Baggo sCraps

I finished my baggo sCraps challenge tonight. The first picture is the contents of the bag that I received & the second picture is the completed quilt. It measures approximately 21 X 28 "
Now I get to find out who to send it to.

Don't try this at home

Do not dry hot peppers in the microwave. We dry our herbs in the microwave-place on paper towel, zap 2 min, open door for 10 min, stir & repeat. Works great. Today, Charlie decided to dry a plateful of hot peppers that way-he first removed the stem & cut them in half & then started the drying process. The first cycle wasn't too bad-a couple of sneezes & a cough or 2, but the second time through was really rough. We both kept coughing & blowing our noses. My bronchial tubes still hurt. I think that it's back to air drying for the hot peppers. Oh, by the way, if you decide to grind up a batch of hot peppers, it's OK to use the food processor, but cover the whole bowl with a wet towel first. (We learned that one several years ago.)

Beadwork with Ultrasuede

I love working with Ultrasuede. This is the nametag that I wear at my local quilt guild meetings. I appliqued the trees, sewed on the Zuni bear bead & added the brown beads. Then I glued the grey Ultrasuede to a piece of plastic that was about 1/4" smaller than the grey, cut 2 holes in the green for the ends of the pin backing to stick through & glued the green Ultrasuede to the back. The purpose of the glue was only to hold everything in place while I did the backstitch beading with the green beads. When the green beading was done, I trimmed the 2 ultrasuedes to leave a slight border. (Even a Zuni bear has to s**t somewhere.)

son of baggo

One of the things that I've been working on lately, is a challenge from an online fiber art group. We call it the Son of Baggo exchange.
Several of us filled a quart sized bag with an assortment of fabrics & embellishments which we sent to Deidre. She sent one back to each participant. We did not know whose bag we received. We were to make a small quilt using mostly what was in the bag. Here's what I received:













This is the piece that I started first. I got to the tiger striped fabric, got stuck & decided that I didn't like it, so I put it aside & started a second one. As I was working on the second one, I was inspired to frame it in black chintz. & add the eye & feathers. I named it "I tawt I taw a puddy tat".




















This is the second one that I started. I named it "bouquet #3" Both pieces are about 8" X 11" They were really fun to do. I've started on a larger Baggo from another exchange that started with gallon sized bags. It'll probably be about 33" square, but that's all I'm telling for now.

My brother the friend of hummingbirds

I haven't posted in a while, so I'm going to do a couple tonight. My parents & older brother visited for a few days this week.
It is the duty of a younger sister to help her brother to keep a dignified appearance, so... when he said that he wanted to see the hummingbirds at a closer distance, I made him a special crown.
Doesn't he look "special"? Bobby believes that birds are really smart, so he was reading to them.