Holiday and Post Holiday Blues

Christmas is over and it's a bit of a let down.  We had a lovely holiday.  And, a rarity for North Texas, it actually snowed on Christmas day!

It's snowing!

Boomer got a new hat, and laid back creature that he is, wearing it didn't seem to bother him.

Boomer the reindeer

Brian got a pizza pi cutter for Christmas (get it?) so of course he had to make a pizza to test it out.

"pi" cutter and pizza

Several weeks before Christmas I worked on the October sQ challenge -- start with a simple block, and change it each time to make a multi-block 12" square quilt.  (OK, I'm a little behind...) I really liked this challenge, so I made three.  My original block was a belly button block:

Telephone game #1

Telephone game #2 - cool colors

Telephone game #3 - warm colors

This past Monday, I put my father-in-law on a train to go home.  We had a wonderful month together!

Pop leaving for New Jersey

On Tuesday, I got back to work.  First up, January's 12' x 12" challenge for sQ.  The topic was "seeing red" and the technique was improvisational piecing.

Seeing Red

I'm back to work on client quilts now.  No more fun stuff until I get caught up again!