It's winter now!

 Fall lasted for about one week and today it has turned to winter.  The high for tomorrow is the upper 20s/low 30s.  As usual, my life is crazy busy.

The cooler weather makes me feel very creative.  The problem I have had for quite some time is the applique quilt.  But pushing through the pain of dealing with that problem has really paid off.  All 80 blocks were finished on Friday.  They were all trimmed on Saturday.  The placement was decided on and the layout was totally changed, including cutting one row and column.  So the extra 18 blocks are going to be made into pillows.  Tomorrow I start on the sewing, into pairs.  I hope to have it all sewn by next weekend.  I'm so excited!

I took a 2-3 hour break on Sunday and made 2 dog coats.  I looked at different free patterns and made my own.  It turned out really cute.   The dogs hate them but they look so cute.  I have only managed to get one picture so far.

 

I took a sweatshirt hoodie and cut it half.  Archer (shown above) got the back side.   He hates the hood and the coat itself.  I put a blanket in as the liner but it made the bottom curl.  Roxie, the dog on the couch got the other half of the sweatshirt .  I made that one double sided.  I hope to get her picture soon.

 

So I did get something done this week.  I'm finally getting something done!