Quilts and Trees

Tess had her 2nd quilt class last night. She’s making great progress on her quilt and is really enjoying seeing it come together. Her instructor said she is a great student. I dropped her off last night at the class and picked her up 3 hours later when it ended. I’ll post a photo of her quilt when it’s complete. (That won’t be for a little while, so don’t go holding your breath or anything…)

On other news, we made a little Christmas progress yesterday. The tree is now redecorated. I can’t remember if I mentioned it here, but the real tree we bought the weekend after Thanksgiving was immediately dry and shedding furiously. So we tossed it out the front door and eventually returned it to Lowe’s for a refund. Then we bought a lovely prelit artificial 7.5-foot spruce. I generally like a real tree. In NY, we would always cut our own tree at a tree farm. But there’s something to be said for “instant Christmas tree” when spare time is at a premium! This one even comes with a remote! No crawling under shedding, scratchy branches and over piles of delicately wrapped packages to plug in or unplug the lights. Genius I tell you!