Monthly Archives: March 2015

This has been my take a long project this week.   The pattern would have shown up better if I had used a solid color.   However, this is usable and that’s the reason for making them.

Look how beautiful the hyacinths are!

 This is Beau, the Pyrenees, who thought he should have his photo taken instead of the flowers.   He is a wonderful dog, as long as he thinks we and the other creatures who live here are safe.   With him  here, the coyotes and other wild ones stay outside the fence.   And I doubt people we don’t know would come inside the fence either.

These are just plain boring brown socks as requested.   The most interesting thing about them is the yarn, which is Regia superwash wool. They are 100 gram balls (guess there will be 2 pair).  75% wool, 25% polyamide.  It is dimensionally stable, hard-wearing machine washable up to 40 degree C, no felting, dryer proof and 10 YEAR Regia Guarantee  This is the first yarn that I have come across with a 10 year guarantee.

For the cat bed(or small dog), I sewed enough scraps together to make a piece about 20 x 26.   If you have a cat carrier, you might want to measure to see what you want for a finished piece.

I then folded it in half so the length stayed about 20″.   This does not have to be perfect.   I then sewed across one end to make it square, and down one side.   Do not trim, because you will be filling it with scraps anyway.

I stuffed the pillow with scraps from the wastebasket that were too small to make usable pieces and then pinned the end shut.  You don’t want to over stuff as this is a bed.

I then zigzagged that end together.

 These are the two sides of the pillow which ended up about 18 x 12.   These are filled with scrap fabrics so will probably take too long to dry to be worth washing them.   When too dirty, we just toss them.

I had all my scraps cut into usable pieces and stacked in accordance to sizes\.   When I went to put them away, I found another small drawer full of uncut scraps, which I will cut up tonight so this will be all finished.    I’m not in any rush to use them, because it always seems like there is a need for these pieces, so now they are ready.

I love that this park is continually changing.    Now these trees are blooming.

The crows must have been having a convention today.   There were several trees of them talking back and forth and periodically a few would fly to the ground to carry on.

The dandelions are blooming which tells me that it is past time to plant potatoes.   They should go in when the first dandelion blooms.

The forsythia is blooming     I love walking here and looking ahead at the colors.

Do you see the little honeybee in the upper right?

This is near the other end of the park walking back.

I have no idea what these very tiny little white flowers are, however, they added to the enjoyment of the walk.   I wish I could get a good photo of the river that runs along side.   The trees seem to overpower it in photos I take.