Mini-Dresden and Temperature Quilt Update

 Thanks to previous blog records, I can say with certainty that I've been working on this project now for two years.  Almost exactly two years.  Started it in April 2018.

I decided to count the finished plates.  There are 185 plates in total.  I hadn't counted them before.  I'm not sure I should have counted them.....

Only 30 are appliqued.  OK, actually 29.25.

The truth is that I don't do a lot of sit and stitch lately, so I'm trying to be more deliberate about working on them when I am sitting in front of TV.

Last week when I was trying to organize projects and do some cleaning up, I went ahead and cut (all?) the background squares.  Applique on!

Hopefully our trip to Florida will happen - lots of car stitching time.
Hopefully.......

Some helpers getting a photo of the Temperature Quilt.  It was too windy, otherwise.  Here I am showing through April 13.  I've switched to a green background for Spring.  I believe it is Kona "Pear"  At the top you can see one day with yellow/orange.  That was our outlier of 79 degrees!

Random Things on a Wednesday in January

 A fun bunch of randomness to share today. 

What do you think is in there?

 This is on one of our camp chairs. 

 This is just because I needed a bright spot on a gray January day.

 Mini is definitely a creative, she is always drawing, making things and writing stories, and she never gets caught up in the "its not perfect" problem that I have.

Even art with magnets.

 These two were sharing the sunlight on a cold winter's day

 I had to document this huge apple.  This is actually from Thanksgiving pies.  The apple came from "up north" in the UP, picked wild. 

 It took up half my peeler.

 And then look at this tiny guy.

 I've got a new leader/ender project under my table at the machine.  These are old charm squares from Connecting threads.  Just gonna use them up for charity quilts.

This was my 2019 in used spools.  I did do some sewing where I was trying to use up thread, it was nice to make some space in the thread boxes.

And I have a plan for the 2020 temperature quilt.  I will share more when I get some actual blocks made.   Which in reality may not be until February.