A few snow geese..

We were coming home and passing the strip pits when I noticed a few snow geese and white fronted geese...we drove down the road to get close.  I wish I could do better at holding steady, but still you get the idea.  It is not near as many as early 2017, but still fun to see.

Afternoon's sewing...

I made this this afternoon...been meaning to make one for a long time now, and TeaQuilts did a video on it so I thought I might as well try it while I had a the time.  It really is easy to make...I forgot to put in a little loop to hold on to while unzipping it.  However, the fusible I used is so still that one doesn't really need  the loop.  But I won't be using that fusible for this again!   The minute I fused it, I knew I had made a bad choice.  But I pressed on and made it work.

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I just have to share a Jeanne Robertson video...it was hard to know which one to choose.  I hope you enjoy it half as much as I did.

Another day done...

I have a gift for Lorelei and I don't have a box that it fits in, so I decided to make a Christmas pillowcase.  So after Hardee's this morn, headed to the quilt shop and chose these fabrics.  I have made a few over the years.  Even though I have a serger, I had rather do French seams to have finished seams.  There is one tip in the following video that is a small thing, but when doing a bunch of them, would save a lot of time.



It is the part where Tea sews the first line of the French seam across the bottom end and takes it off and irons it.   Then goes back and sews the side seam.  If you don't know what a French seam is watch the video.  It would really add up to time saved when doing several pillowcases at once.

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I did address a few Christmas cards today, and took them to the post office after dark and dropped them in the drop box.    I don't remember ever being this late mailing cards.  And it is definitely the fewest I have ever mailed.   And normally I have all the cards we get hanging up and this year I have not done that. 

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We always watch for hawks and eagles when going to the Paris, Illinois.  No eagles today and no photos of hawks, but I bet we seen at least 10 different hawks.  One of which was a Northern Harrier...the rest I am not sure about.  But was so fun seeing them.