Frosty Morning

When I came upstairs to write this post, I checked the temperature outside. It's a chilly 26°F. And I imagine that won't impress you Midwest people, but it's about as cold as we get here in the Pacific Northwest. I've seen it colder. Only once have I seen it dip into the single digits, and that was back in the late 1980's when I waited at a bus stop in weather that was a cool 6°F. To be clear, it isn't an experience I wish to repeat.

It was after noon by the time I did anything sewing related yesterday. The morning started with a trip to the grocery store where I nearly brained myself on an open deli counter door. Try to picture this: There's the deli counter where you can find all the lunch meats available for slicing. A picture is worth a thousand words, and so I borrowed this one from the internet. (Don't worry. I'll return it as soon as I'm finished.)

Now imagine that below is an open refrigerated case where packaged meats are stored. It's about knee high on me. I was looking for some pancetta and not really paying attention to the guy standing beside me. As it turns out, he was working on the open deli case door, which  lifts up from the bottom. The thin glass of the door was precisely level with my eyes, and my eyes didn't register the approximately quarter-inch thick glass. I was looking at it from the edge on, and I just didn't see it. When I bent over to pick up the item I was searching for, I bashed my forehead on the door good and proper. Yeesh. It really was my fault for not paying closer attention, but that guy has no idea how close he came to being murdered.

So that got my day off to a good start, don'tcha know. My list was short, but honestly, how could I do any housework with such a dire injury...especially one not visible to anyone else, which means you get absolutely no sympathy. I rest my case. I assuaged my hurting head (not to mention my hurting pride) by spending the rest of the afternoon sewing.

My current mission is to sew the Rainbow Jubilee blocks into a finished flimsy. This is my February OMG. I was able to sew two of eight rows together yesterday:

Of course, I couldn't have accomplished this without my color consultant cat.

Sitting next to that box was just a little too much for him. Eventually, he had to demonstrate the First Law of Cattery: If I fits, I sits.

Putting a box near a cat is a little like asking Roger Rabbit to resist the Shave and a hair cut, two bits, knocking. And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you probably never saw the movie, "Who Killed Roger Rabbit?" Here's a video just to remind you:

And if you can't see the video, then click right here.

When I finished for the day, I had the third row trimmed and squared up, ready for sewing today.

Okay, so the only other thing I did yesterday was to trace out the final block for the Snow Globes quilt. The last three days have been spent hand-sewing bindings, and so I'm glad to get back to my embroidery projects.

This morning, I started stitching it. The morning's efforts were devoted to using up the leftover bits of floss from last time.

Also, I stitched the 7th inchy for the National Embroidery Month sampler.

Today I'll get busy on the housekeeping chores I didn't do yesterday, but there will be plenty of time for working on the Rainbow Jubilee quilt too. Possibly, I can get it sewn together today, but no promises.

We've been receiving weather alerts for a "significant snow event" starting tonight and extending into next week. I'm happy for the snow, but I'm hoping it won't throw a snow shovel into Matthew's plans to fly out of Portland for Guatemala on Saturday. Ordinarily our airport doesn't close except for ice, but one never knows. His flight is for Saturday, and so hopefully, if there are delays, they will be over, up and running by Saturday. Fingers crossed.