Too Cold for TOGA

This is the second virtual Too Cold for TOGA that TreadleOn has hosted. It was a two day event with only one class on Friday evening for machine maintenance.  That was taught by our brave leader Mea Clift.  

There were two classes on Saturday January 29. I taught the color class and Helen Howes of Helen Howes Textiles taught an amazing class on quilted postcards.  She taught this class using her darling pattern called Counter-Change Cats.  It is available as an e-pattern from her at helen@helenhowestextiles.co.uk

Here are my cats.  One quilted and one waiting to be quilted. Then I trim them to size, back them and put the postcard info on the back.  I loved the class.  Of course I love cats so it was a given.  

My color class was fun too.  I had the devil of a time deciding how to teach it until Dawn Beckwell herded me into deciding that the best would be actually working through how I choose colors for a quilt. We used a picture of a monarch butterfly on Zinnias that I had taken in my garden as the inspiration. 

I had a huge pile of fabrics that were possibilities and as a group we worked through them and came up with a lovely set of fabric.  I am tempted to actually use the fabrics to make something.  

Don't you think we did a great job?

Hugs,

Nancy

Where do we put the snow?

My sister-in-law lives in a high rise in Chicago a block off of Lake Michigan. We were Zooming the other night and I was talking about the snow blower I had bought my husband. I told her it was supposed to be able to blow the snow 40 feet.

This blew her city mind. "Where" she wanted to know "do you put all that snow?"

I tried to explain to her about the space on a farm in North Dakota. She didn't seem to be able to comprehend the fact that we didn't have a house 15 feet from either side of our farmhouse. 

So these pictures are for Deb. I walked around the house and took pictures through the windows.

Looking out the second floor window to the south.

                          The neighbor who rents the bins plowed that "road" in our 

                                        grass so he could get into the bins.

                   You can see where he piled up the snow on the left side of the picture.

Looking out of the front porch to the southwest.  

Looking out the upstairs spare bedroom window to the east.

                      That bump in the center of the far tree line is a mile away.

                                        That is Clifford's sky line!  

Looking out our North window from the second floor. 
The fenced in garden is 40' X 40' and the woods is 70 feet away.

Looking out the kitchen window to the South East.

Looking out the front porch door to the South West.

Looking out the second floor window to the south.  The pillow is for the cats.  They like to snooze in the sun, when there is sun.