Really pushed on getting the bar quilt done AND rummaged around in the stash until I found a couple of things that would work for the backing. Well. I’m not sure anyone will ever be able to sleep under this quilt. Be sure to check out the “ugly” backing. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming — aka – the winter quilt.

Good thing too since we’re having, all together now, the “blizzard of 2001.” What a fizzle so far. All these schools and businesses closed down for a big few inches of snow. we were predicted to get 24 plus inches. It went further north and they got a foot so far. Just avalanched off the roof and sounded like 24 inches though. Guess I’ll be shovelling out my car tomorrow.

I sent out about 6 resumes today.

Wow, time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I have actually been working at various things. Even managed a bit of housework!

I planned out, bought for, made sample for and packaged up a whole lot of “kits” for the 2002 NYQ! raffle quilt. 20 kits for border blocks and 5 kits (needed 6 and made one) blocks for the center. That took several days.

I looked at and poked at and re-pinned a bit the winter quilt which is ready to applique a bit, add the borders and layer for quilting.

I filled out and sent in my quilt registration for the Vermont quilt festival. Didn’t have a plain ol’ photo and sent them a rather nice print out of a digital image (Elegy – one of the mourning quilts finished last year).

this of course got me thinking about the fact that every year I’ve “debuted” a quilt at NYQ! and that I found myself with several quilts done but nothing “new” for this year. Despite the fact that I’d planned to debut a four patch bar quilt. Which sat in pieces on my so-called cutting table. I rearranged the stacks in the sewing room, found the stacks of pieces and whomped them together. Now there are five strips of four patches and 6 strips to go around them, and 2 of each sewn together to start the top. If I can keep on this way, maybe, just maybe i can get this layered on wednesday. A girl can dream, right?

Oh, and I’ve been on a few interviews. One particularly bad one, with an agency – not for a particular job. Very bad. Another one that was rather interesting with some folks that seemed like they’d be fun to work with. More coming next week.

So yes, it’s been a busy sort of week or so. More quilting ahead!

The winter quilt is about ready to start sewing. I’m awaiting big shipments from hancock’s in Paducah and Pine Tree QuiltWorks in Maine, battings/fabric and thread respectively. Both places are pretty speedy so I should be in business soon. I ordered white battings this time because this winter quilt really needs white under all that white snowy background. Normally I use unbleached (or whatever is handy).

Sent out a whole bunch of resumes today and I had emailed a bunch on Sunday, so let the job offers start rolling in any time now…… :-) I’m still pondering the “help needed to exercise icelandic horses” poster I saw up in a local post office. Do horses really need help exercising?

My other big news is that I signed up for the SETI project “Search for ExtraTerrestrial Life” – a research project at Berkeley. Uses the CPU power of 2.5 million home computers (in their spare time) to analyze data from radio telescopes. Took about 16 hours to run the first work unit I received. The second one seems to be going faster. Since it only runs when you’re not doing something with your computer, it doesn’t effect computer speed at all. The combined power of all these personal computers is supposed to be about 15 terraflops.

Added some new photos today for the first winter quilt I also threw in a couple shots of my messy work area. Hey, I’m not proud, things get messy at 2 in the morning when I’m working.

Much of our snow is gone, but I noticed while out and around yesterday that there were “neve” forming — in high altitude, melting and re-freezing snow form these very pointy fields of snow formations called neve penitants. Here you just get this rippled or dimpled effect on the snow, but it’s the same process.

Today is Ron and my fifteenth wedding anniversary.

Busy day today, even though my sleep cycle is a little flurblungent as they say. I went to home depot and got some pink foam insulation board. Comes in a couple thicknesses – I got the 3/4″ one. It’s 2 feet x 8 feet and a guy cut two boards of it in half so I could fit it into my car. A little duct tape and I now have a 4 X 8 foot design board that I can prop up and pin into.

this led to taking apart the little bit I’d done on the new winter quilt and rearranging it on the new design “wall.” Looks surprisingly like what I hoped it would.

Had “red stuff” for dinner, although in the interest of time, I used a jarred sauce. I did provide the sausage, lots of peppers, onions and mushrooms though.