Bernadette and Cookie

 Hi all -

Wow! Winter sure has set in! I hope everyone is keeping warm! We're in the middle of a cold snap, but we're doing fine. We've had a couple of moose visiting the yard the last couple of days, which I just love! We had two this morning that hung around for a while eating from the pine trees, then they lay down and just hung out for a couple of hours before eating some more. It's so fun watching them! Here's the one I saw first:

Moose in the Yard

He was huge! His friend was a lot smaller. But both were fun to watch!

I was able to start working on my Dog Park quilt (designed by Elizabeth Hartman) this week. I got the first two dogs made:

Dog Park - Bernadette Block

Dog Park - Cookie Block

I'm pretty pleased with these blocks! I used the same colors for the dogs that the designer used, and I'm glad I did that. The colors of the fabrics are very close to each other. When I got the fabrics, I was really worried that the colors in the blocks would be indistinguishable. Even though the differences are small, they really do show up in the blocks. I'm afraid if I had chosen my own colors then there would have been too much contrast between the different parts of the dogs and they would have looked a bit cartoonish. There's a lot of cutting and piecing of small pieces in these blocks, but I'm enjoying it so far.

This week we also had our monthly guild meeting and our previous president handed out kits for making blocks for the quilt that will be made for our current president. That's the tradition in this guild. The kits consisted of instructions and one piece of fabric to be used for the arms/wings in the block. The rest of the fabric would come from our statshes to get a truly scrappy quilt. Here is the block I made:

President's Quilt Block

We were given some guidance as to the colors to use so the quilt should look good in our president's bedroom.

I've also done some knitting this week. I finished my Cuentas Scarf designed by Laura Nelkin:

Cuentas Scarf

And I started a Boublay scarf, also designed by Laura Nelkin:

Boublay

These are both kits that I've received from Laura's "Lola's Choice" club. With this club, we get a new small project every other month. I'm very behind in making these projects so I'm trying to get several finished during her knit-along going on the first quarter of this year.

Nancy