Sickness is a Part of Life

There are people all around my sphere of life who are either sick (my mom) or have acute/chronic situations (both my neighbors). My share of all of that during '25 was enough and care to not have a repeat performance in '26. 

And, today is  Jim's D-Day; the day he 'meets' with the magistrate to decide his work comp fate. The meeting starts at 10:00.

I'll be oblivious to all of it being out in the studio working on the snowman for Lynette. Here's some more quilting going into it...

Getting feathers in where possible

Snowman body treatment

I was talking to Linda about our upcoming retreat and continued to work on Lynettes quilt while doing so. Linda said she had to let me go as she needed to prepare dinner since it was past 5:00. Wow. Quilting goes faster when talking on the phone (thank you AirPods!).

After I shut down Marty for the night assembling the snowflakes was next. 

Ready to be attached

This took over an hour and a half to do

Since there isn't a long arm available right now, and since our bar needs a table runner, quilting the background on the DSM was the only possibility. Bleh I say. 

Applique in my studio is done differently than others do it. Getting the background quilted first eliminates the need to have to quilt and fit motifs around the appliqué on whatever machine is used. Now that the background is quilted, the snowflakes can be 'temporarily' attached and then blanket stitches can be added.