wee piggies

i didn't accomplish anything of note for the Friday Night Sew-In ... and no one wants to see a picture of nothing ... however ... this picture...

which little piggy had roast beast?!?

is too sweet, innit?

those are my newest granddaughter's little toes ... her daddy (Earth Science) painted them ... and i think that is pretty doggone awesome

gotta good reason

we've reached the halfway point of the Hot Flashes BOM ... this month's block is called Flushed, Sweat & Tears...

mine

Auntia's

the pattern calls for 16 flying geese and lottsa two inch squares...

Sheri the Shop Owner's

 which made me flush and sweat and want to cry ... i looked at Auntia and rolled my eyes ... she rolled her eyes back ... neither of us wanted to try matching all those points if we didn't have to ... we started redrafting the block in our notebook with square-in-a-square to replace eight of the flying geese, while Sheri the Shop Owner continued with her demonstration ...  Auntia drew a paper-piecing pattern for the square-in-a-squares cuz mine always turn out wonky and made copies for both of us to use ... and we used rectangles instead of squares for all but the four corners ... i'm all 
 for taking the easy way out

is that hercule poirot?!?

 nah...

it's LuLu  

after scarfing down a boston creme pie toaster strudel 

I think, monsieur, that little admission cooks your gander.

from Death in the Clouds

is that what i think it is?!?

i looked out of the patio door and saw this...

   now everyone knows that i love me some autumn leaves, but...

 it's only the first of august!!!

no more baby blues

SSBOM Hot Flashes for july ... the block is called no more baby blues...

mine

and, once again, no blue in a block named after the blues...

Auntia's

when we went to the meeting on the first saturday of july, Sheri the Shop Owner had the demonstration board all set up for the SS Neutral BOM which everyone knows is the second saturday of the month ... that was a short meeting, lemmetellya ... no demonstration and no sample block and the Shades fabric strips weren't in their cute little plastic bags ... both of us decided to use just the dark green Shade strip instead of the lime green strip...

Sheri the Shop Owner's

i'm not sure about the modulation of the phrase ... is it supposed to be

no more baby blues ?

or should it be

no more baby blues ?

and, seriously, shouldn't there be just a smidgen of blue in the block?!? i'm just sayin...

male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. with female menopause you gain wait and get hot flashes. male menopause - you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

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good golly

ms. molly ... those paper-pieced leaves really DO exist...

leaf fall! we have leaf fall! 35 minutes past the hour!

and their little acorns, too ... they were in bits and pieces in little ziploc bags till i had a marathon git-er-done session a week or two ago ... and now they are in a bigger ziploc bag, waiting patiently for me to get back to them and theirs...

say what?!?

last night was FNSI...

i embroidered...

the left side of the top embroidery for Over the River and Through the Woods

i can't believe that i signed up for more trees - you'd think i'd have learned my lesson with HPV not the virus...

i am changing the pattern a bit is anyone in shock?!? 

i didn't want it to be a winter scene, so i traced it with lines that are not drifted with snow...

we don't need no stinking snow drifts

and i replaced the horse-drawn sleigh with a truck from Snow Days another Crab-apple Hill pattern...

 does this fender make my butt look big?!?

the truck was too small and was facing the wrong way, so i traced it ... and reversed it ... and then Auntia enlarged it for me

 instead of black floss, i'm using DMC #154 very dark grape for most of the stitching ... and a little bit of Wildflowers #077 royal jewels for what should have been fields of snow, but is gonna be strewn leaves instead i was gonna write leaf fall, but Auntia says it's strewn leaves... 

and the background fabric is not what i originally chose last year ... i didn't buy enough background fabric for the embroidery and the paper-pieced leaves ... so i ordered what i thought was the same fabric, but was actually a bit more gold and more than a bit darker ... which meant that i still didn't have enough of either fabric for the embroidery and the paper-pieced leaves ... so i used both fabrics randomly shudder for the paper-pieced leaves... 

i dunno ... i think it will work ... maybe in a year or ten i will have a thanksgiving quilt...

Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants.

Kevin James