Trimming and planning

The marigold seeds I spread were ones I harvested from last years fabulous crop that I had. I still have some so I will try again next year. I think it was just too hot this past summer. Last evening was spent trimming shirts. The design wall looks a bit of mess, but I know what is going on.

I am working on the middle row with that oversized shirt. I need to sew together the two smaller shirts and then I will cut and sew those little motifs to fit.

Once I get this ovesized row together, I think the rest will go quickly.

Finally, a plan

I had to sit and think about how I was going to sew the t-shirt quilt together. That middle shirt what everything else will be based off of. I started trimming shirts and will continue trimming before I start sewing shirts together.

I have one clump of marigolds that bloomed out of the thousands of seeds I spread this past spring.

T-shirt quilt progress

It was a busy weekend. Saturday I headed out to go to the bulk food store to get some staples for the winter. I got organic oatmeal, organic raisins, and a bunch of spices so I could make more taco seasoning.

I also took my expensive prescription sunglasses back while I was back in my home turf. I was still seeing double on the left and I could not wear them to drive. I tried to make them work, but no success. They got me set up with another pair that were not wrap around in style. Apparently with my prescription which is very strong, the wrap arounds are harder to get the prescription doable. The next pair are a flat pair kind of like my regular glasses. I worked on the t-shirt quilt and the layout was given the ok by the fellow having me make this.

Sunday I spent about 6 hours cleaning and straightening up. I got lunch on the stove for company. My son showed up with a Roku stick for the upstairs TV and got everything set up. Now I just have to figure out how to work it. I have never had a working TV in my living room since I have lived here. That is going on 22 years.  Ugh.  I pretty much live downstairs in the studio. It will be nice to have a TV upstairs so I can have it on while I work in the kitchen; I can see it from there. Right now I just have a small 32" TV, but with some kind of perks he gets at work, he said he can get me a good price on a bigger one.  he said he would watch and let me know.

In the afternoon my company spotted this buck chilling out in the backyard. He was a big deer.

Jackie B. google did something to blogger and you came up as a no-reply. Planting the daffodils is a wonderful idea. I already have lots of them, but I will have to keep that in mind as something to look forward to as the possible chaos takes over. I am preparing for the worst case to protect myself as best I can. I guess that gives me something else to think about. Take care! You can always shoot me an email pattynubs at gmail dot com. We need to build a community of support so we can get thru this.

George Carlin and the t-shirt quilt progress

"If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant leaders." This volunteer coneflower bloomed yesterday.

I have been working on the t-shirt quilt when I can muster up the mental energy. This is the current layout. The top row will be six shirts across and I will be using the smaller sized shirts to make up this row.

I stated cutting up the smaller shirts; they still need interfaced

Once I get the smaller shirts pinned to the design wall, I will call my neighbor to come over and look at it. Since he is the one commissioning this quilt I want him to give me the thumbs up before I start sewing it together.

Rambo II

To paraphrase a line from that movie - God must love stupid people; he sure made a lot of them.

I can't stop crying

Life as we know it is gone.

T-shirt quilt progress, joyful flowers, what a sunrise

I don't know what has changed with blogger that everyone's comments come as a no-reply. I have the email address of my core followers, but I have gotten a few comments from new people (which is exciting) of which I cannot respond to since they are no-reply. Thank you David C. for your comment. I press interfacing on t-shirts for about two hours last evening. I just have been putting them on the design wall without a clear plan.

I have these interfaced but not placed yet.

I still have the six small and medium shirts to cut apart and interface. I was thinking a bit this morning and I now have a plan on how I will arrange these or at least something I am going to try.

It was another beautiful day yesterday, so I had to check my California poppies and my coneflowers. That one poppy plant is still blooming like crazy and I have a flower on two different coneflower plants. I was hard to go inside because the weather is so nice!

There was a beautiful sunrise this morning.

Boxy pouches, the bridge, a good start on the t-shirt quilt

The other four boxy pouches are done.

I spent time on Saturday blowing leaves and framing a piece for my sister for her birthday that was in August. It took me two hours to do the leaves. I think I spent more time looking for stuff that I needed to do the framing than what it took for me to do the actual framing! I found an empty container to put all the small tools and findings I need to frame so I won't waste so much time. I can't show you the piece until she receives it in the mail.

Friday at work I got to go out to the job site to see the progress of the bridge build. The red things are the hydraulics that push the bridge beams.

I put my hand on this one (they were not in motion so it was safe for me to touch them) so you could get a sense of how big they are

Here are the beams as they are sitting on the piers when they have been pushed.

Here is a shot of the beams looking south. The fellows I got a ride with had to load up a torch and take it down to pier 3. I didn't want to wait so I walked from where I was to pier 3 and waited for them for my ride back to the office. The arrow shows my destination. Pier 3 is around 120 feet tall.

Another shot of the piers. The old bridge is to the left.

It took about 24 minutes to walk to Pier 3. There was no route down that hill. Here is my view up the hill with the dot showing where I was.

On my walk to Pier 3 there was one pretty tree that stood out.

The front part is just a guide to catch the next pier and let the beams ride up on to the piers as they will sag down a bit with gravity. That bit will be removed once we reach the final pier.

I have been working on the t-shirt quilt. These shirts are interfaced, but not cut to their final size.

This my layout for processing the shirts.

I have seven ready to press the interfacing on

Four more X-large shirts to cut up

Six medium and small shirts to cut up

A pile of small motifs. I won't cut these up until I figure out how I will use them

Then a pile of scraps which are the sleeves and what I cut off the bottoms of the shirts. I will put these in the rag bag.

2 out of 6 done

Two of the six boxy pouches got finished last evening. I just love this fabric.

I'm glad it is Friday. I have no big plans for the weekend except to get the other four the boxy pouches made. I would like to get some framing done and with the weather being so nice this weekend, I need to get the big flower bed weeded and mulched. Have a great weekend!