I think it's officially winter

Sure, it's mid-November and it should be more than clear that it's winter, right?  Not so much.  We've had a surprisingly mild fall given the beastly (cold/rainy) summer we had.  It's November 16th, and this is just our second snowfall.  Granted, I thought the first would last much longer.  Maybe I'm premature in saying this one will, but it certainly looks like winter out there.  Feels like it too with the ridiculous wind chill (-19C with windchill?  Really?  Ew).

I have my company Christmas party coming up this weekend and I haven't got a thing to wear.  No, really.  I haven't attended a Christmas party in years.  I thought the party was next weekend.  So, I have 4 days to buy a dress.  And my parents will be in town tomorrow so I won't have a lot of shopping time.  Yeesh.

And, finally, it's dark all the time.  I mean, not all the time like it is further north, but for as much as I see the sun, it might as well be dark all the time. I go to work in the dark.  I go home in the dark.  Which doesn't do well for picture taking.  So, the quilt that I finished yesterday is waiting for it's closeup and I'm trying to figure out how I'll get the best (or any) light for it.

Weekend plans

Last weekend I was out of town, but on Monday I took the day off and "celebrated" my anniversary with my husband.  Mmmm hmmmm.  He played on the computer, I sewed in a completely different room.  Happy Anniversary to us.  In our defense, we'd spent an entire weekend together in the mountains prior to that.

The good news is, I got my bright quilt quilted (pictures later since I'm at work).  The bad news is, it still needs to be trimmed and bound.  I plan to get my binding done this weekend. Mainly because my parents will be here next week and I want to show it off to my quilting Mom.

I'm also going to get started on a few Christmas presents for my nephews and niece.  Yup.  I'm going to be THAT aunt.

Another weekend gone

It's already November.  I know this because today is my first wedding anniversary.  Mr Moose and I just got back from a lovely weekend in Banff.  We hiked (probably more that our out of shape bodies really should have), we got pampered in the hotel spa and we got a room upgrade.  Actually, a couple of room upgrades - we ended up in a junior suite at the Fairmont Banff Springs.  Colour me surprised (and completely spoiled).

Anywho, I'm back and I really should be posting on my blog about wonderful quilty goodness.  I'm not because I have no wonderful quilty goodness. So... you know... um... I can tell you about a GO! giveaway.  They're cool fabric cutters if you quilt.  So, go.  Enter.

Halloween

Yes, I know it's November 4th.  Halloween was several days ago.  But I wanted to share the halloween quilt I worked on.  It's not done yet, but I am busy machine quilting it.  Only it's my first attempt with invisible thread and it's not my favorite thing to work with at this point.  Enter my zombies:

The bats are my favorite!

I also love the black spider web fabric.  It's so...webby.

I've also managed to get my blinding quilt layered and thread basted.  I don't have pictures of it, but it's about a twin size, maybe a bit smaller and it took me HOURS to thread baste.  I'm so buying pins.  I am never, ever, EVER thread basting another quilt.  EVER.  At least not one that big.  Yeesh.


So, this here quilt is layered and awaiting some machine quilting

I should get a name for this, because "the blinding quilt," "the psychedelic quilt," and "the ugly quilt" just aren't all warm and fuzzy like a quilt should be!

Wordless Wednesday

Another fantastic fabric giveaway

Little Bluebell is giving away some fantastic Bliss fabric.  Check it out and enter to win!

I'm hoping to have some halloween projects to post later.  My sewing machine and I were not agreeing so I decided it needed a time out for now. 

Pictures of the painted bathroom

A few weeks ago, Mr. Moose and I decided it was time to make the house a home which means turning it into a place we want to live.  Neither of us likes bland, beige walls.  We started in the master bathroom mainly because I'd painted light blue swatches a year ago and neither of us liked the colour so it didn't get painted, but we didn't know what to paint.

This morning I set out to take pictures.  It started like this:

I finally got him to lay down (and turned off the flash) and here we go.

That lump on the floor?  Dog butt.  Sure.  He lay down.  In the bathroom.

I think the glare on the last picture is dog drool.  I'm pretty sure he licked the lens.