T Stands for Tuesday Christmas Light Show & Quilting

 Good morning, It's early Monday morning right now-and wow the fog is thick over the lake. It's around 8:30 am now but an hour earlier we couldn't even see our dock and boat. So now the fog is beginning to lift a bit. 

    T Stands for Tuesday is upon us so you are most welcome to join us for T with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth-find link in my sidebar. Only requirement is to share a drink related photo.

   Larry's sister and daughter are here at their lake house for a week or so, her husband will drive in after work Wednesday. We haven't been to visit yet they are about 45 minutes drive away and they are in a spot we wouldn't want to be. For being a Chicago city girl they chose a super rural area-they have to maintain their own roads, there is a huge steep hill to drive down with a switchback to get to their home-and once the lake drops 10 feet they will have no lake water deep enough to fish or move a boat in. We are shaking our heads, and she is finding out about some major structure concerns with the home.  She wouldn't listen to any advice before buying, so we are just staying "out of it" It will be faster to visit them by boat so we will do that one day.

     His sister likes to drive all over-I don't like to drive anywhere haha  so I can see her and I may be doing some fun things together-exploring caves-Missouri has allot of them and there are a couple state parks near by as well. She already has a list 😀

   The town near us Laurie Mo has a Christmas drive through light show that I was curious about. Last year Larry was still recovering from his heart valve surgery so we didn't go.  So we all went last night. It was pretty cool and very few cars-a good thing as it was not set up very well on which way to drive around-a real mess actually but I was glad I got to see it.  His sister and daughter took photos with the cell phone.

  I am posting several photos so I have the photos smaller-just click on them for full size views.

There were allot of exhibits each one having a sponsor-I ended up with a headache though with lights all around the car against the blackness.  It was a pretty cool exhibit and am happy we got to see it.

   Friday I finished the second gift quilt early in the day so I could get it packed and mailed off to my friend. She is suppose to get it today (Monday) possibly Tuesday. I don't think she will visit this blog so will share a few photos.  I am really happy with the finish very cozy and warm, the fabrics are all quality quilt brushed or flannel cottons.  This one I needed to make and sew on a binding-and it went pretty well.

                        The binding

I guess I didn't get really good photos-I was in a rush to get this to the post office so it would arrive before Thanksgiving

      

The backing took me several days to get laid out correctly-there is a panel on both sides with the stars in the middle-and getting that to lay out even was a major challenge for some reason. 

Now on to my queen size quilt with some of these same fabrics for my quilt.

      I also grabbed my basket of civil war reproduction fabric hexagons to hand sew in the evenings-now that I have a new ott light that stands next to the couch. Some of you may remember this project. I started it a bit before we decided to move to the lake. I had put it aside also wondering if I was up to the task of this project-it is all hand sewing with silk thread for the top. Thinking it also needs to be hand quilted. I love these fabrics so am going to push forward as if I don't start soon my hands will not be up to the task.

This pattern was modified from an actual civil war era quilt that  found online. The design was off balance so a blog friend at the time that teaches and makes exceptional hexagon quilts helped me to design this pattern There will be Allot of two shades of browns to cut out and sew, but I think it will be a beautiful quilt.

  For my drink reference, I remembered that I had a bottle perfect for the season that had I bought a few years ago at the Aldi store. That store is now too far away to shop at. This was pretty good but very rich so I am glad that I had only purchased one bottle.

Are you ready for Thanksgiving? It will just be the two of us this year. The last several years we were invited over to a friends home.  I decided instead of roasting a whole turkey I would grill a butterball turkey breast tenderloin, along with a small ham-we love ham and beans for later in the week.  I will bake up a couple pies, make cranberry sauce from scratch-I always do- and a few veggie sides. We are still limiting our carbs so no starchy side dishes.

    Happy T Day and those of you living in the States Happy Thanksgiving