So Ready for Spring!

I don't know about where you live, but we are still pretty cold here in the great state of Michigan.  Over the past week we have had snow, freezing rain, more snow, and just downright cold, and we are in Southern Michigan.  Mother Nature needs to evict old man winter from the area.  I have learned over the past couple of years that if I want to garden and not buy everything from the nursery, I must start some seeds on my own.

These are my tomatoes.  I had some old seeds which were San Marzanoes from Territorial Seeds these were 2 years old, and bought some new seed- Amish Paste from Jung seeds.  I think my old seeds were more successful so far. I planted 2-3 seeds in each solo cup. I had bought 2 big sweater boxes and I put them together to create a little greenhouse and they sit on the sun porch.  Once these seedlings get a bit bigger, I may try to transplant a couple into the cups where no seeds germinated, then I will have to thin the herd.  Usually in Michigan you can't plant until after Mother's Day, well Mother's Day is kind of early this year, and with our wacky warm, cold bi polar weather it may be almost the end of May before DH and I and eventually these guys will finally make it to the garden. 

I keep plugging along working on Allietare, and the farmer's wife.  I have also been working on cleaning up my scrap pile which seemed to be expanding, at least to me.  It was kind of nice to have DH say that he definitely saw the pile decreasing. 

I did get the saw toothed square block done for the RSC.

 Many of the fabrics which I have used for the RSC this month actually came from my stash.  Who knew I had that much orange?!?! 

All the blocks together.  I have been trying to stick with small flowers, vines, or leaves with almost a tone on tone, I love how they look together so far. 

I did do a little stash enhancement. 

'Cause of course I needed  solids the two at the far right, but then I saw the paisley, and the mums, and the ombre type scrolls, and the wacky looking plaid I just had to buy. 

Then in the mail yesterday Monday I received a package from my quilty friend Kris at Kris loves fabric.  A great big humongous thanks, and a hug from far away to Kris for the giftie. 

Aren't these delicious?  I will put one in my batik, orange, yellow and green quilt box (which I haven't worked on forever) a couple will go into my twisted blossom quilt, and some of the others will go into this crazy idea project that I have been messing with for the past couple of weeks when I am sorting scraps. 

Today it is sunny, but chilly, and windy.  I have the boys for the next few days while their mom works her new job so not too sure how much I will get accomplished.  I have to keep the boys because it is a little too cold for them.  I have one that is ending his cycle of medication because of an ear infection, and I have to be careful with the other two because their mom has mono and it can be contagious for quite a while and the only real prevention is to keep them well, and well rested.  Anyone else ready for spring?