Some mail , some progress and a little visitor

Hi there , hope your Thursday is going well . Here in Nova Scotia the weather is again a factor , this time we are having some rain which is creating ice and tonight it will get colder and change to snow , lovely ,just lovely . On to something more positive like pretty mail , I recently received two Valentine postcards , the first arrived from Judy all the way from Idaho and she even handpainted the background fabric , how fun is that .

It is adorable , thanks so much Judy . The next one arrived from Saskatchewan from Carolyn and this was her first postcard exchange .

This sparkly little creation brightened my day , so cute , thanks so much Carolyn for being my partner in the postcard exchange and I hope you will join us again in the next swap , it was my pleasure to swap with you :-)
 Here is the postcard I sent to Carolyn .

This a PP heart , I know she has received it now so I can post a picture . I also sent one to Susan , no blog who lives in Halifax and although I haven't heard it must have arrived as it was sent a couple of weeks ago . For this one I used a free pattern by Karen Neary , it was meant to be a mugrug but I downsized it to fit a postcard .

I hope all the postcards for the exchange have been mailed and possibly received by now , please be sure to post them on your blog and also on the flicker page provided , thanks so much . https://www.flickr.com/groups/2785330@N22/

Now for my progress , I have sewn my blocks together and then my rows together and this is how my quilt looks now .

It would no longer fit on my design wall so I laid it on our bed which makes it a tad more difficult to get a decent picture and since it is raining taking it outside is out of the question . Since taking this picture I have added a narrow border in a green , not the same green as the spools but it does appear in the blocks , I had no more of the green from the spools left . I will now add a pink border and am praying I have enough . I did a rough calculation and I should be fine so fingers crossed .

 While I was eating my lunch I happened to notice through the patio door that a Robin was eating the apple I had thrown out yesterday . I had seen the robin around and was so surprised as they usually don't appear until spring . I grabbed my camera and zoomed to the maxium my little camera will do and took this picture , I cropped it to cut out the door frame .

I know it is not all that clear , it was raining at the time plus it it through the glass , I didn't want to disturb him by opening the door .
 Thanks for stopping by today , I am off now to add that second border , heres hoping I have enough fabric .
 hugs Sheila