some fun as well.
And oh yes, as to “Just how deep IS this snow??”
Check this out:
I awoke this morning to SNOW!
Not big heavy flakes, but fine crystals falling silently.
How long had they been falling? I don’t know! Perhaps it started in the wee small hours of the morning.
The wind didn’t blow, there was nothing at all to let me know that I would open the door this morning to a wonderland of white.
A snow day! A home day! FABULOUS!
And since my Quiltmaker Magazine also arrived yesterday, I thought today would be a good day to celebrate my home day snow day sew day with a Quiltmaker Gift-Away.
Today I’m sharing the UNDERSIDE of the hand quilting progress on Jason’s hexie quilt!
I am loving the texture of the hand quilting on this one. The hexies are small, only 3/4’’ per side so the quilting is fairly dense. And I think the tea dyed color solid was the best choice to show the texture.
I’m not outlining each individual hexagon, but echoing each path, and any center hexie that stands by itself I am quilting with 3 crossing lines in a starburst.
Progress on this monster has been fairly slow, just an hour or so in the evening while I am home, but any progress is PROGRESS.
This quilt has been in progress since 1999 so what is the rush?
Click the photos to view a larger image.
I am loving the silk batting by Hobbs, and have settled in with size 10 betweens by Roxanne for my needle of choice. The 11s were just too short, The 10s bend a bit, but I can load just the right number of stitches on them per hexie side because of the length of the needle.
It pays to experiment!
