Even though it snowed steadily for 24 hours yesterday, here in SE Pennsylvania we only ended up with about 9 inches and it is very light. It still makes for treacherous walking and driving but nothing like NYC and eastern Massachusetts. The temperatures are a bigger problem dipping down into single digits overnight. We do have a generator if the power goes out but most of our neighbors do not. Last time there was a multi-day power failure event, we charged batteries and ground coffee for neighbors we had never even met. 

I am happy that I have the big quilt to hold on my lap during weather like this. Some of the rooms in this old stable are difficult to keep warm. I think I have between one and two months of quilting left even if I work every day. I have some thoughts on my next project but at this point the main thought is to make something smaller like a table runner. Perhaps I will make a cushion cover for the inglenook bench in our living room. We still have this old fashioned white on white damask cover from the previous owner who died at the age of 97. My living room is relatively serene in design and color so the white/ivory color is all right if not terribly exciting but some kind of applique cover would be great. No one really sits there very much so the extra wear and tear of people's derrieres wouldn't matter.

 As it happens, I haven't finished the current project as Joanne from MA thinks, but still patiently hand quilting every half inch across this queen sized quilt. The colors turn out to be the colors of suffragettes in the early 20th century but the blocks are from further back. Since it is called either Whig Rose or Democrat Rose, I am guessing it was a pro-slavery block since Democrats were the supporters of slavery. But these days the affiliated parties have switch their public stances with Democrats being those who want to expand voter options and  Republicans slamming on the brakes.

Most of that doesn't matter when quilting since it is the block itself, regardless of previous attachments, that the quilter looks at and chooses. I have found a home for this already. One of my neighbors has a daughter getting married in the late spring.

I hope to finish this long before the wedding but the health issues I wrote about previously are only settling in for the long haul. For the most part, I just feel utterly miserable so I either have to not eat at all or eat very sparingly.  The best guess anyone has is that I have at least one stomach ulcer (this was determined a decade ago) and probably more. Will I get better? At this point it seems unlikely and if I keep losing weight it won't matter. In the past I swallowed a camera but all that did was take pictures that no one thought were conclusive. This time I don't know what hoops I will have to jump through, or if I will get any questions answered but I am still hanging in there and quilting every day.