A Passion for Applique

Thursday night parts of North Carolina saw its first snow. I love the snow. Some years our area sees a lot of snow, other years not so much snow. Mr. P. and I would walk out on the porch as it was snowing to see some huge flakes. We also had snow thunder which was very odd. I dressed warmly the next morning to go outside to take some photos. I enjoyed walking around my yard exploring and taking photos of what ever caught my eye. It was so beautiful.

Somehow I caught this gold finch in mid air flying to the feeder.

 We actually lost power around 5:30am and it wasn't turned back on until 11:00am. I sure am glad we have this wood burning stove to help keep the house warm. Our home is total electric so when the power goes off we always wait in anticipation for it to come back on. During the time the power was out I practiced my crocheting and did some more hand quilting on my daughter's quilt.

 Check out these tracks in the snow. These were very foreign to me and it took Mr. P. and I  a while to figure what kind of animal left theses tracks. We did a little online searching and figured out these are running rabbit tracks.

  Yesterday the mailman brought me a package all the way from Australia.

 
 Jenny of Elefantz was having a giveaway of the new issue this Australian magazine.  I was one of the winners. She also sent some lovely thread from Australia.

 The reason she was having a giveaway was because she is featured in the magazine. If you read Jenny's blog you know how creative she is. She is so generous to share free patterns with us all too. I have made several of her patterns.

Thanks so much Jenny for the magazine and the thread. Can't wait to find the perfect project for the thread.

Now that we have power turned back on I might try to finish making the borders for Mr. P's quilt this weekend.

With Passion,
Carrie P.