Mushroom bag, silly cats and spring storm

I had a special order for this raggy tote. A friend of my daughters wanted a mushroom bag in greens. It still needs to be washed to get raggyer. Notice the stitching I did on the straps. Back to kindergarten cutting out shapes.

I used fusible scraps to baste the inside, batting and front together. Worked really well and not pins to pick me.

Blanket stitching the mushrooms raw edges down.

I put a pocket in it, and Velcro to hold it closed.

I did some I did some fun free motion quilting on the back with bright green thread.

I brought in one of the cats from out side because she was in heat and I don't want more kittens. I hope next month to budget to get her fixed. She is so funny rolling around.

Here is my indoor cat Princess hunting worms after the spring storm.

The spring storms make some amazing pictures. The storm is behind me just coming in.

Here the storm is just pouring but the sun shinning on the other side.

It was just pouring here. Everything is so green and reminds me of Ireland!

Crumbs are multiplying

Not a lot going on here. Only 3 more Wednesdays till school is out! (Grin) Still sewing crumbs. The quilt is growing on the design wall. Click on it to super size it and see all the details. My Dh (bless him) planted some heirloom tomatoes (don't know why he doesn't eat them) a couple of weeks ago. I told him it was way too early. lol and he cleaned up and cut up some finger potatoes ready to plant. The three old lady goats and ancient sheep happily ate them. lol (goats usually do not eat tomatoes and I told dh to fix the electric fence) I went out last night while he was watering his peas and radishes and tomatoe stumps and asked me how the goat food oh excuses me garden was doing? He gave me a dirty look and told me to go sew. LOL Our dd works part time in the summer for a huge fresh produce stand. We can get almost all the fresh produce we can eat for almost free. lol I grew a garden for years as the little red hen (no help from anyone) Don't know why he wants to garden now?? He did last year too? lol Oh well keeps him out of trouble and feeds the goats. LOL

Tomato stump (hee hee)

He did clean out my ponds ( and yes this pond is a stock water tank I dug a whole in the ground and put it in.)

Here is another pond, it was a kit the family got me 7 or 8 years ago for mother's day. Oh my look at all the weeds.

This cat showed up a week or so ago with the wild yard cats. I heard little mews under an old door. I can't believe she let me get this close. I thought she was wild. well maybe she is one I can tame down enough to get fix. Seems like the ones I get fix disappear or feed themselves to the coyotes. I feed about 20 or so wild cats. We don't have mice or gophers.

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Beautiful Spring!

So Happy Easter, Passover, Spring! We went over to my daughters house today! They sent her home from work today at the hospital to be "on call" not many costumers in the CCU. She did not have the step kids this weekend so we did not plan anything for Easter. The first Lawn cutting of the season is too thick at her house for her small lawn mower. So her Daddy brought over the ridding mower to cut her lawn. I had some left over enchiladas to reheat and so we put together a nice little lunch. This is a huge Apricot tree in her yard. My goodness it is going to be a bumper crop this year. The tree buzzes with bees. Millions of them.

I had to snap this picture of one of her cats Micheal

Dear daughter loves to play with my camera. Here is her spoiled dog Splinter.

She also brought out all her house plants to hose off the dust and give them so good sun. This geranium made it through the winter on the back screened in porch.

Like I said she likes to play with the camera and take pictures of herself. lol

I only put a few of the pictures of her on. lol

And of course her Dog!

Well I soaked up my Vitamin D today. Helped (by watching lol) Dh bucket out one of the pounds and clean it up. there were still gold fish alive. They are a couple years old. Just cheap walmart fish now about 5" long. Oh I did hold the hose as I refilled it. Well I guess I did enough now back to the sewing cave. Have a wonderful day!

More Bright parts made in the Sewing Cave!

I keep adding more parts to this quilt....I told myself I wanted to keep this one small enough to hand quilt with out being buried. hmmm Well I am use these "sawtooth strips to devide the larger blocks. I decided to add a strip of flying geese to add a center line to the quilt.

I started sewing the parts in rows and found I needed to make a couple more liberated stars.

This is Princess servaying her domain, but it isn't her good side. (by the way the HUGE tv that over powers my liveing room is the one we brought home from when we had to close the bar lol)

Ah Here is her good side.