Poodles and Quilts

  A Productive Week Managed to get a couple of things off my to do list during the week. Dentist appointment, not a good one but a needed one. Another one this week-consultation and set appointment for a root canal. Did finish the Pulsar quilt top for that quilt along. Love it and will keep the idea in mind for maybe another top in the future. Can’t post the picture yet-not until the end of the month per the rules. Next post. And I have the backing ready for my Texas quilt. Should see what I have for backing for Pulsar. I did cook up my pumpkins. Lost a couple, wasn’t thinking about this Fall being so much warmer than the last time I did this. The garage was too warm to keep them. Did get enough for 2 – 1 1/2 cups of puree. My Mom’s recipe that I always use uses 1 1/2 cups for 2 pies. Our neighbor enjoys them too! Have several more sugar pie pumpkins on order from HEB. Tomorrows grocery pick up. Will get those cooked, pureed and in the freezer. Before going in the oven. And yes, my...

  Design Wall Monday and other musings I was able to make clue 5 this past week for the Pulsar QAL by Bear Creek. Hooray, I am all caught up! I love the way this is turning out. Last week we were actually able to turn off the AC units for a few days. But so typical of Fall in Texas we have had to turn them back on, but not having to run them constantly. We have started some Fall cleaning in our flower beds. Galen pulled a couple of dead Mexican Sunflower plants. Still plenty of others blooming. Lots of butterfly activity along with the occasional Hummingbirds feeding on the flowers. We still have 2 feeders out for them s well. Will take them down in another week. We had not gone out to Thrall in several months, so we took a drive this past Saturday. Nice drive on the back roads but not much flying. The Dragonflies wouldn’t sit or were flying East into the sun. Galen did get a few pictures. The Kestrals are back and we did see a Road Runner. Like I said nice drive but we see mo...

  Design Wall Monday I took  last week off from posting so this is catch up time.  I realized I needed to concentrate on getting doggy bandanas made.  Finished up 62 holiday bandanas.  They will be split between Lisa’s grooming shop in CA. and the rest will go to our sister in law Donna for her church bazaar early November.   Made 3 sizes- medium, small and a few tiny ones.  This photo is a sampling. Lisa will be getting the Fall ones along with Christmas. Rest of the Christmas will go to Donna. They are fun to make and help get rid of my way to much fabric stash! Now that they are ready to send off I got back to my Pulsar blocks.  I have had clue 1 done for a while.  The fabric was cut for #2 but I needed to learn how to use the speciality ruler- the half rectangle trim tool from Creative Grids.  Took watching the u- tube video by Deb Heatherly a few times.  Got out the Scrap fabric and got it figured out. Clue 2 Since I knew ...

  Almost October Just 3 months left in 2024!! I need to get busy if I hope to get everything done I had hoped too do. I have been making a valiant effort though. Had a very productive week working on quilts.  I was able to bind another one for Linus. Twirling at the Disco.  Hard to telling the picture- very scrappy binding. I was able to get all the blocks done for my Texas themed quilt.  A fun way to use a lot of preprinted 5 inch squares. I decided to add borders.  Found fabric with barb wire on it. Decided it needed to be the inner border. I used black grunge for the other border.  The top is ready to be quilted. Love the way it turned out. I have the next few days where I can spend time mostly sewing.  Sunday I finally was able to start Pulsar quilt along by Bear Creek.   I’m about 6 weeks behind!  Today I did clue 1. There are 80 here. And yes I went ahead and sewed the waste half square triangles that were cut offs. I think #5 clue...

  A Texas Fall   poodlegirls     cooking ,  Daily Happenings ,  Donation Quilting ,  General Sewing ,  Life at home ,  Nature ,  Our Girls ,  Quilting ,  Uncategorized     September 24, 2024   1 Minute The calendar says it’s Fall and our Live Oaks agree.   But it is still summer temperatures, although not quite as bad. Our Live Oaks started dropping acorns last week.  With the extension we had added to our deck roof this time last year it sounds almost like gun shots when the acorns hit it and then roll off onto the walk and yard. The shop vac is now out and getting used.  Easiest way to pick them up. They are hard on bare feet and the broken caps sometimes get in between Lady’s pads.  Tiki really had a problem with that. Galen has probably picked up 6 or 7 gallons with the vac.  These are not large acorns either. On the sewing front I got quite a bit done on the Texas blocks. The pa...

  Last Week Happenings Started out the week getting our trees trimmed. Had a couple of dead branches that needed to come down plus getting some of the lower branches away from deck roof. Also a few  needed to be raised higher from the new roof. While she was up on our roof cutting branches a squirrel jumped off a branch and landed about 3 feet from her.  Galen was out watching and saw it happen They had quite a bit to put through their shredder, but not near the amount from the past years of storm damage. We weren’t sure if there would be a problem while they were here.  Google Fiber people put up no parking signs the day before.  They didn’t get to our cul de sac until the next day, so no problem. The arrow is pointing to the very narrow ditch- make the ditch, burry the cable and follow with a concrete patch. It sounds like our street was lucky. There were a few water lines and sprinkler lines cut on Friday. My sewing time was spent on finishing up more doggy s...

  Design Wall Monday and Other Happenings! Not really design wall as nothing is there!  But I did get some sewing accomplished.  13 more dog scarves/bandanas for my friend in California.  These are all for Halloween.   Need to do a few more then get them in the mail. Extra small and small Need to make a few medium size Osie and I moved our meet up to tomorrow.  That gave me more time to get more things ready to donate to Linus.   Had hoped to get one more top together to give her to quilt but that didn’t happen.  Spent most of the time sorting. Safe to say a lot more fabric is going out the door than coming in! While sorting through my Asian fabric bin I found what I wanted to use for a mystery quilt I am doing. It’s called Pulsar and is from Bear Creek. Hope to start on the clues later this week. I have some catching up to do before the next clue comes out. That will be about 6 yards used out of my stash.  That’s a win! I am s...