Let's Try This Linky Thing

I am testing the inlinkz  thing that I created.  The first one did not work.......as usual.  Nothing in life worth anything is easy.  (Old Sicilian saying from my Sicilian father.)
See if you can link something 365 to this wonderful and marvelous test post.

Day 5 - There's No Going Back!

Rebecca texted me late yesterday afternoon, while I was emailing Sophie in fact, and asked me if I knew anything about the lab left in her front yard!  I did !!!  She was so excited!  ANd it made me feel great.  You need to try this, there is a group of people who make small art pieces and leave them all over their towns.  I have always wanted to do this.

So for today's Day 5, I have this grouping of triangles that are mostly the same size.  I say mostly because they are the cut off pieces from the Paperweights Quilt (which needs to be sandwiched and quilted).

Theresa called and said she had the stuff I asked her to get and I wanted to swing by there before I went to work out.  Her granddaughter loves to write in those composition book journals.  I had just enough time to make a cover for a composition book for her before I went over to pick up my stuff!

I started out by taking pictures of my triangles, loose and fancy free!  And I took pictures of the steps and how things went together.  And I happened to glance at the camera screen, NO MEMORY CARD it screamed at me!

There's no going back to get pictures of the triangles!

So here is my Day 5 project, finished!

Today I have to:

1.  trim the Kangaroos - count in inches with which to smash PattyA
2.  Trim Dinos - Count in inches with which to smash PattyA
3.  Trim Buggy Barn Dogs- already counted
4.  Trim Soar! to sandwich and quilt
5.  Add binding to Kangaroo, Dinos, Baby Squares, Dogs
6.  Quilt Soar! - count in inches with which to smash PattyA

Somewhere in there I have to vacuum the house and pick up the 17 inches of dog hair laying around..........They are beginning to move and undulate as I walk by......

New Convert to 365! Welcome!

I may have gotten some converts from my quilt guild last night.  I showed them3 of my days and told them about the Day 4 Walk About.  My friend Caroline devoured my book and then went home and ordered her own at midnight!  LOL

She was so excited she jumped right on the band wagon and completed Day 1 and emailed me this morning asking what Day 2 was!

Caroline is an accomplished artist and has taught Art in the public schools for all her career.  She gave me a wonderful painting of Chloe after she took a course on painting animals in watercolor.  It is one of the best animal portraits I have ever seen!

Here is her Day 1 - Small Piece.  It is a hotel key card that came home with them from their trip to Boston.  They stayed in the same block as the Boston Bombing.  Out touring the countryside while the Marathon was being run, they were unable to get back to their hotel for a few days.  Now that is a story to tell!

You go Caroline, I can't wait to see what you bring with your creativity and love of art.  I knew this would thrill you!

Meanwhile, I am gutting my sewing room, contemplating new shelves, wondering how I could have so many pony tail ties when my hair is so short................

Day 4 - 365 Take a walk

I made some changes in my Day 4, but I think you will like them.

I knew there was not much fabric laying out in the world, so I made a lab face like I did Chloe's face the other day.  I am loving it!

And down the street is a friend of mine who has two labs and a hound of some sort.  Her labs are True and Lark and the rescue girl is Maji.  Must have been found around Christmas!

I found a nice lab head and did my thread painting.  And put a hanger on it.  It turned out to be about 7 by 9, which is a really neat size.  I still need to get more confidence and add some additional shading in there.  But that will come with time I am sure.

Her house has some trees I hope to hang this on in her front yard.  They do several walks each day with the three dogs and I am pretty sure she will know it was me who put it there.

Unless she has some other doggy, quilty friends!

Off to see if I can slip it into her tree without her knowing.

I really didn't have a whole lot of time to place it, her dogs started barking the minute I walked by.  All three of them!

So I was hoping she was not home.  I can see her driving up the driveway, something catches her eye!  And she backs up to look.

Whoa!  A dog!  How cool!

Knitting.......Wasn't a Total Disaster

Well, I found something out about myself.

I am a klutz and can't remember 5 seconds from the past.  That was determined in this knitting class last night.  I had to concentrate REALLY hard to keep the knit two purl two rhythm going.  If I listened to the soft banter around me, I lost what I was doing.

And I kept forgetting to flip the yarn over and thus would end up with an extra stitch on each side.

And don't laugh.  This is two hours of hard, back breaking, labor intensive, thoughtful work.  I have to go home and go to bed.
 
So in 4 weeks this:

Will become a pair of socks.

Do you want to lay money on it?

Pouting

I am beginning to think you don't love me enough.

No one said anything about my new headline photo, with DiNozzo bouncing along in mid air.  Nor about the spaceship I caught in the photo on Father's Day.

I am gong to sit in the corner and pout a bit!

glen........

This Is a Bad Bad Thing and Day 3 of 365

Day 3 is not bad, but what I am doing tonight is!  LOL.  I am starting a sock knitting group here in town.  Aughhhhhhh!  Do I need another thing to do?  NO, but I am dying to make socks for some stupid reason.  All this talk in blogland about socks, and I want to make some.  I have this crazy vision of making a pair for everyone I know.............yeah, right.  I will be lucky to make this one pair!  So don't hold your breath!

I think I have worked out the linking thing, I will get that done, most probably tomorrow.

I was reading a blog of someone who is creating a sketch of something she bought that day for her 365.  She is nearly finished with her year and looks forward to a second year.  She says, I thought I would tire of this thing by about 3 months, and here I am in YEAR TWO!

Day 3 of the 365: Journal of Creativity was an interesting challenge.  Here is my result.  When I was making the Soar! Quilt's airplanes I folded up a couple of sheets of computer paper, we used to call it typing paper.  I took pictures of it and printed them out.  Really what I did was nearly like Chloe's head yesterday and the kangaroo.  I drew the lines from the 2D piece and made a paperpiecing pattern out of it.  Here are the paper airplane and the quilt block.

I am rethinking the
chevrons for a border,
what do you think?

My Design Wall has a couple of things on it.  One, the Soar! quilt needs to be trimmed and sandwiched.  Meanwhile I have the large Kangaroo quilt that needs to be trimmed and the binding put on.  That one should get counted this week, both in the Stash Report and the Quilt Your Quilts In June Challenge numbers.  Right now, PattyA and I are running neck and neck and I need a powerhouse swing to run her over!

The other thing that needs to be done is the cleaning out of my room.  Frank says there are some large boxes in the garage I can have.  I will place my stuff in those boxes and clear a way so I can re-align the shelving in the room   I wanted cute before, now I want functional.  I can use the existing boards but I need the shelving brackets.  I can get that at the hardware store this week and have my dear hubby put it up next weekend.

Yes, that is the plan.....for now.  Socks and shelves.  And smashing PattyA!