She's about to... Baby it's cold outside!

why is there a monthly chat & this chat open ? I can't keep up :(

This thread has been open for years, someone else opened the monthly chat!

deejay this is the really really old chat that was started when i first started, it was actually about brugs....

okk here are some pics. I am so happy to have it done.
The first pic I wondered if it was actually going to work. The border was knitted seperately then I had to figure out how get it to fit, lots of pressing, and easing...LOL
Here is the finished projects and the last is a pic of the border.

We are warming up thank goodness. I am so excited.

Yeap that is right this forum got kicked off the brug forum and ended up here because we were chatting not just about brugs.

Joyce, that is awesome! That came out really nice!

Next time I need something knitted or crocheted, I will hire you!

Good job, Joyce! ♥♥

FOTV opened the monthly chats over in the Group Trade, Swaps and Round Robins forum some time ago. She isn't posting right now so I talked to her to see if she wanted to continue them. There are people who like to chat over there that aren't here ... and it's easy to find if you are already in that forum. I suppose we could discontinue them.

No need to discontinue that thread, some chat in both place, some chat just here, some chat in the other thread.

I sure miss fruity, I hope she is doing OK? Tell her we said hello.

I haven't heard from her in quite awhile.

Thank you all for clearing this up :) I Loose track of some forums you gals have been here longer then i .
Not sure how i happened to find this one but its nice to read :)

I'm with you LK Now that Joyce is retired she will have more time to show off all her Talents I Love the the Drawing she sent me for Easter one yr she was my Partner .

Wish I Had 1/4 of your talent . well brother just called to say the dryer shut off so i can go get my last load out .

& carol I Like the monthly chats also :)

Talented indeed! Love those ducks!

Thanks you guys. You all are just sweeties.

Susie I am glad you like the pic. I made 2 of those you have one and I kept one. There is another pic that is a mate to that one. I love the pin and ink with water color. It is soo much fun. You just seemed like the perfect person to receive it since you have birds.

Yeap I also misss FOTV alot and another friend AuntB. I worry Faye will leave us but am sooo happy when she pops in every once in awhile just to let us know how she is doing.

Linda Kay, dh keeps looking at SA Tx weather...LOL I could so move away from here. Even if it was just for 3 months I would be happy. Don't think we could move forever, don't think dh could do it.

SA is not bad, we get cool winters, but the lowest this year was maybe 25 for a few weeks. it is 73 right now. Come on down!

I love that blanket, it is beautiful. Did I see it took 28 years? I still have the one my grandma chrochet'd while gmpa was on his trips he was over the roafd trucker, it took her 20 years to complete a ingzied one. It is in my cedar chest cuz the threads were starting to break form the weight of hanging off the bed.
I love individual hand painted art. I didn't know u were retired!

It must be nice to be missed. lol

Pen and ink with watercolor is one of my faves too. Beautiful, happ!

I wish I would get back to crochet. Here's one my mother made decades ago. I think it's about 80 years old.

47 and rain today. then we soar to the mid 70's. yippee! I can't wait! iced tea on my porch!

That quilt is beautiful.. you are a lucky woman.

Iced tea on my patio sounds lovely, thanks for the idea of thinkng about it. It is very foggy outside here right now.

That is a beautiful granny square afghan! Love the colors!

Kathy looks like we have the same temps. 44 right now, but supposed to reach 71

Time for me to get busy and clean out the garden areas and get some seeds planted. I ant to grow more sunflowers this year.

Thanks, ya'll. Mom passed years ago and I treasure that afghan.

I love sunflowers and plan to grow several varieties this year. Do you grow a specific variety or varieties, LK?

yeppers, time to clean out the beds and get ready for planting. I swear the weeds grow better here in the winter than in the summer. I have o weed before I do anything

Last year I bought 6 different packages of sunflowers, and planted about half of each package. The birds sure loved them as they developed! I had them in my raised bed.

so pretty, can't wait till spring

Nice. I like raised beds. Those sunflowers look great and the birds do love them a lot.

Kathy, I'm with you!

I saved seeds from the ones my DD grew. I hope they reproduce true as they were 15-20 feet tall and huge heads.

They sound wonderful!

I hope they will be we don't have much growing space here. 3 acres and it's all woods and sand.

Oh Cville I would miss you desperately don't you go nowhere.....!!
That granny square afgan is beautiful.
Yeap we are warming up here also...yes, now that I said that we are suppose to have some snow flurries...LOL

Have you guys ever grown those teddy bear sunflowers? I think that is the name. I bought some cause they looked so darn cute on the package.. wow 20 ft sunflowers that would be outstanding I have lots of chicken droppings which might help them grow.

Yeap Debra I think you and me have a little bit of time to wait before we are sitting on the patio having a drink..... ;(

bought these patterns to make they will be so cute I think. What I didn't think about is I have to buy yarn and thread.....humm I will have enough left over to make about 1000 or them..rofl.

My aunt grew some of the Teddy Bears. They were really neat looking. She got a lot from one package.

Oh so glad to hear that. You know sometimes the plant isn't quite as good as the pic.

you will love the teddy bear sunflower, Joyce, I know I sure love mine every year. My sunflowers grow to 20 ft all around the patio with vines growing up them, then I use lions wool yarn to bend them in to living arches and make walls around my patio. Every year I get better at sculpting my living walls with sunflowers , eupatorium and vines.

:) Joyce.

Luv the living wall, Debra. I have about ten varieties of sunflower seeds for this year. One of them is 'Teddy Bear'. Also have 'Short Stuff'. I've only had the large varieties but I want these for some containers on the deck.

Debra your gardens are beautiful.
My sunflowers were 3-10 feet tall. I have never seen one 20 foot tall.

OK you all are getting me excited about getting them planted!
Debra that is so cool. Maybe I should plant them on the west side of my gazbo since I don't have any shade on that side and it gets a little warm in August... right now that is hard to imagine LOL

I grew one sunflower one time when I had parrots. All organic but the funny thing the parrots wouldn't eat them! I would had them a bagged sunflower seed and they would eat it. Then I would had them one I grew and they would throw it down they knew every time. Not sure why they woulddn't eat them. Do you all leave the heads on all winter or take them off and put them in the bird feeders?

Debra, love the living privacy fence. I so wish we could get moved to a place I can have gardens again.
My DD had the tall ones last year and I brought home a few heads. Saved the seeds from a couple the rest we put out by the bird feeders one at a time, all the critters made short work of them. I'm hoping to find a sunny enough spot to plant some.

You know the wild bird feed with sunflowers seeds? I just pull big fat ones of all colors out of that bird feed and plant them where I want them. They grow the best. The packs don't do as well for me for some reason. Joyce I would plant a ton of sunflowers of all kinds, and then plant some morning glory seeds with them, you can actually weave them all together as they grow tall and branch out, with the morning glorys. kinda crazy, but thats what i do, then I use the lions wool yarn to hold it all together and use the arch as a support. we gave all the seed heads to the feeders.
june 2011 first year for arch.. july 2011..august 2011. September 2011..
2012 was diffwerent, and last year was even more different ....

I do feed the birds but only feed finch seed and black oiler sunflower seeds. We get much nicer birds now , no starlings or grackles.

Love that arch Debra.

thanks Linda, I wish I would take the same shot every year so I could see the diffrence, but when I am out with a camera, I just lose my mind.. *sigh*

Yeah the arch is amazing. I really really like those.

I can't wait to see your Gardening Bench being used this Spring, Joyce. It is awsome.
That arch was from kmart for my BD from Joe, two years he got me one each year.. He wants to move them to each end of his vege garden. I already have prennial vines established on them. He is going to re-do the beds against the house with proper stone edging stuff, he is going to have to work around the prennials there. I told him sure he can put an arch at each end of that plot if he buys two more. We will see.
It would make this area weird looking I think, but then. I could string up lines from end to end and have gourds, cukes and squashes and stuff on them I guess, over the tomatoes, green beans, and peppers and potatoes and beets. All that usually goes in this area. Gee, maybe turn it into a make shift greenhouse ...
so tell me how do you see an arch at each end of this plot? pic one is in March looking south, pic number 2 is what it looks like in August looking north, 3 is a nite time shot of the sunfower and vine arches at night.. in September, 4th pic is what the top of an arch looks like with sunflowers and vines together.. Okay sorry to hog, I think I need help in this decision tho.. there is those dang electical wires running to the house..