Off the Wall Friday

 I constructed a duck.

And put it on top of the duck blind.







And gave it a cypress tree to hide in.  I hope they really don't choot any ducks!

I am making a quilt of Cajun Camps in the style of Julie's Build A Barn book.




In other news, I have a new fountain.  And........

A new fish.  Actually there are two new fishys!  A total of 28 cents at the pet shop.



 Off The Wall Friday

I am linking up with Nina Marie's Off the Wall Friday.  She is making a Monet and there are lots of others making stuff of all kinds.  Go check it out.

Duck blind among the cypress trees

The duck blind now sits among the cypress trees.  And for you are wondering what those things around the bottom of the tree are......cypress knees!

They are projections of the roots that stick out above the water.  They are believed to provide oxygen to the roots since the roots are below water level.  I have one sitting on my fireplace that Frank brought back from a trip long ago.

I need to decide what the next camp should be. Maybe the elevated one out over the water.

Stay tuned!


I leaned my iPad on my thread box and the camera was still turned on.  I love this picture!

Sometimes I amaze myself!

Cajun Camps - A New Quilt

In some parts of the county people have beautiful cabins in the woods.  Some have places on the little stream gurgling down the rocks and through the trees.  Some have summer homes in pastures with white fences and wide screened windows just outside the city hustle and bustle.

In Louisiana we have fishing camps.  

Cypress wood walls, always a stove to cook what you catch, sometimes leaning precariously.  

This is my duck blind, made in the style of the Build A Barn book by Julie Sefton.  I will be doing a blogpost about the book and my progress on the Cajun Camps in May.  May 23, 2016 to be exact. That was my mother's birthday!!!

Julie will be soooo excited to see her barns become Cajun Camps.....maybe.

I paperpieced a duck to sit on top of it.  But it could be a decoy up there.  That duck was tiny, yeah.  But I do love to paperpiece!

I think it needs a tree and maybe a pirogue.  I can take the side piece off and add stuff, but that is all I have of that fabric.  I might try to applique one on......oye!  

FYI - A pirogue is the flat bottomed boat used all through the swamps.  We had one back before we had Carrie!  Kinda like a canoe, you use a paddle to move it through the alligators........

Stay tuned!