One more road trip

Last Thanksgiving when my three children and their families were here, they all decided that we should meet in Reno for July 4th weekend and my younger sons birthday. It actually happened! We had four delightful days, some hiking, lots of pool time and a whole lot of celebration.

My four youngest grand children 

 Pooltime.

The adults, minus my husband who took the picture.

We also had lunch with Don's youngest daughter and her family, and watched a live feed of the gender reveal/baby shower in Phoenix. We will be welcoming a great grandson in November.

The Weekly Leaf

I did a Solarfast print of three ginkgo leaves, avocado solar fast on yellow hand dyed fabric. I thought I had taken a process picture, but I can't find it.

Week #27

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #180-188

Shades of Orange #107-115

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Fern Blueprint

When we were in Washington a couple of weeks ago we very carefully brought home some large fern fronds, a quilt folded over them to keep them safe. I ordered a yard of pretreated fabric for blueprints and finally had a relatively windless day to do a print.

To give you an idea of size.

I will probably print with it some more and I have a longer one waiting in the wings. I have no idea what I will do with the prints, I just had to do it.

The quilt for our future great grand baby is on it's way to Phoenix for Saturdays party.

I also made Spike, a stuffed dinosaur to go with it and included a Curious George book. The pattern I have for Spike was printed in 1991, so all of the children in our life born since then have gotten one. The Mom to be and her younger sister are the only grand children older than the pattern.

The Weekly Leaf

I gelli printed a pair of leaves that also came home with us from Washington, below are the two prints and the leaves.

Week #26

My camera has trouble with this color, the top photo is the almost correct.

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #173-#179

Shades of Orange #100-#106

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A monkey quilt for a great grandchild.

I am going to become a great grandmother in November! The gender reveal/baby shower is going to be held in Phoenix on July 2, we will not be there. I am making  a quilt that needs to be done this week so that I can mail it to get there in time. The color scheme is green and brown with monkeys, the invitation was in greens and brown with a monkey on the card. I found almost matching fabrics, enlarged the monkey picture 300%, and drew out a simple pattern. Below is the enlarged monkey, the card and my quick design.

Monkey #1 fused and stitched.

The completed top.

I found a green and brown monkey print for the backing, have it all layered and now all I have to do is quilt and bind it.

The Weekly Leaf

This week I printed a stem with several leaves using SolarFast avocado green on green hand dyed fabric. Here it is out in the bright sun.

After printing but before rinsing

Week #25

Daily Stitching updates

Gelli prints #167-#172

Almost half way thru the year

Shades of Orange #94-#99

The first five rows.

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