Power-Less

Pretty Yet Dangerous: ice (on bamboo & clothesline)

Our weather was crazy over the weekend: ice storm, full-on freezing rain that attached itself with a vengeance to every outdoor surface.  The resulting damage to trees meant that over 50% of the households in our tiny town suffered power outages.


This was officially the longest I have been without power in my adult life.  And what does a sewing gal do without power?  Well, for awhile I just watched the storm while hunkered down under a cozy quilt.  Eventually, however, I had to resort to hand sewing. Not my favorite activity, and one I usually put off.

Spent much of the weekend making big-stitch progress on my Barnyard Play Quilt. 


Very slow going, but very zen at the same time (especially with no music or tv as background accompaniment).  And so I am linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching.

And yet, as one of my fellow introverted friends said of the weekend, "I appreciated all the quiet brought about by the storm."