Six, Wallies and Whales

Quilt top #6 is assembled!  It happens to be the top for this guy, who is now a whopping one month.  

Recently, like this last week, Dan suggested I move the sewing room into the dryer room. This used to be the 'playroom'.  We didn't heat this room, so we really didn't use it to hang laundry, nothing would dry. 

[except for July and August]

It's nice being in this bigger room.

the 7 for 7 grandchildren quilt tops are stacked on the left, under the table

the stack of blocks for #7 are on the left side of the machine

Look at all that wall space~!  I didn't put things on the walls in the other room, because Stephanie had painted them, so I just enjoyed her art. 

Guess I will need another foam board, like the one behind the iron board in the next pic.

Dan doesn't want to deal with millions of holes from pins, someday.

the stuff to the right is the laundry...oh and the basket.

I have a new view, of the garden.  

I will miss the other view of the birds in the hedgerow. 

But, there will be birds out there also, and the deer, Jane Doe, was out there as I stitched up the stack of #7's blocks.  

{It was the first stage, 

block 1 to block 2 X a bunch.}

Wallie 1 is cats. In the middle stage of completion 

I am also working on more Wallies, in case the grandgirls need fundraiser items.

We have 3 in Scouts [at the moment] and 1 earning for 5th grade Camp, not to mention any possible PTA doings. So far, 1 troop is brand new, so they are selling chocolates and nuts to earn.  And the 5th graders are selling donuts!

Grandma, she gives cash. OR....maybe these will sell. When they are done. I am hoping to involve the girls in the sales, learn to earn it yourself!

Wallie 2 is the yellow backed one, all kinds of things wondering "which way did they go?" Only basted down.

Wallie 3 is the top, smaller, bright bright one. Only basted too.

I was going through albums, looking for Steph's baby one, and found these pix.

My mom had put them together.  Click to enlarge. These were from the 1987 to 1989 album.  I posted the pix on FB, hoping the Orca Network will be able to ID these. My niece chimed in and said, "I remember going on that trip!"

These are phone pictures of the photos, since we can't take them out of the sticky pages without damaging them. 

I think these are from one of the Southern Resident Orca pods. The salmon eaters. The Transient Orcas usually have pointier dorsal fins. The T's, as they are known here in Puget Sound, are the big game hunters. They eat seals, dolphins, sea lions.  

So now you know, not all Orca's, or Killer Whales, are the same.