I am have a time with uploading my pictures...I have tried numerous times in the last few minutes and I keep getting the message to try again in 30 seconds!

As I was sitting here waiting for the pictures to upload, I was looking at the small calender that I have by the computer. It has the initials N.M., F.Q., F.M. and L. Q.--as any sane person probably knows they stand for New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon and Last Quarter. Since I am a quilter and we have our own language, I seen the F.Q. and immediately thought Fat Quarter. Which is a different way of buying a quarter yard of fabric. Instead of a 9 inch cut across the width of the fabric, the fabric is first cut 18 inches which is half a yard. That is cut down the middle length ways giving you a piece of fabric 18 inches long by 22 inches wide.

Of course instead of thinking full moon for FQ, my first thoughts were free motion quilting. The feeddogs on the machine is dropped, a special hopping foot is put on and at least on my Juki, but not on my Pfaff, I take all the pressure off the pressure foot. So I can guide the material through and go any direction I want...the feed dogs do not pull it through. Which also means I am in control of stitch length, too, another story in itself.

The LQ need to be LQS--but still the LQ made me immediately think of Local Quilt Store. I had the opportunity to go to mine yesterday but I didn't need anything and didn't need to spend the money so thought it best if I avoided the place. She has the most beautiful selection of fabric anywhere and I can never enter and leave the place without buying at least a half yard of fabric and lucky if that is all.

Still no luck uploading the pictures. I will try again later tonight...not that they are anything great. Just wanted to share something with you.

Just a few more scenes from the snow...these were taken Wednesday. So far no more snow for us, though I think it is hitting south of us. I am not complaining! Although it is very tempting to head south for a drive.

When I was a kid, and we got some of the deeper snows, one of my favorite things to do was to take bites of snow off everything. Be it a fence post, or the branch of an evergreen tree. When the snow was heavy laden on the branches, it was too much to resist. It would make me so thirsty--more so than working in the hot sun most days.

Or joy of joys, if we were allowed to make snow cream. We would get a mixing bowl or pan of snow, add evaporated milk, sugar, and vanilla flavoring, then mix well with a spoon....and emmm-mmm good! In our mind, it was the next best thing to ice cream.

More of the white fluff is supposed to be headed our way, but according to the meteorologist, we aren't supposed to get very much in our neck of the woods. The worst of it is supposed to hit to the south of us. I was outside to feed Mama Squirrel and the wind definitely has the feel of snow to it and nothing would surprise me.
This is three views of one barn, taken back in December. I wanted to post something. at least. I got busy yesterday and finished machine quilting the baby quilt and got the binding folded in half and pressed. The binding is approximately 300 inches long by 2 3/8 inches wide...it has to be folded in half to make it 1 3/16 inches wide. If I sit and finger press it first while I watch tv or something, it then does not take long at all to press with the iron. I am sort of waiting on a friend to call, but while I am waiting I will go down and sew the binding on the first time by machine.