Chickens

We're all chickens here. The weather outside has been frightful. The kitties really, really, really wanted to go outside yesterday. Each time I opened the door for them, they were hit with a blast of cold air that discouraged them stepping outside with even one paw. Snow is falling again this morning, and Smitty is watching it with curiosity.

It was a good day to stay inside and sew. I finished off the 9th Tiny Tuesday block. The "peel" was supposed to be applique, but mine is inset. It seemed like a good opportunity to practice the technique I learned from Dawn White a couple of years ago.

This one is straight set. Here are the nine blocks I have so far:

After that, I finished off the last two Chicken Buffet blocks. Here's "Chicken Cacciatore."

Here's "Chicken Italiano."

They've been so much fun to make, I'm kind of sorry to have them all finished. The pieces are cut for sewing this into a flimsy, but it will need to wait its turn in line behind three other sets of finished blocks. Here are the 12 blocks all together now.

There is some beading to do on the Chicken Divan block in the upper right. I'll probably wait until I have it quilted to add those.

I saw two pictures of last night's red sunset that were taken by others. We were looking north and missed it. Nevertheless, I did get a shot of the two mountains with a pink cast in the sky. Looking at the weather outside, I'd say this debunks the whole "Red sky at night, sailors' delight" idiom.

This morning's inchy was a little bit hard. The one Meg Hawkey posted was a nice star shaped flower, while mine is kind of a bearded iris. I wasn't sure where to bring the needle in and out for the five cast-on stitches. Oh well. It's good enough, I think. Just one more inchy to go, and then the two blank squares.

Mike is working from home again today. Roads are icy. I was supposed to go into town for a pedicure, but I rescheduled that.

My friend Dorothy asked for the link to the Cheesy Potato Soup from yesterday, and there it is. It's a recipe from the Cooking Light Diet, and it was pretty good. It would have been better with bacon, but, you know... the diet. After a month of gluttony in February, we're getting serious about our diet again. We've been on this diet for about 300 years now, I think, but our commitment waxes and wanes. This week, it's all diet all the time.

As for the rest of the day, I don't really know what I'll end up sewing, but I'm very tempted to get going on sewing together the blocks for Tuxedo Tales.

They're next on the list to sew into a flimsy. I don't know if I have the fabrics I'll need, so it might have to be something else...maybe the Snow Globes...

I know I have the fabrics for those, and so they might get to cut into line. It's hard to say what will happen today, but sewing will be involved.