Happy Thanksgiving Eve

It's the day of prep work, although, for us this year, it's just a meal for three. The B's have been sick and had other plans anyway. Of course, the A's live in Ohio and Andrew cooks for his family as well as Laura's. The C's are headed to Jims Nieces house, who also live in Germany for the holiday.  

But that will give Jim and I plenty of leftovers for the weekend because we ARE making a traditional turkey dinner to celebrate the thanks we have for the life we currently live. 

I was in the studio early yesterday morning so here's some of the quilting going into the horses quilt...

Borders

Light thread work

I worked until nearly 6:00. I'd call that a win day since I did finish up the 'Tis the Season quilt for Susan. 

After long arming I moved over to work on another block in the Alaska quilt top...

Lupine

Not sure how much long arming I'm going to get done today. I have a nail appointment first thing and Jim is going with me to do errands while I'm getting those done. The wind is howling out there and I'll have to wait to see if it's a good idea to turn on the machines once we get back.

And, prep work needs to commence at some point for our meal tomorrow. 

New Blog Look

I changed my template for the blog hoping to get rid of that annoying side thing that was going on. Expect more changes in the future as I don't really like the current template. 

Errands yesterday morning. Bernie is free of any quilts right now and DW is going to be unloaded later tonight. I did do this on Bernie yesterday though...

Not the characters, but I long armed the writing

I tried to hand stitch the writing on this. My hand stitching is not good. At all! But I can long arm to beat the band so I did that instead. I'll blanket stitch these later on this week but not today. 

I took a pic of the back of Jeans quilt...which looks almost as good as the front...

It looks better in person

I managed to get a new block cut and pieced for Farm Girl Vintage...

Vrrrooommmm with the hay

They are saying that's hay, but as a farm girl, I know that is NOT hay. Hay is green. This is straw. 

My plans are to work on another FGV2 block today. I tried to find some other small project to work on for small project Sunday, but nothing is really grabbing me. Yet.