Playing in the Snow

Sat. morning was a lovely crisp winter day. A grandson wanted to play with Opa & Oma. Daddy went along also.

Top picture Mr. T. is King of the Mountain in his front yard while we were waiting for Daddy to get ready to go.

At McIvor park just a few blocks from M. &C.'s house there is this lovely toboggan slide and it wasn't even very busy on such a nice morning.

Second picture - Opa and Mr. T. are at the top ready to go.

Third picture - having fun whizzing down so fast.

Fourth picture Daddy joins Mr. T. & Opa and they go even further. I see this photo got lost.

Next you see Mr. T. running back up to the slide to do it some more and some more - he always let Opa pull the toboggan back up.

In the sixth & seventh pictures Opa and Mr. T. are spinning out on the ice rink and have loads of fun. We spent about one and a half hours in the park and Oma watched and took pictures.

Then we went to a place to eat our brunch - the guys all had breakfast items but oma had soup & a sandwich.

Back at M. & C.'s house there was a lot of work to do on the Quinzee. Mark & Andrew had piled up this large heap of snow in the back yard over several weeks. Some of it had been dug out already but there was much more digging to do so Opa, Mark & Mr. T. went to work on it. Finally it was enough hollowed out that Opa, Oma & Mr. T. got inside to rest. M. took that picture on his camera and i don't have a digital copy of it yet.

Remember to double click the photos as you will then see everything more clearly.

Playing in the now

Tagged

This beautiful amaryllis was blooming in my house in the spring of 2007 when we got our first digital camera. I have no idea if the bulb that hasn't started to shoot up yet is the one that dates back to that spring. A lovely stripped red & cream one is just about finished blooming now.

My pictures are in a one on going file so this is the fourth picture.

Rules: Go to your forth picture file and post a picture and a story to go with it on your blog or FB.

I tag - Courtney N.
Valerie E.
Andrea S. ( you can put your story on FB)
Desiree V.

The Quilt Block Choice

The choice for the quilt blocks was the last one in the previous post's lineup or the one at the top of this post. This picture at the top is of the sample block in the sewed together state.









Then there are some pictures of the method -
1. Cut a piece of material of the dark and of the light colors about 16 1/2 inches by 9 inches each. Press their faces together.
2. Lay them on the cutting board with the lighter side up and draw the grid on the material - 3 7/8 inches square with diagonal line through each square.
3. Pin the two pieces of material together around the outside edges.
4. Sew a seam 1/4 inch from each side of each diagonal line.
5. Lay the sewn material on the cutting board again and cut the vertical lines using the ruler and cutting wheel, then cut the horizontal lines and then cut the diagonal pencil line.
6. Open each triangle and press seam towards the dark side.

The bottom picture is how the little blocks are arranged to get the final design. This picture also shows the chosen materials for the quilt I am making. If you enlarge the picture you'll get a better idea of the color. I had more of the dark material on hand than of the other dark material in the sample blocks. I chose this particular lighter material as the best choice of what was available at the store. I think I'll be trying to bring out either the brown or dusty blue tones a bit with the boarder (framing) strips.

One cute boy
















A red flower

This is a trail to try to put tags with the picture - these are very old pictures.

Sample Quilt Block Designs

Here are some quilt block designs that I have been sampling in an effort to decide which one to use on a quilt for a queen size bed. I may not use the exact colors but I will use one of these layouts.

My readers may vote on their favorite by number starting with number one at the top. I have already decided and in the next post I will show the layout that I picked and hopefully by then I will have chosen the colors also. I have to go shopping to find out what is available. These were made from goods that I have on hand but I don't have enough to do a large quilt top.

Eight of the layouts are made with the exact same blocks in different orders.