I Like Thursday: Sewing, Snow and Skiing

Wow - the last time I liked up with I Like Thursday was at Christmas.  I've been busy, I guess!  Yeah, lots of good stuff going on.

The new year means a new season of Project Quilting challenges:  three completed and three to go.  I've been squeezing in the challenges between the Midnight Garden quilt: a week for the PQ challenge, then a week of sewing triangles (and playing with layouts).  I've accomplished a lot in six weeks!

Snow!  Let's see... first was the Snow Ball at the end of January - a 12 hour contra dance event (I made it through most of the first nine hours before I tuckered out).  It was a blast!

 

Then our family headed to North Conway, NH.  I knew had been a long time since we'd gone up there but it wasn't until 10 years.

Mom and I went out every day to enjoy the snow - we got out cross country skiing two days and went hiking two others (snow was too shallow to bother with the snowshoes).  It's very faint in the photo - but Mt Washington ins in the background between the trees.

 

Whittaker woods was beautiful.  I got a chance to walk part of it with my sister and some with Rob.  Several inches of snow fell while we were there. 

 

Ah, snow.  Love it, hate it.  We had no problems in NH, but last Thursday a mere inch-and-a-half of snow managed to land us in the ditch at the bottom of our street (before the hill was plowed and sanded).  We weren't the only ones - when AAA came to tow us out, there was another abandoned car at the bottom of the hill.  So we were in good company?   We at least had excellent service from helpful people - the DPW was kind enough to throw down some extra sand after plowing around us.

I discovered a new place to ski close by in Brattleboro, VT.  Spent a bit of Sunday afternoon in the wonderful new snow scouting out trails.  Will definitely go back there again.

 

Remember the Drapes of Doom?  According to my notes, I haven't worked on any of them in six years.  (Where does the time go?!?)  Well, here they are again!  This time a group of us met in Waltham to wrangle piles (and piles!) of drapes.  It was good to my older patchwork still going strong.  There were lots of new drapes, too.  Evidently they've been breeding over the last few years.  Added bonus - sewing machines strong enough to tackle the duffel bag repairs I've been declining to tackle the last few years (and the people willing to jump in and fix them!).  Success all around!