I Like Thursday: Piggies, Pretty Leaves, and Plans

Busy week!  But I've managed to squeeze in a post to share with the I Like Thursday crowd.

On Sunday I attended the Boston Pignic.  Oh, loafy, wuzzy piggies.  Always a delight.  If you clicked on that link you see I'm now fostering a trio of guinea pigs.  They're still settling in, but I'm sure there will be more photos soon.

Remember that little frog that we found hanging out between the window panes last month?  Well, either he changed colors and returned, or he told one of his buddies to try it out.  Rob found this one last week. 

 

He stayed there about a day and then disappeared.  I have no idea why that window sill was so popular.

A Pignic and Powerpuff Girls

Time for some guinea pigs!  

Let's kick it off with a trip to Wellesley for the Fall Boston Pignic.  A delightful variety of guinea pigs show up, including two skinny pigs and a skinny wannabe (lower left) that I fell in love with.  Lots of loafy piggies that filled the weighing bowl, and a few Abyssinians with bed-head.  The white and grey was my favorite.

Oh, squishy piggies!

All girl piggies attended this time - not a single boar.  We haven't had the numbers so uneven since the early pignic days.

It was a beautiful sunny day albeit on the cool side.  The girls didn't seem to be bothered - it didn't slow them down from eating all that grass.

Crumbly Fabric

My crumb containers were overflowing from scraps generated from several quilts.  I spent the last week sewing them together.  My last set of crumbs ended up in my Hexie Crumble quilt.  This time around I lumped similar colors together: black, gold, purple, orange, red, brown, green, blue and cream.  Some fabric doesn't fit into a single category the scrap already had different colors sewn together, so I have some multi-colored patches, too.  Right now the green and multi-colored ones are biggest.

I Like Thursday: Cukes, Cape, Chicks and a Little Frog

How can it possibly be the end of September?  The trees are turning and it's starting to feel like autumn.  I'm happy with the cooler weather (but not the shorter days).

This year's cucumber harvest was disappointing.  I had hoped to make more pickles!  But this cheeky slice looks like it's winking and smiling at me.  At least the few cucumbers I got were tasty.

My biggest like this month was spending the better part of a week at Cape Cod hosting my annual Chick Weekend.  We had beautiful weather every single day.

I Like Thursday: Random Goings-on

Mostly likes to share with LeeAnna and friends at I Like Thursday.  

Quilting cleanup projects are on deck, which are my favorite sewing projects to work on.  However, I'm not getting anywhere!  Better weather has lured me to spending time in the garden.  I dislike the lack of sewing, but I'm enjoying the gardening.

A tale of two sunflowers - both of these were planted at the same time.  The one near the house took off - the head must be about a foot wide.  The one closer in the photo struggled and the seed head is maybe three inches.  It's pretty, though!

Major dislike - my phone flaked out.  I spent tons of time working on it, thought I fixed it, then three days later it randomly shut down and refused to reboot.  A week later I spent another two days setting up a brand new phone.  Lots of teeth gnashing.  Not fun.  I'm aggravated over learning a new UI and sound setup.  Ugh.

A Quick Trip to the Fair

I entered two quilts in the Franklin County fair.  I'll be coming home with two blue ribbons.  How exciting!  I think they made notes on the back, so I'm looking forward to that.

My mother and I looked at several beautiful quilts and interesting arts and crafts.  There was a huge cathedral windows quilt (that I didn't think to photograph).  As we were admiring it, the woman who made it stopped by and asked if we had questions.  Oh, yes!  We found out it took 12 years to make.  I can believe that - there were so many little squares.  They were hand pieced, then machine sewn together.

I Like Thursday: August Accomplishments

Let's squeeze in some more likes this month to share with LeeAnna and friends at I Like Thursday.

I spotted this in the way home from an evening kayak.  I'm not sure what caught my eye first, the antique truck or the mini-church.  I stopped to get a closer look.

Quilted Jacket

I'm finally posting my quilted jacket.  I finished up the stitching in May except for a set of buttons.  Turns out adding said buttons was harder than I anticipated.  Third time is a charm!  I found a set I like last weekend and wrapped it up.  Just in time, since I plan to submit it to the local fair.

Hmm... I guess I didn't post much on the process.  This was one of those sweatshirt jackets in which you pull apart a sweatshirt, quilt fabric onto it, then reassemble it.  I found a couple of tutorials, had a rough idea of of fabrics and a design and I took the plunge.