Speck gets out of bed and goes straight to his crate where he gets all wrapped up in a sheet and quilt; whatever is in there, he gets himself wrapped up in it.

The other morning I was going to run a few errands and wanted to wake him up to get him to go outside.  I pulled on the sheet that was in the crate and . . no dog!

Then I saw his pillow move.

He must’ve thought he was fixing to eat because he’s licking his lips!

OK!  OK!  Not very enthusiastic about emerging from inside the pillowcase but if he has no choice, he will come out . . though taking his sweet time about it!

Thick, fat, wet, sloppy snow had been falling for a few hours.  We looked out and . . whoa!  The chicken run is sagging under the weight of the snow.

Ahh . . Vince to the rescue!

Swept the snow off the run ..

Swept the snow off the chicken tunnel . .

All is well but .. where are the chickens?  Sitting in the coop, in front of the heater, discussing all those chicken commercials from last night’s Superbowl.  Don’t you think my chickens should be in commercials?  They’re a heckuva lot cuter than all those chickens in the commercials last night!  Yep, that’s what Ruby thinks too!

On my design wall are just borders.  It’s kinda like eating your dessert first to make the borders before making the top.  It’s probably against all rules of quilting to make the borders first but it works for me.

Wait til you see the rest of the quilt!

What’s on your design wall?

Wasn’t my most productive week but there was cheesemaking and book signings and trips to the post office.  And Netflix .. what part of I don’t want to watch a movie does he not understand?? 

On last week’s stash report, I’d included the yardage for Big Star which I had just started and it took most of my sewing time this week to get that top done.  So, I have little to report but at least there were no additions . . not even temptation to add.

Used this Week:  7.75 yards
Used year to Date: 131.50 yards
Added this Week: 0 yards
Added Year to Date: 0 yards
Net Used for 2010:  131.50 yards

How’d you do this week.  Links to specific blog posts only please.

Next weekend is the scheduled Quiltathon.  I know . . it’s Valentine’s weekend but I didn’t want to do it over the Superbowl weekend and I’ll be gone the rest of February.  Plan to join is if you can!

And, future dates are on the sidebar.

If you ordered Weekend Quilts, be watching your mail box.  Most of them are coming in rather bright envelopes.  A few are in manila colored envelopes because I ran out of bright ones.  Hot pink, bright turquoise and of course, lime green!

Two trips to the post office Friday, hopefully one trip this morning and I haven’t made much of a dent in the list.  By the end of the weekend, the books will all be signed and in envelopes but I’m taking them to the post office in batches of 20.  We usually have just one person working at the window and I don’t want to create problems.  If I make a couple of trips each day, I’m hoping to have the books all by next weekend.