Sunday, March 4, 2018

Sunday night in Port Lavaca, TX

Getting this written tonight as we will be on the road in the morning and heading to Rockport for a few days. We drove down to Port Lavaca on Friday so Galen could hopefully get pictures of the Purple Sandpiper. He has been wintering here in Point Comfort across Lavaca Bay and that is unusual for Texas. It is another bird from the Arctic. We saw it Friday afternoon but did not get good pictures. Saturday was very windy and misting. No bird when we were in the area. Today was good! Lots of pictures so now Galen has another lifer as far as birds go. And it was a good day for other's as well.






I got to sew Saturday evening and this afternoon. Looks like I did not bring enough a long to work on. I have 28 of the 36 blocks needed completed. Guess I will have to do a little shopping in Rockport  at  Golden Needles and Quilts . It is really a cute shop and the owner is very nice.

Don't need much room to sew! Put bed risers under the coffee table in the room and I was good to go!


The last 8 sets



So far they are Tiki approved


The girls are great travelers. They get to spend a lot of time in the car.



Thursday, March 1, 2018

February 2018 Wrap Up

Surprisingly I did manage to rack up a quilt and some block numbers for February!
I made the Almost Houndstooth Quilt, a pattern from the Stashbuster series on Sparrow Quilt Co.
60 blocks


Then I started the Breezy Day kit from Fat Quarter Shop. The blocks are finished, quilt top not!
35 blocks


It is a mix of shades of blue and grays with white.

I am working on blocks now for QWL. We have a block challenge now until the end of April. Everyone will be sending their blocks to me to put into tops for donation quilts. I picked the Nine Patch Straight Furrows block from Quilter's Cache. Got 5 blocks made so far. The requisite is very scrappy, lights and darks! In other words use some of the stash we tend to have too much of! Here's my 5

I have one of my March projects and ready to take along to the coast tomorrow. Yep, leaving on another trip. I think this kit could be from 2005-2007! Yes, I am unearthing some long over due kits and projects. This will be great for someone who loves the outdoors.


As for our girls, Spa day tends to wear them out.

The do have a rough life! 

Monday, February 26, 2018

Design Wall Monday-February 26, 2018

Looks like I took some time off from blogging! But I have been busy!

While at the quilt show last month at South Padre Island, my sweet husband bought me one of the demo Martelli Work Stations. This is the mid size one and I am loving it. On  demo models you get a good discount. And we had the pickup so it came home with us. I am loving the adjustable height, easy to move casters etc. And it does come apart so we were able to get it upstairs where I wanted to use it!

 Advantage Work Station Kit
That's my everything gift for this year and then some!!!!!

And it has been getting used.

I have been following and also making the stashbuster quilts each month from  Sparrow Quilt Company If you follow this link it will take to you where I can see the one for March.

February's quilt was Almost Houndstooth. I was able to use quite a few layer cake pieces that were left over from other quilt tops.


                                                             This is my finished top


I have not decided yet on this month's Undone Stashbuster quilt pattern,Need to decide soon so I can take it along on our next trip. I have to have something to do in the motel room in the evenings!

I have also been working on a quilt kit from Fat Quarter Shop called Breezy Day. It is basically blue and white with some grays thrown in foe good measure!


2 of the 35 blocks needed.


As some of you know my husband does photography of birds and butterflies. There were reports of Snowy Owls in Texas this winter. They were spotted in 4 locations. Up until this year there had only been 8 sightings reported and none this far south or west in Texas. We took a few days and drove out to Odessa, Texas. I guess the Owl wanted to be among the oil fields! We stayed in San Angelo. Much less expensive to stay there and drive another 60 miles to go Owl hunting. We did find the owl. She was hanging out along a busy highway in basically a strip mall. Beautiful bird and very much worth the trip. By the markings they figure she is about a year old. She flew to the light standard in the mornings and perch there for the day. We walked all the way around the base of the light and she sat there and watched. it was hard to get a picture with her eyes open the whole way. She was facing the sun!



Tilly our black Standard poodle turned 11 on Valentine's Day. Hard to imagine!

They are both watching their waistlines so they shared a peanut butter/banana cupcake.



That is about all for me. 

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