Block Party Quilt Show

 Good Morning! If you live anywhere near Seattle and like quilts, you might want to visit the Block Party Quilt Show in Issaquah. It's open today and tomorrow from 10-5.  Here are a few of the quilts:

 

Here's my favorite!

 The hand stitching on this one is amazing!

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Have a great weekend! 

Busy August!

 We have done some traveling lately. In July we went to Palo Alto, CA, to celebrate the Fourth with Dick's brother and family and right after that to Boulder, CO, for a funeral for Dick's long time friend, Art.  Then just this past week, we went to Mount Baker on our anniversary. We stayed in Sumas, WA, at a very interesting hotel Sumas Mountain Lodge. The rooms there were decorated with antiques and located above a nice restaurant.  Besides antiques, the walls of our room had lots of pictures of Loretta Young because "How the West Was Won" in which she was one of the stars was filmed in Sumas! 

Taken by a friendly hiker at the visitor center.

This is our oldest grand son who's leaving tomorrow to study animation in Ireland! We also celebrated early in August so the whole family could be there. School for his two siblings started on August 13th!

Old skis hanging on the wall!

The bed with a quilted fabric that wasn't truly a pieced quilt!

Despite the busy days, I have finished a couple pairs of socks

and this hat.

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That's all for now. I need to go work in the yard and then maybe work on some socks that have been fighting me.  Enjoy the last few days of August!

 

A Donated Quilt, Another Pair of Socks and a Guess What!

 This is the most recent quilt that our group finished. (We all made 3 blocks. Can you find my mine?) If you look closely, you can see that we used some Seattle fabric that I purchased long ago to use for pillow cases.  It will be donated to the local Ronald MacDonald house.

I just finished this pair of socks, and they almost match! However, I also just ripped one sock back to the cuff because I discovered a dropped stitch when I thought I was almost finished!

Can you see who was visiting our yard twice this week? (You might have to enlarge the photo though.) Fortunately I scared him away before he did any damage to our plants!

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We are hosting a family gathering on Sunday, so we are busy today preparing for that. Hope it doesn't rain!  You have a good weekend, too .

Another Finish

Recently our daughter requested bootie and a hat for her friend who was going to become a grandma when her daughter has a baby girl. So I got busy and did them! I hope they will fit!

Here's the first hat, a 12 month size, which I decided would be too big, so I made the newborn size and will donate this one.  And I still have some yarn left!

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Enjoy the rest of the week!

 

Excitement in Our Neighborhood!

Last week our neighbors across from us had a tree removed. It was about 160 feet tall and very close to the house. This brave guy did all the cutting and sawing, and the whole noisy process took 2 days. The second day our street was closed to all traffic.

They took all the stumps away in a big truck, and the branches were run through a chopping machine before carting them away, too. It was an interesting and somewhat scary process but sad to see such a beautiful tree destroyed. (The house is a rental, and the owner ordered the process much to the renter's surprise.)

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Hope you've had a good couple of weeks without any chopping in your neighborhood!

Finally a Finish!

 This pattern has the same name as our second daughter! It's not very easy, but it's interesting.

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Hope you all are having a nice summer!

Birds and Flowers!

We recently went to Cannon Beach in Oregon and saw lots of flocks of pelicans heading north, more pelicans that we've ever seen before.

Here's the prettiest Columbine.

This tiny little rose that makes me think of a candy cane!

Korean dogwood, and it's still blooming.

The Mock orange always makes me think of my Grandma Taylor.

We have several Hydrangeas.

Daisies from a plant give to us by a dear friend.

And last but not least this pretty lily that started blooming today!

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Now I need to get back to some knitting. I am working on a sock that's been fighting me as well as a summer sweater where I discovered an extra stitch when it was time to split it into 2 parts, so ripping on that one, too. Sigh. And then there's always yardwork waiting.... Hope you all had a nice weekend.