Reading & Little Quilting

On Friday I started to read a book by Lisa Gardner and it really held my interest from the very beginning.  On Saturday I kept at it – other than a break to run to the grocery store and doing laundry — and didn’t even pick up a needle until evening – after I finished the book.  The book is  Touch and Go – published last year and right now  Amazon for Kindle has it for $2.99 .  I have read other books by her but never has one of her books kept my interest where I didn’t want to put the book down.  Here is a little synopsis from Amazon “Ten minutes after walking the elite Back Bay townhouse and investigator Tessa Leoni already doesn’t like what she sees. Signs of an abduction. Clearly the work of professionals. At best, the entire family has been kidnapped. At worst…”

I took a few stitches on the baby quilt and got done with the corner I showed yesterday, didn’t work on the Granny Squares but I did work on the Patchwork of the Crosses Friday night after I got off the computer.  I finished the row I was working on and now have the first of seven rows of the Crosses finished!!   I guess I need to really try to get in time almost every day on this quilt if I am going to finish it by fall which I would love to do.

I can tell already that I will only be doing about a 1/3 of a block at a time now as the little blue squares rest just above the roller so I have to have room to move and couldn’t roll it down as far as I would like to – which means I will get across the width faster but will be rolling it down more often.  This is the block I started on last night.

Isn’t this tea cozy just so cute – I have a a page on Pinterest  with some really pretty hand work ideas .  This cozy is designed by Yoko Sato the link goes to a book of hers—I look at all this really delicate handwork and just want to make it all!!  Some of the designs are so complicated looking.  She is such a great well known quilter.  On my blog sidebar I have a link to Patchwork Pink Caramel– the name of this blogger is Sakae Yoshihara – she does a lot of work that might be designs of the designer above – I’m not sure if the translation is right.  Sakae’s work is so pretty and delicate also – her blog is in Japanese but using google translator you can sometimes figure out some of what she writes – but she has such beautiful photos of her work and work of her students (I believe if I understood right) even if I can’t understand all that she writes I love looking at the photos – such beautiful hand stitching.  (In My Opinion – Google translator does a really poor job of translating at times!)

We are prepared for the winter storm once again and hope other than being cold it will not be too bad and that we won’t get a lot of ice – but I’m pretty sure we will get at least some ice and then snow – we are all ready for some warmth aren’t we!!  At least it won’t last more than a day or so.