Miss Addy

Yeah, it's a dogs' life...  I keep hearing that pop song "I'm too sexy for my shirt..." go through my head when I look at this picture.

Addy spent a lot of time outside during the day this weekend, since it was so much warmer than normal.  She loved being out in the yard.  It got quite muddy, though, and she did drag a lot of that mud into the house.  Oh well, that's what they invented mops for.

And she has no shame...  haha.

Work It

That's what I told myself - work it!  haha.  I am about halfway done with the quilting on the tee shirt quilt for my nephew.  It's been a project, but not horrible.  The worse part is the thread on top kept breaking when I put in a new bobbin, so after fiddling with it a bit, I just put in a different bobbin.  I did have to make some tension adjustments, but not too bad.

I talked to my sister in law to be, and she is coming over this week to write on a label for the back.  Will be glad to get it done and delivered.  I do enjoy looking at the tee shirts as I'm working on it.  One of my favorites is right there in the bottom row middle.  It has a mini Darth Vadar saying "Come to the dark side...we have cookies"!  I think that's so cute.  Don't know where he got that shirt, but I did recognize several others.  One was from the zip lining adventure we all did together.  That was pretty cool.  Still can't believe I zip lined...  :)

Fry Bread

Years ago we lived for a short period of time next door to a gal who was Native American.  She introduced us to fry bread.  I have her recipe for homemade fry bread and can make it, but it makes a huge batch and, frankly, it's a lot of work.  While perusing the internet I found a method of making fry bread using the frozen Rhodes Rolls.  Thought I might give it a try and was pleasantly surprised!  They don't look like much here, but they sure did taste good.

We put traditional taco toppings on them for the meal.  We then butter and drizzle with honey for a dessert later on.

This was dinner Saturday night!  Yum!

February Weather

Would you believe my husband got out his motorcycle yesterday and took a ride?  In February!  Our temps were close to 60 degrees, which is pretty warm for this time of year.  I'm so glad he got to take the bike out because he has a long dry spell between Fall and Spring when he can start riding again.

Loud Print

This is one of the fabrics going into a 16 patch block:

Pretty loud, huh?  I wasn't sure if I should pair it with a red, yellow, green, white, or purple!  In the end, purple won.  I'm having fun matching some interesting fabrics in these blocks.

This swap is actually a little easier than last years swap.  I think that's because we are only doing one kind of block - 16 patches, and that they are going to finish at 12".

See What I Can Do

See what I can do in 17 minutes:

I can take this stack of strips for three pair of 16 patch blocks...

And sew two of the three stacks into strip sets!

That's what I did this morning before work.  Last night I finished two more pair of blocks and cut the strips for three more pair.  When these are all sewn into blocks, I will have 12 pair of 16 patch blocks completed for my swap with Mary in Paducah.

2-4-6-8

When I woke up in the middle of the night, I checked my phone and the temperature was 2 degrees.  Brrr!  When I got to work it was 4 and it has made it all the way to 8.  Whee!  haha.

Tomorrow it's supposed to warm up, but I'm not holding my breath.  We had ice and snow last night, but not much in the way of accumulation.

I didn't sew last night.  Couldn't let Addy outside for very long because of the weather and she was in a rowdy mood.  I love that pup, but I will be glad when she settles down a bit.  May take a while...

Trying to get a small retreat organized for a few of my quilty friends.  Thinking of doing it in June or July, just over a weekend.  I've never been to a retreat and it really sounds like fun.  Especially the part where someone else does the cooking!  haha.

A.M. Sewing

Before work this morning the sewing room called...  I was able to get a few strip sets sewn together before I had to leave.  Hoping to get back to them tonight, but no promises.  So far I have 7 pairs of blocks completed for the Paducah swap.  We were shooting for 15 pair, but if we keep going at this rate, we may shoot for 30, who knows?  :)

Cold Start

Had a cold start to the week this morning.  I went out to warm up my car and all four of my doors were iced shut.  I could not get in my car!  We had freezing rain off and on all day Sunday then overnight we had freezing rain and high winds, so the temp was pretty cold.

I thought, oh well I will just take Ev's truck to work and guess what?  His doors were froze shut too!  Luckily the passenger door on the truck wasn't too bad and I was able to get into it.  He's coming up to my office to swap vehicles before he goes to work.

Now, I would have liked to have gotten this:

Mom said they had 15" of snow in the northern part of the state!  Love it!

Superbowl Monday

...and I'm dragging!  All that not-so-good-for-me food that I ate yesterday during the game has me a bit sluggish this morning.  But it was soooo good!  haha.  We had a bit of a spread:

Italian Beef with fresh rolls
Meatballs in chili/jelly sauce
Buffalo Chicken Wings
Mini Tacos - had to go to 4 stores to find those little buggers and then got the second to last box!
Egg Rolls
Jalapeno Poppers
Fresh Veggies and dip
Chips
Brownies
Sticky Buns
Rice Krispie Treats

There's a story behind those rice krispie treats.  I have had a box of the cereal sitting on the counter for a couple weeks.  I had bought it for a recipe around Christmas and then we never used up the rest of the cereal.  So it just seemed like a good idea to make the rice krispie treat bars.  Saturday evening Ev and I went to the little store in town and got a bag of marshmallows because that was the only ingredient not on hand.  When the ingredients were in the bowl in the microwave, there was a loud POP and when I looked in the bowl had cracked all the way around!  Now this was an older bowl, but one that had been in the microwave many times before.  So, of course the marshmallows that were in the bowl were not usable.  Never know if there are tiny bits of glass in there or not when something like that happens.

I just had it in my head that I needed to make those bars, so about 8pm we get in the car and drive to Wal Mart in the next town over, because by now I am thinking I need to make the sticky buns too and the Dollar General in our town didn't have the right ingredients for them.  We got what was needed and yesterday morning the rice krispie bars were done and ready to eat, as well as sticky buns.

And eat them they did!  Between Ev and Delbert I think they ate over half the pan!  So, the effort wasn't wasted, at least!