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What do you do at the start of a blizzard?



Quilt, of course!


Last night was the beginning with just a bit of snow, and then sleet. Now, we're in the calm before the real storm, I guess. We're supposed to get up to a foot of snow starting this afternoon and continuing into tomorrow.

I quilted these two little quilts last night, the first one is one of my UFO's. It is Christmas Tree Lotto Blocks that I won from Patches Quilt Works here.
I added a border a while back and it's been hanging since then. Quilting the Winter Pines last week motivated me to do this one also.



Then I loaded and quilted the baby squares quilt.



At least I'll have some bindings to do while the snow falls.

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Stashbusting Report #35-36

Aug. 24-September 6, 2009

Fabric Added This Week - 10 yards
Fabric Added Year to Date - 131.75 yards

Fabric Used This Week - 3 yards
Fabric Used Year to Date - 181.375 yards

YEAR TO DATE STASH USED: 49.625 yards

Last weekend I bought 6 yards of backing fabric at Alco to have on hand.
Janet and I shared 20 FQs at Rossville Quilts on Saturday to make these really cute giraffe baby quilts. Rossville Quilts has a special on Saturdays if you bring in food for the food pantry, you get 5 free FQs when you buy 5. It's a great deal, don't you think?

Christmas Tree Lotto Blocks
Then I bought yet another yard for borders for the Christmas Tree Lotto Blocks and this one I like. My original idea was to use a TOT green, and I bought fabric not once, but twice, without the quilt center and the greens just didn't go well. So, I chose a Christmas tree print at Joann's and it finally has borders.

I Won the Block Lotto!

I am so happy to report that I won the Christmas Tree Block Lotto at Christina's blog: Patches Quiltworks. I have known for a while now, but wanted to wait till I received the blocks from her to show you.



Here they are, along with a suprise gift of some cute angel fabric. I saved 6 of my own blocks to add to the winning blocks and I let Christina keep my duplicate 5 blocks for her effort. This will make a cute project and we'll just have to wait and see if I get something put together this year.

Thanks so much Christina for hosting this block lotto.

Christmas Tree Block Lotto

In between quilting the 4PSP, I made some of these blocks to send to Christina for her Christmas tree Block Lotto. I made a total of 11 of them and sent 5 for the lotto. Just in case I don't win a set of 25 blocks, I can still make a little something with my six blocks.