One more I Like Thursday post this month. Crazy, right?
Ooh - what do you think of this crazy-elegant Halloween lady with her pearls. Totally styling, right?
Mmm... black and white. I spent Saturday buying yards and yards of
black, white and grey fabric for a king sized quilt I'll be making. How appropriate for October - I'm terrified to tackle this project and yet I can't wait to start working on it!
I planned out the quilt, crunched the numbers and triple checked the yardage (I'm notorious for not getting quite enough). I usually linger over that step of planning for a while, coming back several times to review my work with a fresh head. On Saturday I was ready to take the plunge and buy the fabric... and came home with nine pounds!
I was lucky enough to snag a large sheet of plexiglass on Freecycle.
Woot! I was imagining all the quilting templates I could make from
it. First, though, I sliced off a piece to replace the rusted third-level grids for the guinea
pig cage.
Whew! Lots going on in the last two weeks! So many great things to
make me happy. Let's see -
the Powerpuff Girls
are settling in. There's been much loafing when they're not fiercely
demanding treats.
There really is a guinea pig in that photo... the first week Bubbles tried to hide under everything.
They're learning to beg properly and they're enjoying the three level cage - everyone has favorite spots. And they were pretty excited to check out the cleaned cage.
Lo and behold - an occasion presented itself. Several of my dancing hair clips are falling apart and I could use more that match other outfits. I thought these little flowers would be cute!
I've spent the last several days making these. I rummaged through my scrap fabric for colors. Then I had to recall how I made the first set of flowers. Now have a dozen flowers. Even though that's plenty, I'm ready to make some more!
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.
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.
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.
