Laundry room door progress

It is still pretty cool at the Duck to work without heat.....but i putzed around for a few days. i did some more zentangle work on the laundry room door.

That working above your head thing is hard....so i moved down a bit so i could sit. haha

Needs a lot more work....but it's a start

I am liking the spider

Got a few more feathers filled in, too

I was originally thinking i would do the wall next to the door also but now think i better stop with the door. i'll be 96 years old before i am finished the way it is. LOL

Graffiti bedroom wall quilt

The graffiti wall quilt will have 21 'blocks'....17" square. 'sashing' and borders are 2" wide....wood.  dimensions are 135" long and 59" high. perhaps i should have made the border wider....but it is what it is at this point.

I got the scaffolding up on sunday and the first 11 blocks installed on monday. it was much simpler than i had thought it would be. sorry the scaffolding is in the picture, but i still need it for the rest of it. just pretend it is not there. haha

Here are a few closer shots

And you know 1 or 2 shots have to be blurry ... right?  or it wouldn't be me. haha

I really am low on black graffiti and am using some gray.

After i got it all assembled, i went back with a small paintbrush and painted in any background wall that showed where the cutting wasn't quite straight. i think it worked out well.

From across the room it looks awesome.

I was lucky to find a few more bags of goodies while scouring yard sales and thrift shops last weekend, so graffiti lives on. haha

More Halloween Town blocks

It's been a slow journey but these blocks are almost done.

17A ... Werewolf

18A ... Zombie #1

19A ... Zombie #2 ... his girlfriend i am guessing haha

20A ... Trick or Treaters ... brave little children

21A ... Frog ... it has the witches' hat on.....it might have been the witch and shape shifted. haha

22A ... Ghost #1

23A ... Ghost #2

24A ... Igor

Cornerstones .... need to make about 10 more of these

One more block to go and more sashings.  i have started to assemble what i have so it might not be long before it becomes a top.  then to be quilted...some day. haha

My 7 hour lesson .... a sad tale

Some days.....it just does not work out as you intended.....this was one of those days.  

This was a quilt that drug on for YEARS....pieces were cut with AccuQuilt machine on November 18, 2012. i worked on it off and on for a couple years and then it went to UFO status on February 18, 2015. on March 15, 2015 i finished piecing it.

Remember this?

And promptly realized it was pieced wrong. back to UFO status

OK....March 17, 2016.....i drug it out again....and spent 2 hours turning 4 blocks around so it was pieced correctly.

I had a quilting plan....and spent 5 hours stabilizing all the rows.....all the way down the quilt. and quilted 1 block and 1 setting triangle.

I realize NOW that my mistake from the beginning was to use that black and white and gray fabric. NOTHING shows on there. i was quilting using red thread.....even went over the circles 3 times.....yuck. 

Sorry, i don't have pics of that. my card reader died in my camera....i bought another one on amazon and it was a dud.....it corrupted my pics and i lost most of them. 

This is all the pics i have left......a corner....hahahaha  the quilt was 62x78

 i was NOT ripping all that out. i slept on it for the night. thought about throwing it all in the trash. but, just did a large meander over the whole mess. 

Then cut it all into 4 pieces and put a binding on them with whatever bits and pieces of binding i had here......and took them to my son for doggie blankies. 

The dogs love them. hahahaha

I really want to try this again.....with different fabrics. but i might need to forget about it for a while first. 

Why do these things happen to me? i think i have bad quilt karma.  sigh!!

Home for Larry's 'stuff'

My son, Larry, is sort of a Fred Sanford......remember the junk man on tv years ago?  haha    he goes around the neighborhood 'rescuing' things people put on the curb. brings them home, tears them apart, and remakes something else.

He is currently working in my sister's garage, where he is staying, but the garage was pretty full....and overflowed into the back yard pool house.....and some stuff in the driveway, under tarps. i believe my sister suggested he was getting a bit out of hand. haha

So, i offered part of my garage.....2 bays worth.....for the storage of some of his 'stuff'.  all good stuff....he assures me. LOL

Monday we had a Beverly Hillbillies caravan down the highway.....40 miles from Larry's garage to the Duck's garage.

Larry's truck...

My sister's truck....

I didn't get a pic of my truck. but i have a camper shell so it couldn't be piled high, but the back was full.....for the second time. i took a load on sunday also.

The only thing here that is mine are those 2 boxes sitting on pallets.

The wood on the shelves is mine but larry will be using it for his projects.

He has it stored neatly in rows.....so, so far, you can get around fairly easily. we'll see how long that lasts. haha

I might need a sign for the garage.....Fred Sanford's Place.   did he have a name for his shop?

Sleepy Time

My card reader in my camera died, so i am trying to catch up the last few weeks work. still have issues with new reader. this was quilted on March 27, 2016

This is a baby quilt made by my sister for a new baby in her life. it is 56" square. she embroidered the blocks.

Second border got meander with some little stars thrown in for good measure. last border was a wavy piano key.

I did some CC in the half square triangles....then just pretended all the blocks has those and continued around the rest of the blocks.

The little animals are just too cute

She requested brown thread for the top, so i used Glide Sienna...and Glide Cream around the animals. Bottom Line 602 Gold for the bobbin

The back was a minkie with the bumps...very soft

A few days at the Duck playing catch up

Finally...some pleasant weather to do something without having 3 shirts and 2 pair of gloves on....and still freezing. the last few months when stopping at the Duck to check it out....i would just drop off things that i had...it was just too cold to do anything.

So, in the last few days i got stuff hung up.

In the Dining Room.... i hung more goodies on the walls

I had about 6 or 8 of these little seed packet plaques and found a few more ..... and i didn't have these.  yeah!!

And i got this sun, moon and stars from my son.

Got the first coat painted on the right side pocket door...

And the second coat on the left side pocket door. this one still needs to be hung.

I had a few things to hang in the laundry room also...

And worked a bit on the zentangle on laundry room door. Here is where i am so far. i really, really should have thought of doing this BEFORE it was hung. haha   hindsight and all that....

Here are a few closeups

It is harder than you can imagine to draw on a vertical surface.

And i hung the 3 graffiti pieces that i brought with me for the right side of the kitchen/dining room doorway. the design matches the left side....but not the colors. 

Birds have been making themselves at home in my attic....getting in from holes under the gutters. i finally got tired of hearing little chirping and feet running around, so i went out to the garage and started yanking down the foamboard insulation that was up there. the birds already had holes in it....and nesting material falling out all over the garage. 

This is what it looked like before i started ripping and tearing. 

there is a hole for the birds....you can see the light from the outside.

I filled all the holes between those raters. you can see small brown pieces of wood. good thing i had a 'trash pile' of wood pieces. i just cut them to fit and screwed them up there. no birds getting in there.

On this side i put a board over the left side. that was their newest nesting spot. 

Sorry, birds, you are gonna have to find new accommodations. There was a bird in the house one day....i have no idea how he got in there. 

My son is having way too much fun these days fixing up things in my sister's house. she says he is costing her money every day. haha

His latest project was to put some pizzazz on the doorway between the kitchen and family room. many years ago a sliding glass door was taken out there and the doorway just left unfinished. now it is all fancy. he carved out wooden pieces for the corners....

And put trim all around. he even ran the edges through the router. very nice.

I love the holes that he cut.

And he finished the bottom with tin.....that matches the window in the kitchen. he put tin all around the window, created a drop light fixture out of tin....and made a marble window sill.  the boy has skills.

All in all, it was a very fun few days. i got to spend time with the kids....my ddil made the most fantastic chicken spaghetti .... and sent some leftovers of it home with me. i love her.  and my sis and i did some thrift store shopping and i scored more graffiti stuff. a good time was had by all.