Let it snow + addendum

~ Liz A
January 10, 2021 – Snow day fence

When you get snow once every three years it tends to get your attention …

Slow motion snow video

So yesterday, there was a lot of watching out the window. And there might also have been soup for lunch followed by a mid-afternoon snack of hot chocolate and popcorn …

But best of all were the pictures streaming out of Austin …

of a first-time experience for the grandgirls …

Turn up video volume to hear the best giggle ever

Such fun …

Addendum:

The patches are stitched together day-by-day making a linear calendar of sorts …

Each month will be about 60″ long … then the strips will be stitched together with black and white borders, as I did with Remember 2016 …

17 thoughts on “Let it snow + addendum”

  1. I remember the first time I saw snow after years of living in Hawaii. If only I could get even near that excitement nowadays. ?? Do you attach each square as you go so you end up with a calendar of sorts? Thank you so much for sharing .. one after another is just so so great.

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    1. Thanks for asking Tina … I attached an addendum to the post for folks who are relatively new to the blog to explain what I’m up to. I don’t know if I’ll post every single day the way I did in 2016, but I do intend to make a patch to represent every day this year … the better to remember.

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  2. Hi LA – great to see the children enjoying the snow. Already the patches are growing – it is going to result in an amazing visual record. Go well. B

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    1. B – a little bit each day adds up quite quickly … and I had to laugh when our daughter in St Louis (which gets a lot of snow) said that her kids only get excited when there’s at least 6 inches of snow on the ground!

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  3. Have you considered to connect the years together at some point? I love the falling snow, both real and stitched. I can still recall my children’s complete thrill when it snowed here in SoCal!! They were 6 & 9 at the time and had very little experience with snow and never at their home. Snow is like a blanket the holds and preserves until it’s time…may with have snow cover everything, everywhere as a long pause until the world is a kinder, gentler, better place?!
    I’ve been craving popcorn lately, so yours looks especially yummy!

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    1. I did at one point consider doing a series of yearly cloths and stitching them together into a bed blanket, but … my free-style way of going in 2016 resulted in a cloth that was 58″ across the top and 61″ across the bottom … a little too wonky to wrap my head around

      And popcorn … I could eat it every day … especially when popped in unrefined coconut oil! In fact, I did eat it every day in college (it was my faithful study companion) … many pounds later I realized it wasn’t a sustainable relationship (ha!)

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  4. Oh my goodness I love this one! The coloured sky with snow and that fence! And what great shots from Austin; it was fabulous to hear that squeal of delight. Such fun together – and such a joy to experience snow for the first time. Whenever I am anywhere and it snows I just stop and stare in absolute awe. Thanks for re-showing 2016; what a fabulous way of telling a year…happy to go along on the journey and don’t pressure yourself to post every day – we shall enjoy its revealing itself whenever it can. Go well.

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    1. Thanks Fiona … Meg is a fantastic photographer and we are the happy recipients of her imagery

      As for the cloth, I continue to be amazed at how most of the 2016 patches take me back in time more effectively than any journal I have ever kept … but I’m glad I didn’t start a new cloth in 2020!

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  5. And in the reverse…as children my brothers and I were in shock after living in Alaska for most of our childhood and then moving to Washington state to find that school could be cancelled for an inch of snow!

    And now, snow is pretty magical to me too, as long as I am not driving. 🙂

    Love seeing your strip together.

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    1. I grew up in New York where we had enough snow to be fairly blasé about driving on plowed roads, in large part because most drivers knew to slow down, so it was relatively safe … not so down south, which can be really scary when you see folks driving at normal speeds on ice-slicked roads

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  8. Dear Liz, so appreciating the hope & joy that your posts hold… from your small things list to celebration of snow in videos & sweet stitches. I’m looking forward to watching another year of your beautifully stitched patches grow (especially love the hot pink dots in the healing patch). Thank you for your kind words, sharing, & strong loving spirit.

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