Weekend with the Poodle Prince 09-07-13

Please let me know if the photos don't show.  Del

Sunday 7:30am  Pacific Time - Picasa cannot fix this at this time.  I'll try again later.  Del
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Corky hasn't been staying with me very often lately, so I was delighted to welcome him Friday afternoon.  I return him to Long Beach tomorrow.  Of course, I don't get much of anything done when he is here, but he is such a dear little guy.  At seventeen he pretty much just sleeps, eats, poops, sleeps, takes meds, sleeps, ......  etc.! .


Corky sleeping with his new pillowcase. Placentia - 2007
 

Riding in the Lexus - all hooked up to be safe.  Placentia - 2007

Corky in a snit.  I don't remember what I had done to make him mad, but he kept it up for a long time.  Long Beach - 2005.

Corky "helps" me sew.  I put him up on the table in his bed so he could look outside.  He kept creeping closer and closer to me until I was worried about sewing his ear into my quilt.  Placentia -2004.

Friday Fannies 09-06-13

I guess there were thousands of people at the Art Walk at Liberty Station in San Diego on August 24-25.  And many came across the street and shopped at the VAM Veranda Sale.  VAM did very well that weekend.  It was quite warm (not as bad as this past week), but there was a gentle breeze on the veranda to provide a measure of relief.  I noticed how many hats were worn by both women and men - all styles, colors, and varied degrees of sun protection - which I imagine was the point.  Another sartorial trend were the many versions of long, slinky dresses/skirts. 


This one was quite striking, but the hat was a little too country.

Lots of stripes, but one must be verrrrry slendar to wear them.

 

Still working on "Jack"

Thanks to kind Susan who sent me an e this morning to say my blog was missing pictures - again.  What is with that? Anyone know why?  Since it is daylight, I retook the pictures and redid my blog.  I didn't change the text, so it might be a little askew. 
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I had to give up all night sewing some years ago.  And now I am going to have to give up all day sewing. I just need to start my projects earlier and work in shorter spans of time. I have the Tylenol bottle sitting on my breakfast (read "anytime") table along with a bottle of water.  Old, tired muscles.  Groan!

I promised that tonight I would show you the changes in "Jack".  These are not great images because I took them inside when it was already getting dark.  I couldn't take them outside due to the heat.  ONLY 100F today (and 80F at 11 tonight).  I had to go out about 4pm to bring in the trash cans and I thought I was a goner.  When I came in I had a little 20 minute snooze, which helped, but I have just felt puny the rest of the day. 

You see above that I moved the tree to the left side so the bat wasn't covered and added a little rickety fence in place of the tree. I used a variegated cotton thread to quilt it and, as usual, like the look.

 "Jack" still needs a binding and a sleeve. I have the label made, ready to hand sew on.

By-the-way, the light bats are grey, not pink.  What did I say about the images?
 

Wordless Wednesday

 

Creating a Quilt (3rd try on blog) 09-03-13

I promised a Monthly Mini for Surfside QGuild for October. I started working on it a month or so ago, but have been putting it aside to work on things with closer deadlines! But now I am under-the-gun, because the meeting is next Tuesday and it isn't finished. I have taken some in progress pictures with the intent of showing what I am doing along the way. But that also has taken a back seat. Here are a few beginnings and some closer to finished.

I narrowed my fabric choices down to two backgrounds and five pumpkins.

 

I have to shift the fabrics around to see what will work best for my eye.

 

And then try the pumpkin fabric on the backgrounds. When I placed it here the bat to the right of the moon popped out and was an ah-ha moment.

 



 

Other fabric choices needed to be made and finally ended like this. However the tree is right across the wonderful bat. Nothing is attached to the background so I could try some different layouts.

 On Thursday I will show you the changes I made and the final image that developed.

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Monday Browsing 09-02-13

Some bright ideas – some dumb ideas.  But they will make you think:

http://www.mandatory.com/2013/07/19/amazing-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier-vol-3/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D363936
 

Some awesome images for inspiration – even if you don’t care about the weather.

http://weather.aol.com/2012/12/07/50-must-see-weather-photos-from-2012/

I’m always interested in the weather - just one of my quirks! 


This is my favorite source of weather news and I also enjoy the picture files. http://www.wunderground.com/

The world's highest temperature for September 2, 2013, was 118 degrees and occurred at Nasiriya, Iraq
 

Very unusual maps:       (Carol – Check 28.  Who drinks the most coffee?)

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/maps-that-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-world/
 

Liberated quiltmaking:

http://liberatedroundrobin.blogspot.com/

http://libellenquilts.blogspot.com/

http://unrulyquilting.blogspot.com/

FMQ Idea?

Bucolic America 09-01-13

 When on Road Trips I have wondered if one of the reasons I enjoy them is that I see more of the USA that I knew in my younger years.  Living in SCalifornia with tens of millions of other people, and the expanding suburbs, doesn't give much chance to see open fields and farm animals and vistas of mountains and valleys.  I usually keep a list of the birds I see along the way and sometimes stop in a likely place to walk around with my binoculars and maybe add a new bird to my list.  It is a way of life that I lived such a long time ago.
I'm feeling REALLY nostalgic tonight - I image it is because today I turned 75.  Yes, it is true, although to be honest, I don't really believe it.   Inside I am still 24.  



I was looking at Road Trip pictures today - this one was taken in Illinois on the trip this past May.  I didn't stop, but I did slow down on this "blue highway" as there was not another car in sight.  The curious cows all looked to see what I was doing. 
 
And seeing this image reminded me that Ruth McDowell has a new quilt on her website.  Now that she is retired,and doing all sorts of things she has put off during her working years, she isn't making as many quilts as she has in the past.  Check out "Summer Visitors" at:
 http://www.ruthbmcdowell.com/clients/rbm/catalog.cfm

Sorry I have missed a few days of blogging.  Sometimes life just overwhelms me.
Hope you have a pleasant Labor Day.