Fleeting February

Well, February certainly has passed me right on by. Sure, it's a short month, but it just felt like whoosh! And talk about apricity, (the word I learned at the beginning of February- it means the warmth of the sun in winter), the last few days of this month have been Very Hot! Like 84F all of a sudden, when last week there was snow on the surrounding mountaintops. 

The monthly marker is a combination of two photos, the first is my recently completed quilt, City Sampler.

I used the app, Percolator to manipulate that picture.

Then I used the app, SnapSeed to overlay this picture of the completed quilt, May You Ever Return and add the MARCH label.

Here's my One Second Every Day video for February, all 31 (why not 28?!) seconds of it! 

Monthly I-Did List for February

1. I did the BAM BOM Flying Geese blocks at Sew Day.
2. I trimmed the teeny tiny HSTs™from the Flying Geese in #1
3. I added the sashing/cornerstones to the blocks, then chunked and assembled the Patchwork Palooza quilt top
4. I wrote out and illustrated my two UFO projects this year, UFO Finishes 2026 and BAM UFO Challenge
5. I worked on the next steps of the Oxbow Tote, and then finished it.
6. I began sewing down the binding on City Sampler and then finished it and photographed it too.
7. I made the rest of the purple Flying Geese blocks for the 2nd clue of the Lupine Mystery Quilt.
8. I stitched a lot of green water on Snake in The Garden.
9. I embroidered on May You Ever Return and finished it just in time for the BAM UFO challenge.
10. I cut out the rest of the Flying Geese pieces for Clue 2 of the Lupine Mystery

Turns out for a short month that whizzed by, I got quite a bit done. In February I only traveled to going up and back to Spokane once again for the medical study. I went hiking with family twice, both were new hikes, a great one in a new place and the one closer to home in a part of the park we'd never seen. And DH and I re-joined our local gym. So a lot more of my energy is going towards getting more fit. I kept on being pretty active on social media, posted here on le blogue 26 times,...over on BlueSky 26 times, on Flashes 7 times, and on Instagram 8 times. March is going to be a busier travel month so we'll see if I can continue at close to the same rate.