Ready or not!

a few surprises this week....a gift of fresh balsam from maine; battery candle ok for the apartment....love it!

the use-it-up project is coming along....i did have a few strips of the cheddar left, not enough for binding i'm afraid.  the sashing is another scrap and fingers crossed i've enough for all.  if not, pretty sure i've something that'll work.  that's the downside of working with scraps, often hard to calculate if there's enough, for me anyway.  

a neighbor gifted me this stack of old quilt magazines....pure gold!  thumbed through a few and found more project ideas....like who wouldn't?  a dangerous, delightful gift!

a couple of recent flingee boxes of fabric came my way.....always fun to play with somebody else's fabric!  

perked up my days several notches i can tell you.  sending huge thanks to these very generous quilters for blessing me so generously.  my budget has no room for fabric but no need with fabric angels like these.  no doubt what i'll be doing over the holidays!

few holiday happenings here at the complex that allow for cheerful gatherings with other residents, new and old.  i did meet another quilter who moved in recently.  

another round of PT on the calendar that'll keep me busy thru january--when i'm not sewing that is! 

as you can see, blogger being obstinate again despite my repeated attempts to align the text to the left.  i don't know how to reveal formatting codes so just have to go with it.  

Holiday stuff

i'm supposed to be at a church concert tonite but the weather is totally miserable--heavy rain and wind--plus it's dark so opted to remain at home and enjoy online concerts--there are plenty!  i did manage to clip some of this before rain arrived....

it's bye bye bittersweet and hello holly!  it grows like wildfire here; i've seen tall trees of the stuff....not in new england tho, so i had to have a bit to gussy up the kitchen...all my holiday hanging stuff is up and out came ornies and tree....

more ornaments to place in the back but already it's quite full...and hey, do you have a CVS santa ornament?  CVS gave out yearly ornaments for a few years back in the 1980s or 1990s..have a few others....such warm memories of people and places resurrected for a bit.  

doing some secret sewing that has to remain under wraps for now, but also working on the blue/cheddar blocks in between holiday stuff and usual must dos....

you can just see the edge of the red/green trip around the world finished this year...

here's another lovely cross stitch card received while i lived in frederick from a fellow quilter....she does such beautiful work!

a local church came to our complex today with lunch, music, advent encouragement and a lovely gift.  totally blessed by their generosity.  and as if they knew, some of the food had NO SALT....a divine gift for sure!