Quilting and other Things

In Sept 2004, the mystery night quilt at Hobby Horse was Zygocactus by Myrna Allen. I got a few blocks made then the supplies ended up in a box. This summer I've finished the blocks. The flowers are the hand-dyed fabrics from a workshop during Summer '04 and the background is a commercial butterfly print

Here are the close up photos of the blocks. I did sew some of the pieces together the other evening (instead of doing the prep work for the two side borders that need to be done at the end of September). I didn't like the initial cat block (the beige blob) so decided to change it for Froggie....

Here's this years $10 quilt so far. I still don't have pictures of all the monthly assignments. Its laid out in the approximate order of the pattern.

Finally finished the weaver fever top. It was started at a Mystery Night out at Hobby Horse several years ago (have to keep digging to find a date). Got back at it this summer when Hobby Horse started having Monday evening sewing sessions. Karen, I'll work on photos of this year's $10 quilt next.

I rearranged lamps so instead of 5 shades am now looking for 6. I got the first 3 today and re-arranged the last of the lamps. This one moved into the den Both of these are now upstairs -- getting tall shades like they had was the problem. Found these ones which are rectangular and work well on the bedside table and sewing table since they don't take up as much room

This was left over from Mom & Dad's visit. Dad likes onion in his salad. I don't. The diced onion went in a little dish so he could have some.

I went to hike the Devils pulpit trail (Hike number 14 in the list of 40 Great Hikes) on the Bruce Trail . The trail goes up 100m (300 ft) and starts off like this: Part way up there is a side trail that goes to the ruins of a Hoffman Kiln. This kiln was used to process a type of limestone that was fired to produce lime for construction and agriculture. There were multiple compartments and each could be fired separately. After looking at the kiln, the you go back to the main trail the way you came. The trail continues on up -- sometimes it was hard to pick out exactly where to go, some times it was pretty obvious This is the view from the top of the trail. Time to starting going back down here Usually this is the view I get of the Turkey Vultures -- soaring on air thermals This time I saw these two sitting on a tree branch. I took the photo on the longest telephoto then cropped it to get the close up. This is the Forks of the Credit river at the bottom of the trail