goals for the quarter

I have some goals that I haven't really set a time limit, and I think that would make it easier to accomplish. I am joining the third quarter goals to become more accountable, and a quarter goal seems just right for these projects, since I am working them in around my monthly goals. She can quilt is hosting a finish along  that will help motivate me.

I finished the hooking on the victoria ann rug, and I really hate the whole finishing thing. I have 8 hooked pieces that I just don't finish for that reason.

1. My sewing machine is straight stitch only, so I need to dig out a zigzag machine and zigzag the edges an inch from the hooking and trim.
2. roll the edge around a cord and baste into place.
3. decide on a yarn -or dye it if I can't find it.
4. hand sew the yarn around the edges
5. clean and press
6. stand back and admire

I am trying to finish all the quiltville mystery quilts as part of a challenge at Jo's country junction. I am working on Roll roll cotton boll. I have all the rows pieced.

1. press
2. begin assembling rows with an on point setting. Press
3. measure and cut, sew inner border
4. measure and cut, sew outer border
5. prepare for quilting
maybe quilt and bind

I have last year's rainbow scrap challenge quilt that no longer falls into the goals for this year's challenge, but I still want to finish it before it falls off the radar and into the black hole.

1. piece the HST border, press
2. measure and cut the inner border
3. measure and cut the HST border
4. decide about any other border
5. prepare for quilting
maybe quilt and bind.

And Jo's country junction is hosting a double wedding ring QAL that I really want to join, but, can I?


I am linking (links in the sidebar) to:

needle and thread Thursdays
and
Oh scrap

she can quilt

first quarter projects

I have a few projects I hope to finish in the first quarter of 2018. I have started and hope to finish a turtle quilt for my Grandson.

I waant to quilt Bonnie Hunter's  Easy street quilt

and a stack and whack butterfly quilt

We have finished with the fleeces and they are all packed away in the shed.We didn't mark this one to know what sheep it is. a mystery

and I have transferred my next rug hooking project to linen.I used red dot to trace the pattern from a magazine print out. and then used a sharpie to transfer it to linen. It's a Polly Minnick pattern called Uncle Sam's hat. It will be a big rug about 24 in x 51 in.

I am linking (links in the sidebar) to:
needle and thread thursdays
oh scrap
and the 2018 finish along




I did some research about our frigid temperatures this winter so I am including it in this post for my journaling. Our lowest was -16 on many days in a row.


Bomb cyclones often draw colder air in from the north, then blast out icy temperatures.

They frequently occur in North America, when cold air collides with warm air over the Atlantic Ocean -- though they've also been reported in eastern Asia and South America.

The bomb cyclone now blasting the Northeast actually doubled the rate necessary to earn it that classification.

It rapidly intensified overnight, undergoing bombogenesis -- or a pressure drop of 24 millibars in less than 24 hours.

This bomb cyclone dropped 53 millibars in just 21 hours, intensifying faster than any such occurrence in recent history.

Wednesday and Thursday’s blockbuster ocean storm, or “bomb cyclone,” plastered the East Coast with blinding snow and stinging winds. From North Carolina to Maine, numerous locations witnessed double-digit snowfall totals while winds gusted 50 to 80 mph. The storm will also be remembered for the enormous amount of ocean water it pushed ashore, causing near-record high tides and major flooding in eastern New England.

The storm managed to generate all of these impacts because it intensified so fast. Meteorologists measure a storm’s rate of strengthening by monitoring its pressure; the faster the pressure falls and the lower it sinks, the stronger the storm becomes. A storm whose pressure falls 24 millibars in 24 hours is classified as a bomb cyclone. This storm’s pressure fell at more than twice that rate: 59 millibars in 24 hours, which put it into the upper echelon of the most explosive East Coast storms ever observed.

Here’s just how much snow, wind and water this explosive storm produced:

• Bangor, Maine: 18.3 inches
• Cape May, N.J.: 17 inches
• Islip, Long Island: 15.8 inches
• Atlantic City: 14.2 inches
• Providence, R.I.: 13.3 inches
• Boston: 13.2 inches
• Portland, Maine: 11 inches
• Ocean City: 11 inches
• Hartford, Conn.: 10.2 inches
• Salisbury, Md.: 10 inches
• New York City: 9.8 inches
• Norfolk: 10 inches
• Philadelphia: 4.1 inches
• Richmond: 2.4 inches
• Annapolis, Md.: 2 inches
• Washington, D.C.: 0.8 inches