Saturday, May 5, 2012

Duck, Duck, Quilt!

Over the past month, I have made a new friend.  A Mama Mallard has nested under a bush near the building where I work.  She laid 11 eggs.  At first, I used my zoom lens to take photos of her and her nest, but she must have grown to trust me, because she lets me get really close, and I did not use a zoom lens or crop these photos at all...
On Friday morning, I took this photo of the first hatchling, just minutes after it escaped it's eggshell and moved under the mama for warmth:
And a little later, still under Mama's protective care, but all fluffy now:
By the time I left work yesterday, I could see four empty eggshells, but all of the babes were apparently safe and sound under the duck...no really new photo ops there, so I went home and grabbed some pics of my latest non-yarny creation, a t-shirt quilt for a friend! A couple nights ago, I turned a pile of shirts into a stack of squares...
Then I cut sashing fabric and threaded Old Faithful...
It was so fun to watch this come together, piece by piece...
I love the way this is turning out!
The top is nearly done, and I am planning to back it with cozy fleece...it's going to be the softest, coziest, funnest quilt I've ever put together!  In fact, my only regret with this quilt is that I will have to call it finished at some point, and I'd kindof like to work on it forever!  (No worries...Snake would like his MIL to make him one, too!)

I hope to get some work done on this later today, but I have been missing my baseball sweater.  It's a tough pattern, but I am starting to really like how it's turning out!
So, that's my week, in a nutshell (or an eggshell, I suppose!).  I hope that you are finding time to do what you love, even if you are busy!  Thanks for stopping by, and Knit in Good Health!

2 comments:

  1. Yay for the baby ducks arrival!

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  2. Baby ducks! They are almost as cute as swans. If I had a pond, I would have both.

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