Morning stroll

things on my wall.

in my few spare minutes, during lunch and in the morning ,
I like to play with fabric.

Progress

I decided on nine patch setting squares an it is beginning to shape up b

Blue bag

Work in progress.

Wall of shame

So here are the sampler blocks and I am pondering how to connect them.
I can do white or an assortment of whites and off whites or I can do
one color family or I can do a riotous cacophony of interspersed
blocks. Any thoughts?

butterscotch twist

Today I was browsing Etsy and happened to espy some wonderful wool batts named after angels  and they were calling my name like the sirens of spinning.
I peeled myself away and plugged wax in my ears and spun a couple of previously stashed batts, all the while, lashed to the mast.

Well really there was no mast and no wax but I did spin some. Bailey is home from school and tries to look ferocious when I point my camera at her.

Taking shape

Dailey threads add up.

Storm at Sea, preparation with Inklingo

Busy morning here at the cat ranch. The girls were very busy guarding the yard. Every noise brought them to full alert.
Cutting shapes for my Colors of the Sea quilt. I am very happy with the way I can cut many shapes layering just one printed piece on top of several layers. I do not get the benefit of stitching lines on each shape this way but I can manage a quarter inch seam allowance:) This will be a king sized quilt for us.

To do list

I am a list maker. I find that if I make a list that I actually accomplish things and that if I do not accomplish the "list thing", well then, those things were just not that important.
Do you make lists? My lists are mainly a mix of things I want to do and things I must do. The reason I make a list may be because I am trying to remember all of these things or more likely I want to give the activity some emphasis and hold myself accountable.
Sometimes my lists are wishful thinking and sometimes I make them pretty-which usually circumvents their effectivity because I spend more time making the list and admiring it than I do on the list items themselves. Even writing about lists makes me want to break into prose. or sometimes profanity. will you share your list?
I am thinking there may be a prize for the one that I love the most.
No rules, anything goes. Send a link or a picture for me to post and I will come up with a prize.
BTW this is purely subjective and selfish. Just saying.

Book for a gift

With thanks to pastiche knits dot blogspot dot com for the tutorial.
I suppose I should be studying but then again this is a Very Small Finish;)

Road knitting

Tea Table

Pics or it didn't happen:)

Just a mite short but a good first try. I used one skein of cascade
two twenty. Next time I will use more and add an inch to the height.
Now I need the perfect button. On with the search.

Less than productive

I began the day with the best of intentions but decided midway to
detour to California Pazza for lunch with MIke , then on to Target to
pick up a couple of things-love those four packs of chapstick, which
gives me an extra one to lose or melt in the dryer (oh and I did get a
haircut!), then home to read my email and blogs and generally waste
time balancing my budget and all( I have exactly 19 dollars to last
for two weeks if I am a good girl and pay all my bills on time)(which
means no more big boxes of yarn:O). But thanks fully I did find these
very wonderful Liberty of London flip flops from Tarjay! Can you
believe it? What a score!

Knitting break

I am not a speed knitter and I have to take a break once in a while to
give my hands and shoulders a break. Here is ipad case so far...hope
to finish it tonight.

behold the bag....

Finished in one week! I am very happy with the way this turned out and I am already thinking about the next one....
***No pattern I just cast on and crossed my fingers for a good result. I used two hanks and a hundred stitches (easy to remember) of cascade 220 -doubled-Judy Becker cast on so there is no seam. It is simple grocery bag construction. I knitted magic loop style till it got too big then then two circs then back to one plain ole in the round, once it got big enough.
On the lower third I added a stripe with fancy yarn called Ozark Opulent that I bought at Purl Soho-created by David Gentzsch--beautiful. made the whole bag imho. And for the top I did an applied I cord, ala Elizabeth Zimmerman-in red.
Hershey I am working in Smithhaven mall apple store-close to you? I do not have your email --please send- we could have lunch if you are in the area. Did you finish that stunning DJ???

lovely lilacs and a kitten

Happiness is Purl Soho

round up

Gloria Lee, dad 's cousin

Got this deck from a box in dad and annette's attic.
















I love the composition of this photo of Annette and her sisters.

6 am on the van wyke - really?

Threads in the car

On the way to see Else. Have sewing kit will travel.

Multimedia message

Ipad cake

Juicy Bruce

http://www.juicybruce.com/
you can hear Jen and alex on the band's website.

just thinking

I thought about a new blog just for writing. Is is possible to have too many blogs? Or am I compartmentalizing myself -one blog for social networking- from my phone no less, one for fiber y pursuits, one for poetical ramblings. Does it never end? Shall I make one for baking scones and yet another for custards? It is hard to tell. A difficult, if not critical, question. One does not wish to burn the candle at both ends, wear one's self too thin ( little danger, dears), and avoid at all costs, putting all of one's eggs in a basket. Or is it putting too little of one's eggs in a basket? Oh never mind.

The writing blog has been created. It has, at present, no content. It is a hollow vessel. A ghost ship, a mere shadow of its once and future self. (well did you expect it to remain empty once it was announced...?) As I consider it going out on a limb, to share ones fragile inner musings on a blog, an internet, very public, type of journal, I have named it "Escarpmenting", as in stepping out onto a an overhanging cliff. (the more curious among you may wonder, "Overhanging what?". Do not be so cynical.)


As I ponder which missive with which to make my maiden voyage, I will leave you with a photo that I snapped whilst speeding along the high way during my daily predawn commute. I will not respond to questions as to who was actually at the wheel. It may have been Mr. Quiltcontemplation.

Portable lunch kit.

I am packing sewing tools and getting in a few stitches at lunch. It
is a healthy and cheap alternative to buying lunch in the mall food
court. So I save money, eat better and I have some blocks made. Win
Win .
Pictured are inklingo blocks in progress from POTC collection. And as
you can see some one's bunny made an early visit.

Hummingbird Nest Cam

Check out this video on UStream:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Hummingbird-Nest-Cam

Martha

New Dresden plate block

I love this dark blue back round, but it may be too dark.
O well love is love. I am going to give it a go.

Second Dresden plate from the fancy inklingo collection

Spent some time playing with needles and thread.

humor in a darkened room.

When they do breast needle biopsies they insert tiny magnetic chips in the incision so that they may easily find the site in the event that they have to revisit. At last count I had maybe eight of these.But the mind recoils at such counts and I really do not remember how many i have had done. O'Ryan, the nurse, say about forty thousand.
So last night, after work and a long commute home, I am on the table in a darkened room (did I mention this was maybe nine o'clock?) with the doc and nurse and the ultra sound operator.
Dr. B. asks the nurse for the chip. I say, " Will this trigger security at the airport?" ( I always ask this question.) With no hesitation, Carol, the ultrasound tech says,
"No. At midnight Doctor B will sound the call, and all of his women will stream out onto the street in their nightgowns with their arms out stretched....."
"Ok then, I ask, will this procedure make my boobs saggier?'
"Au contraire!" says the doctor, now they will point north!"
giggle snort.

Technology

How festive

contest entry

Flip side

Dresden Plate Center wheel

Printed directly on fabric using Inklingo.
Not pressed but round...hand stitched. I may try to machine stitch one
of these one day, using the curve master foot. But hand sewing is so
satisfying. Maybe I'll just stick with hand piecing the rounded shapes.

lots of snow

We are having a snow day here in NY, and close to the shore the wind is howling. I can hear the wind chimes that the neighbor across the street thought would be a pretty tinkling sound of a warm summer night. Today they sound frantic and shrill. Too bad she did not think to take them down before she left for the winter. #Snowbirdbrain.

Just Doodlin'

Thanks to Jessica Sprague for the template and class:)

Commute

The route I take has some spectacular views. Today I am a passenger so
my pictures are not so blurry.

Hand stitching

An afternoon of stitching is well spent.

Rough life

Poppet wants to know why did I wake her up?

blueberries are good for you

Schumann: Fünf Stücke Im Volkston, Op. 12 - 1. Mit Humor, performed by YOYO MA-mit humor, bitte.

Day off

I have a day off and no where I need to go. This is not a lament. It
is a joyful declaration. I will stay home and make something. There
may be pictures. Maybe baking. Mike wants blueberry cheesecake bars.
My Katy in repose. 2005. MB

Patient Pixie

Pixie would very much like to have this yarn please.