Winter doldrums....

This is what I woke up to this morning.  The Sundogs are back.  It was only -4*F but it was windy.  New drifts piling up....and others being sculpted by the wind.  It is like an ocean of white with waves of snow frozen in motion.  It is strange the shapes the snow can create.  It must be this way in the desert too.  Oh well, spring will be here soon. 

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I ventured to Mayville on my lunch "hour" under the guise of taking the bank deposit to the ban in Mayville.  I really went to return something to the quilt store and get something new.   I needed some tropical colors and these batik fabrics fit the bill.
I hope to make a journal out of them.  I was poking around on pinterest a while ago and found a journal made out of paper but with dimensional houses on the front.  I thought at first it was fabric but I contacted the original pinner and asked her.  She it was all paper.  I mentioned that it would be cool in fabric as well and she encouraged me to make one in fabric.  I have given it a lot of thought so we will see what happens in reality. I have preliminary plans thought up.  I am not sure what binding  stitch I will use I have few from all the binding classes I have taken so we'll see what I can come up with to make the binding interesting.