More Random-ness Than Not..

For quite a long time I have not felt like blogging. Either I had nothing worthwhile to say, or had no pictures to show you... feeling kind of isolated from my friends. Not good: time to see the Doctor before it got way out of control again. She is kind and helpful, and we are working on the problem. Not meaning to bum you out or make you feel sorry for me, because nothing is exactly wrong, just "Meh".... all will be good again soon.

Here are few things that I've done since I posted last. Enjoy them!
This is a "flimsy" (unfinished quilt top) that has been in process for an indecent length of time. Kerstin and Vicki and several other women started working on curved piecing skills in 2009. I'm a slow learner, I think... but it is pieced now, and I've gotten good at curves, or at least I'm not intimidated by them. About half-way through making the blocks, I hated the project! Too fussy, hated the multiple colors and the background looked muddy. It was a struggle to finish the thirteen sampler blocks. I found some luscious unifying coffee colored batik in my stash, though, and it all came together. Now I don't hate the top, I just have no plans for it. I'll keep it as a flimsy until I make a decision.

This is Kaylin's graduation quilt. Her University's colors are Blue and Gold, so I went with that... sort of. Used teal and pin-dot goldy batiks for the background, with some wonderful dark blue fish Batik (sooooo Kaylin!) for the centers and border. Blue and gold, but not "in your face" about it.Beware the incorrigible Oregon Apple trees! I had to build them a corral... it does look like I'm fencing them in, but I'm actually fencing the deer out. The deer stripped the lower leaves off my cherry trees, and started on the Apple tree grafts (more their size, I think) so I had to move the baby trees to a safer location... hence the "corral".

This little guy is an actual potato from my garden! He has a face, doesn't he. I was fixing dinner and chopping up potatos when this little guy showed up! When I pull the potatos out of the mulch they are all dirty... and his face was't obvious. After a nice bath... he was all smiles! I couldn't bear to hack him to pieces, so I saved him to plant back into the garden for next year's potato crop! Pretty cool, I thought.

At "Sock Summit" this past summer I took a class from Ann Budd, and started reading her Blog. She is knitting her way through all the socks in her new book "Sock Knitting Master Class". After she had finished her version of "Thigh High Stripes" there was lots of yarn left, so she had a contest to find a Blog reader to share all this wooly goodness with. I won!!! Soon the mail-lady brought a nice squishy envelope with these wonderful yarns. I am all set to start knitting... but I won't be doing the socks "Thigh High", as I'd never wear them. I'll make them for me, in my usual length. I will, however, be learning to do color work... I promised Ann I'd try it. She assured me it wasn't beyond me, so here goes!