The owl room

A new roller blind in honour of Bea and Christie, who when they stay here, call this the owl room.


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Animal friends

It was a wildlife weekend: ducks at our feeder, snakes and frogs on our hike, baby squirrels at the front porch.

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Saw Whet's garden

To cheer up our kitten/cat, who's house-bound a few more days while his leg adjusts to the removal of the pin that was helping his leg heal after a fracture, a garden inside:




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some wool items i've been working on. the matryoshka dolls were appliqued on a tea cozy and the animal floor cushions are filled with the bits and pieces of a thousand wool pieces i've sewn over the years.

A Slow Start

January is a satisfying expanse of time that too quickly fills up.

I spent the holidays picking up a few old projects and starting some new ones.

A dragon towel for Eily and one for his cousin:

Learning intarsia for the cardinal motif on E's hoodie:

A second roller blind, this one went much more smoothly:

And, at the quilt shop, E requested a needle felted elephant like he saw in a book. It's a tiny little thing named (oddly enough, considering his natural habitat), Snowy:

Some wool appliques I managed to slip in between assignments. I long for the day when I can get back to regular output. Hurumph.