Old Red Baskets for This New Year

Hello, hello. Thanks for all kind get well wishes! And, for now, comments will be answered here, so please check back? I'm doing better but looks like a slow recuperation, nights and mornings are so hard, cough comes and goes etc. But enough boohooing! Here's Mo with New Years wishes for you all. He commandeered the clicker to watch the Ball Drop in the city.

Old Red Baskets ~ back from the quilter, such a delightful surprise on Christmas Day-after.

Detailed autumn quilting highlights its Autumn intent [acorns! oak leaves!], 

...but having it here to slowly hand bind as the early darkness looms these January days has been a little joy as I slowly recover from the flu. 

The warmth of the colors--hers, back in the 1800s, mine now in the '20s, please me hugely. Perhaps the Baskets will be fun in April with stripey tulips too?

@quilters_imagination ❤️ : Lori's quilting is so beautiful. I am amazed by the depth and form that her stitching imparts to what were actually pretty flimsy blocks, Reused, not un-used, faded, thin. Now, with our care, the blocks shine anew. A tiny qulty miracle of recycling success.

Binding is in work, the small red calico. I'll post when done, esp if  I can get my grocery guy to bring those imagined tulips. [TULips, sir, not TURnips, lol.lol. The flyer shows tulips, but the website says turnips.]

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I can't brave the cold wind for even a tiny winter walk yet, so I watch from my window instead. Things I noticed---a robin high in the snow drooped ugly locust tree. Not quite in the place of Mr Mockingbird, but close.

The Wolf Moon. I so wanted to see it: moon closest to earth, earth closest to sun for this year. Grey skies obscured that event, tho I'll look again tonight.

The ships at sea--on NYE they looked so close and so festive, as if every possible light on each ship was illuminated. One ship was especially flamboyant. I trolled thru Shipfinders, hoping to see this was a large cruise ship [to no avail]; wouldn't a full moon NYE cruise in NY Harbor be fun and memorable.

To welcome Winter of 26 I put Winter Marsh on my bed this afternoon. Upside down, oh well. I'll add a picture later maybe.

Mo is doing well; he is still a bit frantic about being sent away, however loving the home was. In time he will stop glaring I hope?

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....

PS knitting.

For busy hands work, I decided [while ill] that I would make a practice little scarf without the challenge of the impossibly difficult i-cord. Just to practice my diagonal imcreases. Hahahaha. Never in all my years of knitting, since we were secretly taught by Mrs Hull during 6th grade recess, have I knitted such a sad lumpen bit of textile. A do-over.