fabric with touches of red for Ruby Tuesday

Yesterday on my other blog, Nature Tales and Camera Tails,http://naturetales.blogspot.com/ I introduced my ongoing winter project of making a quilt of yellow themed fabric..It consists of 15 horizontal strips, each composed of 10 five inch squares. In total I l have 15 horizontal strips altogether. At the moment I am sewing the horizontal strips together and am getting to the darker fabrics which I have included. My guidelines are that each block must include some yellow. The strip that I just have attached this morning has some blocks with beautiful reds( and of course yellow in it too) in it.
See what I mean?! To really enjoy the beautiful fabric designs included, please click to enlarge.


Got photos with red want to share them?To check out other postings on Ruby Tuesday just click on the Ruby logo on the side bar or here:http://workofthepoet.blogspot.com/. My appreciative thanks to Mary/the teach for hosting this meme

Redpolls on a branch for sepia scenes

I thought the arrangement of these little birds(Common Redpolls) side by side on a branch was delightful, but even more so when I changed it to sepia tones.

Sepia Scenes is a meme hosted by Mary/the Teach and it offers the opportunity to share with others; beautiful scenes in sepia tones.Just click on the badge on the side bar at the lower right to view what others have posted in sepia for today or perhaps you would like to make a contribution of one of your beautiful photos.
Have a great day.
Ann.

Shakey for Cats On Tuesday

Shakey is our very contented winter cat. He spends most of his daytime finding different places to sleep throughout the day. He seldom goes outdoors although every morning he runs to the door to be let out. but he changes his mind when the cold air hits him or his eyes see the snow outside. We call our old basement his apartmernt where he has his food, water and litter box. He goes to the basement door and meows when he has need to go downstairs.

We still get his name confused with other cats we have had, and find ouselves often calling him, Bravie (Brave was the best cat in the world who was with us for about 20 years), or we call him Thag ot Thaggie. (Pythagorus was a wonderful cat who earned her name from a geometric shape on the bottom of her right leg.) So Shakey often raises his head when we call him Bravie or Thaggie.(We still miss Brave and Pythagorus very much!) Shakey only came to live with us in August when my son and his family and cat came to visit us. They left Shakey behind as they were moving on to Ontario to a rented apartment and their circumstances didn't quite make room for the family cat. Shakey has settled in here quite well and he is now very much a part of our family and living room decor. Shakey's previous family came to visit us at Christmas and all was good. Shakey is happy living with us and has adjusted well. Tuesday's cat http://gattinamycats.blogspot.com/2007/12/cats-on-tuesday_31.html is a meme where you can feature your cat by sharing its picture or by you writing interesting news about you cast and its activities. To find this meme please click on the cat icon on the right haand coloumn and sign in to mr. linky. Have a great day.

Ann

An unwanted visitor for photo hunter

An unwanted visitor left its footprints behind in my yard. It looks like it was a fair sized dog! I don't like to let our cat out after dark.
This week's theme for photo hunter http://tnchick.com/this week is your choice,d it is open to your own interpretation. To see what others have contributed or to add your own please click on the photohunter badge at the top of the right side bar

A juicy orange for photo hunter

I didn't have many choices for the theme today, but this freshly cut orange seemed to fill the need.

This week's theme for photo hunter http://tnchick.com/this week is juicy and it is open to your own interpretation. To see what others have contributed or to add your own please click on the photohunter badge at the top of the right side bar

Thursday's Challenge quilt making.

The theme for today's Thursday Challenge of craft fits perfectly with my most recent activities for I have been busy making quilt blocks to assemble together into a twin sized quilt. I have only 4 more blocks to complete until I can start sewing them all together. To see some of my blocks please scroll down to see my previous posts on this project of mine. Yesterday's block included some cute fabric of fish and Octopus, this fabric had been made into a child's pillowcase which I had found at a seconhand store, Value Village. I bought the pillowcase for the fabric.
used to represent the water of the ocean. The finding of fabric is such a fun activity.
Another fun fabric I found to represent water was a fabric with yellow sea turtles which had been made into a baby carrying sling. I bought the sling for the fabric also.that I used in this sailing ship block I had made on Tuesday. I have also enjoyed meeting the challenge of finding different fabric designs to represent the sky as in this yellow starred blue night sky in the above block.
Today's block features the excitement of red!

craft is this week's photographic theme for Thursday's Challenge. To view more photos posted on this theme, or to join in on the fun yourself, just 'click' on the highlighted name.

shark infested blue fabric waters for Blue Monday

I have been bitten by the quilting bug. I hope its not related to bed bugs as they are both bed related. I have recently been making a ships at sea quilt blocks and have been focusing mainly on finding a variety of sky related fabrics, but had not been too venturesome in searching out different sea or water fabrics. That is not until my daughter Riel, gave me a sleeve from a man's shirt featuring sharks in turquoise waters which I have used to match my turquoise skies in the above quilt block.. That success sent me off shopping for possible designer fabric made into clothing at a secondhand clothing store( Guy Frenchys) on the weekend. And I found a treasure fabric in the form of a man's bathing suit. Grey sharks in blue water. This was perfect for my project with its colours as the borders around my quilt blocks will be grey!I pieced together a quilt block to use the shark fabric and cut carefully so that a large openmouthed shark was featured in the forefront. .Blue Monday is a meme that hosts photos which highlights the colour of blue. Please click on the bluejay badge in the right sidebar to learn more of this interesting meme found at : http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/search/label/Blue%20Monday%20Instructionshttp://