So Cold

This cold weather here in the south just doesn’t want to go away – as I sit here Thursday evening with the fireplace going I have a heavy sweatshirt on and drinking hot tea.  Down to 16 degrees maybe and barely 30 degrees for Friday.  I am so ready for spring.  I think all of us around the US is saying that – or at least most places in the US.

I finished the row I was working on for my hexies on Diamonds are Forever – two more rows left to do and I took last night off of that and worked on stars instead.  Needed a break from hexies I think but not a long one I do want to finish that top.  I just pushed the basket holding the hexie quilt aside for the night.I am linking to A Quilting Reader’s Garden today and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

Lemoyne Stars – added the dark purple in the middle row on the right  – these are hand pieced using Inklingo.

Here is another one I am in the process of – at all times I only use one pin and sometimes not even that – mainly just use the pin when I am working on the Y-seam.

I will get back to the tumblers on the wall and Love Enwined – but I want to concentrate on the quilts almost finished first and get them finished!!  Most evenings I work for a little while – 45 minutes to an hour and a half — on the Kansas Twister.

I wanted to show the little kitty  – the tea ball that I had lost part of the chain so I went searching for a new one for loose tea and found this cute one at TJMaxx the other day – the kitty is suppose to sit on the rim of a cup if you are doing one cup at a time but I think most of my cups are too thick as I haven’t found one in the cupboard yet that it works that way on – that’s ok – I just let her hang there!  I found a new herbal tea that I just love – I normally do not like herbals but this one!  Ginger and Liquorice.  Yum – I need to order a bigger bag – I had ordered two small sample packages so I would know if I like it – I do! big package needed.  For those interested I get my tea from an on line company called Harney & Sons Fine Teas – I just like their teas I’m not affiliated, just a satisfied customer.  You can also find their teas on Amazon but I don’t find it that much different in price.

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