My first snowballs have been thrown

I'me participating with a group of others on line and we're doing a block of the month using a snowball pattern. I had originally picked out Christmas material to use from my stash. I changed my mind a little and I used some other fabrics from my stash. I think I'm still going to make a second one with the Christmas fabric since I have it out. All of my fabrics have been cut and tonight I sat and put together my first six blocks for the month of January. They went together so quickly that it was hard to stop and just make the six. Now I can't wait until February to make another six. I wish I had a design wall but I don't so this is their picture laying down. I love the colors and can't wait to see more of the blocks done.

Update on Maggie Mae

As of yesterday Maggie has been with me for 3 weeks. On the 15th she's going to be 3 months old. She has been such a joy to have here. She's a very milk mannered little girl and very sweet. She started out so tiny and WOW add some love, food and water and she's growing by leaps and bounds. She weighed in today at 16.5 pounds. She's gaining a little over 2 pounds a week. She started out with tiny little feet, well they aren't so tiny anymore. Her speckling is move all over her body now and I can see that her tail is going to be a weapon. I guess the vets thought of her being a medium sized dog has gone out the window.

So, here's a few updated pictures of her. She's already outgrown the coat I bought her so from here on out she's going to be sporting ones that I'm going to make her. Notice that she is wearing little bandanas. I've been making all kinds of different ones and she seems to like having them on. The other night I took some pieces of fleece and just sewed and stuffed her a couple of little toys that we're calling fluffies. This way when she throws them they don't hurt as much as some of the other things she's got.

An Online Quilt

I've decided to go ahead and start a quilt with a few of my on-line buddies. So far it's Linda, Regina and Patty. I know more will join in as we go along. I think I read Jen is going along sort of. Anyway I thought this was a good way to start to use more of my stash. I'm going to be making my quilt using Christmas fabrics. I didn't keep track of how much of my stash I used last year but I know it was quite a bit. My cabinet has some pretty good holes in it. I might end up using a few more pieces as I go along, maybe some white on whites to set a few pieces off. I've got a couple of other quilts that I want to cut up and get started on too. I'll just get everything ready and in project bags so I can grab and sew when I've got time.