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Saturday, February 10, 2018

Snowmaggedon

Snow days are great reasons for getting a ton of sewing done.

I finished my block for guild, which was supposed to have been turned in Thursday, but I fussy cut it wrong and had to get more fabric and recut. I reread the instructions and think it turned out perfect. I will turn it in at the next guild meeting.

Since I was already working on guild stuff, I grabbed the March friendship block and made it up quickly too.

My temperature quilt. January is done, and I got the first 5 days of February done too.

I worked on my It's a Wildlife Blocks for February which is a BOM which is being hosted by Amy of Sew Incredibly Crazy. I previously shared the fabrics I purchased for the backgrounds. These are digitally printed from Hawthorne Threads. I picked some fabrics that I thought would be outdoorsy.

Constellations in glacial blue on white.

Constellations in white on glacial blue.

Plume in glacial blue.

Snowflakes in glacial blue.

I kind of really like how the backgrounds worked with my batik scraps I had selected.

I had some acquisitions that I had not shared yet.

Puppy Love by Riley Blake, I will make a simple quilt for a charity.

Some fabrics I picked up. I decided I needed some greens. I selected some of the Riley Blake Kisses.

I chose some buttery yellows for backgrounds for some more wool blocks. There is the Buttermilk Basin mystery BOM, and River's Edge Antiques and Quilt Loft that have free ones.

I have been adding to my wool stash so that I can work on these when I am ready to go.

I liked the names of these two bundles. Flag blue, and charcoal grey.

I was invited to join another quilt guild. Mainly we do hand sewing, but once a month they all work on one quilt. I am a wee bit behind, but I decided to grab a kit and try to catch up.

I need to get to work on it so I can catch up.

I first had to figure out what fabrics were what. I used the Andover website and labeled each fabric. Unfortunately the picture is not very good, and the directions do not tell you which fabric to use other than light, or a blue. Now if all of the cuts were the same amount it wouldn't be a problem, but all the cuts are different sizes. I found a good picture, blew it up and with the pattern I marked each color on the pattern. Now I am collating each fabric to figure out the sizes that I need to cut out of each fabric.
As to our snowmaggedon we had about 36 hours of hard snowfall.

The boys did 4 rounds of shoveling to keep the porches, walkways, and driveway clear. You can see how much they have had to pile up. They actually ended up breaking the shove.

Here is a good reference to how much snow we got.

These marks were in the snow in front of my garage. Wing marks! I think my angel has been visiting.

Friday, February 9, 2018

It's A Bobbin World

My daughter and I have decided it's a Bobbin World and I am just here to fulfill her every wish and desire.

My house used to not get very messy, but now...the vacuum stays near at hand.

See that? The red looking blob. It is a piece of onion skin that blew out of the garbage can in the kitchen. Bobbin retrieved it and carried it into the living room before I picked it up.

Random tennis ball fur, and cat toy feathers.

A Bobbin eye view. Trust me it is bad.

A human's eye view of the destruction.

Even the end table is not immune. Bobbin has decided we can walk through to get behind stuff, and reach through the bars and grab kleenex out of the garbage can next to the end table to shred.

And it doesn't stop with just one room. This is the "sick room" the only bedroom downstairs. Feathers--from a stolen cat toy, a packing peanut or two, some styrofoam....where she finds it I don't know. And don't even get me started about the plastic pillow packing bags in packages. She loves to bite them and pop them.

Dining room, rubber band, paper that has been pulled out of the garbage can, fabric bits pulled out of the can that I use to collect those fabric bits for animal pillows.

Where she eats in the kitchen.

More tennis ball fuzz. Why it is by the garbage can I have no idea. Bobbin can defuzz a tennis ball in a matter of minutes.

The crack which separates the old part of the house to the new part. I really should get my floors refinished, and put a threshold here. Bobbin likes to come along and drop stuff into the crack. Food, fabric pieces, fuzzies, paper. I go through and vacuum it regularly.

Even the great room is not immune to Bobbinfying.

The bathroom I was trying to figure out how my towels and washrags kept ending up on the floor. I know now. Little miss goes in and pulls them off the side of the bath tub and the towel bar. Also heaven forbid the bathroom door be closed.

Bobbin likes laying on a fleece tied blanket that was made for Jeff a couple of years ago. I am not sure if it was Bobbin or a kid, that tore a hole in it. So I decided to make Bobbin her own pillow. Stuffed with fabric scraps, batting scraps and some of Jeff's old socks.

It must be by the heat vent which is kind of behind the TV. Don't even look at the TV stand. I noticed the other day it was all gooey looking. Bobbin likes licking the glass.

This area was picked up earlier. This is after destructo struck.

Even Lucy's bed is not safe. We drug it over by my feet, and decided to crush it.

Sometimes we fill it with our toys, or better yet.

Find a piece of cardboard out of the recycle box and barricade it so Lucy cannot use it.

Of course no quilt may be photographed without Bobbin assistance.

I forgot what a whirlwind of energy puppies were.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

I Like Thursday #13

Welcome to my I Like Thursday post. This is week 13 for me. I want to say a huge Thank You to LeeAnna for encouraging me, cajoling me, ~~nagging me~~, goading, prompting, inviting me to join in with the other ladies posting things that they found during the week that they liked. By doing these posts most of the time I am thinking of places to go, or to take a picture of something that I might like.

I went to the bank today and am always fascinated by these grasses that have taken over the area around the parking lot. From what I understand they are an invasive species which were introduced as ornamental grasses.

I like how the snow sits on them, they look like huge q-tips.

I also like how tall they get even though they are not a good plant. They muck up the marshlands, and dry them up.

I like how the snow clings to vertical surfaces. Life the leaf motifs on my swing.

I like the shadow the webbing makes on the snow. It is so fun and interesting with the curlicues.

Even the shadow of the end is very interesting.

I like how the snow is so even and pristine and white. It looks like a huge fluffy blanket has been thrown over the earth.

This is the "lot" we call it. A big open expanse of grass during the summer.

I like this little tree. I had to look it up and I think it is a spruce to be honest. Pine trees the needles stand up, and are flat. Pine trees several needles come out of the same spot. Spruce trees the needles are single needles along the branch, but they are more rounded. Wow I learned something new today! All the little birds that hang out around my house get into this tree and fuss.

Finally I like this hot chocolate. I am normally not an impulse buyer. I go with a list and stick to my list. Most of the time. Today I veered a bit from my list and bought some pork ribs, a roast, and this hot chocolate mix.

The flavor is Double Udder, and you make it with hot milk, and a couple of heaping teaspoons of the chocolate mix. I will say that it is awesome!

Now head over to LeeAnna's at Not Afraid of Color and check out the other I Like Thursday posts.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Put A Little Love In Your Quilt

Welcome to day 3 of Put a Little Love in Your Quilt. A shout out to Carol of Just Let Me Quilt for thinking up this blog hop, and organizing...she did a great job.

I haven't participated in a blog hop in quite a long time, but when Carol announced this one I thought it was time to join the world of the living again.

I saw these lovely fabric and I knew that I had a plan which went way out of my normal comfort zone.

When you think of hearts you think of love.

I went to 1001 Fonts and found a free font I liked, pasted it to Microsoft Word manipulated it a bit and enlarged it. I then used my handy dandy school projector and enlarged it some more.

With some Thermo Web Heat n' Bond lite taped to the wall I traced my word. Then following the manufacturer's directions fused it onto my fabric. Cut it out and....Epic Fail.....forgot to reverse my word. Thank goodness all I had to do was flip over my transparency and trace again. Cut out again, and finally fused it to my background. I thought it looked a wee bit plain. I needed some hearts!

I used the tutorial from the blog Cluck, Cluck Sew on making multiple sized hearts, and decided hearts it was. I pulled reds and neutral backgrounds from my stash.

And made what felt like a bazillion hearts.

But I have 2 bazillion bonus HST!

Yeah, at that point in time my quilt math skill failed me miserably and I needed to cut my center down a wee bit one way because I had cut it too small, and to make my hearts work I had to add a border. Have I mentioned how much I love Moda Grunge and my stash in the Maraschino colorway was perfect?

Maraschino is the middle color.

My borders made here I was trying to sandwich with minkie, batting, and the quilt assistant, lets just way it was a trial.

The Minkie had hearts of course. We had a beautiful snowy day so I tried to do a photo shoot in the snow. There was a wee bit of a breeze and trying to get my quilt to lay nice and flat was just not happening. I miss my quilt holder. :D

Here is the backing, you can see my quilting a little, and of course the quilt assistant.

I quilted echoes around the word a few times, then I quilted with a design I saw on the Midnight Quilt show on the main fabric, and some straight lines in the border, and hearts.

I made my binding out of the Moda Grunge Maraschino also.

Here is the other quilt assistant while I am trying to get ready to bind.

I ~~also cheated and~~ actually machine sewed my binding down completely this time and it worked out pretty good.

Oops missed a thread.

Yep the quilt assistant felt that she needed to be in almost every indoor picture.

This quilt has been tested and approved by the quilt assistants, they are my heart and loves.

Now hop on over to the other bloggers for today and check out their creations.