Saturday, March 6, 2010

Good Beautiful Morning

It's going to be a gorgeous one here today, this amateur weatherperson declares!! I can feel it in my bones. I may get out to the garden and show those weeds who's boss!!
How is everyone today?
We live on water, a common thing in South Florida, and there is a large variety of birds, plus squirrels and such. I usually feed them cheap bread in the morning, then enjoy watching the activity that follows. This morning, the squirrel came up to the patio while my cat and I were having coffee-I drink, he watches, and I thought the cat was going to loooooose it!! His little bottom was shaking back and forth, he was "clucking" and scraping his hind claws on the tile, all ready to get him some!! Thank God, for screen and an alert squirrel!! That little critter then runs up the tree and screeches for 15 minutes!! Guess that little cat impressed him!
I have spent some time in the studio this week. Got all the blocks made and am now getting the rows sewn. The pic will appear when it's presentable. =) I also plan to put up one of the old workhorse machine. If I win the weed war, the whole world will hear the shout of victory!
What are you all up to today?
Have a beauuuuutiful one!
Linda

5 comments:

LiahonaGirl said...

We've got nice weather in UT today, but nothing I'm sure like you have in FL. And snow is expected tomorrow. I went to a stitchery shop this a.m. and bought a bunch more silk floss. I'm in love with Crescent's Belle Soie silk -- so soft and wonderful to stitch with. I wanted to get some variegated and hand-dyed silks to go with my solid Needlepoint Silk colors for the family sampler I'm nearly through designing. A small investment -- but the results will be worth it.
Can't wait to see the finished Hawaiian quilt.
Nancy

Linda said...

Nancy
the threads sound lovely. I've never seen tem, the Crescent's. Are they available everywhere or are they a local product? I can't wait to see more of your family sampler. It already looks wonderful. how are you able to do the artwork to stitch? Or can you draw? I cannot!
Linda

LiahonaGirl said...

Linda: they are gorgeous. Here's a link to see them. https://www.stitchingbitsandbobs.com/cgi-bin/Store/pageread.cgi?CrescentColoursBelleSoie
They are softer than pretty much any of the other silk threads I've used. And I love the gradations in color. (I must say that the Dinkey-Dyes are very similar, but they aren't available at my LNS.)

I'm anxious to get started on my family sampler, but have two WIPs I'm hoping to finish while on my business trip this week (10 hours of airplane time will help). Then I'll get started stitching the family sampler, even though I have one square yet to design.

Pat said...

Hi Linda, I visited Cocoa Beach recently and it was quite cold and windy. Glad to see its finally warming up down there! Even in Delaware its supposed to be 57 today - God bless

Linda said...

Hey Pat, Thanks for writing. Today should be chamber of commerce weather. We have had a very cold winter for us. Cocoa is 2 1/2 hours north, so they get even more, it's very damp and windy here, so it goes right through you. I don't even know where we could get heavy clothes, and layering cotton doesn't quite work. All that said, this is the best winter I've had here in 40 years!!
If we are warming up, the rest of you surely are, I know you must be ready to dig out!
Linda