Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

In the studio where I can hear the wind but do not need to feel its wrath. Yesterday was nice, the day before not so nice and today was much like that was. This is what I saw when I went to investigate the sound Carol heard on the roof. She said it sounded like ripping or dragging on the roof. 

 

I was in hopes it was early Santa. The next morning, I proceeded to get the ladder out and quickly decided I really did not want to get on the roof. Our neighbor is having some work done and Ben, her carpenter, said he’d put them back and seal them for me. When I replaced the tube of sealant I rolled up something and placed it in the end of the tube to show my appreciation. Maybe a new roof is in our future, you got it time will tell.

It is too windy to rake leaves from the pond on these windy days as they blow all over the place. The load count was at 77 as of yesterday. It is not supposed to be as windy tomorrow so the load count should continue upwards. Sad to see what becomes the highlight of my days. This time of year I guess it’s seeing how many loads I can survive.

Not a whole lot going on around here. I gathered some wood from the edges of the road that the town cut last fall. Some of it wouldn’t be much good another year. I don’t really need it, it just bugs me seeing it lying there. I also enjoy cutting and otherwise processing the wood. Probably it’s the quilt designer in me needing to see order where chaos exists. In Rangeley, in my old life, I would keep the walkways as weed free as possible as they were my sashing strips between the flower beds and needed to create my overall vision.

In the studio, I am still continuing with the process of “cleaning” up my workspace. To the untrained eye, I’m sure there appears that there is little that is happening. In reality, since the completion of #32, I have created an abundance of different sized units based on what I found during the cleaning process. The process is much like puttering. If you gotta ask what I’m doing you don’t get it and no amount of explaining will be sufficient.

I have had some 2” x 3-1/2” cut rectangles taking up space in one end of my bin of 2” squares. I decided to sew a contrasting 2” square on one end and then sewed three sets together and I obtained this block. 

It measured about 5” or would be a 4-1/2” block. That is a hard size to play with so I took my Tucker Trimmer and trimmed them down to make them all perfect 4” finished blocks. I guess it’s a good thing that my cleaning process has also found me making a lot of 2” finished units. V-blocks, 1/2 squares, Square squared and Corner Beams. These might come in handy in working in and around the block I just showed you. Again time will tell, because at this point in time I have only ideas floating around in my head as the voices play soccer with them. It will be interesting to see where they lead me. I’m thinking 12” blocks but who knows. I bet I find out before you.

We are headed down to Portland to see Vanessa and family at Kailey's college tomorrow. It will be the first time in the city in a while of me. Hopefully that goes well. I think it is supposed to be seasonal over the weekend with rain holding out until next week. Believe that if you want, I look out on the pond and can usually tell if it’s windy or raining. I miss that when the ponds freezes over, but at least for now that is about as accurate as the weather channel is sometimes. It spit snow or sleet today, I saw it through the window, from inside, where it was warm.

We have a handful of show quilts left to show you, look for those next week.

Stay safe enjoy your weekend. I’ll leave you with my three second time lapse of the moonlight shining so nicely on my project for tomorrow.