12 Days of Christmas: Update #2

We had a mixed bag of weather last week: half icy winter wonderland and half the usual winter temps in the mid-40's. I divided my "warm day" time between sewing in my shed and doing computer work in my trailer, so I only have two new blocks up for you.

Day 6: http://www.sundropdesigns.com/bom/bom09.html
Day 7: http://www.sundropdesigns.com/projects.html

Since the coming week's weather forecast is for another mixed bag of winter goodies, and I have other deadlines to meet, I decided to make things a little easier on myself and set things up to add days 8-12 on the same page as day 7.

In addition to last week's icy weather, the electricity went off, Sunny fell into something yucky and had to be bathed, and two days I had to clean my keyboard because someone left hairballs on it. I suppose it's my fault for forgetting to cover my keyboard when I turn off my computer, but I've not had a problem with this until lately. So why have my cats suddenly decided that the keyboard is a good place for coughing up hairballs? In all my years of living with cats, this is the first year that my keyboard has been a target for hairballs. They started doing this after I bought a "spill-proof" keyboard. Do you think they actually know that it's supposed to be spill-proof?

12 Days of Christmas Update

Well, those warm 50-degree days the weather forecasters promised us for last week never materialized. Instead, we got a temperature inversion that socked the valley in fog with temps staying in the 20's and 30's. I spent most of my week sitting by my parents' woodstove crocheting. However, I did get one more block up for you:

5 Gold Rings - http://www.sundropdesigns.com/critcorner.html

Tooday, the sun came out and it did warm up to the mid-40's. Some of the forecasters are predicting highs in the 50's for the coming week; some are predicting 30's and 40's. I'm rooting for the optomistic forecasters!

12 Days of Christmas

I'm doing a freebie on the 12 Days of Christmas on my web site, in both applique and redwork. My original intent was to post a new block each day during the 12 days of Christmas, Dec. 25 through January 5. But it's winter and I'm learning that I shouldn't make schedules, or rather I shouldn't expect to stay on any schedule, during the winter. It's now Jan. 10 and only 4 days have been posted. So I'll be posting weekly updates here with links to the blocks so that I don't make people crazy hunting all over my web site trying to find them.

So, here's update #1:
Partidge in a pear tree - http://www.sundropdesigns.com/patterns/applique3.html
2 turtle doves - http://www.sundropdesigns.com/patterns/applique4.html
3 French hens - http://www.sundropdesigns.com/patterns/applique5.html
4 calling birds (or colly birds) - http://www.sundropdesigns.com/patterns/applique.html

I'm planning to post update #2 next weekend, but as you read in the first paragraph, it's winter and schedules are unreliable during the winter.