Category Archives: QBL- Quilting By the Lake

Hand work, Lap Quilts, Machine Drawing, People, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scrap Happy Quilts, Sisterhood of the Scissors

Working Away

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Hello,
I am feeling like things are really starting to go well now. Summer is in full swing and I am doing well. This week I went off to the Schweinfurth on Monday and helped dismantle the show along with lots of other gals. It was fun and tiring. When I left the job was almost complete.

I went to Marcia’s this week too. There were only six of us but we still had a good time. Nancy showed off her simple cover all.

Susan worked on one of her projects from QBL. She cut and printed the chair stamp in class and tells me she plans to use it in another project.

Progress Report: Liberties Lost This work is 24″ w X 34″ l. It is my second entry for the Justice for All??? show at Art Rage in April. I am pleased with how it has come out.

I may go back and darken some areas, but I think I need to let it rest for now.

12″ X 12″ This is my entry for the SAQA NY/NJ challenge. We are suppose to challenge our selves with this work. I decided to keep it keep the colors simple and see how many different materials and textures I could play with and still have it work. It was a fun exercise for me

Lap 20/ 26 This is another of the works were I used pre existing strips to create it. The box is no longer overflowing, but I think there will be another one of these before I have nearly empties it. Susan has agreed to take them to the nursing home were her mother is when I am ready. That is wonderful!

Scarp Happy blocks I got busy and made these blocks for the next scarp happy that I want to create at the Sisterhood Retreat in October. It is a big enough space I can lay the rows out and see how they will look so that is what I intend to do.

Portraits from QBL I emailed Lynn and she helped me remember what Luke Hanes had said about finishing up our portraits. I spent the afternoon yesterday doing the free motion work and now I am ready to move onto the background.


Sisterhood Challenge On Friday we were talking about the Sisterhood Challenge and Deb reminded me that handwork was suppose to be a part of the final- so I had to pull the project out again. I got the “Bling” part of the assignment- but not the handwork so I decided to make the silver part of hand stitched stars. Now I think all the stars will need a second row of stitching. Got to see how it goes.

Life is full and good.
Keep Creating

Carol

Hand work, Landscapes, Lap Quilts, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Trees

Moving Along

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Hello,
I am feeling like I have my feet back on the ground now. I do get so much from QBL and it so exhausting too.
My big adventure for this week was a little trip to Homer to see the Rock Garden show at the Art Center and spend the day with Cheri. She had lots of great work on the wall. Exploring faces is her goal of late. I really like this work of her friend Liz. I think it looks like her too.

Terry also had a great piece in this show. We enjoyed our time to just talk as well.

Progress Report: Lap 19/26 I am still trying to use the extra edge pieces that I have created for other lap quilts. I think there are two more quilts in this style in the box. I only need to sew down the binding on this work now.

Lost Liberties I stitch down the flame and the broken tablet this week. I am working on the tree lines now. I hope to complete this project this week too.

Tree Blocks – Joshua Tree I finished up this work while I was in the Pixie Zoom meeting this week. I am getting close to the end of the blocks for this project. I think I will need to add a bit to the earlier blocks as I seem to have gotten a bit more elaborate over time.

Sorrel Cactus I started right away on the next block when the previous one was finished. I do so enjoy hand work.

Cross Lake I stared this at QBL in Valerie’s class. I am almost finished with this project. It needs a label and a bit on the binding.

Wildfire The wildfires are haunting me as we seem to have smoky skies almost daily here. Not having any more Judy Robert fabrics to use as my starting point I created one of my own yesterday. The colors are not as rich, but the challenge is to make it work.

Keep Creating
Carol

QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Shows, Trees

This year’s QBL

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Hello,
I got home from the two weeks of Quilting by the Lake last Friday. It was a good time as usual. It is aways so much fun to reconnect with old friends. I think I made a few new connections too. I had class With Luke Haynes week one. He dose fun work and a self portrait every year. He helped us all through exploring doing self portraits. I still need to do the stitching down and make a quilt out of mine. I was surprised at how much it looked like me in the end. We then went forward to do a second one. I am still struggling with that one. Some how I got the glasses out of alinement and that messed p the whole face.

My friend Thresa was in the class and this is her self portrait. I think it is great!

So too was Ellen. i love her background choice. We had a good time and all learned a lot I think.

Week one we auctioned off the quilt that I helped cut parts for last two years ago. Last year at QBL Kathy pass out bags of parts to folks and they assembeled them and returned the finished blocks. The money raised goes for scholarships and the quilt raised $350. Kathy put them together and quilting them over the winter. This year she is just asking for 6.5″ squares from folks. I am sure she will get some wild work.

Week two was Transparencies with Valerie Goodwin. This class was small with only 10 of us, but it was great too. This first transparency is Victoria’s work. She is having fun playing with her rooster image.

I did these two works. The Black and White is made from pieces Valerie provided for our use. The landscape of the lake is all my own creation. I had pre-sent her the water lilies and just tried to build a home for them. I would do it a bit differently if I could re do it. The flowers are too harsh.
I am still playing catch up with myself, but I am feeling like I an getting my feet on the ground. It is alwasy so very stimulating and I come home full of new ideas and things to think about.

On Monday I hung my Solo show at Piet Library in Syracuse. The set up there dose not work well for quilts so I used only my beaded work as it is mostly stretched on foam core or stretcher bars.
This show will be up until August 28.

My other excitement this week was meeting with Lawyer Emily Larson-Hatch to get approval to move forward on a wall piece for her office. This is the drawing. Now I need to purchase the fabric to do the job.

Progress Report: Lady Liberty I am moving forward on this project now and feeling good about it. This is my work on the torch.

Tree Blocks: Palm Tree – Joshua Tree I finished the Palm tree block before I went off to QBL. Then I tried to work on the Joshua Tree while I was there. But I was usually too tired to put in the time in the evening. It is moving along nicely now.

This entree is so late because I was having trouble with the computer. It seems access to my email, where I collect the images, was unaccusable yesterday.
Keep Creating
Carol

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Lap Quilts, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Trees

Movening Forward

Hello,
Summer is a busy time! This week I spent three days preparing for a big house party here and then another day doing clean up.
We have been in this house for 50 years and so we celebrated. Needless to say that except for doing a lot of studio clean and organizing, I did not do much this week. I did pull materials for QBL that starts on Sunday.

Progress Report: Broken Blocks- Sisterhood of the Scissors Challenge 2025-2026 This work is 50″ X 58″. I enjoyed working on this after I got going. It is a different pallet for me and I liked that.

Lap 18-26 This top is all done now and I have even pin basted it. I will not get back to it for a while as QBL will take all my time.

Palm Tree Block As you can see I only worked a few min. on this project. I am off to Marcia’s Makers tomorrow and I intend to spend the day at this then.

Enjoy your next two weeks as I am sure I will too.

Keep Creating,
Carol

Experiments, Hand work, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Uncategorized

Return form Quilting By the Lake

Hello,

Summer is rushing forward and I am feeling a bit behind.   The two weeks of  Quilting by the Lake was  a wonderful  time and I am still coming down from that.    Week one I had independent studio with a dozen other gals.

I worked on two projects that I will cover later.   I did spend time every morning doing  a block for the raffle quilt that will be a part of QBL next year  as  a fund  raiser  for  a Donna  Lamb Scholarship  to  attend.

And then I did a few extras for Liz as she could not attend.    This sample is one from the fabrics that Nancy and I cut with Kathy earlier this spring.   The fabric all came from the Sally Davis donated fabrics collection.

 

 

There were lots of old friend in the first class.   This is one of two Christmas tree skirts that Barbra A was working on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Linda L did this little quilt as a gift for her nephew’s  new baby.   Among other works.

 

 

 

 

Jeanette  created this memory quilt as a why to help work through her grief.

 

 

 

I had friends in other classes doing other things.   Susan was in Paula Kavairk’s  class.   This is her project.  I had given her old work to share with the class for cut up and she used one of my pieces here.

 

 

 

 

 

Another friend, Diane was also in this class and this frog is her work.  I love this little sculpture.

 

 

 

 

Show and tell at the end of session one was enjoyable.   This is Emely showing off her pieces form Sheila’s class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jea was in a dye class and this is one of her works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dessie was also in the dye class and this is her work.

 

 

 

 

This class produced a lot of variety and Lori’s work is more prof of that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The teachers did auction off their aprons with Linda acting as auctioneer.

 

 

 

 

Week two I was in Sheila Framton-Cooper class.      This is her work and she taught me a great way to do curves so they really lye flat.

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of friends in this class too.      Lisa was setting next to me  and she really powered forward with her piece.  I do not have a shot of the finished piece, but believe me it was powerful!

 

 

 

 

A new aqueous, Phuong was on my other side.  She came with a very clear vision of what she wanted to do as well.   It was fun to watch this piece change and grow over the week.

 

 

 

Sue Ellen  was a real power house and did three pieces  during the week.   This is a shot of the last one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Debbie did this wonderful work.   The colors  and fabrics  are all from the Cherry Wood Challenge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newbie Jane really plunged into QBL and took two weeks.  This  is her work for week two.

 

 

 

Peggy did a great little job after lots of struggle.

 

 

 

 

 

Another new gal I enjoyed was  Ashley.   I liked her colors.  She was by the door so I talked with her every time I came in and out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annette did a a clean little work as well in this class.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bree did a huge pieces and really hassled at the end to pull it together  so she could take it home as one unit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Show and Tell for the end of session two allowed  us to see what folks did in other classes.   This is Emely again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan had fun in Studio  and did this work.

 

 

 

 

 

Victoria also arranged a little Retirement party for Susan at QBL.    She is a full time artist now.

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Lap #17   I started this pieces before QBL and now I have done most of the stitch in the ditch work.  I used fabric I printed in Pat Pauly’s class as my starting point for this work.

 

 

Lap # 18   This too is also a pre QBL project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shoreline    This projects is one going.  I am making progress even though it is slow.

 

 

 

Sisters   This too is a pre QBL project.    I did work on the body of the dark haired gal before I went away.

 

 

 

Canadian Wildfires  This is the first project I worked on in Independent Studio .     I am pleased with how if it developing.

 

 

 

Spring Sparrows   This is the second project that I worked on week one.   I cut the five  full  stencils of the birds.

 

 

 

 

 

Then I cut new stencils for each of the  four colors of  each bird.      It was difficult to line them all up .

 

 

 

 

 

Blue  This was my first project in Sheila’s class.   This is were I really learned about the insertion of the curves.

 

 

Under Grand   This is my second project from Sheila’s class.     It is based on the Grand Piano in the class room.      It was a good growth project for me.

 

 

 

 

There were many other friends and  buddies a QBL, but I did not capture images of many of them.  I had  a great time as always   and I came home happily exhausted with a mind full of new ideas and directions.   I am still playing catch up and will continue to think and develop ideas got there.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

 

 

Applique, Hand work, Lap Quilts, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scissors, Scrap Happy Quilts

Summer Days

Hello,

I feel summer ending.   The season is still here, but I still see Labor Day as the end even though I  have not started the new school year  at that time in years.     My husband and I took a little field trip to drop off books at the library for their sale and then drove on to Chittango Falls for a short walk.  I so love the sound of moving water and this was powerful.    The plants are aware of the shorting days too.    I am seeing puff balls that appear over night in my  yard.  The squirrels  had to take a little taste out of this one like how they have to taste test my tomatoes.

Not a lot  of meetings this week and the Pixie meeting was canceled due to storms in Florida.

 

Progress Report:    Cut Up  I completed this project this week.  It is  43″w X 36″ t.     This work has reflective quilting.     There are nine scissors here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Bunny   I got busy and used the back legs I had created in my  class with Paul Kavark at QBL this summer and made this rabbit with them.   And he does have a puffy tail.

Scrap Happy Back   I put together four of the units I had made  to create a back big enough for a queen sized quilt.

Now to layer and add the strips together on top.

 

 

 

 

 

Handwork   I took a second look at this and decided to stitch it to a back and add  a boarder and sleeve.

New Lap    I was sorting through a box and discovered  some additional Ethel Blocks  so I used some to make a new lap top.    With a little work I see yet another lap quilt with the few leftover ones.

 

 

 

 

New Scissors project      I thought I was done with the scissors series until I talked to my hair dresser while getting a hair cut.  She suggested several new titles for me and  that in turn, got my brain going.     I am now off and running with  new work in the future.

 

 

 

Green Lichens   I keep putting in time on this project.

 

 

Keep enjoying the bounty of the season and keep Creating too.

 

Carol

 

Cut It Out, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scissors

Off to Quilting by the Lake

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Hello,

This week has been a full one for me.   I am of course packing for my two week at Quilting by the Lake.  I will have lots of new stuff to share  on Aug 1, the next time I post.

Summer walks continue to be full of new sights as well, such as these Indian pipes.

   I did go off to the    Opening of   the Rock  Garden Show on  Friday.  It is always a divers and interesting show.    I knew four artists this time.

Terri had this wonderful bed sized work in that show.   She has been working n it for years.

 

 

 

Barbara shared some of her quilts and  her paintings too.

 

 

 

 

 

Cheri showed off her print works.

 

 

 

 

 

Denise had four of her powerful felted works  on display.   The show is in Homer at the Art Center and will be up until  the end of Aug.

I attended the  Lavender Festival in Red Creek  with my grandson on Saturday and  zoomed with the Pixies as well.     I am blessed with a full life.

 

 

Progress Report:  Cut It Out      This work is 45.5″ X 28″.     it proved to be a challenge as giving the view in x-ray vision  meant I really had to watch what I was doing.    My pile of miss cuts was a big one.

 

I zig -zagged the edges and appliqued down textured yarn at the same time.

 

 

 Big and Small    I decided to take the Big and Small challenge.  This is my 12″ square that is the start of the  Small .    Some of the miscuts are used in this piece.  Now to do some embellishment work with thread.

 

 

 

Ties   I made more square for this project and I am all done creating them now.   I plan to start assembling  blocks later today.

 

 

 

 

 

Lap #12   I am working on the hand step of binding   this work now.    I want it done before I depart on Sunday.

 

 

 

Handwork     I did a little handwork this week.  I sure made a lot of blocks for the Joyous Embroidery class- still some left to complete.

 

New Cuts      I have new ideas for a scissors themed  project.  So I  though I would try a different approach this time and make  a paper pattern that I could trace and move  around  on a background.    Here is my new pattern in a heavy paper.    I will let you know how this works in the future.

Enjoy summer and keep creating’.

Carol

 

 

Diva Meetings, Finger Lakes Fiber Artist Group, Hand work, Lap Quilts, Pixies Group, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Scrap Happy Quilts, Wildfire in Whisky Hollow

QBL plus

 Hello,

It has been a busy three weeks sense I last wrote a message  with lots of events.   Summer is in full force here and  very beautiful.   I am looking forward to the Art, Garden and Sustainability  Trail that will be taking place in my nationhood this Sat.    More about that next week.

First I want to talk about Quilting by the Lake 2023.    This year, its 37th,  the event took place at Wells College in Arura NY.  The college is in a splendid  setting  on beautiful Cayuga Lake.   Several folks went swimming in the lake too. The campus has lots of gracious  old building and as it runs along the lake edge there are lots of ups and downs.

This is a shot of my dorm.  I was in the front corner room,  level one with two windows.  We spent several evenings on the balcony stitching during the week.

There was also a very large and comfortable parlor were we worked to put together a puzzle week two. It had 2,000 pieces and we did not complete the task, so I broth it home and I plan to bring it week one next year so we can get the whole thing done.   This shot is of Lori and Reggi early on in the process.

This is how far we got before we had to dismantle it for travel.

 

Week one I was in independent study with  a dozen other gals.

 

 

 

 

Nancy finished this top, a quilt and did some machine drawing of a Goldfinch.

 

 

 

 

 

Reggie, who specializes in picking up finished blocks  and making tops out of them, did five during the week.   This one is make up of Dear Jane  blocks.  One   of 4.5″ block had 49 hand pieced units in it.

 

These pineapple blocks were done by another gal in studio and they got completely assembled as a quilt top for her grandson.

 

 

Rachel Clark taught a coat making class in our building week one and also gave the opening lecture.  It was inspiring.

 

 

 

 

Week one ended with show and tell in the dinning room.

This is a shot of a few folks from Irene Rodrick’s class ” Dancing with the Wall. ”

I went home and did laundry before returning on Sunday for week 2 and my class with Amanda McCarver.

Our class was was working with wash away  and roving to create different effects.   We did lots of little experiments and I learned a lot.    I am sure I will apply what I have learned to my work in the future.    This  a shot of the Solvy sandwich  with roving, yarn and loose threads before machine work is applied.

Here are my works for the first three days.

 

 

More experiments.

 

 

 

 

 

We  also had a quilt show that was of work of the Finger Lakes Fiber Art’s group.     This shot is Victor’s Work  from the show.

There was an event every night that included a trip to the Schweinfurth to see the Nancy Crow show were she gave a lecture.  We visited a local farm were there was a talk on antique quilts  and both weeks had a night were we gathered around the fire pit and made  Smores.  This shot is of Davana enjoying hers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Liz  too.

We had good time and made some new friends and enjoyed our old friends too.

 

 

 

 

Week II of QBL completed with show and tell and the Apron Auction.

 

This shot is of Elsa and her Blue Bird.    She was in David Taylor’s class.

 

 

The Apron Auction was lots of fun with lots of silliness.    The money goes to the Scholarship Fund, a very worth while cause.

It was a bit sad to see it all end, but I enjoyed myself as did many others.

Tue was the Aug Diva meeting.

 

Most of the time was spent talking of how we will finish up the “Together We Rise Project.”   This is Lori’s entry.

 

 

 

 

Mary  reworked hers as she did not feel that the burbles read well.    I think the balloons do a great job.

 

 

 

 

 

Mary also had a great self directed project.  She is still working through some of the fabric’s she purchased when she traveled to Africa.

 

Her beading adds an extra layer of interest.

 

We visited the Rock Garden Art show at the Homer Art Center while we were there.       Terrie had four little cityscapes .  There were all fun.

 

Cheri had four more of her wonderful prints in the show too.     I really like what she is doing now.

 

 

 

 

 

I also had a Pixie meeting yesterday and enjoyed catching up with those folks.  Our new assignment is to do something with insects.  I need to finish my lettering for that too.   I did an L and an S    at  QBL that I plan to turn  them  into pillows this week .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Progress Report: Wild Fire in Whisky Hollow   This work is  35″ w  X35″ t.  I did this in indigent study at QBL.    I did the binding and  sleeve after I got home.     With this work I really wanted to show a green tree paired with one on fire.    I saw and image like this in my check in with the wild fires in Canada that week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the Fire  I was struck by the destruction  of the fires and what remains afterward , so I made this quilt as it is a part of the story too.   I think is needs more work so it is not completed yet.

 

 

 

 

Handwork   This is what I worked on during QBL while setting on the balcony of my dorm .   It is moving along.

 

 

 

 

Lap quilt #11    I finished this top before I went off to QBL.  That seems like a long time ago to me now.    On to the layering and quilting.

 

 

 

 

 

Scrap Happy    I assembled and quilted this quilt tis week in preparation for the local  Art, Garden and Sustainability  Trail on Sat.   I will  deliver it to one of the organizer this afternoon.

 

 

 

 

It has been a busy time , but I have enjoyed it all.

Keep Creating

Carol

 

 

 

 

Contemplating, Creative Strength Training, Daily Practice, Explorations, Hand work, Pixies Group, Pondering, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Time Life Line

July 2022

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Hello,

Summer is always a busy time and this week was no exception.   We had a big family Birthday party picnic on Sat to celebrate the July birthdays and it was wonderful.   Everyone ate great food, enjoyed the weather and laughed a lot. What more can you ask for.  Then I went off to a play day in Varna on Sunday.   Spent the day with seven other folks exploring printing.  I did work on my Pondering piece.  I am so glad events like that are  opening again.  Then on Tuesday, Liz and I got together and dyed again.  That is always lots of fun. 

 

The Creative Strength Training class meant yesterday and it was a good discussion.    I also had a session with the Pixies on Wed too.

My other big news is, my friend David B is now the proud owner of Against the Wind.

This will be the last entry for July as I am off to Quilting by the Lake on Sunday for two weeks.

Progress Report: Pondering   

This top is all put together now.  My goal is to have  the tops of all three of the pieces of this set before I go off to QBL.

 

 

 

 

Contemplating   This is the third top.  I have only made a few of the units for this work.  It is pinned to a dark background so I can see how I want the placement of those parts.

 

 

Daily Practice Quilt  I am now quilting circles on the  quilt.   It is calming work.

 

 

Handwork    I keep adding to this work every evening.  It is nearing completion.

 

 

 

Life Line Drawing  After giving it some thought I decided not to add color to this work and I consider it done.   It was a good way for me to think about my life beyond the childhood work.

Enjoy Summer  and I will write again after Quilting by the Lake with lots of new stories and ideas I am sure.

Keep Creating

Carol

Autumn Leaves, Childhood Memories, Jumping Off Place, QBL- Quilting By the Lake, Three Sea Horses, Topographical, Two Trees

October Cooling

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Hello,
There is a real feeling of fall now as it has turned quite cold around here. The hardy Zinnia are still doing well and we have not had a frost yet. But if is in the air. I did some house/studio cleaning too. It seems I need to get my “nest” in order for winter. I have eliminated three boxes and a bag of stuff to pass forward for others to use. It makes me feel good to do that sort of thing.
There seems to be another thing in the air too,  because three of the groups I meet with cancelled meetings this week. Two due to low audience.   Perhaps everyone is busy hankering down for fall and winter too.

Progress Report: Three Sea Horses This work is 22″w X 16″t. Noel talked of this method of laying down roving and then putting netting over the top so one could  machine stitch on it. I tried that method on this project. The sea horses are cut from felt so there are sharp edges and then I added roving on top too. I like this technique. It is very soft, but  I think I need to work on contrast more the next time I try it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two Trees The work is 18″ w X 18″ t. I started it in the Rock On Class With Cynthia Corbin at QBL this summer. This week I got busy and did machine drawing of two trees from a photo of them on Dad’d farm. It sure has the gray feeling I was having about the day.

 

 

 

 

 

Topographical I had a good time working away on this piece this week. I think two more hours of couching will complete the process. I feel there is lots of potential in this process and plan to explore it more in the future.

Past My Window- Autumn Leaves

I stared working away on this piece this week and it just seemed to take on a life of it’s own.     I started pinning the leaves I had created to supplement the ones I had made in Betty’s class on the final day.  Then I found a package of silk leaves that someone had passed my way and they just seemed to go together so I was off and pinning like a fool. It will take a long time to do all the free motion applique I think. But it is enjoyable for me.

Jumping Off Place        Angela gave me a packet called Through the Looking glass. It contained some great textured yarns and fabrics. I pulled it out yesterday and read the instructions. It is not my thing any more then it was Angel’s, but it turned out to be a good starting place. Only the organza, and little blue sequined square are from the kit. The rest I pulled from my collections. I will use the wonderful threads and supplement then with my own as the project was designed for a 12 “ square and I have gone way beyond that.

Coral Sea This work did not get much attention this week. But I did find some more felt that has misty fuse on it already so I am off and running again.

 

 

Wool Rounds I keep my hand in this project and finished three circles this week. My process is to fill in  one circle  at a  toime and every time when I finish with one stitch on a round, I have thread on the needle. I use that  thread  to do the blanket stitch on a new wool unit to tack it down. When all the units are tacked down I will move onto the next ring of stitches in the circles while still finishing off one fully.

 

 

 

 

 

Childhood Memories Depot

My parents built their first house in Ainsworth Iowa. Mom saved the check for the lumber yard for the construction and it was $180. In thinking about the houses I lived in I realized that three of my childhood homes were built into hills with a walk in door at that level.  Two of the them had garages . The Ainsworth house faced south with a gully on the west side that slopped up to the high school where dad taught high school. When we lived there we  two trips to the train depot in town. One time it was to get a great big box that contained parts for a rocking chair with an  apple green plastic on it. I got to play in the box while dad did the assembly. That  process was mostly one of  adding the arms and legs. I love rocking in it . The second time we went to the depot, it was to pick up a shipment of 100 live baby chicks. We took them home and checked them before we drove the m to Grandmother Esters house. I remember setting next to the box in the dark in the back of the car listening to the little peeps. I think I fell asleep. Because my next memory of the chicks was in Grandmother’s basement behind a 2″x 12″ that made a short wall next to the corner furnace. They all ended up in the brooder house and later in the hen house. I’m sure I must have gather eggs from some of them in later years. and  had some of them for Sunday dinner too.

I hope everyone is enjoying fall and creating great work.

Carol