I will give you a loan of mine Charae - just bought it to go with a scarf that a friend gave me for my birthday. It is lined with duck feather and down and is a lovely dark olive green. You can pop over to pick it up anytime as it's very mild here at the moment.

I normally don't join conversations about how cold it is because (1) I live in the south San Francisco Bay area which is almost always relatively temperate and (2) I can no longer dodge things that are thrown at me as quickly as I used to, BUT this morning it was 32 degrees F here (0 degrees C) and I noticed it! Frost on the roof top, frost on the grass, iced wind shields. I grew up in Colorado and lived in Chicago for many years so I "know from cold" as they say! My husband is from the Buffalo area; even more credibility! It seems we have forgotten that every once in a while, even here, a coat may be required... for the life of me, I can't remember where I left mine!

Wow Robyn and Joan - polar opposites! I don't think I would enjoy either of those climactic conditions. Robyn stay cool and Joan stay warm. Will you post a photo of your quilt Robyn?

We must be at the other side of the world Robin we had -30 C today and the same for tomorrow It is a marvellous excuse to stay home and quilt. The kids left for home today and I enjoyed a me day working on Sedona Star. Happy New Year everyone Joan

loise98 wrote:
No problems staying warm here today in Adelaide - we are heading for about 40C (not sure what that is in farenheit but it's pretty hot!). My sewing room is our old garage. It has air conditioning but I feel a bit guilty running the airconditionong out in the garage when we have the house airconditioning on as well. So it might be a good chance to stay inside the house and pin baste my Wot RoTT quilt (???) - it's been ready to baste for about 6 months - not my favourite part of the whole process as, for me, it involves crawling around on the family room floor ....and instead of a hot whisky (which sounds pretty good I must say) - a nice cold beer or chilled white wine at the end of the day for me

loise98 wrote:
And it's low-fat! The soup looks delicious. I would skip the cream though, if you blend it well it doesn't need it. And I use a hand blender so that I don't have to wash out the jug of the blender.

Bren, I think you need to be a bit obssessive about quilting to keep up here. But yes, I think it takes lots of clicking. BTW, Ricky is more regular with his posting although I haven't checked lately. Mostly, I try to keep up with the Forum and check out "view new posts" at least once, if not more often, each day. It might be an addiction, but a lot healthier than some.

So today I am exploring this TQS sight and I found a blog place for Ricki and one for Alex...
What I found was Alex hasn’t blogged since 04/20/2010
and that blog was called something like back in the saddle again, so did she get bucked off and hasn’t blogged since or what... LOL I'm just kidding!
I didn’t bother to look at Ricki's I might later on...

Anyway there sure is a lot of stuff on here. So my question is... is there a really good way to keep posted as to what is going on at all times in every area of this sight? or do you just keep clicking and looking around?

Oh yea I decided to print off the patterns and instructions for the Sedona Star quilt... I think I may have made a big mistake... I have filled the printer 2 times with paper and I don’t think it has printed month 4 yet... I guess I missed that disclaimer saying to buy lots of paper and ink if you want to print this instruction quilt off. LOL... gotta love quilting right!

I think I will try the potato soup tomorrow. However, I have a new bag of red potatoes, so I will skip peeling them. And I will skip putting it in a blender. Gotta' cut down some of that prep time.

After having our traditional "good luck" pork and sauerkraut yesterday (on New Years Day), that Potato Soup sounds delicious for supper tonight with a nice salad. YUM
Lori

Margo wrote:
I wish someone would make some for me. I am to lazy also. Looks like a lot of work. But is sounds really good.

Did u see Jb's web special? I like the teal..
http://www.jinnybeyer.com/ax_commerce/webSpecial.cfm

I just saw that post from Ree! My mouth is watering but I'm too darn lazy to make it!

me too, something hot with whiskey... a hot tottie!

Just got this email from my friend Ree so I would go with this hot deal too....

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2013/01/perfect-potato-soup/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pwcooks+%28The+Pioneer+Woman+Cooks%21%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail