Granny Blanket Challenge and a bunny that lives in our neighborhood

Here is the start of my giant granny square blanket from Angie's challenge from here: Lemonde de Sucrette's Blog  I'm not as far along as she is, but I need to find some more colors that I want to use.  I am using various acrylic yarn because that is what I have the most of in stash.  Can't wait to see pictures of everybody's growing giant granny square blanket.

When I was taking pictures the other night for the scavenger hunt, there was a bunny in my neighbor's yard.

Here's the bunny running across the street, he heard some loud noises from the neighborhood children and decided he had to leave.

Hope to post again soon,

René

Scavenger Hunt June 2011

1.  A Childhood Memory
Raggedy Andy and Raggedy Ann, I've had these probably about as long as I can remember.  So they are around 39 years old.  I used to take them apart and play with them.  I was going to take them apart to photograph them until I looked at the shape of the hands, the stitches and fabric are wearing out, so I decided to leave them together.  Hugging is nice!!

2.  A Farm Animal
I love this goat.  He gave me such a hard time when I tried to take his picture.  Every time I would walk toward him, he would turn and walk the other way.  This was zoomed way in.  I think he looks like he is smiling.

3.  A Wheel Trim
This is the best looking wheel trim on my truck.

4.  An Elephant
This is my second time trying to photograph this elephant statue, and I just can't seem to get a better picture.  It is a metal elephant that I found packed up in our stuff.  It had some rust on it, and so you might be able to see where I scrubbed the rust off, and that is when I realized it was made out of metal.

5. Architectural Detail
This was taken at a park in Northern Virginia.  The top pictures are the log cabin and the bottom picture is of the barn.  It was neat because some of the buildings you could go inside.

6.  Cheese
Theres a heart shape in my swiss cheese!

7.  Cutlery
This is my favorite set of silverware that my mom has.  I have always loved the design.

8.  Night
Here are my night photos.  This was taken from my husband's hopital room (He was in the hospital for some expedited tests {which all turned out good}).  His window overlooked a little court yard with benches, trees, bushes.  The top picture is a close up of an illuminated tree.  In the second picture you can see the illuminated tree and some other lights on the other side of the building.  I tried to take picture of the lit up business and the traffic lights, but all that looked like was little dots!!

9.  Something beginning with Z
This is a Leaf Zipper-Pull and the zipper of a leather bag embellished with flowers.  I use it to keep my extra crochet hooks in.

10.  Something with your Town's Name on it
Here is one of our city's water towers with the city and state on it.

11.  The View Right outside your door.

This is the view right outside our front door.  I'm afraid it is not the loveliest view, but it is our view.  The tree has since been trimmed.  It had branches hanging from a storm.

 12.  Tree Branches
There were so many pictures to choose from, but I really like this picture.  Now here is the story behind it.

No Honey, I don't know why it is taking our baby so long to learn how to fly.

 Here is the baby resting on the leaves in my grandma's flower garden, right below the fence above.

  
Okay dear, let me get a closer look.


Yes, here is still resting on the leaves.

Let me fly in for a closer look, son, lets go we must get back to the nest.  This is where the story ends.  Went back in the house with the baby still resting.  The next day the mommy and daddy cardinal were again flying all over our back yard showing there baby how to fly!!!!

Already seen the list for next month, can't wait to start taking pictures.

Let me try to add the link

Postcards from the P.P.

Another post to follow

René

Sewing Project, tshirt yarn, large granny blanket, and Grandma's garden

Here is the shirt yarn I made this evening.  Have more shirts, my hands couldn't take any more tonight do to arthritis.  The first shirt didn't curl, but I was so happy when the second one did, however I kept doing something wrong, or the seam came undone and I ended up with several instead of one long piece.  Not bad I guess for the first try!!  Seen Bunny Mummy's t-shirt yarn and followed the link from her blog on how to make the t-shirt yarn.

 I am going to join Angie from Lemonde Sucrette in making a large granny blanket.  This is one we had around the house.  It is 108 rounds and is the size of a good lap blanket.  I had to take the picture of it folded in half, then still couldn't get the whole blanket in.  I even stood on a two step stool and still was too close.

 Above are the pieces to a sewing project I'm attempting.  I am hand sewing it together.  I have always wanted to learn to sew on a sewing machine, however, my mom's sewing machine does not like me.  I used to sit down and try to sew something, it would jam and go grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  My mom would sit down and it would sew, I say okay mom let me sit down and sew, her machine says ggggrrrrrrrr.  I am going to learn to hand sew.  With practice I will get better at it.

 The two above pieces are the pocket.  the first one is on the back of the pocket.  EEEKK, you can see my stitches.  I made a mistake and had to sew the back on right side out.  At least this project is for me.  It is something to organize some of my craft items.

 Sunflower.  Love them.  When I took the picture I didn't realize how many blooms it had on with the one that is open.  I wasn't too close.  I zoomed in 16X, couldn't really get close to it, and the bugs are terrible.

 These are flowers growing in a trash can.  My grandma calls them lady slippers, but I don't know the correct name of them.  I like them very much, except that bees love them, and I do not love bees up close.

 See did I mention bees, I was holding this flower because my mom said it was a shy sunflower because it was facing the fence, so I turned it around.  As I was taking the picture the bee landing on it.  I panicked because I didn't know how I was going to let go of the flower without making the bee angry.  I ended up letting the flower go really fast and it didn't phase the bee thank goodness!!

 Here is a mutant Black Eyed Susan.  The bees must have cross pollenated with on of the other flowers.  I had another picture of it with the "Regular" Suzies, but it is not here, I will try to add that in a minute.

Yes, I got that picture added, the reason it didn't show up was I forgot to download it, ooppps.  I will get the hang of this blogging someday.

 This is a curtain tie back that I made from a pattern I found on the web, I don't recall where it came from at the moment.  But it is a lovely pattern.  These is a lovely flannel flat sheet that I cut in half and made two curtains, with quite a bit of material still left.  They are pushed together in the middle.  The colorfull parts of the crochet flowers are made from mohair.

 Grape tomatoes that my grandma grew from seeds of some tomatoes that we bought one year.

 Cherry tomatoes also grown from seeds from a previous years tomatoes.  We're going have tomatoes to eat very soon, can't wait.

Well better get going, going to try to add that other picture.

Talk again soon,
René