Baby it's cold outside

In Northern Virginia they are predicting 12 inches of snow on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!  We have had about 8-10 iches of snow so far.  I am sick of it - my poor sister has to do the back-breaking shoveling.

As for skunks, I guess they're really pretty in pictures taken from a GREAT distance!

Congratulations!!!!!!! It just keeps getting better and better with grandchildren.................... have fun!

pat

We got 7 inches last week and now they're calling for one to two feet. It sure is pretty but I'm a wimp when it comes to driving in the stuff. As long as it doesn't keep me from getting on that plane next week to spend some time with my little Valentine. Nothing will ever be the same now that you are a grandmother, Nancy! This is my grandson, 18 months. He lives in Boston. Way too far away . . .

Thank you all.  If you want to read about the weather forecast for here:  

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1880749 

I love how these wicked snowstorms seem to be skipping us (great white north) Not this year.Oh crap  now probably we will get dumped on in March.

kathleen, Pittsburgh is my home town, born there, moved when I was 10, then back again when I was 17.  I lived in the same house for 36 years, with DH and our only son.  After that many years, many friends had passed, as well as DH,  or went away to other cities, so it was time for me to gather myself up and move closer to our son.   It was a good move and now we welcome baby Olivia, my first grand babe, born yesterday at 4:15 am.   

The late season snows are no fun at all.  How many Easter Sundays were cold, snowy, and no way could one wear that outfit. I will be hunkering down for a day or two as the snow begins later and they say will just keep on and on.   It is very cloudy now and I expect not to see the sun shining in the windows for a while.   Hugs for all, keep warm, Nancy   

I agree, Kathleen, there was quite a party atmosphere at the grocery store last night. I live in Leesburg, and we are saturated with supermarkets, but taking my elderly father grocery shopping yesterday I noticed all the parking lots were full and there were no carts at the Harris Teeter he likes. And this was at 5 p.m. We joked about it and wondered if it could all be a conspiracy; since there are too many stores and none of them are ever full, maybe they got together and bribed the weather forecasters to get us all to come in? Unfortunately, it looks like that's not the case; the snow has already hit southern Virginia and is on its way . . .

I am actually kind of excited. My hubs gave me a new sewing machine and I am planning to play play play for the next few days. I'm a quilter and have two wedding quilts to make for this summer. Let's hope the power stays on. Our little dog is only 8 inches tall. She's starting to get used to doing her business in a little shoveled patch I keep free for her right outside our back door, but she told me it's getting old.

Congratulations, Nancy! What a pretty name! You are so lucky to be close to your son and his family. I sure hope we get the snow out of here by the 13th so I can get on my flight to visit my daughter and her family.

I got up this morning to 3+ inches of snow and since 5:45 the snow has turned to sleet/freezing rain. I did manage to slide into work (1/2 mile drive) but I don't know how long I am going to stay. The weather is not going to get any better as the day goes on according to which weatherman you trust . We are at the bottom edge of the snow that Nancy, Anna, and kathleen are expecting.

Anna, I am jealous about the new machine. I got a new portable 3 yrs ago for Christmas. I am working on a Bible cover for my Father's birthday on the 17th. I made a sample out of upholstery scraps for my Bible to test my pattern and when I showed it at church the woman over the craft bazaar wants me to make some for that project. She even gave me some upholstery scraps in a solid brown brushed twill and a cheetah print (for outside pockets). I think I have enough fabric to make 4 or 5. The main expense will be the zippers.

Sheila

I got a Pfaff Quilters Expression 4.0. I love Pfaffs. My old machine is a Pfaff Tiptronic 6270 that had a short, but they don't make that machine anymore. Boy, did I love that machine. I took it to Wilson's in Hagerstown and they fiddled with it and said that Pfaff no longer made the parts, so it "had no future." I could have traded it in and gotten a little off the new machine, but I decided to keep it. The funny thing is that their fiddling seems to have fixed it, so I now have two machines! One without a future, of course. But still, a member of the family!

Hmmmmm, I wish clothes would just "hang" on me!

Getting back to the weather: my new owner's class on the new Pfaff is next Tuesday. Hagerstown is 50 miles from here. I sure hope I get to go!

Sure would love to see a picture of your bible covers, Sheila.

I have two Singer Featherlights and another old Singer from my mom. I got my daughter hooked on sewing by buying her a Featherlight to put in her bookbindery. She wanted it for show but it turned into a treasured workhorse. 

Isn't playing with fabric awesome?

Well, if you look at the weather I reported this entire week then I can just say ditto!  same ol' same ol' and I'm not complaining as it makes travel so much easier.

I am very envious of the sewing talent on this thread.  I can't even correctly sew a button on anything.  Cooking is not my specialty either, in fact, I think I got a C in home ec when I was in middle school.  Now I must admit I'm a heck of a nurse, a decent wife and a terrific Grandma but that's it for my talent

I knew Featherlight didn't sound right! Featherweight!

My grandmother was a knitter and crocheter; my mother was trained as a milliner and she could sew anything. I went to school in Germany and we had to sew and cook in Home Ec. I hated it and hated anything to do with sewing. Then my daughter came along and I made her some little dresses and liked that. Remember the blizzard of '96? That's when I started quilting. I had just received my first Pfaff and had taken some quilting books out of the library. We lived way out on a dirt road and I was snowed in for a whole week. Still live on a dirt road, but no longer way out. We don't see plows here. My poor hubby rides an ATV with a plow attached and does our long driveway. He does the neighbor's as well. She's alone. One shouldn't have to worry about these things in Virginia. I thought we lived in The South!

Yes I do quilt as well. I usually do wall hangings, not large quilt size quilts. The wall hangings are quicker to do an satisify my need for quick results. Although my local quilt guild did a year long 'mystery' quilt challenge (2008). We were given instructions on fabrics and amounts to gather in chapter one, Chapter 2 started with the cutting instructions for each fabric, chapter 3 started the sewing instructions, and so on and so forth. We didn't know what the final quilt top would look like until we finished it at the end of the year. The top itself was full size but I used stash fabrics (extra amounts than required) and was able to create several borders of various widths to make it large enough to hang over the top of my queen size bed. I usually hand quilt but it took me so long to get it pieced, I want it done quickly and I don't have the space for a quilt frame for something that large, I am allowing a member of the guild to machine quilt it for me, I just haven't gotten it to her yet. I used some colors that I don't normally pick (greens) that went along with my focus fabric (purple and pink paisley with green accent) and it is a very colorful quilt.

Sheila

I do love to quilt but I prefer the hand quilting to the machine quilting for my wall hangings. I have some vintage hankies that belonged to my great-aunt and I am planning on hand appliqueing them into a wall hanging.

If you like crafts check out the crafting is good for the soul thread. there are plenty of great ideas there.

Sheila