The Jester Quilt & Why Are All my Pictures Yellow?

One of the reasons my posts are few and fare appart is due to my pictures. I know the camera is not the problem, it has to do with lighting but I stile havn't figured out how to solve this. My best bet would probably be to take the pictures outside in natural light but I'm not sure how to set this up. I will work on this because yellow pictures: Yish!

Anyhoo this is another top I've finished and have added to the "Gotto Quilt" pile. I have named it the Jester quilt. Here it is on my high teck design wall which consists of a 108 wide piece of batting my bunny Maya nibbled in a few places rendering it unusable for a quilt. Tacked to the wall it's perfect for designing and I can't imagine myself putting my unassembled blocks on the floor, with the bunny and dog hair it would ruin them, so Maya actualy did me a favor of sorts...

The fabric is Symphony by Sentimental Studios and the pattern is Jelly Diamonds by Fig Tree Quilts. This picture was taken with the flash, it's not yellow but I it's stile does not do the fabrics justice.

I love this pattern. The instructions are clear and easy to follow and it goes together very fast. I did not put in the setting triangles because 1) the fabric I had just did play well with the rest and 2) I like the points, they give the top a carnival feel. I am considering adding tasles to the top and bottom points once it is quilted and bound.

Their is some majore streching on one side. All the pieces are bias and my seam allowances are not all the same so the edges got warped when I put the whole thing together. Hopefuly I will figure out a way to fix this and then I can quilt it. Stile I am happy with the results. Except for one or 2, all my points are lined up which make me very proud.

I consider this one a practice run because I intend to make a bigger version of this for my bedroom, I love the fabrics so much. So this will either be a lap quilt or go on the wall.

Have to get back to my Christmas sewing. I'll post some pictures in a few days.
See you soon
Danielle

Harump! Yes well, the cat at my thongue...no that's not it. The dog ate my homework...hum! that's not it either. The bunny ate my transfere wire! That's it! I am not kidding you. She somehow jumped on to the computer table and nibled away at the wires. Most survived but there were a few casualties, the transfere wire for one and the mouse wire also perished. Now Fred will get his darn wireless mouse... Oh! well...

Anyhooo! Pictures as soon as I : a) find another wire or b) find my memory stick and see if I can transfere them to that.

Until then, here is a complementry cute bunny shot (not of the perpetrator)

Luv u
Danielle

The Girly Room

So Maya is fine. My son spent the day seringe feeding her water, petting her and massaging her stomac and whathever ailed her was passed by the time I got home. She spent the evening binkying around the living room. I suspect gas and wanting some attention.

Now that I cleard that up I want to show you a few pictures of the sewing room. We shall call them the before pictures. So in no particular order here are:

The two 39" vinyl head boards bought for 5$ each at the pawn shop. In the background you can also see from left to right: the 5$ piece of "art", the small Ikea frams, the cool shoes, the 2$ vase the christmas tin and my old spice rack.

The small, dirty, blue velvet chair bought at the discount new and used store for 65$. It rock AND swivels!

You cant tell from the picture but this chaire is very small. I call it the boudoir chair :o) Then there is the room devider. This one was free courtesy of the neighbors!

And why am I showing you all this junk? Well because I have big plans for these babies! I told Mr.L the other day that this was going to be my girly room. This is going to be the girliest room you has ever seen! It will be so sweet, people will get a sugar high when they walk into this room! With 2 guys in the house, I need to balance out the testosterone and this is the way I am going to do it. I will keep you posted with the progres as I go along. And will leave you with this close up of the 5$ art:

Please, Oh! Please not two in one week!

I'm worried for Maya.

Yesterday, when I got home from work I open her gate but one hour later she was stile in her room looking sleepy. I fixed her dinner at around 7h30 as usual and called her but she just stayed in her box. Finally at around 8pm she came out and hid behind the curtains in le living room, she had not touched her food at all, not even the endive lettuce!

I picked her up and started petting her and she just let me, no fuss, not trying to get away, no Harrumph! She just let me pet her for close to an hour. I was reluctant to go to bed without having seen her eat and tried to feed her the bunny crack but even that did not get her attention.

I finally went to bed at 10h30 because I was driving this morning and had to get up at 5am. When I checked in on her this morning she stile had not touched her food, not even the apple Mr. L. slipped her after I when to bed.

I picked her up and she just curled up close and gently gritted her teeth. This is so bad. I was standing there wishing I hadn't kept the stupid work truck last night so I could call in sick and take her to the vets. Its only 7h30 here, I got to work 30 minutes ago and I'm waiting until 8am to call the vet and see what to do. I have a syringe of pain killer left from when she was spayed in December but its probably gone bad; I almost gave it to her anyway this morning because that's what got her eating again after her operation.

This is killing me.

Goodbye Sweet Bunny

Yesterday we had Oscar put to sleep. We could not afford the money they were asking for the opertation.

Oscar is...was a good Bunny. We had adopted him a few months ago from the Human Society to bond with Maya our fist bunny. He was a big, sweet Blue Rex with a heart shaped cow lick on his forehead. Oscar did not like to be picked up but he would come close and let you pet him anywhere for as long as you liked. He was soft as could be and had the most beautiful eyes.

Recently, he has started peeing all over the house and especially on the carpets. It started around Christmas time while my son was away and just kept going when he came back and when my brother came to stay. I thought he was just voicing his protest at having less time out of the bunny room (my brother is allergic) but last week I watched him used the litter box and noticed he whatever he was doing was asking an effort, I could see his whole body contracting. I made an appointment for Friday. I figured it might be some sand in his urine or maybe an infection and that some antibiotics could help. The vet touched his blather and felt a bump so he took an x-ray. He found a stone the size of a large marble as well as sand taking up almost all of his blather. The vet said he must have has this for a pretty long time, certainly it would have been a good size when we got him in November.

So not only do I feel terrible at having him put to sleep, I keep wondering how this guy could have been so happy and sweet with this thing hurting him all this time. I also worry that somehow, despite the Timothy hay and veggie diet that I could have fed him something to make him sick. Certainly all the carpete he ate in the begining did not help.

I wish we had the money. I hate that he was an otherwise healty and happy bunny and that this operation would have given him another 6 to 8 years if we had been able to afford it.

We miss you Oscar Buns. :O(

Hello!

Been fiddling around with this page for hours now, I think I finally have it the way I want it. That picture up there was taken by my son, It`s the bike trail near our condo. I`ve posted a few links and will be adding to these as I go along.

I guess I’ll start by introducing myself. My name is Danielle; I was born in Quebec, Canada and have recently moved to Alberta. I don’t like my job because it promotes global warming and destroys the environment but it pays well and at this point in my life I am stepping all over my conscience so that our family can finally have a home.

This will be a bilingual blog. I may post in English a few days and then suddenly decide to post in French; this may be so that my French speaking friend can read a particular entry or just because I feel like it. As the title says, this is a blog about everything. I could have made it a blog about bunnies, or about sewing and crafts, or about the state of the world or about wild flowers but that would have been too confusing because really, I can’t stick to just one subject and I would have been incoherent.


Why am I doing this?


HA!


I don’t know.


Hope you’ll be around when I find out.