A Great Weekend! Fun Doll! New Friends!

When You Mix a Couple of Americans with a Bunch of Great Canadians 

AN AMAZING FUN DAY! 

Here you find all of us at

  EdenSewing

The Dolls Made By The Wild Class 

This is mine she is just delightfully crazy 

This is her chilling at the house after class with the Mug Rug 

from the class we took in the morning.

Here is Cat's Wonderful Cool Doll and her Mug Rug  

 Both mine and Cats love hanging together getting into Mischief! 

Also the Candian group stayed and had a wonderful retreat at The Turtle Rock Retreat

Play Time Sewing Therapy Weekend Chilling Moments.

A Tree Kit & Pattern I picked up at a quilt show sometime last year.
 Had a fun Time Enjoyed this. 

I have  a lot silly scraps from mending cloths , making quilts, and just random extra scraps. I also have a million extra semi filled bobbins that I do not want to waste. I use them all up along with some extra foundation fabric and make these. Someday they will all be added up into a large quilt for up and at or somewhere. 

 Just playing and tweaking out an urban threads design.  

Such a cute little thing 

Long Arm Moved Into The Shop & More

Long Arm has been put back together and leveled in the new sewing room 

My 2 passion side by side! 

This is the start of the transformation and added the carpet plastic to the garage door for a bit more insulation too.  

The after came out very nicely and warms the place up nicely. 

The Coop ( named by the Awesome Brenda )  Just need this small pile all cleaned and organized and than it will be Perfectly set to juts create and create Dream and Inspire!

A New Jacket & Fun Zipper Bag

I Love Love So Love doing up new fun Denim Jackets to wear out and about. I must say even with opps catch near the Dream part I Love this Jacket The most and I really impressed myself with this one. 

Just for Fun I was playing around and Made this neat zipper bag.

Just Some Fun Gift Things To Catch Up The Blog

Sherry took up Swimming Aerobics so I made her a matching terry cloth towel and bathmat. I love using my serger!

I added her personal letters to both too. 

My rocking friend and neighbor Loved something I was working on so I made her shirt in her favorite blue color! 

Not Sewing Crafty Solution though A yarg bag out of stuff around for Sherry

A Vacation With My Feather Weight! Quilt Addiction!

Here is a few pics of my set up at the hotel we stayed in.

ME! Enjoying Some sewing after a swim in the hotel pool and a moment in the hot tub. 

Love this Down Time  Nice Set Up

Lets Catch Up Some More

I am trying to catch you all up on stuff I have been finishing or making away. This is a mix of stuff to get caught up and than the posts hopefully will get back to more regular. Do not forget to look at the past posts too as there is a lot more catch up postings added. 

This is a Smock for a friends daughter that she likes

These are a couple Poker Pillows made from left over material I got my neighbor that she is making a tie blanket to gift to her son.

OH WOW! This quilt is finally off the long arm and finished. 

Any bets on how long until I bind it.???

A fun Great Score I got at a thrift store! 

Here is my first stab at Free standing lace 

I made a bunch of these and have been sharing them all over. 

I Hung up the quilt I got from Shane. I love it. 

The Quilted Ducks Hit The City Streets Before They Get Binding On

A special thanks to Kathleen for taking some fun time to play and take this photo of the ducks playing in some graffiti covered alley's in the city of Buffalo.

The ducks are finished up and all quilted I will add the Binding tonight and Saturday they will be gifted off to some great friends that will soon have the 1st born to enjoy it.

I loved Creating This.

Cold Wet Spring Morning & Some Recycling.

I am not sure what silly non chicken people around are thinking but these 3 girls are a part of my family and yes that comes with extra loving care. I watch them like a mother hen and worry about the elements and such around them. This morning it dropped to a very wet damp 35 degrees outside after being over 80 degrees that last couple days. I got up and rushed before work to make them some warm oatmeal before I went off to work and I am hopping they liked it.They seemed all happy and cheery this morning. No sign the colder weather bugged them at all. I think it is just me and the new mother syndrome. My friends think I am just crazy nuts and that my girls are just chickens. I guess they just do not get it.

On a another note I have been saving up some pallets and collecting them to strip them out for the free wood value and recycle them into many different things. just last night I stripped this small pile here.  I was rewarded with a whole can full of scraps to burn at my camp site and a nice haul of lumber to be used for the projects I want to make and complete.  Below is the lumber stack.

Got The First Wall Up

Coop Progress is Slower Than I Would Of Liked Progress Made Though.

My girl looks over at me and says WOW your building that mansion for us! I will post a few progress pics below for you all to give me pointers, encouragement, or otherwise thoughts in the comments. 

Frame started 

Roof idea window and egg laying box is all rough idea in place 

I got the roof started. being a 1 womyn coop carpenter with no carpenter skill set I am learning as I go. I lost a fram wall and had to fix that and now everything seem really tightened up with the roof wood on. I am impressed I got this far and its really looking like a coop. I just thought it would be all enclosed and ready by now. I will get there soon enough. 

Water Mellon Loving & A Little Progress Has Been Made

Well everything I have read all over the net says that chickens love water melon and this is a big truth with my girls  too. here they enjoy some watermelon while I got  a bit more progress made on the new coop on wheels. The floor base is on and it seems to work great and and still tow around nicely. 

I am looking very forward to getting this nicely finished and the girls will have some more room and then I can tow them around to different grass spaces in a longer nicer run. while I am sitting on the deck sewing away and enjoy the great fun of watching them. 

Chicken Tractor/ Coop Engineering Changes & New Build

Angels lays with her new loved hens as I work on moving the heavy coop they are in now. 

Well I built my hitch axle and attached a new set of wheels. this much was a plus. I tested it on the coop they have now so I could move that and it was an epic fail. I did learn a lot and will be armed for the new engineering ideas.  Here is the failed attempt pic I am still impressed I did this all and got this far. Its truly a fun learning adventure with a lot of creativity.

I have the base with hitch finished on the new coup and I tested it towed it around the yard and it works like a charm. Fingers crossed it works that good with the coop built on it. I believe my sewing has helped my a lot in the shop as now I seem more patient and this is just a time like seam ripping I guess. 

Hildigar was very happy to have her coup back on the ground for sure. 

Upgrading A chicken Coup Plus Turning it Mobile & A Fast Wedding Quilt

Well now there has not been a lot of sewing as I am trying to make the Coup all ready to be nice and Mobile and make a new nice run to add as well. This will help in so many ways for maintenance cleaning and giving them the whole yard as I move them around.  So the first this I did was tile the floor and than hang the water bucket up.  a lot nicer look and easier to keep and to clean up. Here is an inside pic.

To keep my hens happy as well as myself I am so impressed at how I have recycled reclaimed and made a mobile  base that works and  I added new tires and new bearings for it too.  The hens needed to get to bed last night  so I will try and make it attached and working today after work.  Here is the test drive to see that it  hooks up to the mower and is working. 

I will work on the frame and getting the coup mounted to night. 

I can not post with out any sewing pics. here is another wedding quilt I I made last summer. After the chickens are all settled and made comfy I will be very happy to sew on the deck and watch the girls out in the yard. 

Mothers Day Sewing and A Few Chickens

I managed to get in some sewing time during this busy week with new things going on around the house. I am making up a small wall hanging for my mom for mothers day. I really am enjoying this applique thing lots lately  nothing recycled in this project but I am still working on all that too.

Well as always with my silliness I got this idea that a couple chickens would be fun to have and we could enjoy  some farm fresh eggs too.  So I went to look at a small chicken coop for sale and than we got to talking and he also sold me 3 Hens so wow in like a few hrs flat a became a chicken farmer LOL ok well at least an owner of 3 laying hens.  Here is my new Girls so far 2 have names Hildigar and Zelda the 3rd is still waiting for her name. Day 3 we figured out how to tell them all apart too.

Since we have a lot of red tail hawks over head along with many other predators I  built this  up fast so they be out and safe while we are around.  Below I will so my small coop they seem to love too. I am working on building them a mobile chicken coop or Chicken tractor for them to enjoy and it will be secure enough to have them be able to enjoy the outside safely and securely all day.  For right now this is my set up. 

I would love for them to be totally free range however I am guessing that I would not have my fun hens for very long with all the hawks,  fox, coyotes, coons, and many others roaming around that would just just to eat up my hens.