Calla Lily an Bathroom Are Declared Finished!

Well, Calla Lily is about 2 feet of binding short of being finished!  That will get done tonight while we watch Doc Martin.

 

And we have declared the bathroom done and finished!  And we did it without Ray....although there were a few times I could have used him here.  Like when we were trying to re-hang the cabinet doors!

But we made it and I didn't have to kill Frank.  I was close a few times.

The mirrors are back up and the photos are panoramic shots I took when we were on vacation on the West Coast.  The long one is Multnomah Falls in OR on the Columbia River Gorge.  This is before the huge piece of rock broke off and changed the look of the falls.  The top one is the Gold Coast along Hwy 1 in CA.   We drove up from Los Angeles through Carmel and Monterrey, stopped at the aquarium, drove through Big Sur and over Bixby Bridge and toured Hearst Castle.  Actually I  think we started from the top and drove down!  And we climbed to every lighthouse along the way!

Two pieces of the pottery came from two trips into the Navajo Reservation, one in Monument Valley and the other in Utah. 
The ewer with the handle was a pottery piece one of my dog clients made for me.  The screws from the toilet paper holder stuck through and Frank couldn't cut them off, although he imagined himself superman enough to do it.  So I took some corks and dowel pieces and screwed them onto the screw ends.  I think that was pretty swuft!  Frank was convinced it would never work.  So after he works out a bit and builds up some muscles, it will do.

 I hung the toilet paper HIGH! And the towel rack over that outlet. 

The only thing I have to do is when the shower curtain comes in tomorrow I need to rehang the rod over the bathtub.

I need a few brightly colored pieces of stuff like towels, rugs and a basket for the Roomba's stuff. Right now the Roomba keeps its stuff in a plastic tub.  We can be more upscale than that!

So I guess it is NEARLY finished as opposed to TOTALLY finished.  OK, I'll give you that. 

Green Stack and Whack Calla Lily Quilt is Quilted

Chips the 22 lb mean cat!

Cali helping with a quilt

I loved that story about the kitty waiting for the litter!  Sounds just  like a cat, too!  I miss not having kitty feet in the house.  We always had two or three at one time and they lived to ripe old ages of close to 20.  We lost the last one 2 years ago, Cali, my little tiny calico who was 21 and still catching lizards until the end!




The Calla Lily Stack and Whack quilt is now quilted and needs a binding.  I have to decide what to put as a binding and get that done so I will have a finish for May, at least!

I wanted to do a pantograph on the back table since the long arm is still pulled out from the wall for when the film guy was here.  I got everything set up and realized we never did put the handles on the rear of the machine!  So much for that!

So I resorted to working from the camera, but I couldn't figure out where to put one of the wires that turned the whole thing on!  I gave up and just did a free motion leaf and swirl.  It worked out well.

Now it just needs a binding!

And to show you just how much Frank is loved:

the snoring from all three is deafening!

Stack And Whack

From the Flower Expert

I really love this green calla lily fabric.  My grandmother loved calla lilies!  So it had a special meaning from the beginning.  When I cut the blocks, my mother had come to visit me from the ramshackle building she and her second husband called home.

Don't get me started on that.  I was never in favor of the arrangement.  I hated my mother there with those people.  She just couldn't be alone, and my father had not been the type of man who encouraged a woman to speak from her own mind.  But don't get me started on that either.  My father, were he still alive, would most likely have deteriorated into his own mind by then and I would have had both of them on my doorstep. 

My mother was already in the throes of Alzheimers and the only way I could get her to a doctor was to get her husband to let her come visit.  I have no idea if she told him I took her there.  If she did, he most likely thought she was speaking nonsense.

That night, I cut the blocks and lined them up for her to sew.  I have 8 more blocks I put together this afternoon thinking I would put them on the back, but I didn't think to do that until I had just a portion of the back left to fill.  So I put them away for another quilt top.

I did use up a lot of scraps.  And I like the way the top came together.  I am still not totally enamored of the light border.  I generally use darker borders rather than lighter.  I wish I would have had more of that brown to use as the outer border.  I tested several browns but none worked well enough with the brown already there.

And I don't use green very often, so this is a quilt unique unto itself!


Here is what the top looked like last night.  SOMEONE took the green fabric I was using for that last border and I was unable to finish it.  Luckily I found it this morning, damp with dew from the morning.



Here is the finished top.

                                          And the backing.


And now I need to find the perfect name for it.