Purple Shirley!

This is the little quilt I did for Daisy's Paint chip challenge (20" x 20"). I didn't make it to the December meeting so I'm not sure who has seen it. We had to include the four colors on our paint chip and could add one additional color. I chose lime green of course!

The title of the Post come from a neighbor of my mom's. My mother had a sage green living room and chose to recover a pair of side chairs in purple wide wale corduroy. A woman before her time, we all know now that purple and green are au currant. Her neighbor came over to see the newly redecorated room and could only exclaim, "Purple, Shirley!".

For Christmas Chloe got the greatest present since sliced bread. Deer, elk, and moose shed their antlers every spring and some enterprising entrepreneurs are picking them up, cleaning them, sanding them and selling them as dog chews (at a premium price). They do not splinter. However, dogs do like to playfully toss them in the air and my cousin's Rottweiler threw hers through the glass door of an antique china cabinet. Ooops!

Puppy Power

Most of this week has been adjusting and getting to know our new puppy, Chloe. She's a wonderful dog. She's so mild mannered that sometimes we sit and watch her and wonder when she's going to DO SOMETHING!  Other times, you can't find her and when you check, she's hiding somewhere, totally puppy-like, with a shoe or other no-no. 

Jacob really loves her and she is so good at letting him rough-house with her. Yesterday, we took her to the dog  park in East Lansing and Chloe played well with the other dogs. She had a ball being able to run free.

Last week was the quilt show at Sauder Village. This is MacArthur's Attic, which was too large for the wall quilt category and too small for the bed quilt category. Luckily, they showed it anyway.  I have more quilt pictures to upload. This morning, however, I found out that my new card reader doesn't fit in my OLD!! computer.  The trip to the Apple Store is going to have to happen sooner than later.