New quilting project

Bought a few pieces of the Lucy fabric this past summer for my birthday. After finishing my Halloween wall hanging needed to get something else going so decided to get working on it. First i had to decided on which fabrics went with it to make up the additional blocks.

I decided to make a Snowball 9 Patch. Figured it would show off most of the fabric pretty good. Then the hard part comes and that's cutting out all the stripes and then all the squares.

Sewing all the stripes together for the 9 patch is pretty easy work but then you need to cut them all out..one at a time. Then the next step is to pin the sections together. It's much easier keeping them together while sewing if you pin. It takes a bit of time but being acurrate is worth it.

My two piles of nine patch blocks. Squaring them up is the next step. I think that's the part I like least. It just takes so much time. I just want to get busy putting the rows together.

Now before I can put the rows together the next step is to either use a marker and draw a line from corner to corner or to press them point to point. Then I need to sew them on each corner of the squares to make them into the Snowballs. This part will take a bit and I'll probably work on it most of the week... a few blocks at a time.

If I'm home I usually work a couple hours on my projects but the last couple weeks we seem to be running all over. This week I've been working on my husbands costume for the race yesterday. I'll post pictures later of the Hell Hounds.

WILD TURKEY'S

We live within the city limits of Eugene but are closer to one of the Buttes in town so we have a lot of trees and places for the wildlife to live. We used to have deer wander through our yard and have seen them in late or early mornings grazing in other yards. We have Racoons that we see now and then and even have a white one we catch glimpsys of too. What we see more often is the Turkeys. When we moved onto the hill a few years ago we spotted the wild turkeys once in a while in the early morning. Now with living across from a cemetary we see them all the time. Usually the flock but once in a while we see what we think is a male and two females. They seem to come down the hill and wander around our area more often than the large flock. We have counted up to 35 at a time spread out over the cemetary. They were just wandering around a couple weeks ago, taking their time so I took a couple pictures. The firehydrant is at the north corner of our property and is just around the corner. For some reason they fasinate me the way they just take their time, even in crossing the street. With the speed the cars come down the hill, I'm surprised we haven't seen any get hit. More Turkey pictures to come..

So much for sunshine

We had a semi nice morning but wouldn't you know it, as soon as we took off to go grocery shopping it started to rain. On our way back was an accident at the freeway on ramp and this firetruck (the big one) was there. As we were sitting at the light he decided he wasn't needed so headed back to the station. By the time we took off he was right in front of us so I decided to take a picture. You don't get to follow fire trucks very often. What I should have done was keep my cell phone out a few minutes longer because a couple blocks up he turned into their drive and I could have gotten a side shot. Love fire trucks.

Beautiful Friday Sunrise

My daughter took this picture which shows a great day ahead with a beautiful sunrise. We have been having some pretty nasty cloudy gray skys which we love but it seems everyone else hates.

turned out that Friday was a quiet day for me at work. My roommate is on vacation until next Monday (the 26th) which is great for me. Our office is also doing some shifting to make room for a couple more people. What's great is that my roommate, who does payroll is going to be moivng next door with her own room. I'm going to get a new accounting person. She'll help the Fiscal Director (my boss) with reports and stuff he doesn't have time for. We may be a non profit but we are growing and changing all the time because of the requirements of the state & county. I do the payable and some AR so us sharing an office will be okay. Hopefully she will be a quiet person. With all the shifting, I'm still staying put and still covering for the front desk and still have the hot room. Back to work...

Happy October

Well it's the middle of October and Fall is here. It was 30 something when I picked up the paper...didn't have my glasses on so couldn't read the outside thermometer. This past weekend was great. Just cool enough to need my cardigan. Put up a couple of my Halloween wall hangings and Ethan's Pumpkin he made at the ceramic place last year.

This was made in about a week from tracing the pattern onto fusible, pressing it to fabric, to the end. It is now hanging behind me at my desk at work. Everyone knows I quilt and I enjoy the comments about my work...even if it's not my best...they don't know that... :)