Crafters Monday February 13 through February 19

Unexpectedly DD#2 and DGS stopped over….good to see them and DGS is a very funny little fellow. Gotta go check email.

It’s bird count weekend! I love this and enjoy keeping track of all my feathered friends. Turned much colder here in the past few hours so they are feeding more heavily.

See ya later.

I somehow missed yesterday's last two postings. 

CJ, we can never have too much fabric or yarn Someone did download the message feature about when the next oil change is due on my car computer but it definitely wasn't me and I don't think it was dh either so it had to be the service techs that have worked with my car. It also says that my tire pressure needs to be checked which I thought they were supposed to do with these certain # mile checks but I have no paperwork from them saying they did that. One thing I need to figure out is how to make the dash lights brighter and dimmer. All cars used to have a reostat that you could just reach and turn while driving. Now you have to go into the computer and do it somehow which seems like a very bad plan to me. Yes I do see why you wouldn't want to cut that large floral print fabric up too much. You would definitely lose some of the beauty of having all those flowers together. Sorry it got cold in your area.Oh and CJ, I sure would finish those crochet UFO's you have. Too bad we don't live closer.Since neither of us is fond of having visitors we could still be friends and help one another without being an annoyance.

Ginny, how nice that your dd and grandbaby stopped over. It's great too that you have a week off. What are you going to do with your time besides shopping and finishing your PMQ. I know you'll find many things to fill that time with.One thing I would like to do with my stove in use the self cleaning feature but I'm afraid to have my stove that hot so I just use oven spray and arm power. One thing I want to do is try to open the acutual oven door window as something got in there and I need to get that cleaned inside. I saw how to do it on youtube but I'm afraid it won't go back together correctly.

I spent a lot of time earlier today and yesterday too working on dh's appointments. One had to do with Social Security. He got a letter saying that someone was going to call him yesterday at 3pm for a n important phone meeting about his SS. She never called so I had to go thru all the hoops of trying to get thru all the "if you need this say or press 3,, if you need such and such dial 2", etc Then you have to listen to their extremely long message telling you how great they are and how much they can do for you. I finally got thru and it turned out that the woman that was supposed to call him works from home so the person who answered said she was going to leave the other person a message. We haven't heard from her since.Time today was spent going to their online site which is kind of like you're a rat running thru a maze.Then after that it was adjusting his app'ts for the MRI's and followup doctor visit.

I did start another baby sweater. I've only ever made probably 4 baby sweaters and all but one were years ago so I had a hard time with doing the yoke. I think I have it down now. At least I have that yoke done and started on the main part. I'll work on it this evening.

Have a great evening and night everyone

Good morning and Happy Saturday!

Ruth, indeed it’s kind of sad that you have to go into a computer of sorts to adjust the dashboard lights on your car. I really do not know for sure how to adjust mine but am confident ifs not too impossible. My car is set up (not in all areas but in more commonly used adjustments) so that a bumbling idiot like myself can struggle through.
Good to hear that you have mastered the yoke on the baby sweater. Are you working with baby yarns ? And bless you if you are….baby yarn is so fine. Dealing with SS is insane- and it would be so nice if the recipient did not have to drag through the awful menu prompts and messages that they pollute their phone messages with. Oh my that stinks that after all the waiting and “press 3, press 4…..” you discovered that the person worked from home. So frustrating. Making medical appointments can be a disaster also. I might sound short sighted here, but I wonder why its all become so darned complicated now. I do not know if I will use the self cleaning option on my cooking stove or not. And it’s sure nice to have the oven window nice and clean. My last stove needed to have the window taken apart for cleaning, it was not awful but would have looked better if cleaned. Never got around t ot and the oven is gone now.

CJ- That floral fabric is so pretty, and affords you the chance to pull in lots of different colors to use in a quilt. Regarding the blue purple BOM, when the whole quilt top is done, I doubt that you will notice the “wonky” element that is bugging you. Really had you not drawn my eye to look for that, it would have not been so evident. I really like the peach/grey/off white blocks. It’s making a very elegant quilt top with slightly more muted tones. For the block that you are slightly bugged by (and tried adding a dark tone which did not look good to you) I might be tempted to bring in more of the grey fabric- if you have one. (I know you are trying to work from your stash). The other conditional is that colors do not come over the internet well, so anything I say might be complete nonsense in reality. Anyway, I was thinking to break up the intense peach a little bit- perhaps that is what is bothering you. It’s a really pretty block…just trying to help you troubleshoot.

Went to church last night for a practice for Sunday. We are adding a new song, which I did get to work on at home before we tried it. I will have to play it at home again today, to cement in my head how I will harmonize with the melody. Also I did get some more work done on the embroidery. Little by little it is becoming a picture.

I already started counting birds this weekend. I might take myself for a walk to the wildlife preserve later on to see what other birds I can see. Its gotta warm up a bit before I head out to do that.

Seeing many different kinds of birds is just wonderful. A trip to the nature reserve sounds like a good thing to do if it's not too cold there yet.I'm not good at identifying a lot of birds but I love seeing them. One bird I didn't see last year in Indiana was the woodpecker that I think is called red breasted or something like that. In the past when I was there i saw a lot of them..

CJ, the new quilt sounds nice and that coral and gray is also going to be beautiful even if you did just want to use up the fabric and didn't have a great plan for it.  I saw on the weather report that it's to be really cold in your neck of the woods.

We're supposed to get about 7 inches of snow starting tomorrow so I'm not looking forward to that. I hope the snow somehow goes away before time for doctor appointment and other plans we have.

I'm coming along on this sweater. It's not perfect but it really is very pretty.I'm about to start on the sleeves then will be the edging and it will be done.I was thinking of making the blanket that goes with it but it not only has holes but also yarn that is carried over like the cross over stitch so lots of places for little fingers to get stuck so I think I'll do the hat and that's all for this set...oh and the tiny socks.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Yes the red bellied woodpecker is quite a sight. Today I saw a song sparrow and a hairy woodpecker. Nothing exotic but I usually see them so it’s nice to see them “check in”.

I got some embroidery done and worked on the PMQ. I made a mistake on the PMQ border - 6 months ago- and had to rip a bit out. It’s sewn back in but now my car is on the quilt body. So now it’s time to go back to embroidery. Hahaha

Will stop back in later to say hello and not blab about myself