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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

SOME DAYS WE REALLY--

should probably not let Di sew--
cause--
she just doesn't get it--right???
She  tackled block #9 today for the Patchwork bom's--
and remember she is--
doing a 10" square block of the little 5" ones--
(does any know why??)
so here is her 10" block--
After 2-3 tries this is what she came up with--
and she thought she was 'happy' with the block--
that is until--
UNTIL--
She did the 5" ones--
Can you see the difference?????
It was when she went to cut the pieces for the smaller blocks that she realized what she had done wrong--
oh wellllll--
She might redo it--and then again????
and then on the little blocks--
She cut way way too many of the 1 1/2" by 2 1/2" strips--!!!!
what can she say????
it was Halloween and the 'spooks' where playing with her!!!
            ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI
Does anyone have any extra chocolate???
think our friend 'Di' could use some right about now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday, October 30, 2017

DO YOU REMEMBER--

when I said that Sunday's would be my--
working on Christmas day of the week???
and I did start a Christmas embroidery project!!!
welll--
I have worked on it--
on a couple Sundays--
but with huricanne Irma and me running away from it--
and then so many other things to take care of when getting back--
and then working hard on the 2 Halloween items--
I was not always good about working on this--
but--
I have done a bit here and there on it--
and spent alot of time on it yesterday while listening to the race--
All the snow on the trees are now stitched in--and you can see that I have gotten
alot of the trees done--just 4 more trees to go--
think the rest of this piece will go faster once all the trees are done!!!!


Oh and I just counted--
we have '8' more Sundays--
if you count Christmas eve day--
to get it finished --
to say it was done by Christmas!!!!


OH-- don't tell anyone--but I did 2 Christmas fabric orders yesterday--online--
one is a 'cute' print for the backing on the pink and green top!!!!

       ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI



Friday, October 27, 2017

I DID IT--I REALLY DID!!!

I actually got the Halloween wall hanging done before Halloween--
and I got what '4' days till Halloween day---
here it is in all it's color--
Yep---even the binding is all on it--
I did zig zag the binding down in black--
and I am disappointed that the hand quilting doesn't show up better for you--
I tried everything--most of the hand quilting was done in an orange thread--
and it looks really cool--in real life!!!

And I did a little something different this year--
I made a couple 'trick or treat' baskets for my kids--
wonder what they will think?????

and see the garland with the lights around that new 'orange bowl'???
Well--those are battery powered lights and they are--
shaped like maple leaves--
have 2 sets going around the bowl--got them at the Dollar General--
back in September--I really like them!!!!

Well--that's it for tonight folks!!!
Take care and have a great week end--

          ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI

Thursday, October 26, 2017

WELL????

I did get the top all stitched --
on this Christmas quilt--
I did a narrow strip of fabric between the inside piece of 9 patch blocks and the border strips--
to add a bit of character to the quilt top--
and so far --this quilt is not really 'growing' on me--
so not sure where I will go with now or if I will finish it???
all the fabric, pretty much, from the jelly roll did get used in making it--
like I said it was a small one!!

And remember me showing you this bird from the Zoo--
and telling you that it is a Scarlet Ibis--
I did learn a bit more about her the other day--
these Scarlet Ibis are a National Bird of Trinidad and Tobago!!!!

            ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI


Wednesday, October 25, 2017

ZOO NEWS

Yes I did make it to the Zoo again yesterday--
and wrote about and included all the great photos--
well-at least some of the photos I took--
So pop over to my other site--
Di'sworkbasket one on your left--
and read all about it--

                         ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI

Monday, October 23, 2017

MY THIRD FALL HERE

Third--fall in Florida--
it took some time for me to really--
feel like Fall here and for me to decorate--
( well, maybe getting the box down off the closet shelf--
and sitting in the middle of the floor helped a little??)
so here is what I did--
this is in the corner here by the tv/computer area--
 I think 'Miss Daisy' needs something there on the seat by her--
sounds like a shopping trip to me!!
and these are on the wall next to the tv stand--
(took done other counted cross stitch and put these up and changed the flowers in the wall basket)
here is the little table area--
(but have decided that I must get rid of this table set before it is time to put up the Christmas tree--
as this the tree wall--)
used this wall hanging as a table runner--
tacked this guy up on the wall by the sewing area--
he will keep an eye on me while I stitch later in the week--
this is the center piece for the large table--
I love those darn scarecrow heads!!
this is on the other side of the tv/computer area--
remember this one????
this one is hanging by the door on the inside--
and--
one is on the outside of the door--
(just replaced the new ghost one-that one was up for a while now!!!)

and here is an update on the sock knitting adventure--
got the first pair all done--
can you see how well these self stripping socks line up--
I am happy about this!!!
really wasn't sure I could do it--
and here is the next pair started--
so far so good--
and both of these socks are further along now--
I love this color yarn and would love to have a shawl make from it--
so just might have to get me another skein of it--
though it is too hot here year round to wear shawls--
see --
I really did 'goof' not moving back to NY--
in more ways that one, since I have been back--ouch!!!

And I am steadily  working on the hand quilting of the Halloween mystery hanging--
have just 3 outer border areas left to do--so keep your fingers crossed--maybe by the end of the week I will have a finish to show you!!!!!

          ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI

Friday, October 20, 2017

TWO MORE STEPS

 I thought and thought--
and came up with this plan--
I had 18  9 patches to work with--
so took 4 of them and make them into--
a snow ball block--
I still had one more strip left from the Jelly roll--
a solid white one--so I was able to cut just enough 2 1/2" squares to make the snowballs!!

then I sewed the 16 blocks into a top--
of 4 across and 4 down--
I have added one more part to this-
but no photos yet--
and I am pretty sure what the next step will be--
and--
I think I have a name for this quilt--

  ***Random Christmas***

what to you think????

Did another walk on the trail today and look who I seen first thing--
Peter Rabbit--he has gotten bigger-
he nibbled for quite awhile --while I watched him!!

and I found a couple new mushrooms on the trail--
my first look at these--they looked smooth on the top--
but look at the last photo I took as I got the camera closer and closer to them--
Look at all those tiny bumps--cute!!
and
 then I found these--
Have never seen anything like these before--???

this one reminded me of a 'pancake'!!

and my eye caught sight of this small really orange one--
will see if it grows bigger over the week end--

and then this one-
he was good size growing on that log!!

            ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI

Thursday, October 19, 2017

SEE I HAVE BEEN

continuing to work on the jelly row --mystery??
I spent some time one morning this week--
cutting some of the strips into 2 1/2" strips--
but also left some of each set of strips--

then yesterday I sewed the cut strips--
into 9 patches!!
So now what--where do I go from here????
hummmm?????

       ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI 

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

A DAY OUT

Guess where I went today????
To our Zoo--
and they tried to put me in a cage and keep me--
but I told them I was needed here in blogland--
so they let me go!!!!

Tuesdays during October this year--
it is just $5 for the day for FL residents--
( they extended it--usually it is during the month of Sept--
but everyone was a bit busy with Irma then!!)
so Frannie and I took off and went--
we were worried though cause there was an 80% chance of rain--
but we make it --before that happened--
there was 2 things I wanted to do today--that I had not done yet--
one was the train ride and the other was checking out the petting zoo--
look who I found in the Petting Zoo--
Do you like my hair do--???
Here is a closer look???
NO--
now wait--what about mine--
I have added some decorations to my hair do????
Wooooo--wait a minute--
I think you should forget those guys and take my photo!!!

Hey--there--what about a kiss????
I seen camels on the train ride--
did not know they had any--so was the first time I had seen them--
this one was really cute with his faces he make at us as we chugged by!!


Wonder what this bird is hiding???
Ohh--he it's just his spoon-bill!!!!

and I love the deep coral color of these birds!!!
Hey, Lady are you looking at us?????
and this one on the far right was funny--he wanted to get to the other side of that bird--
so he just 'ducked' under him and kept going--!!!!

Well--if you aren't busy next Tuesday came and join me at the Zoo--

               ENJOY THE MOMENTS, DI