Corn and Beans

It's a cold blustery day! Using blustery always makes me think back to a favorite storybook video of my kids, Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. I can still see the illustration of Piglet blowing off the ground while holding onto Pooh's scarf/yarn and Roo asking if he can fly piglet too! Cute! I was always an Eeyore fan though, "Thanks for noticing me".  Anyway it's cold, cloudy and pretty nasty out, but I did hear on the radio that we are halfway through winter!!! Now that's good news! I strongly dislike cold, dirty snow and gusty winds, so winter is my very least favorite season.

I have pieced together a few more house blocks, I now have 8 in all, but am going to take a short break from making anymore until I can get some lighter weight tissue type paper to print and sew on and some more Mary Ellen's Best Press, clear starch alternative. The printer paper I've been using is a bit to heavy for paper piecing, removing it sometimes tears out seam edges and the MEBP( I like the lavender fields scent) is needed to keep the little blocks from stretching when I remove the paper. So till I can get to town, I have many other WIP's(Works in Progress), PIP's(Projects in Process), and UFO's (UnFinished Objects)to keep me entertained. We quilters have lots of names for these neglected items and I don't lack choices in my vast collection!! Last year at spring break DD and I started on her Corn and Beans quilt from a Leisure Arts Book titled Scrap Quilts Fast and Fun we adapted the pattern 1/2 square triangles over to 2" Thangles and it is so much more accurate and fun for me to sew. That's my choice to sew on while I watch the birds feed outside my sewing room window on this blustery day. "Tah Tah For Now" pooh says that!

                                                           Corn and Beans (8 blocks)