Thanksgiving Memories 2009

We gathered for Thanksgiving and had a wonderful visit together eating, painting pottery, shopping a little, having an almost complete family photo....

November in Calif

Pea Soup Quilt in the making

This is an interesting pattern to use up scraps. I must have enjoyed purple the summer.

Did I tell you about the FENCE we built this summer?

Ron did the digging into the deep dark earth, past the enormous rocks and dangerous insects. Laying the whole afternoon on the cold damp earth, risking his life and arm for the sake of a fence post. That was step one. He mixed and poured the concrete.

I held the levels steady to make sure the post didn't move.

Week two, or three, Ron dug a second deep hole into the deep dark earth, mixed the concrete, poured, patted and covered, then waited for the concrete to harden.

I held the levels steady to make sure the post didn't move.

I cleared the hillside so we could dig yet another post hole. The hole was pretty close to the edge of the hill. Same process. I held the levels steady to make sure the post didn't move.

Now we have a pretty neat looking fence. It is hard work, and it is quite level. By putting it back a little from where the old fence was makes a big difference. We did good work. (Mostly Ron did the good work!) Yeah, Ron. : )

No photos of Ron working hard...

Dave's birthday

We had a deep dark chocolate lucious gooey delicious birthday cake with 29 tall candles in the shape of 'EAT ME' . The candles took a long time to light.

We sang 'Happy Birthday' in our best birthday wishes voices, and Dave was ready to blow out the 29 candles, when along came a sudden wind (from an older brother) and the candles were 'OUT' in a flash.

The cake was really rich, but good in small amounts.

My work enjoyed the half our whole group didn't finish.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE !

small Alaska quilt done

17x20 Haida Bear.

It looks more like a puppy.

Batik Class

I spent the day dying and waxing today.

Since I had a Batik kit from 1973, and have wanted to try it, this was a perfect introduction. It was way too much to tackle on my own, knowing nothing about the process.

Here is what I created. The first is just playing around with the tools. It definately takes practice and knack. Fron there I experimented, made flowers and fish and other designs.

I still need to get the wax out of the fabric by ironing over newspaper, boil it to get all the wax out, then stitch it into something.