Lily & Dan

Crows.....Murders of Them

So I think this Crow quilt is done.  

I had my favorite hangers hold it up for a photo op.  

I learned from another blogger, of course, that a flock of Crows is called a Murder.

Then the other night on Nature/ PBS they aired a show titled "A Murder Of Crows" which we watched, of course, me being the admirer of these smart birds.  I have mentioned this before, but for those new here, my kids, especially my youngest, and I used to watch the crows fly overhead at dusk and say they were flying home for the night.  Little did we know that may have been just what they were doing!!  

After her first few days at college, Steph called me and told me she had found the crows home, right there on the campus at UW.  "Mom, there must be hundreds of crows in the trees outside my dorm."

Turns out there are people studying the crows there at the UW!!!!!  Small world.

I added a touch of dk. blue to the corner to darken the sky under the moon a bit.

I stitched a row of blanket stitches all around this piece and then crocheted in that for a few rows.  I have done this kind of border 'treatment' before.  I almost forgot to add my signature and the date...sheesh.

Mom made a joke after the show...."so if a few crows is a murder, one must be a suicide."  See what reading mystery's does to a persons humor?

Cake!

My husband got a birthday cake at work...thank you Work!

A more recent picture of our local town, Gig Harbor, with The Mountain in the distance....thats 'local' for Mt. Rainier.

Sunrise and Stitches

I copied this from the Komo4 weather blog.... 

Mt. Rainier leaves a shadow at sunrise

You don't really think I get up at sunrise do you???

Look at the color of the water.....amazing!!!!
Land down under of course and from a blog which I will have to surf for...FOUND IT!  Piece O' Cake Becky Goldsmith while she was in Sydney.

my husband sent me this

Here is how the plastic tub looks with my current hand work....

Red, Pink and Chocolate

I don't normally keep my handwork together like this, but all these bits seemed to need corralling.

All spread out

All tidy for now....and ready to sew the next circle.  I am not sewing circles to all the sq's for this quilt, they will get added randomly...or so the plan in my head has them figured for now.

all back in the plastic thing

a sewer can stitch anything back together!

my glasses

When the screw fell out of my glasses, Stephanie and her handy tool kit wasn't around, and since I couldn't see w/o my glasses ON, I did the one thing I could do with limited vision.....I sewed the damn thing to keep the lens in.  And no those aren't water spots on my lens, those are screwed-up-glare-crap-spots!!

Home Work

Ashley and Danny are building their own home,  and 12 others before this one, so they are getting all kinds of experience!  Danny loves it and puts in every moment he can which isn't as much now as it was because he got a new job at our local hospital!!!

Anyway, the houses you see behind this first wall were in the first batch before the kids got started on their batch, and that includes the house 'next door'.

Smiling Danny and Ashley.

On our own home front....the back "deck" was looking worse for wear, so my guys tore it off the house....

and tipped it off to the side....

leaving a smiley face!

Maybe I will have some sewing pix tomorrow because I have been working on the Red, Pink and Chocolate blocks, but not much on Mosaic Blocks or Tropical Isle {not necessarily the final name of the tropical quilt.}

Wrestling a Polar Bear and Other Activities

Backed right into it.  *tuesdays are Rhiley days*

OOPS!

*Weekends are Megan and Lily days*

Meg made a costume for Lily

Gottcha

look what i caught

help, it's getting away

So.  For my tropical island idea I wanted to use 'batiks', but don't have many.  I found this selection of 79 [almost] different Fat E's *eighths* at Connecting Threads.  Perfect! Also because I didn't want a super tight fabric to hand sew, and some batiks/handdyes are done on very very high count fabrics. 

yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Another Great View!

So CollegeGirl Stephanie went back to school a couple/few weeks ago and discovered that the view from her dorm room was something others pay through the wazzoo in taxes for......

Looking over Lake Washington at Mt. Rainier

Lake Washington with the floating bridge

Sunrise?  or Sunset?  Does it really matter?

Steph says she can't help but take several pix every day of this view....I say I taught her well.  I always make a fuss over every view we may come across, and not even those as wonderful as these.

Christine I thought of you as I posted the cherry blossom block. [back a few days]  I remember you liking them!!

I Like This Quilt

I found it while surfing...amazing what you can find while paddling around in the water.....the blogger took this photo at a quilt show in the Philadelphia area.

Smart Appliqué Trick

First, I just read this trick for appliqueing in tight spots.  It's such a simple, smart idea! No wonder I didn't think of it.....LOL

Second...Susan I am going to make a housewarming quilt for a daughter who doesn't know about it yet. The one who is building her own house and going to have another baby.  I won't say who in case she reads this....

Third....Phyllis I am going to appliqué the circles down as circles, not as yo-yos....but I have used yo-yos as a way to make cherry blossoms!

Circles....90 of Them...

I traced, cut, and hand basted 90 circles last night during NCIS.

I wrote down, on the cardboard template, which glass I used for the circle.

The fabrics are pink, red and chocolate. I was able to save 2 selvage's, but thems the breaks when you buy FQ's.  The plastic donut is the templar stuff you can iron.  I didn't use starch this time, to 'hold' the circles circled. Hopefully I won't regret that!!!!!!!!!!

My ironing board is on wheels, so I pulled it over to my chair to turn those puff ball's into flat disks.

Got the banner up with help from my guys.

October is birthday month around here.

 theres that cat again, facing away from the camera.

 My sewing machine is now in the dining room.....again, sew mom can find me when I am so-ing.