Leave No Trace

Movies

It has been so long between movies I entirely forgot that I should be telling you what we’ve seen.

A father, a Vietnam veteran, and his daughter are living in a tent in a park in Portland. They are very self-sufficient, foraging for food and making a trek (by foot) to the city once a week for additional supplies. The father runs periodic drills teaching his daughter how to hide, leaving no tracks that could lead to discovery. One day a hiker spots the daughter and the authorities eventually catch up with them. The film focuses on the difficulties both the father and daughter have adapting to a “normal” life.

The movie is based on a book (that critics say is reminiscent of The Room) and I’ve added it to my list.

These Cinematheque movies seldom disappoint.

Happy Birthday Carol

Cards

September 14, 2018

Block 11 of the 1880 Sampler (from the Temecula Quilt Company)

 

I started a quilt-along in February. I’ve made sampler quilts from this company before and I had great plans for this one; each week I would make one block for myself and one block to use as cards. As it turned out, the ones I was making for cards turned out better than the ones I was making for myself so I stopped at block 12 in April.

But this pretty little block was on my design wall (which is the front of the door to my sewing room) and I picked it for Carol.

No smiling

Journal

Friday, September 14, 2018

I’m doing some quilting today and it is going well. I’ve had a Community Quilt waiting to be quilted since June when we did our weekend workshop. There was a fire in town this week and the family lost everything; the head of our committee put out a call for quilts as her cupboard was bare. She quickly received answers from other quilters so she was able to place quilts with the family but that probably means her cupboard is bare again. I had other things to do but nothing more pressing so I got started.

The practice I’ve been getting on my cards has paid off for this quilt. I’m working with 12″ squares that are all different patterns but not exactly a sampler quilt. I decided to use the star pattern on each of the blocks; although I’m still drawing the lines in chalk I don’t need the book to know where the lines need to go. I have about half of the quilt done so, hopefully, I can finish up the quilting tomorrow. If I’m really lucky I’ll get the binding sewn on and I’ll be able to get it all done and delivered at the bee on Tuesday.

I took a bit of time out to get my driver’s license renewed this morning. Pat reminded me to brush my hair before I went although I think, since I’d washed it this morning, I would have remembered. They don’t want any smiling in the photos and we went with the first (and only) photo that was taken. I still look a bit like a criminal but then doesn’t everyone?

 

Happy Birthday Alex

Cards

September 13, 2018

Monk Fish (from Quilter’s Block-a-Day Calendar)

 

Alex recently got a new pet – a fish. His is much more interesting than this (a Siamese Fighting Fish) but I couldn’t find a pattern that was even remotely possible for me to copy. But around the same time as I was planning my September cards this fish popped up on my calendar and I decided to make it.

In the last few days there have been other fish designs showing up so he may end up with a set of fish!