Weekend Doings

We had a crazy weekend!  It began on Friday when our daughter came in to town from NC.  

We drove her to Gross Pointe to go to a bachelorette party.  

We dropped her off and drove home.  

LOTS of cleaning up from the work the contractor did while at my house.  

Good news is that I got a ceiling light/fan for in my sewing room now!!  

Bad news?  

I can't put my closet back together again until the ceiling light/fan is done in the other bedroom.  Access is through my closet ceiling.  Here is my new light!

Saturday found us at the farm.  We were going to help dig post holes for the bird pen expansion.  

And by we I mean my daughter, SIL and husband, LOL. 

 I was relegated to the basement to go through boxes left there from my dad's house. 

 It was so cold in the basement though that I came up periodically to get warm. 

 I would wander outside and play with the birds, take a few pictures and then back into the basement.  I was paying with Jocelyn and thought you might like to hear her voice.  

We hatched her from an egg when my DD lived at our house.

We rented a post hole digger 

(thank goodness, as hubby is not getting any younger!)

Now you see it...

Now you don't!!  Every time they fired it up the two male peacocks would start calling.

I managed to get a video of Blu when he was calling.  

The slight "echo" you hear is actually Octavain II who would begin slightly after Blu.

These are the posts we got planted (maybe with enough attention they will grow into a bird pen!)

Sunday we had to drive back to Detroit and pick up our other daughter after her partying weekend and drive her to the airport.  

We stopped off for lunch with her and then took her to the airport. 

 We got home and I fled upstairs to my sewing room.  

I really had no business working on anything but the "have to" list but of course I did something new.  I did work on the have to  list too though.  

I am hoping to finish up the market quilt soon and then we can have a QAL if you like.

Being around the birds inspired me to try this little paper pieced pattern I found online. 

 I have a friend that is a little down and so thought she might like this as a pin cushion.  

I have printed out enough to make 3 more that I think I will make a little mini quilt for her. 

 Just not right now.  

The block is about 4" square.

How was your weekend?

~XOP~

Rekindling An Old Friendship

I met an old friend for dinner last Thursday.  

We had not been able to meet up for many months and 

we saw each other a few weeks ago at her mom's funeral. 

 I think she was so busy taking care of her mom there was just no extra time.  

We met for dinner and it was wonderful! 

 We started up just like we had left off.  

She brought me a bag full of gifts that she had for me for  my birthday and Christmas.  

One of the most beautiful was this pendant from Hawaii.

She also gave me a big box of thread.  

Then we had a funny thing happen between us.  

A few years ago she gave me some fabric that I thought was not very pretty (ugly in fact) but felt so guilty I decided to use it to make a charity quilt.  

She thought it was not something I would usually sew with either

 but wanted me to work outside my comfort zone.  

So I made a quilt that I dubbed The Ugly Quilt.  

Turns out my DD2 fell in love with that quilt and now it lives with her.

 The following Christmas I made a jelly roll of all the left over fabrics and gifted them back to her!  Well, in this bag was a quilt top she made out of those strips and all the left over fabric.

The Ugly Quilt Part Deux!

I used the left overs to make a back,

 I added some Kona Ash to make up what I didn't have enough of.

This quilt is now on it's way to the quilter!  

Our little baby turkey is still cute as a button.  It likes to "help" my DD1 while she is typing.

Then I got to finish up another quilt top and had some beautiful Marmalade to play with. 

 I just LOVE this fabric for the back!!! 

 My favorite. 

 Of course, Jack had to help me out too!

Marmalade fabric with a marmalade cat!

That sums up my Sunday.  I hope you all had a wonderful weekend too.

~XOP~

It's a New Baby!!

We had the miracle of birth happen at our house last night.

A baby turkey hatched out of the turkey eggs we put into our incubator. 

 My DD1 had a male and female turkey and the female began laying 

so we thought we would try to hatch some more turkeys.  

Apparently it is not supposed to be an easy thing to do, hatching turkeys, but we got one at least.

It was so newly hatched in this photo it was still wet.

I also want to invite you to the next stop on the Blog Tour too.

  You should go over to Brooke's blog and check out her post today.

I did manage to finish up a little quilt, it just needs to have the binding finished. 

 I call it the underwater quilt.

I think I will be listing this one in my ETSY shop soon.

I leave you with some photos of Fatty McFatty (Aiden)

She was just relaxing and hanging out on my sewing table taking a bath.  

May you all have such a restful weekend!!

~XOP~