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[crazyhen]

Its harder for me to keep more than one roo. I have to have a place built for them and this yr. I will be moving them twice on a 400 mile trip. We have a place on the coast of NC and a smaller one in the mtns. Yeah!!! I know that is great but not for me. I love the Mtns, hate the coast. It usues all our moneys for taxes and electric and phone, as my hb insist on being down there 3 weeks out of 6 when I basically live here. This yr. my mom is not doing well, and my fall has left me partially incapacatated. So to the coast I go. Loading wood into a wood stove with a broken arm and wrist would be very hard. Also the lack of balance on snow and frost would hinder me. We had just finished a new building here and runs for two flocks, but there we are starting from scratch and my hb says one run and coop.!!!!!!!! He has been so good to me about this one which is a great one, that I can not complain. I wish I could post pic. It is 10x16 ft.prebuilt building that we converted to one large and two smaller rooms. One for feed, one for young chicks to grow out in and the laying flock one. It has a 4x16 front porch on it and an8 x16 back shed to keep that area dry for them. That part is completely covered in hardware cloth with a screened door access into their runs.. I also have an isolation one to one side, all within 30 ft. of my house's back door. Oh, also my DD and Granddaughter live down there. It will be a time of reconnecting. I hope by late March or April to be back here. Then the hatching fun can begin again.
thankl You Kathy for the Denaguard info. Gloria Jean

 

[rancher hicks]

Ladyfingers with almond nails, of course. They sure are freaky, though!


Tim, I started quilting it tonight, but my fingers began tingling. Guess I started too late after a long day of working, so will start on it fresh tomorrow. It won't take long to do. I'll have to get your address and all again. Same price you mentioned, including shipping. I think I can get it in the smallest priority mailing box without much trouble.

Take your time there is no hurry on my end. Send me a pm with price and all that. I believe I still have your address in my book.

 

[speckledhen]

PM sent, Tim. Thank you, my friend. It's going to be beautiful. I love fall colors!! Nobody will have one just like it because I don't have enough of that orangey metallic print fabric to do anything else with.




ETA on Monday a.m.: Tim, your table runner is about 2/3 finished on the quilting part, then I'll have to quickly make up some binding as I have no pre-made stuff that matches (I hate that prepackaged stuff anyway-the fabric is not great quality and only comes in solid colors).

 

[Serrin]

I paid a ridiculous $3.85 a gallon for gas today! That's just bleedin' insane!

What is the going rate where you live?

Cyn, I bought one of those nifty little Clover brand bias tape makers awhile back. LOVE that little gizmo! To have just the right bias tape beats the store bought stuff all blind. I bet you have one too, huh?

And speaking of bias, I need to pick your brain Cyn......I'm working on a table runner in which I've made the ends be half of a hexagon on each end. I'm going nucking futs trying to figure out how to mitre the corners with a continuous strip of bias to no avail! What the heck am I doing wrong? Is there some special trick to doing this? I figure you would probably be the best person to ask, seeing as you've made tons of table runners!

 

[speckledhen]

Amy, these links may help you. This is the way I put on my binding. It works really, really well, too.

http://www.heatherbaileydesign.com/HB_QuiltBinding.pdf
http://quilterscache.com/StartQuiltingPages/startquiltingfive.html

Here is a link to a bunch of lessons on binding that is wonderful! Click on the little quilt blocks to see each lesson: http://www.victorianaquiltdesigns.net/FinishingYourQuilt.htm

Nice youtube:

I don't miter, per se, but fold up, then back down on itself, which makes a "fake" miter, and you'll see what I mean in that instructional page. And I actually use straight or cross grain binding. I have made bias binding, but I don't bother with it anymore. I just cut 2 1/2" strips of whatever fabric I'm using whichever direction works best, fold it in half, press with iron, then sew to the quilt front with raw edges to raw edge of quilt, fold over back and whipstitch to back.


The table runner quilting is finished. I'll be making the binding today and I think I'll use the same rust-colored blender fabric I used on the back.

 

[Serrin]

Cyn, thank you SO much! You're a sanity saver dear lady! I knew you'd be one of the best people to ask about this. This dang table runner has been driving me wacky trying to figure out where the heck I was going wrong!

It sure helps to have folks around who know what they're doing!

Thanks!

 

[speckledhen]

Glad to help. You'd be amazed at the youtubes on all this stuff. Wish I'd had them when I was learning to quilt in the 80's.

I am putting the binding on Tim's table runner. Used the rust-orange color from the backing for the binding and I think it works. Sorry, it isn't laying flat due to the pins on the binding, but you get the idea, though one was outside late day lighting and one was fake inside lighting:

 

[kathyinmo]

Lovely, Cyn! I really like that one!

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Kathy


Last night, I was awakened from a dead sleep by an owl calling. I opened the window wider and listened to it for about 10 minutes over the baby monitor in the coop and through the window. After checking out owl calls online, I believe it was a Great Horned Owl. Yikes! That's a huge raptor! I have never heard an owl call anywhere, certainly not here in the 10 1/2 years we've lived here. Good thing my birds are not in wire cages outside!


Isaac had to break up a fight between Alice and Rita yesterday. I looked out the window to see them up in the air, going at each other with feet flying, a highly unusual sight, especially between those two who were raised together. Before I could get to the steps, Isaac had swooped in, jumped into the middle of the fight and broken it up. He even had one of Alice's blue feathers hanging from his beak. He even stayed there for a couple of minutes to be sure they didn't start up again. Good rooster!

 

[rancher hicks]

Glad to help. You'd be amazed at the youtubes on all this stuff. Wish I'd had them when I was learning to quilt in the 80's.

I am putting the binding on Tim's table runner. Used the rust-orange color from the backing for the binding and I think it works. Sorry, it isn't laying flat due to the pins on the binding, but you get the idea, though one was outside late day lighting and one was fake inside lighting:

I like it.

I mailed a check today.

Fall crochet block swap, sign ups until Oct 15th Anyone want to join? I'm in on this one.