Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Just hand-quilting........and playing like a kid !





Dots and circles and circles and dots......round and round we go.
Today was in the 80's and turned out sunny, so I took my nephew to the park that was my playground, growing up.........alot had changed since I saw it over 32 years ago, but alot was the same too. One thing that HAD changed was my ability to climb those monkey bars, but don't think I didn't give it a fairly good try. Unfortunately, I was wearing the wrong shoes.........don't try to race a 6 year old little boy if you're wearing slip-on shoes !Back at the trailer, I must say that China is adapting nicely to our move. After being mostly a house kitty in Oklahoma, she now roams pretty freely around our Tennessee home. One night she took refuge from who-knows-what, up about 25 feet in an Oak tree, in a thunderstorm. She was gone the next morning when I looked for her (after slipping out of an open unscreened window about midnight HER, NOT ME ).......I had to borrow a ladder from a kind neighbor to rescue her.........I could hear her crying when I stood on my front deck and called............she was down the road a ways and up in the trees. I don't know who was more afraid, her or me........I've always been afraid of coming down ladders, but the neighbor was going to go up, and I felt more able than he looked ! All ended well, and China has stayed pretty close to home since that experience. Me too, for that matter ! Hee !

4 comments:

  1. LOL poor China...she looks like she is still trying to recovery from that experience or in need of a good belly rub.

    Thank you for posting the lovely comment on my blog, the wrap is for free on knitty. Are you still on ravelry? If you are you can look at my projects for the info or pattern search "Shetland Shorty Wrap"...it's very easy to make you won't have any problems. Knitting is like riding a bike it all comes back to ya : )

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  2. You know what, Dustina,.....I immediately googled the wrap after leaving your blog site, and looked at the pattern instructions........what used to wouldn't have phased me suddenly looked so complicated ! I'll have to wait until my life slows down again ! But thanks for the info !

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  3. What a perfect quilting pattern to give those polka-dot squares some curves :) And what quick progress!

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  4. What a gorgeous quilt!! Wow! I wish I enjoyed quilting. I tried it, but it required to much precision, which I'm not very good at.

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