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Baby It’s Cold Outside

I took the dogs for a walk today at about 4:30 or so. I bundled up in a warm coat, a knit hat, a fleece neck gator and gloves.

The boys were almost naked. They sported only their lighted collars and leashes. They were not phased by the cold.

It was a little below 30 degrees at that time but the stiff breeze made it nice and brisk. We had a nice walk of over two miles and it was nice to not have to deal with rain.

Our storm is coming, but they have decided that we won’t get as much snow as they initially thought. The forecast is calling for 1-4 inches starting Saturday morning. The bigger issue will be wind which brings down tree branches which causes power outages. So I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we keep power. It looks like the wind will be worse closer to the mouth of the Columbia River Gorge… which is on the waaaaay opposite of Portland from me. It’s supposed to get pretty cold tonight. Well into the teens. I already have all my faucets dripping water to keep my pipes from freezing. In my six decades of living, I’ve never had frozen pipes. Fingers crossed for this adventure.

I had to go into the office this afternoon to pick up a few things. I noticed that they had salted the roads. You can see the stripes on the road from the salt water slurry.

This is a fairly new thing here. I bet they haven’t been salting the roads for more than a few years.

One thing that will make this more challenging is that they don’t clear roads around here. We just have to wait for it all to melt. Our temps are not going to get above freezing until Wednesday. So the next few days may be prime for staying home. It’s common for the roads to be very slick for days after a snow storm.

I did spend a little bit of time in my sewing room tonight. I sorted out all my Fresh Start blocks and got the sashing colors nicely distributed in the pile. Then they all went back up on the design wall and I tweaked a few things.

It looks pretty good to me. I will take a last look at it tomorrow and then I’ll start sewing it all together. with the weather tomorrow, It should be pretty easy to get this all sewn together in one day.

I received the package of fabrics I ordered mid day today. These are fabrics I need for the quilt my friend and I will make when she visits next month.

I have a couple things I want to do before I start cutting into these fabrics. It’s a good thing too because they sent one of the fabrics I ordered in the wrong color way. This color way is magenta and I ordered red.

The one I need has a lovely black background and red flowers. It’s already on it’s way to me. I took advantage of the situation and ordered a piece of the fabric used for the cornerstones to be shipped in the same package. I wasn’t going to add the cornerstones and then someone commented that they probably show up more in person then they do in the book. So I switched plans and will include the cornerstones. I have a really good method I use to make sashing with cornerstones. I’ve written about it before, but I’ll share again when I get into constructing this quilt.

Some of these fabrics are really wonderful. I just love this one called Carpet Cookies.

GAH! Talk about eye candy!

Looking forward to a weekend of warm comfort food and getting a lot done.

43 Replies to “Baby It’s Cold Outside”

  2. Looking forward to your snow report! Carpet Cookies is one of those fabrics that just works in so many quilts, and makes a fantabulous border (I recently used it on a baby quilt I like sooo much I will be making a lap quilt for myself along the same lines). If I like a fabric enough to buy it I get 2 yards. If I love the fabric I get 5. I got 5 of the Carpet Cookies!

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  4. I love your Fresh Start quilt, and since I sorted my Kaffe scraps last evening I may start that quilt soon!
    As to your weather-be happy you don’t live in Iowa! We had 13 inches of snow on Tuesday and 12 inches yesterday‼️now we have blizzard conditions with dropping temperatures. The wind chill today will be as low as -16. By next Wednesday the actual temperature will be -15.
    Iowa does do a great job of clearing roads though.
    I enjoy reading your posts-stay warm!

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    1. Hahaha! It’s a dried sage leaf that’s been there for a couple years. My sister in law gave it to me fresh when I was leaving their place to head home. it’s been on my dashboard ever since!

      Anne

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  8. Hi,
    You think it’s cold at your place, come visit me in Michigan, you’ll see how cold it is.😜
    I was wondering if you bought your design wall or made it??
    Annette

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    1. My friend saw that design wall at a quilt show may years ago. She came home and called me about it and I asked her to purchase one for me and have it shipped. It has a wooden box on top that contains two roll-up blinds made from heavy flannel backed plastic sheets. You can roll both down or up. you can even roll your blocks up in them… but it sort of makes a mess of your blocks. I don’t know if the guy who made them is even around any more. There are similar things online.

      Here’s a video that shows how it works.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5h5S52oOts

      Anne

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  9. Such beautiful fabrics. Can I ask where on line do you order your fabrics. You always seems pleased when you get your order. Just LOVE your quilts. Diane

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  12. We went to the Banff Mt Film Festival in Spokane last night. It has moved to the Fox theatre, which is just as beautiful as the Bing, but much bigger. It was -5 when we walked back to the car. It is puffy coat weather here. But no snow.

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    1. Hahaha! It’s a dried sage leaf My SIL gave me a fresh sage leaf as I was leaving her house to head home a couple years ago. It’s been on my dash ever since!!! But it does look like a mouse!!!

      Anne

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  14. Anne, I’m new to following you on Instagram but have enjoyed your posts on the Kaffe Facebook pages for a while now. I’ve made a Frankenbag and Kaffe fabric notecards. I’ve seen several references to your ornaments with the 3 trees, made with Kaffe fabrics, as well as a tutorial ‘linked in (my) profile’. After searching your profile and blog, I am still unable to find that tutorial. Would you be so kind to send it to me if it is still available? Many thanks. Laurie Bennett

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    1. whenever you see “linked in profile” on Instagram, click on the person’s name, which will take you to their instagram page. From there you can see a paragraph of information about them. I will include a link that looks something like this: linktr.ee/agilejack1. If you click on that you’ll get a list of links that they’ve set up. On mine, the tutorial for my fresh start quilt is the first option.

      But here’s a direct link to my tutorial.https://agilejack1.com/2024/01/06/agilejacks-fresh-start-quilt-block-tutorial/

      you can also go directly to my blog as http://www.agilejack1.com and search for tutorials.

      Anne

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  16. The Fresh Start blocks are gorgeous!! Some good questions in your comments today! I hope you will answer them in a blog post because it seems several of us have the same questions…..

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  18. Anne

    OMG, if that’s your shower curtain…it’s humongously great!

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    div dir=”ltr”>…and your fresh start blocks lay up is wonderful.  You knocked it put of the park!  Gosh, amazing, you’ve never had frozen pipes!  There’s something really wrong with us, it’s my 3rd winter

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    1. I love that shower curtain. I bought it a couple years ago after an extensive search online. It too months to arrive! It was early on in the pandemic. I have visions of it sitting in a shipping container on a dock somewhere!

      Anne

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  19. I live just up the way in Nanaimo, B.C. We’ve had record cold temps of -13C or about 4 degrees in the morning after having record highs in December – go figure. Luckily not much snow yet this year – just one snow the other day and only 1″.
    I’m from Ontario, Canada and they brine the roads like yours when a storm is predicted so the roads don’t get so icy and it does help. In Nanaimo we don’t normally get a lot of snow but weather sure is changing. I love your dogs – so fun loving and active. I had a Bearded Collie who was also very active and a herder although I never took her herding like you do. There were some herding meets for Beardies in Ontario. Love your blog.

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    1. Wow! That’s just to cold!

      We had a really warm and mild winter until this storm hit and I don’t think it’s ever going to leave! We still haven’t had any sun and the winds continue to blow although they are decreasing.

      I’m ready for it to be over! Stay warm!

      Anne

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  20. Wow! I love the carpet cookies fabric 😍. I just pulled out some of the same beautiful fabric you are showing from your package you just received. Oranges and pinks seem to speak to me during cold days. Your quilt is exquisite! I saw on the news Portland area had high winds to go along with the cold and snow. A huge tree fell on a house and killed an elderly man. Be safe and stay warm. Hi Rico and Bender 🥰

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    1. I love orange and pink together! toss a little yellow in there too!

      So many trees down all over the place. someone today said we should also think about all the trees that didn’t come down!!! Not sure that makes me feel any safer right now. Will take some time to relax!

      Anne

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  21. Your juju must’ve been working on my wave length, ’cause I just received a package of carpet cookies in 3 color ways! No idea what is planned for them, but I had to have them so I did. So glad you avoided going for the mail and taking a big fall. Smart girl you are.

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  22. hi Anna, I love your quilt so much that I’ve made it in to a table runner. Thank you so much for showing my have to be bold and I’m enjoying my quilting so much more because of you. Thanks. Kathleen. ENGLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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