The sun is shining. The temperature is 6 degrees, wind chill factor is minus 10. It’s hard to believe that a huge storm is on the way, but the Weather Channel keeps telling me it’s going to be bad.

I worry about my Texans, but have been assured they are prepared for what’s to come.

I hope everyone reading this is warm and safe.

Meanwhile, back in the sewing room, I’ve been working on a yellow quilt that I started last spring. I finished the blocks (about 98 of them) about ten days ago, put some of them on the design wall and immediately realized it was ugly. And boring.

What to do, what to do…

I decided it needed a medallion in the middle, a rectangle of yellow fabric about 14″ x 22″, with borders that would tie in all of the shades of yellow and make the quilt look decent. I won’t bore you with the quilt math that was involved in creating this “medallion” (quilt talk for a center rectangle), but it took a while to get the measurements right.

All that’s needed now is a heck of a lot of ironing and some time on the design wall to put it all together. I wasn’t sure I had the energy for that, so back in its box it went to wait for February. Daughter Nancy enjoys helping with the block layouts, but she’s been sick and unavailable to lay out the blocks for me.

I have the same issue with a red quilt. Ironing? Design wall? Not right now…and back in the box it will go.

I need a really good show to watch while I iron all of these blocks. Any suggestions?