Dontcha just wish....

........you could lay around on your back enjoying the heat and the comfort of being totally taken care of???

and then there is Bailey enjoying the couch.....but......

not as much as Cassidy is...........I kept calling her and she was zonked

got this one with one with my phone cuz it would have been hard to get the card out of the computer and into the camera before she got off the chair ;)

what an easy life :)

Another Double

Got another set done...actually got four of these done...each a bit different but only quilted these two. Figured I would turn them in and then do the others in a bit...
Lost my mojo today...have time to quilt and can't figure out what pattern to use...like using simple to get the project done............sigh................

here is a close up of the quilt pattern I used

but I did order two books...didn't even try Joann's cuz wasn't sure they would have them...they are simple patterns with the ugliest combos of fabrics but the quilts themselves are very good...somewhere I have both of those books but they aren't where I can find them which means I probably loaned them out :(

OOPS!

This little guy, named Judah, came for a visit today...he is going to be a future stud muffin for me. He had fun playing with the other dogs and then it was time to leave..............

that is where the problem came in :) Judah's mother was backing up but forgot to look that the drive wasn't behind her but the ditch was. This is the second time someone backed in the ditch...well sorta...the other one we were able to pull out with my car.

this one wasn't going to be pulled out easily :) If you can see the back tire...well there is nothing underneath it....

this rock is what is holding the car from falling over :) Also the thing that was going to make it hard to get out without the damaging the car.

spectator seats :)

so between my husband and the tow truck guy they got it figured out....not an easy thot process to get the car out but they did do it

woohoo...the car is out of danger

during the process they broke the stem off the tire so it went flat...then another project...trying to figure out how to get the tire out of the back of the car...then how to get the tire off...it was stuck tight....

Judah figured he would be a helper...or maybe just telling Dave how to fix the tire ....or learning a skill that might come in handy later????

Note to self...

Rethink what you are doing ;)
Today I called my daughter and asked if she wanted me to take "The Boy" for a bit...thot I could take him to the beach for a bit and entertain him.......HA :)
It started with a time with the hose....Aaron had a blast playing with the hose and getting water everywhere. Only thing I wouldn't let him water was the house....my windows were open ;)


he proceeded to wet his feet with the hose

included this one because Izzy was following Aaron everywhere


here is a skip ahead picture...of Izzy bothering Aaron again....

he was having so much fun with the hose

getting himself all wet

and everything else in sight....figured I would take him to the beach....what was wrong with that idea???? He loves the sand and the water

so he gets there and promptly goes into the water

and wouldn't listen when I called him back...so he just kept going out further and further and further...I was just about to go and get him......however...enter his rescuers....I should say my rescuers.....this man and his son went and got Aaron....and because he didn't want to get out they drug him though the water...the man said he was afraid Aaron didn't want to stand up cuz e was cold...I told him it was more like he didn't want to get out of the water.....
So they drug the poor bog closer to the shore and then he would listen to me...well cuz the guy blocked his way from going out again

well rescued (not like he thot he needed it) and back on dry land...Aaron did what I expected of him in the first place......laid down and played in the sand

totally covered in sand...including in his mouth

up close he kept saying "cheese" to me....this is after some of the sand was wiped off ;)


Whew...what a day...and his mom lives with this every day :) Blessings to you Danica

Bearly quilts

Just a couple of singles today.....the stash would go down if I kept NOT
adding to it :)
Bear one

Bear two

We interupt this irregularly scheduled program.....

Have been posting a lot of quilts lately....figured I would take a break and put some puppy pictures in here instead of quilts today.
This is Spencer right after I got him.....he was enjoying the yard and running all over the place...it was hard to get a picture of him at first cuz he was always on the move.

Here he is now sleeping on his favorite bed...can't wait to see what color he ends up when he is grown up...........

Here is Zoey and Bailey...love the way Zoey is using Bailey as her pillow ;) These two have a love/hate relationship...well not exactly but they are always trying to tell the other that they are on top of the other in pecking order :) It is really quite funny...
They don't look like this anymore tho as both got a summer shave and are quite naked now

and this one is for comic relief...well if you understand what is going on here....
Cassidy is the one sitting....Grace is the one laying...there are puppies in the pen........they are Cassidy's pups and Grace is letting them nurse....my guess is that is what started her labor altho I am really not sure...but right after I took this picture and got Grace out so Cass could take care of her pups...well...I saw that Grace was in labor........so much for my getting to bed at a decent hour that night :) Bet Cass was glad to have her pups back as her own....crazy the way my dogs will share their pups with each other.

Thanks for indulging me while I talk about my dogs instead of quilts :)

Seeing doubles...

I really had a cool title for this post but it just didn't work..........mostly cuz I forgot to take a picture of one of the sets of quilts....oh well.....if I had noticed that I would have posted some of these sooner...but oh well.......
Here are some more of the 'twin' quilts I got done
Dino's....got this material when I was in California and just finished these two...still have more material but will redigitize the dinos on it...they had some eye issues that I had to fix as I sewed them but if I do it again will fix it first



Pinwheels are fun to do...I like taking pics and putting them here because I can see what patterns worked...sometimes with fabric that I only have --so much of--I have to be creative to get a couple of quilts out of it...this was the last of this line that I got...and I make the twin quilts almost the same but a bit different....guess so each twin can have something different than the other one...not that they care at this age???/

the back of the pinwheels

I made ones somewhat like this for girls that I had already sent to the hospital...but the boys ones finally got done also.....

the back was a really simple design but worked well with the front of the quilt

and here is the finished one from the post yesterday about the flying geese no wasteroonie blocks. They made up really quick...I have some green flying geese almost done and it will probably be the reverse of this with the big blocks being pink and the middle blocks being green...then I still have some blue in this fabric too but am really low on the center of the star...hum...improvise?

here is the block quilted.......

Waste not...want more????

the old adage doesn't always work huh? One of the things in quilting that I don't like is to make corner triangles and then cut off the edge triangle and ACK! throw it away...I usually don't throw them away but keep them for a bit till I remind myself that I am not going to sew them so why am I saving them???? Guess it is the...hum...Polish in me? I don't like waste when I quilt.
In comes this tutorial...nope I am not going to do it........why reinvent the flying gooses :) Here is the link...Sophie did a great job explaining so I won't even try...will just show you my progression
Start with a bunch of squares....4 of the smaller ones and one of the larger ones... (the tutorial tells who the size to cut them)

After you cut them they will look like this...........hum....

then you sew another square on

cut them and press and this is what you get........a flying goose ;) And the major thing...beside being easy is no waste...well just a bit..but will show that later

put all together you get 4 flying geese blocks out of the 4 small squares and the one big one...how cool is that?

here is my pile of flying geese

and here is the waste :) totally a no waste flying geese

so cool to just cut off the tips of the block and not have to cut the corner and ...sob...throw it away..........or sew it and have a bunch of teeny tiny triangles that you don't know what to do with cuz they won't even fit under the presserfoot well :)

Happy Birthday to our country..and my son :)

Today is our country's 236th birthday ...and my youngest son's birthday too...but won't tell you how old he is. He might read this :)
He did think that the fireworks were for him when he was younger :) But has grown out of that now............
Well he asked me for a quilt one day....so tried to figure out what would work for him...he has a very formal house..........lots of very nice stuff...but not quiltish....well not what I could figure...so I settled on colors that would work with what he has......whew...it is done....will be put in the mail tomorrow but he got the picture preview and like it :) So figured I could share it now on my blog cuz he has already seen it ;)

went with a pinwheel...mostly cuz I saw one with this embroidery on it done not on the pinwheel but on the opposite fabric and on parts of the wheels....

here is the almost full picture of the quilt...also the bar that I just had hung to hang quilts...doesn't work well for ones with all the batting but it will work great for keeping the quilt tops from needing to be ironed before they are sandwiched :)

Happy Birthday Jason...I love you!