It's hard to believe that this is how my backyard looked a week ago! We were so lucky to be featured on the national news for getting in the way of one of the big storms....thank you Buffalo for winning! Grand Rapids only received 24+ inches in about 36 hours....but then the rains came and washed it all away!
The dogs were so cooperative the first day of the snow storm, they let me sew and didn't want to go out every five minutes. Consequently, I was able to make the wall hanging, shown below, over the snowy and very cold week. The lion share of cutting and sewing was done on Monday - 6 hours of sewing, stopping only for lunch.
As you can see, it's not quite finished. I'm not a machine quilter, so I must muster courage and a dreary day so the dogs don't make me go up and down the stairs. This pattern is not really designed for scrappy sewing unless you have large scraps. However, every fabric used, including the 3 yards for the back all came from my stash! Yeah! Comparing the pattern package to my work you'll quickly notice I added gray instead of a cream and I used two white on white winter fabrics for the background. The cream suggested didn't inspire me, but I do love the effect of the gray "snowflakes". Also, I HATE doing flying geese. My drawers have several tools and instruction sheets to make beautiful FG! Well, paper piecing the FG's was just too tiring and I was ready to be done with the paper piecing. Why is it that we pay $9 - $15 for these patters and we get weak instructions or chintzy TISSUE paper. Foundation sewing on tissue paper, not unlike the pattern companies use, is tedious. However, the silver lining came because I have surgical quality tweezers that came with a gadget I bought. The gadget is somewhere as I couldn't make it work, but the tweezers picked miniscule pieces of tissue paper out from the seams.
Take care and be safe......
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