MOVING ON INTO THE NEW YEAR

We started the New Year here quietly.  Nice to just sit back and relax.  I am hoping to wrap up a couple of projects that really do need t o move on and finally get completed.  Christmas wall hanging and table decor still up around the house.  Something I will try to get to later in the week.  Just not in any real hurry to do that this week.

This is the one project that I do plan seriously to get completed.  Our family is growing and several years ago I purchased fabric to make 14 Christmas placemats.  The fronts are the black print and the grey are their backs.  This project got side tracked for I do not know how many years.  But during the holidays I unearth 2 of them finished and another 12 cut and ready to put together.  Over this last week or so I now have 3 completely finished, 7 sitting on the back of my chair in the living room waiting for the bindings to be finished by hand, and just 4 more waiting to be quilted, bound and finished.  Better late than never!

A week or so ago I took a few left over 2.5" strips to try out this new table runner pattern for my guild's quilt show boutique shop.  It was fun and gave me an idea with some fall fabric I had left over from another project.  

I increased the strip size to 3.5" and came up with this 30" by 36" table runner for my dinning room table.  I'm sending it off to my quilter for some leafy quilting pattern next week.  

The only other project going on right now is our pecan harvest.  Thankfully I am not in charge of this task.  We have two pecan trees on the side of our home, planted by my husband, not too long after we moved into it in 1971.  They are easily 50 feet tall and do produce a good crop of pecans on and off.  This year we had a bumper crop.  He harvests, dries  them in our oven, shells and bags them, and into our chest freezer.  Yes we are up to 52 bags, and there are still a good two or three buckets of them still to be dealt with.  My only contribution to this is I vacuum up the shell that scatter all over the dining room floor after he finishes shelling them.  This has been going on for two months now.  We are nearly at the end.  No we do not sell them. However we are very popular with our neighbors who at both Thanksgiving and pre Christmas got bags of them for their holiday baking, and of course family as well.    

  
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