happy fat Tuesday

After eight years or so in Colorado, I finally found some paczki for Fat Tuesday.



People around here don't eat doughnuts, and certainly there aren't the passel of Poles pushing for paczki as there are in the Midwest, so it is pretty exciting to find them at the grocery store.



they were pretty mediocre even for grocery store paczki but better than nothing. the lemon were the best of the lemon, strawberry, blueberry, prune, and apple ones I tried.

in other news, I got some exciting packages in the mail last week.

my mom made me panda potholders. love them! I heart pandas.


my dad sent along some goodies too - including A CAN OF BREAD.

the quilt that became a doll quilt that became potholders

I don't usually have unfinished quilt projects. I usually work on one thing at a time and start new projects only when I finish another. But this one is a project I had started maybe a year ago, a quilt idea that I set aside once I realized I didn't have enough of the gray fabric to make much of a quilt with it. I dragged it out recently with the idea of making a doll quilt from it. Then I thought better of this, and decided on potholders.



the design is half square triangles. the smallest squares are one inch, which was stupid since I am rotten at precision work.

the backing fabric is a reproduction print.



I like them, but I wish that I had worked on a scale of blocks that didn't end up looking sloppy.