Whales Of Puget Sound, Southern Residents

My daughter heard the whales, Southern Resident Killer Whales, where on the west side of Vashon Island. We are on the west side of it too!

So off she went to take pix, she hoped! I will get better pix from her soon, but for now, the phone camera taking pix on camera camera.

Since her past years sidekicks are in school now, her niece, Granddaughter # 6, Griffyn, gets to be introduced to this activity. Looks like she is doing her part at the beach. Being a kid.

I have to admit that these clothes lines in what is now my sewing room, are fantastic!! I have 3 lines and 2 pipes running across the room. 

the green part under the wallies is blocked out mess

I can hang the WIP's, like the wallies, above.

And I can hang quilts [or backs, in this case] from them to take pix of.

forgot to rotate

I have all 7 [for 7 Grandchildren] of the quilts measured, and draped over the pipe lines, along with 5 of the 7 backs I have constructed so far. A couple of them, at least, need more fabric stitched to one end or a side to get them up to the correct measurement. 

That is the second pipe with quilts and backs.

These 2 backs, above and below, need more on the sides.  They were made from some fat quarter sets I have had for some time. So at least this part of them is matchy matchy.

This is back #6 in assembly mode, below.  

All blues. I was sent another box of fabrics, which included a lot of blue strips!  Perfect!

Thank You Karen, Deb and Diana for the fabrics!!

Party Time

Bobby and Stephanie [and Max]

That young man is soooooo happy about this baby!

Steph is happy too, of course, but he doesn't have swollen feet....

I was happy to finally meet 'the other grandmother'!

Steph's MIL and I have not met....until today.

Stephanie and Indra

Max will be her first, our 7th, but our first boy!

{Stephanie's brother Ben, gave them the 'boy' things he didn't get to use. Like pictures of bulldozers and firetrucks.}

Ashley and Stephanie

Grandpa Dan wanted a 'belly' pic of his daughters.  We have one...somewhere...of the girls in reverse.  Ashley with belly, Steph without.

If no one knew Bobby liked elephants....they would have figured it out today.  Almost every gift had that image on it, over it, under it, etc. it.

But...Ashley did slip in a SQUIRREL for her sister on the growth chart she made for them.

Put it 6 inches above the floor, where ever you live.

Ashley has gotten so good at the string art! 

And her painting skills aren't to shabby either!

Grandpa was able to get a pic of 3 of the girls, #1 holding #6, and #4.

 I love it that they get to grow up together! 

[not in the same house, but same town]

Girls #'s 2, 3 and 5 were off running around.

 It was a wonderful party, Indra!

Quilt Repairs and Crochet

A neighbor asked me to repair this quilt she purchased at an auction. The fabrics date back to the late 1960's. Maybe not all of them, but this one red print does, because my mother made a dress for me back then. 

Not that you can tell in the b/w photo.

We called it, the dress, Carnaby Street. I have no idea why.

I am only adding patches where I have to.  The quilt is to be re-sold at a flea market, so I am not putting the effort into it that I should.  If she were to keep this quilt, I would put more time into it.

Crochet!  Ole! 

For Ashley's giant dream[catcher].  And I did up a star[fish], purple star, and created a comet!  She may not use them, for this project, and that is ok.

Am still working on the mandala throw.  It may not turn out as well as I hope, but the circles sure have been fun to stitch up!

Oh yeah, another star.  This is the beginning of a pattern called 

"Rings Of Change", which I will be making for #7. I decided to give Ashley a part of the pattern too, after I noticed it was a star!

Holidays!

The Mermaid blanket. Complete with child #4 in it! 

[the one for whom it was made]

⏬My son spent the holidays remodeling his kitchen.

His wife was heard to say, "I will be so glad when this is done."😁

What you don't see is the awkward corner by the fridge, though you can see where the fridge would go...right? ⇓        

The wonderful, amazing island, goes all the way to the wall to 

help create that silly corner.

 Not any more!!!!   I love this arrangement!! 

The only problem they ran into was a beam over the sink that was hiding under the ceiling. That had to stay, so the cupboards they had to go there wouldn't fit.

New ones were ordered, and the booboo's will get used in the laundry room remod...when that gets done. Or so I was told. Good job Ben!

click to enlarge to see the sink!

 While I am still in yarn mode, I whipped up a mandala. I have been admiring all these on Pinterest, and Ravelry, and decided to take the plunge.  Way easier than I thought!  I have started another one, different pattern, same yarn colors. Not sure what they will end up as...blanket? pillow covers?  

My minimal Christmas decor for this year. I found a couple of Fisher Price little people...though one of them is way bigger than the other....among the toys in the playroom.  I decided Tim and his friend looked rather snow-person-able. 

Click to enlarge to see 'Tim' written by Meg, #1

It snowed here Christmas Eve. Very rare occurrence.

⏬I made an ornament for our Steph and her new spouse, house, and dog.

She had an eventful 2017, so I created a diorama for them.

They even told me it was perfect because they wanted one to mark the year, but couldn't find anything [store bought] that would work.

😙I forgot to tell them that I didn't put a 'front' on it because there may be something else they want to add. [I was going to use some clear plastic from some random packaging, that we would normally toss in the recycle.]

↧↧↧ Oh look...more crochet  ↧↧↧

A kitty face, and tail, mandala? dream catcher? for #5. I made the pink outside part as a separate ribbon type thing, then stitched it around the hoop, letting the blue threads show. It's not complete, yet. Needs some facial bits to show up the 'cat look' as opposed to the current 'piggy look.'

Since I was on a roll....I created a turtle for #3.  

I am thinking of attaching it to a piece of driftwood.

🔻And my daughters creations. One for a family member who will be getting married soon. The crochet feathers I posted last time, are in among the fun hanging stuff. And a kitty one for #5, that she got for Christmas.