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.