half-birthday surprises

new books to read!!! (Melissa gave me the Everything Trump Touches Dies book early so i wouldn't have to read about Thing One today)

and handmade shark attack goodies from a generous, giving,  awesome friend and fellow resistance fighter

thank you,  thank you,  thank you!!!

 

147 half years

gonna spend my day eating chinese food and reading and sipping tea and watching The Meg and stitching and scarfing down half-birthday cake 

 WON'T YOU BE MY CHUM?!?

stabby stabby stabby

 i almost missed working on any christmas in july stitching...

till Melissa reminded me that the next hand embroidered quilt we worked on would be 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Crab-Apple Hill

 (we had agreed, again, that Melissa will do the tracing and piecing and i will do the tracing (boo) and stitching, pressing and trimming)

 i have renamed it Santa's Tree cuz this panel

is gonna be the center instead of pieced pinwheels ... it will hafta be cut down considerably

and,  of course,  the floss will not be red...

green for everything except the berries and Rudolph's nose ... the background fabric and the (first two) skeins of floss are from stash ... the floss colors are, in Real Life,  more grey than pictured and the fabric is, in Real Life, less grey - sigh

 the borders are all traced (it's my least favorite part and Melissa wimped out before she even started, so i traced and traced and traced for four days to prove a point ... i think she was secretly snickering the entire time) and i've stitched half a skein's worth of green...

anywho...

for the next few days weeks months  however long it takes, i will be stabby stabby stabbying the four borders, and pressing and trimming - then this will join the last embroidered (Vintage Tin) blocks in the Great Pile of Stuff...

 and they may become quilts someday 

taco tuesday

let's go taco 

Margaret Clothilde MacDonald 🇨🇦

the fourth block of 150 Canadian Women is called Birds in the Air and is dedicated to Major Margaret Clothilde MacDonald 

Melissa's block 4

dianne's block 4

week 4 done and 146 to go (give or take 6) 

Every Thing Trump Touches Dies

Scotland the Brave 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

 Thing One is playing  cheating (your lackie is on video tossing your lost ball, doofus)  at golf in Scotland...

 i was hoping that our Scottish friends would do us a solid (for which a lotta us would be forever grateful) and please,  please,  please

 keep him there... 

but before i could plead beg ask, these Scottish protestors showed up in my inbox...

so...

i guess y'all will think about it and get back with me?

just askin'

tanks - a lot

just sayin' 

taco tuesday

let's go taco 

Marie (Josephine Louise) Gérin-Lajoie 🇨🇦

the third block of 150 Canadian Women is called an hourglass and is dedicated to Marie Josephine Louise Gérin-Lajoie 

Melissa's block 3

dianne's block 3

week 3 done and 147 to go (give or take six)

sunday funnies

just sayin' 

good trouble lives on...

just sayin'

signs from today...

 if you think...

then know that...

just sayin'

taco tuesday

el pollo loco

let's go taco 

Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie 🇨🇦

the second block of 150 Canadian Women is called a patience nine patch (although we pieced it as a seven patch) and is dedicated to Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie

Melissa's block two

dianne's block two

(which is actually square, even though it doesn't look like it is)

week two done and 148 to go (give or take six)

once upon a time in november...

despair was everywhere, as far as my eyes could see... 

and then Thing One started making noise about Canada (our northern neighbor, trade partner,  and constant ally) being absorbed as the 51st state ... he seemed to think it amusing to refer to (then Prime Minister) Justin Trudeau as "Governor Trudeau" and to threaten to place tariffs on everything that the US imports from Canada... 

and then he did...

and then he didn't...

and then he did...

threats and tantrums and more tantrums and threats 

it's futile to try keeping track of the tacoing 

 he doesn't seem to give a goodgawddamn about how We the People feel about Canada,  free trade or tariffs, imports and exports, being good neighbors and allies, just wanting to live our lives without newly manufactured problems and their ensuing crises slapping  us in the face every damnday ... it has become a $h!t $h0w of a circus - with the elephant poop piling up higher and higher - that won't be leaving town for forever days, weeks, months, years

Canada has not reacted by bending the knee and kissing his a$$ ring ... they've moved ahead and moved along 

in the meantime...

beautiful red and neutral fabrics from Northcott  (a Canadian company) were ordered from (mostly) Canadian on-line quilt shops, along with the pattern for the 150 Canadian Women  quilt (a block-of-the-week-piece-along to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary in 2017) 

and a new journey (to count down the weeks until Thing One's circus leaves town) has begun...

we didn't have enough any red scraps for scrappy quilts, so we ordered yardage - lots of yardage...

and covered a three-ring notebook to bind the patterns' charts and notes

the plan is for each of us to piece a 6" block every sunday morning  

whilst eating pancakes or waffles with lottsa maple syrup 

and listening to Celine Dion and Neil Young and Gordon Lightfoot and Alanis Morrisette (although i still don't agree with her on what is or is not ironic) and The Guess Who (cuz, you know, we're American women) and Buffy Sainte Marie (even if) and Anne Murray and Joni Mitchell...

 elbows up... 

plugging along

too far

maybe if Thing One unglued that squirrel's a$$ tail that has nested on his head  - MAYBE  - he could pass for an old, weak Lex Luthor ... but this?!?

THIS is too far...

what kind of drugs is the Candyman handing out at the White House?!? is the entire staff actually this delusional? are they ALL fourth-graders?!?

he's the symbol of TERROR and DESPAIR 

LIES, INJUSTICE and  THE MAGA/RUSSIAN WAY is more descriptive of the pos inhabiting the Offal Office

just sayin' 

buck moon