A great long weekend

Today has been quiet, spent quilting part of My Heart’s Compass with some variegated Valdani perle cotton …

But weekend got started early on Friday when school was closed, so Griffin and Parker came over to spend a busy day with us. P is in Kindergarten and it’s her week to be the Star Student, which includes bringing the class pet Cheetie the Cheetah home for the weekend. Part of the fun is documenting Cheetie’s doings …

Along the way, I tried to capture a good picture of my favorite roadside wildflower patch …

which Parker interpreted in her first ever piece of needlework …

Although I’m sorry to confess I have no pictures of her stitching, I suspect there will be future opportunities.

Last but not least, here’s the book Parker wrote to bring to class tomorrow …

adding author and illustrator to her list of accomplishments (said the proud Nana).

Addendum for Dana:

Hill Country blues

We hit the road yesterday and I took the bluebonnet pictures that I promised to Deb Sposa …

along with a video of the field to give some perspective …

We drove by our old house on Cascade Trail, which was hard to see through the overgrown brush (sigh) …

on the way to visit once-upon-a-time neighbors Connie and Karl, who are in the process of selling their house. We were too busy talking for me to think of taking pictures, but here’s a link to the real estate listing and one of the drone images of their incredible home …

It was bittersweet recalling what it was like to have five acres of land … another sigh.

In any case, we were there to receive gifts of rust for Don’s assemblages and cloth for my patchplays. Connie was an intrepid dyer, so it was hard to choose, but here’s the first grouping to be used …

on the table cloth I started last year

because what better way to spend time than to have two projects going at once?

Taking the challenge (revised)

March 24, 2021 – Dewberry (revised)
March 24, 2021 – Dewberry

As noted in an earlier post, I’ve been double-gloving my right hand, the better to take out dewberry vines (dewberries being wild blackberries) …

to the distress of Griffin, who learned to love dewberries at our former Hill Country house.

The good news is, there are plenty more vines at the back of their property. In fact, everything is in full spring overdrive …

Even the bluebonnets are dancing for joy …

So I decided to make a dewberry blossom patch similar to the one on Remember 2016

But I didn’t look at the process from the last time around, so I did get a slightly different look …

which I’m thinking needs a little more work before it’s done.

And lest I forget … this is for Joanne and Mo …

Ha!