Good morning from Ohio! I’ve been busy doing a bit of baking and while chomping on a “few” cookies, I decided to heed Sandy’s call for help.
Since she needs a “ton” (I can’t even say the number because it boggles my mind) of 1.5 inch red squares, I got busy cutting up some of my red stash. Here’s the pile:
Here’s the pile in a plastic zip lock…almost ready for mailing. Sandy, they should arrive on Monday!
A thought for your day…found in a consignment shop! 
Just a quick update from NY.
I did some math. I hate math. I had some red 1.5″ inch squares. I thought “I can do something with these”. So I planned a queen-sized postage stamp quilt. I quickly sewed through my stash of scrap squares, then I cut a few more squares from random red yardage. I still only had 1 row of the quilt completed. Yikes! I decided to count how many squares I might need. Check my calculations:
Well of course, that meant that I had to sort and count how many squares I already had on hand: about 1250.
I decided to cut all the remaining squares before I sew any more of the quilt. I want to make sure that all the colors and patterns are thoroughly distributed throughout the finished quilt. I’m getting there!
#Iloveabigproject
This working from home thing is ah-mazing when the snow is pouring down and the roads are icy and the temperature is dropping.
Here’s the view from my NY back deck on Monday. La De Dah, I don’t care!
All this white has inspired me to sew in red. It’s a Christmas thing, it’s a valentine’s thing, it’s a fireplace thing — all rolled up into one cozy project. I’m alternately watching old Christmas movies, the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony and Mrs. Maisel in the background while I cut up my little squares and patch them together. Here’s my progress so far.
This will be a queen size postage stamp quilt. I am accepting red scraps if you’d like to play along 🙂
It’s Cindy reporting in after returning from a whirlwind Thanksgiving weekend at the farm.
Yesterday, I started decorating for Christmas and unpacked my Christmas linens. I found these placemats that that Sandy and I designed for a past blog hop.
This FREE pattern goes together quickly…give it a try! You can download the pattern by clicking on this link: Candy Cane 2.0 Placemat 12 03 17
As a bonus, we’ve also shared mom’s Snickerdoodle Recipe…most delicious! Mom made a big batch for our Thanksgiving weekend…YUM…thanks mom!
