Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Quiet Tuesday evening out sitting by the fire. No sunset tonight, well I’m sure that there was but no visual effects here. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here, sitting by the fire on Tuesday evening. It rained earlier this evening just before I cooked supper’s burgers on the grill. It cleared up rather nicely and I have, so far, enjoyed a pleasant evening. My view tonight with the time lapse off, letting the camera only use the light it sees as available. 

 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

To continue the recap of the Maine Quilts exhibit, 

Rona 7 of the exhibit was a popular one 

A couple of different blocks were created and alternated then were set off well with the intricate border. This quilt was a favorite of many at the show.

Dan' Ramblings

Dan here ~

I was sitting out by the fire the other evening listening to a book on my Ipad when I began to hear a cat meowing. I heard it for a while before it dawned on me that it was coming from twenty feet away from me and not from the book. 

Sneak Peek

Carol here ~

We got all the quilts hung for our exhibit at Maine Quilts yesterday.  We had plenty of help so got them done pretty quickly.

Here is a sneak peek

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Do you believe that the 4th of of July holiday is over. I hope you had a safe and enjoyable weekend. It was real quiet here at Green Pond but that is how Carol and I like it. The 4th was so windy, there was not much happening on the pond except on the other end which was sheltered from the wind due to the wind direction. 

On Tuesday there was very little wind just lots of clouds. Maine weather always changing. We would keep checking the weather app and the predicted time of the rain just kept getting moved later in the day. Never started raining until after 8:00. I’m glad I did not alter my plans due to the weather forecast.

I finally finished my walk after supper last night, got home just as it started raining. I did reach a milestone of 1100 miles last Friday. 1110 actually. I had a real good 53 mile week. 

Maine Quilts 2022 ~ Part 1

Dan here ~

Those of you from Maine may already be aware that Maine Quilts  will be special for Carol and I this summer.

As you are aware, if you have following this blog, I have been working on a series of quilts that Carol has been frantically quilting.

For many they have been referred to as my Rona quilts. These were the quilts that I created after isolation was imposed due to the COVID 19 virus. I called this the Rona virus and referred to the quilts created as the Rona quilts. They have grown to include the first two that I started as my stash buster series of scrappy quilts ~ now called my “Can I Use up My Stash?” series.

Ditto

Carol here ~

Yep, you guessed it, more of the same ~ binding and longarming.

I finished up the hand stitching of the binding on the TWO FAVORITES quilt.

We took it outside yesterday to get a picture of it completed.

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Dan here, Thursday evening.

I did something different today. I sewed a “zoom sew” with a few of the Men Who Quilt group I belong to. There are men from all over the world that belong to the group, unfortunately only a small group were available today. I quite probably would have been sewing anyway so was fun to sew with different people than just me. I realize I am quite different but that is not what I meant. Supposed to happen every other week, we’ll see what happens in two weeks.

Work continues on my current project. I still have a fair number of flying geese to make, but truth be told I could almost make them in my sleep. (Carol thinks I do)

I tried two different color ways for the sashing strips. 

More Quilting

Carol here ~

I have been getting quite a bit of quilting done. I finished up the binding on DOUBLE TROUBLE so that one is completely done. I love this quilt!  Probably because it has so many fabrics in it that we carried in the quilt shop. 

The Weekend

Carol here ~

Our neighbors up the pond got a bit of ice skating in on Friday. It was fun watching them. Looked like they were having a great time.

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Dan here, Thursday evening. Beautiful day today, chilly but not like the last couple days. Earlier this week we saw a neighbor up the pond out shoveling on the ice for a place to skate. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here ~

Do you believe it? Today is the last day of the year. Not real sad to see this year depart.

Vanessa and her kids came for a visit yesterday. I went out on to the ice and shoveled off a play area. We will see what the warm weather will do to it this weekend. 

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Dan here, Thursday evening. Two days before Christmas. Carol and I had our Christmas with family on the 18th, last Saturday. We went to Vanessa’s house for the tree and a kind of pot luck dinner. Whatever it was called it did the trick. As usual more goodies than needed. It was nice to see everyone. Carol took a nice picture of the grands in front of the tree. 

The girls will spend Christmas with their families, Carol and I will spend it much like any other day. I hope you enjoy your Christmas day no matter how you choose to spend it.

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Dan here, Thursday, Thanksgiving Evening. I hope you spent the day wherever it was that worked best for you. Many spent the day with family and friends, many had to work and I’m sure many stayed home alone. Wherever you were, I hope you felt blessed and found something to be thankful about.

Carol and I went to our oldest daughter’s home and enjoyed dinner and way too much pie with her family and her Mother-in-law. A wonderful day was enjoyed by all. They only live an hour or so away so not too much time was spent on the road. Traffic was light so not too bad. I could have used a nap after all that I ate, but I got us home.

This morning I was actually out of bed early enough to see a sunrise, or at least the tail end of one. 

Dan's Ramblings ~ #20

Dan here, Sunday night, killing time. Our power has been out a while and we have been running off the generator. I had #20 laid out on the floor all ready to put the rows together. I normally do not run the sewing machine when running off the generator. I am afraid of power surges etc. So I have been pinning as much as I can, to be ready when the power does come back on. Then I can sew what I have pinned.

I just heard the generator shut off. I will give it a few minutes to make sure that the power is going to stay on. I was in hopes of getting #20 all together tonight, maybe even getting a start on the border. But alas, I don’t think that will happen. I guess I will go see.

Well I’m back and rather ticked off at myself. I got this much done, one seam to go. 

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Dan here, Tuesday night. Cold outside today. Spent most of the day raking leaves out of the pond and off the beach. Very tiring project. 21 wheel barrow loads of leaves and I don’t even own a tree or use the beach! Did not finish but I do see the light at the end of the tunnel. That is, unless I wake up tomorrow and find it full again. 

I just looked out the window with my high-power flashlight and it appears that the wind is piling up a new assortment of leaves for me to remove. So I guess I will have more to rake out again tomorrow. The end has got to be coming, there does not look like many leaves are still in the trees.

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Dan here, Thursday evening. Another nice but chilly day, not bad for November 11. Vanessa and her two kids came today to help rake up this batch of leaves. 

Dan's Ramblings

Dan here, in the studio. Working away on #20, that’s a quilt top if you are new. I ain’t a serial killer or something, I talk about dumb stuff and quilting. When you think about it, if it ain’t about quilting, it’s probably is dumb stuff.

I currently have 14 or so blocks done out of 35 needed then I can start the sashing strips etc. I have played with the math and I think I can use the fabric I wanted for the sashing strips and cornerstones. Or should I say I am pretty sure I can choose a Corner Pop 3 unit that will allow me to cut the make up triangles and the Square Squared center units out of the the one yard cut of fabric I have. I will do the math a few more times before I commit.

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Dan here, coming to you from the fire on Sunday evening.

After a rainy start today turned into a lovely day. The wind stayed low, supposed to rain during the overnight, but nice tomorrow. I’ll take it. It doesn’t really matter what I want, we all know our weather is controlled by the butterflies in the Orient. I read that on the internet, must be true.