head start

remember this?

with february's goal completed early (the scrap basket), moved on to sewing up some foursies from a stash of 2" squares, but for march it'll be this scrappy project....

i need to make 240 of these arc pieces, plus cut 120 melons plus the curved outer pieces for this flimsy.  have made a good start with these and with plenty of scraps, should meet this goal easily.  i have made 2 DWR quilts so far...but i am a scrappy girl at heart and have long admired them from afar.  ***  also in february made a start on this wallhanging....

all the color pieces are ready but more of the backgrounds are still needed before this can get started.  these projects plus quilting on the big quilt and doing an applique block for a guild member have kept my needle flying this month.  but also got a head start on this...

it's a loaf of irish soda bread!  this is my tried-and-true recipe (sans salt) from the boston globe cookbook published eons ago, quick to make and delish to eat.  i could have put the teaspoon of salt in it, of course, as that's my daily ration and spread out over 4-5 days would hardly have been noticed, but it's just something i do regularly and it didn't affect the taste one whit....there is nothing like St. Pat's Day in Boston, and a bit of trivia here, in Boston proper it's a holiday as it's also evacuation day, the day the British left town for good.   *** thankful that i've squeaked thru another month; without my little job the budget is back to serious penny pinching and juggling for the necessities of daily living...now it's time for your own head start!