Quiet week

Well, other than a lot of snow falling not much has been happening this week.  We have been taking the opportunity to walk around the village, especially as we invested in some snow spikes for our shoes.  The spikes are great, they fix onto the bottom of your boots or shoes and make walking so much safer, they make a bit of a noise when walking around the shops and I certainly would not want them worn around the house, but to use them for what they were designed for is great.

So fresh and clean

The Church is much more impressive than it looks here.

I have been sewing a challenge given by my quilting group, but I can't show you that until they have all been unveiled in March, but I can show you this..

So darn cute

 I fell in love with this design the first time I saw it, and was given the pattern to play with.  It is paper pieced, and as the pieces are so small I can't imagine making it any other way.  I needed to add borders, but what colour would look best...

The blue is actually lilac, but bad photography 

or this 

think this is the way to go

Yes, I decided a bit more brightness would not go amiss.

Got to think now how to quilt it.

 For Christmas I received this beautiful Amaryllis as a bulb, and have had pleasure watching it grow, but my holiday is looming and I am thinking I will miss the full flowering, so I have cut the flower stem and hoping to persuade it to blossom before I leave.  If it performs I will take a photo of the flower heads.

We will be visiting grandchildren while on holiday, so writing this blog may not be at the top of my priorities, but if I do manage to do anything exciting I will get some photos and show you when I can, so until next time.... take care.