Thursday, February 26, 2026

I Like Thursday # 493 Week two of the adjustment.... life is so daily!

 

welcome to this week's list of likes, starting with walking with my dog again. Dewi is up for any length of walk with me too! It's all new to him, so we stop and he sniffs often. 

I want to keep going at a high speed, so now when he stops, I stop and pull my abdomen in and practice good posture til he's done. Since it's been just over a week now, I am seeing him walk longer between sniffs

He is conquering fears too... plastic bags or leaves blowing in the wind, people walking on the other side, garage doors opening or closing as we pass, and Wed we passed a half of a bunny, (we also have coyote, and other large critters like Eagles here who hunt at night) (yikes) 

a friend stopped by our fence this week, and Dewi stopped. Statue. She has a golden doodle and Dewi was apparently traumatized by the ones in his first house. (25 dogs) So he did not want to go over, say hi or even stay in the yard, and long after she left he stared down the street to make sure her lovely dog was gone. 
Dewi: "Mama, just you and me, just us is good and I need peace and quiet"

He is a kind and welcome partner in my walks, mostly staying right by my side. 
I think I need to change his name but none of the ones I want seem right. ( Arlo, Angus, Dylan, Luca, Astro, Theo) 
I seldom have to call him anyway since he makes it his mission to stay by my side. I am no longer snoopervised in the shower at least, lol, he usually lies in his bedroom kennel til I'm dressed now. 

He is so funny to me. We have a sort of catwalk upstairs that connects the bedroom and my studio, the laundry room, second bathroom. At first he would go up, look at me thru the rails and cry til I came up to get him. Over and over. Now he understands he can just turn around and come back down.
the sun is so bright, and the wind so strong here mama
Oh happy day ! Once he got that, he repeated going up, looking at me, turning around and barreling down the stairs running to me and poking me with his nose!!! (pet pet pet), he turned around and did it all again! about 20 times! 
sometimes I swear he's laughing! 
I worried we would bore him, but he does not want to meet dogs, or people yet. He said he's got plenty to adjust to already, loves mama, is learning the Daddy can take him out to pee and poop. He finally slept completely on day 8, by my chair in his super comfy bed, .. on his side. 
B I G dog S I G H

I totally love him


mighty sunset

diamonds on the water in morning light


sewing on three challenges, all at the same time and with my homelife changing, it's too much but I want to do it all

phone./camera bag 



latest block to dragonfly quilt

friends:

Talking with friends has been a treat this week, Joy, Diane, Pat in NM  thank you all

TV

 Glad the olympics are over.... weird to admit that but I felt obligated to watch them all the time, now I'm glad to see some regular shows returning to TV. 

 Fun Videos

I SO want to try this but have never tried piping icing... 

link: https://youtube.com/shorts/Zb9jEd5Ul2k?si=4RWfk6FglmduNSvV


link https://youtube.com/shorts/Owy0uh3NbV0?si=UbZ3ZA0b-KXw4jNJ

In love with Alyssa Lui's attitude and skating ability. Grace and charm

link if you need it: skate

Conversation starter this week: most adventurous thing you've ever done

well, marriage is adventurous LOL

I'd have to say going to Europe on my own was scary plus exciting. I had a Eurail pass so I could travel lots of places, and did go to a new area daily to explore. I stayed in B &B's (often over a pub), or in a person's home. I'd find a safe place to stay, then take off on exploration. Having a moderate understanding of French, and German helped but at the time each country had it's own money, so I also needed to change money a lot too. 

I met new people each day, and often visited sites with them, had dinners alone however, and had the most adventure of a lifetime. 

linking with this fine group, forgive me for not commenting on visits lately 

Knitty Quilter 

https://brianshomeblog.com/  

http://itsasmalltownlife.blogspot.com/   

http://goodrandomfun.blogspot.com

https://llbinourbackyard.blogspot.com/ 

https://frenchethereal.net/


night time finishing the walk late 


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Monday, February 23, 2026

Stay at home round robin next row, two colors

 


it's too much this year, adding in a row each week is frantic to me.... 

we brought this lovely boy into our home on Sunday... a  one and a half year old standard rescue.... 
today he was perfect, he's been here 8 days and perfect. 

This evening I ran up to make a block for the SAHRR... I had wanted ,and pulled fabric, to make two color 4 patches.  One would go above, one below the center...

I couldn't kick into design work this week. Then tonight, 
In my rush to make something, and exhausted, I decided one block with a circle. 
I cut two circles out to put on the background

LOVELY! exciting! 
then  I realized the prompt is 2 colors, not two fabrics... 
oh my heck
and while I was upstairs making something two color to add in, hurting my shoulder, my new dog who doesn't know how to ask to go out, peed on the LR carpet. 
God Bless Him, He was with dh when it happened and I'm the one who usually notices him getting frantic.... 
anyway.... we are finding the experience a very real but worthy challenge. Dewi has brought love back to my life, and laughter, so this is more our fault but we are very tired.... 
I betcha when I sew the whole quilt together in the end, this block will get another applique of a lily

or the two other circles will join the party.... at that point I've met the challenges, but have to make the quilt that's in my mind also.... so for now, finally at 8pm dinner, rest my eyes, pet my puppy and remember my life includes more than creativity even though sometimes it takes over! lol   
mama, put down the fabric and come pet me now






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Saturday, February 21, 2026

Creativity Saturday: Reading thru the ages phone/camera bag

 

I've been a bit distracted this week.... but managed to finish the Project Quilting challenge 

(Of another era) https://www.kimlapacek.com/project-quilting

The distraction was this pup, who came into our lives and home Sunday from a ranch in Colorado

Dewi, which means beloved in Celtic, is just over a year and a half years old and I've never been so supervised in my life! He is a lovely companion even into the studio which is boring to him

"I'll be here napping if you need snoopervision mama"

so I started the project with one idea in mind, decided I needed to make that into a real larger wall quilt, so went looking in the stash for fun prints like:
and
both of which focused on books and reading which I have loved all the eras of my lifetime! 
I need a small walking pouch to carry phone and camera, so started with a fussy cut of the lady who reminds me of the 60's walking her dog and reading, for one side

I used green scraps for the RSC challenge this month to use green. I pieced it to 7.5" square

then used the boy reading to a dragon over a medieval castle for the other side, 
I joined them into one strip, layered with top batting and lining, then quilted the strip
trimmed that, folded RST and seamed the sides. Boxed the bottom so it will sit up


chose a cute scrap of checkerboard fabric in turquoise and green for a binding on top edge


couldn't locate my box of handles, so used a trim in pink for a handle and stitched it into the sides and voila!
a wee bag to hold essentials while walking with my new pup! (He's 26" at the shoulder, and 50+ lbs) but has lovely walking manners so far, and loves seeing all the sights each day! 

I'm ready to go for a walk now mommy!! 

next up, the SAHRR row challenge of "two colors" to add on my dragonfly quilt... maybe posting Sunday if I can squeeze in more studio time. 

thanks for visiting... let me know what you think
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Thursday, February 19, 2026

I Like Thursday # 492 and there's a new dog in town

 

O. M. POODLE!! We picked up Dewey on Sunday wayyyyy out in the middle of Colorado and he's now our new son!!! Hooray, 

It's been a long time coming as the song says. Milo passed over a year ago. We think we've found the sweetest boy to join our family and help us love again.  He is 20 months old, a standard poodle, very skinny at 50 lbs   and such a gentleman. 

His first mom said he may be too scared to walk, but he wants to be with us. Each day he's gotten more curious and brave and gone on smaller walks, is increasingly interested in things.

Something smells here

 

On Wed, (the 4th day with us)  he found his sniffer! He sniffed and sniffed and sniffed every tree, bush, grass blade and wanted to sniff these big boxes! 

He also got brave enough after doing the sniff test and finding a Meeeelion dogs peed on trees, he lifted a leg to try it himself, and promptly lost balance and stumbled away. (his previous owner said he wouldn't pee while wearing a leash) and he's only gone in our back yard so far. 

he discovered he could go upstairs by himself, but panicked when he didn't know how to get back down to us... he'll learn soon enough! 

He knew no words when we met. Not come, not sit, not really his name... speaking of names, we kind of want to replace (mountain Dew) with maybe Dylan... what do you think?

He is frightened, of people, noise, cars, the crate, his yard, losing sight of me... 
a bit scared of the Daddy even

scared of the pumpkin jar?

Okay with walks with Mama

anyway, he is adorable and a mama's boy and I love him

I made this waterlily to add to my round robin quilt last week... loving that!

Conversation starter of the week
what was your favorite subject in school... elementary, high school, or college... or did your favorite subject change over time? what was the teacher like? do you still have an interest in that subject?

I always loved history. I liked imagining living in other times. I read a book on time travels as a little girl, 
I also loved English and reading. I remember telling my mother I couldn't go to school because I didn't know how to read and she said, oh you're going and they will teach you no worries! In first grade we sat in a circle, and each read a paragraph of a simple book. When it got to me I was daydreaming. The teacher was cross when I said where are we, I finished it already. 



I decided to become a doctor in university. I took all the first year courses, majored in biology which also interested me, although calculus and physics not so much. But.... my real interest was in psychology by then, so I changed to that as a major and worked in field as my career. 
ps I still love history, and time travel, and archeology, and Diana Gabaldon novels.

my nature pics this time are of the ranch Dewey came from:
chooks by the hundreds

turkeys

donkeys! also a bunny, lots of dogs, and other critters. 


different from our hood, in some ways, like loud cars but we do live close to donkeys!

I'm watching figure skating from Milan but the coverage here isn't great NBC 


a few words from quiet Dewey (Dylan?) 
I love being the only dog and having all the love and pets and snuggles. I like walking, and seeing dogs along the way but going home to only our family. I love to eat, and that my pawrents feed me more than I used to get, (it's still not enough! is it ever? ) 
I think I'm going to like my toys, not yet, I don't know what to do with them yet
(editor: he picked up a ball rolled to him today) 

suggestions for names? 

please visit these folk to see what they liked this week, and school subjects they enjoyed

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Saturday, February 14, 2026

Dragonflies and waterlilies happy V-day


My posting schedule is kind of sporadic now that I have 3 deadlines to make and post my work. 

Today I am sharing this week's work for the stay at home round robin, the prompt is "curves" and I needed to make the prompt fit in my scene


this week I joined the hourglass blocks, love how they blend and look, thank you to the challenge organizers. Then I worked on this week's curves.... decided to use this fabric

I used some misty fuse on a fussy cut strip, then cut out petal shapes and arranged them into lily shape
and chose a background fabric to fit in with the double blocks row I did last week, and pieced this week
I fused the top portion of petals together to make one flower to then move around the background
it's easier to move the whole thing than keep individual petals together

heat bonds the petals and mistyfuse

seeing it with the components, I realized it needed a leaf. Used a scrap, sewed seams in it to create texture




tucked it under the petals and I plan to embroider all the petals and leaf when the quilt is basted, to create more dimension, and that thread color will create more depth then

I'm liking this, and plan to move the strip I chose last week to let the watery fabrics blend


awe, I love coming in the studio to see this on the wall!
no time to rest, this is the Valentine pull for a special hexie spiral block


and this is the pull of green scraps for Rainbow Scrap challenge 

A hexie block in St. Patrick's day fabrics, and green scraps for this month


and one of my photos from walks this week, enhanced to really glow green! since it's mostly brown in Colorado without any snow basically all season. We never got winter this year  near Denver

and my calendar is especially pretty this month, with a V-day collage

(we are going out to visit a poodle, wish us luck, a house needs a spoo  (standard poodle)!

Sahrr curves week Piecefulthoughts

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