A Few of My Favorite Things
Quilting and painting and baking and gardening (and kittens!), these are a few of my favorite things! I had a very unproductive month in July (not counting the setup of a new home NAS system, maybe subject of a future post) but I did get a little motivated last week.
Kitties!
We’ve had the singular experience of raising a group of kittens. They were born April 10th to a previous stray cat who we tamed over the spring. It’s been a very rewarding and enjoyable experience, and they are CUTE!!
Our First Quilt Store Shop Hop
We recently did our first quilt store Shop Hop, details below! The way it works is you visit participating area quilting and sewing shops. You show them your guide and they put in a sticker and also you get a commemorative block, unique to each store visited. We visited 7 stores in 5 hours, starting…
Sunflower Journey Quilt Show
We attended the Sunflower Journey Quilt show in Abilene, Kansas in late March. I’d never been to a quilt show, so had little in the way of expectations. What we found was a very nice display of quilts and a few vendors. The most fascinating booth was the one where a computerized quilting machine was…
Learning to Quilt
Continuing were I left off last post, I’ve created a few new quilt blocks and I’ve done my first bit of actual quilting! I’ve created a number of different blocks over the past couple of months, which has taught me a lot. It’s also a lot of fun, especially in terms of being creative with…
Sew Far, Sew Good!
In late January, I started teaching myself to sew. Following the traditions of my grandma, a noted quilter, and my mom, who sewed like many moms of the 60s, it’s something I’ve wanted to do for at least 20 years. I say 20 years, because that’s when we bought the machine shown below. A nice…
Southwest Scenery – Winter 2021
In December, we took a trip out west to visit the kids and as has been our habit the past 20 years, we stopped a few places along the way. From west Kansas, through Colorado, Arizona and on to California, here are my favorite shots from the trip. After enduring the worst driving weather in…
Now, For Something Completely Different
I heard about an app that purports to create art using AI techniques. Some of the results I saw were fascinating, so I wanted to give it a try. It’s called Wombo Dream. The way it works is you enter a word or phrase and it returns a digitally created piece of art. It works…
Colorado Railroad Museum
Here are a few photos from the Colorado Railroad Museum. Located in Golden, Colorado, the. museum features a large outdoor collection of railroad engines and cars. There are a variety of older steam engines, including at least one functional unit! In addition, there are older diesel engines and a selection of freight and passenger cars….
All Hallows Eve
Enjoy these jack-o-lanterns, the first I’ve carved in a number of years. One of them is carved in the traditional manner and I tried something new on the other: I drilled a number of holes of varying sizes. Not really according to any pattern; just what looked good. Amazingly, these are hand-held shots, no tripod!…