Sewing Into the New Year

I started this post, and then obviously I saw a squirrel and chased it and forgot completely about it and 6 days later.....This is what I did New Year's Day.

New Year's Day and I decided that I needed to work toward having a cleaner house.  Lets just say Bobbin and Lucy are working against me.

I packed all of my Christmas decorations away in the new totes I bought, and I actually hauled them up the stairs to the sitting room to go into the attic.  Bobbin has discovered styrofoam worms, that they are wonderful to shred into teeny tiny bits.

I mopped, and brought a big printer downstairs from the sitting room so it is more accessible.  I almost feel like I have accomplished something lately.

I would work a bit, sew a little, work a bit, sew a little.  By the time the day was done I had 4 of these done.

I started out New Year's Eve with 20 of them with 9  sections to put on.  I now have 4 completely done, and 16 with 4 sections left to put on them each.  That is a lot of sewing, trimming and pressing!  Once I am done with these I have another section of arcs to do for the border and then to put it all together.

I needed a wee bit of a break from the paper piecing, and made 4 of these Perkiomen Valley blocks for the Ventura Modern Quilt Guild, they are making quilts to help those affected by the Thomas Fire in California.

I used some of the fabrics that I received from friends, and some from my scrap boxes.

I also made the friendship block for the month of January for quilt guild.

The guild fabric is the center.  I had to add the blue and a light gray.

The movers came, retrieved the things I agreed to give Jeff's family.  The attorney was very kind, she just kept telling me she was sorry, and how apparent it is that I am not that bad of a person, and that I really miss my husband.  I am at peace and life is moving on.