I'll get to a little bit of sewing in a minute but first I thought I'd share this photo that we found the other day. Before being developed, the property that we live on was part of a large cattle farm. In the right light in the evenings you can still see the cattle trails to the pond. This is a photo that I too in December 1998 looking from the garage to the hillside. The yellow arrow points to a Sycamore tree that were were told a few year later was diseased and would die within 4 years. The white arrow points to a lonely little walnut tree and the white x is a pine that split and had to be removed a few years ago. This is what it looks like now. We live in a jungle! The original lonely walnut is now just a stump but it's in the middle of a walnut grove. We have walnut trees everywhere. Can you see the yellow arrow? That's just a couple of branches from the Sycamore. It's at least 70 feet tall now. So much for being diseased and dying - that diagnosis was from a professional arborist. We used to be able to see 5 houses from our driveway. Now we can only see the house across the street in the winter. It's a lot of work to keep the jungle at bay and that's what we worked on yesterday. I actually enjoy what I call "chainsaw day". He cuts and I clear. It's pretty good exercise and the other edge of the yard really needed it. We cleared a huge mass of holly under this tree and then worked out way up the whole edge to the road. There were lots of little Sycamores and Russian Olives growing around the pond so we removed all of those and a massive amount of stuff on the wood side. We left one Dogwood on the pond edge because we love the Dogwood trees. It doesn't look like we did much but the guy who mows is going to be very happy. In the middle of this we got some bee up out bonnet about tree varieties and Chris started doing an inventory of the tree species that we have on the property. We're up to 24 with at least 2 unidentified. Trees are much harder to identify than birds! So that was most of yesterday. I decided on the brown buttons for the sweater. I thought that the lacy pattern of the button went well with the open knit pattern of the sweater. They certainly look better than white buttons. I did some sewing last night and the HST quilt is half done now. The end is in sight!
pretty quilt - it is amazing how fast trees grow isn't it - when we moved here 42 years ago we had an empty field to the east side of the main yard with one lone pine tree in it - we had been told it had been used for animals grazing at one time - now I'm not sure how many tall trees are in it - trees grow fast and multiple quickly in the south!
PamO
6/29/2022 02:01:01 pm
Good call on the buttons. Enhances the sweater much better.
Gene Black
6/29/2022 03:58:41 pm
Ah! That was my choice for the buttons. Not only does the design work, but the color goes so well with the buttonhole side, so it carries the color across if the sweater is unbuttoned.
Mary Anne
6/29/2022 05:47:02 pm
I give up. I've had the best of intentions to comment on at least a dozen posts and every day something comes up and I don't get to it. So...here I am and you'll notice there aren't any previous comments because I've come to the realization that I'm just digging myself a bigger hole. Sigh.
Mrs. Plum
6/29/2022 09:27:40 pm
Those are the buttons I would have chosen—they look great on your sweater.
patty
6/30/2022 01:52:56 pm
It it like you live in a park! I need to get the chainsaw out and wack back the stuff the is growing over from the neighbor's house. He won't care, but I still won't do it until I know he is out of town working. I could use a hand clearing, but I guess I will have to do both the cutting and clearing! LOL!!! The buttons look so much better and the quilt is growing!
Laceflower
6/30/2022 06:45:35 pm
The HSTs look FAB! My win book-wise is Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood. Let’s Pretend This Didn’t Happen by Jenny Lawson autobio, she is a very weird person, the book was interesting. I'm taking a break from all the murder mysteries and delving into biographies. Also Alan Cummings' Baggage. Noah Hawley's Punch was not interesting and I didn't finish. Perhaps I didn't comment last month but 9 Strangers by Liane Moriarty was good. What a lot of ground you have to keep up! and I thought the endless weed pulling here was annoying. *G* Comments are closed.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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