Those Strips -- Part Two

This is what my set of eight strips has become. What can I say? -- It seemed like a good idea at the time -- made use of all the strips, and used up a piece of "well-aged" blue fabric with a pattern along one selvage. But it really is quite dreadful!

It needs more of the blue for a bit of a border, but there isn't enough. So I'll need to use something else. Just what, I have no idea. I wonder if I could find enough of the blue to make a very narrow binding -- might that be enough to finish it off?

Christmas craft competition next phase

After the sheet of laminated tissue paper dried, I cut   twenty four1.5 cm strips and began weaving a basket. I haven't quite figured out how I will use the rest of the materials in the pack but they will be decoration for the basket somehow. I like the idea of using the grid of the basket to do some large scale cross stitch...

From the Apple Tree

This is tucked inside the middle of the apple tree in the back yard.

It has been a bit broken up by the wind now. It is bigger than a person's head.

I saw only one wasp on or near it, so I'm guessing it is abandoned, but no one wanted to get close enough to find out for sure so the apples on that part of the tree were not picked perfectly clean.

Strip Challenge

This challenge looks a bit simpler than the one Ruth has embarked upon!

At guild last evening we played a game involving a quarter metre of fabric, "Monster Mash", a circle of chairs, and much laughter. At the end we each had a selection of 8 strips. We can add one fabric to them, and by the next meeting are to have something made.

Black is the obvious fabric to add, though I might have something else that would work. It would be very straightforward to make a checkerboard of these fabrics and black, but maybe ......

Christmas craft competition

Lately I bought the competition pack from the Weft Studio. Contents of competition pack: small squares of coloured tissue paper, sparkly white yarn, white beads and sequins, and some green carded wool. Entries due: 20 November. The rules: must use at least half of the materials provided in the pack, and at least a little bit of everything: can add your own materials as well; any media is allowed; size must be no larger than 60 cm x 60 cm.

Today I made the first step of my project, a sheet of laminated white tissue paper with snippets of the coloured tissue paper and strands of red and green thread imbedded in it. It is drying on a big plastic sheet on my dining room table right now. Can you guess what I might be going to do next?

16th birthday & fancy dress

Anna got a haircut for her 16th birthday. A group of friends came over to have pizza and cake and visit for the evening. Becca and Leah stayed for the night. They got about 5 hours sleep.

Miriam went to a friend's 18th birthday fancy dress party. She and her friend Miriam made ghostbusters costumes. They had more fun preparing for the party than they did at the party!

Boys on the move again

Continuing the family tradition of "line up and shoot 'em as they leave" pictures, here we are as the boys were getting ready to leave last Monday. Sandy had driven up in a blue Matrix (from Zipcar), and Luke was in his Corolla. So the driveway looked like a Toyota car lot.

Hello, world!

 Or at least the small part of the world that might be interested in the day-to-day goings on of our family!
 

We enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner last week.  It was wonderful to have the boys home, briefly.  Dinner included the last of the beets from Dad's garden, an acorn squash that Ian grew, and a salmon caught at Spence's Bridge.