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september 10 august 10 july 14 june 10 may 8 april 13 march 11 february 12 january 17 2009 123 december 11 november 16 october 10 september 8 august 11 july 13 june 14 may 12 april 18 march 10 about me cath s pennies designs view my complete profile tuesday august 30 2016 oh those fall colors well it s not here yet but fall is fast approaching it seems the older i get the faster the summer goes yes indeed summer went really fast this time i ve been doing lots of digging planting and landscaping some work is still yet to be done but i m now waiting for the cooler autumn temps to start digging again little time is left in my days for designing but i do have a few new things to show here s one for the fall pumpkin harvest table runner pattern the finished size of this table runner is 12 x 23 although it can easily be made longer the picture shows this made with 100 felted wool but wool felt can easily be substituted for any or all of the wool requirements the pattern is available as well as the wool kit on my website https cathspenniesdesigns com product pumpkin harvest wool applique table runner this is a design that i created a long time ago and sold as a finished item the design was by far the most requested design that my customers requested to be made into a purchasable pattern it s been requested mostly because i have an online tutorial that explains how to attach penny rug tongues and i ve used the original design as the illustrated sample you can find that tutorial here http cathspennies blogspot com 2009 09 how to attach those penny rug tongues html i ve held off creating the pattern for it simply because all i had was the picture of the finished table runner i hadn t saved the actual measurements or drawings that i originally used basically i had to start from scratch to make it again this new design is a bit different than the original because i eliminated the long and tedious penny rug tongue detail notice that this design has the background scallop tongues cut right into the background wool rather than stitched individually this way is certainly less time consuming lots of good things are happening here at cath s pennies designs i m determined to spend a bit more time with this blog and with facebook so that i don t get so behind with news and info if you haven t already please like my business facebook page click here also i d love to include all of you on my personal facebook page click here please friend me i don t often post things on my own personal page but i d love to be able to see what my sisters in stitching are working on in the stitching world i ll be finishing up my newsletter to get emailed out for tomorrow if you haven t subscribed to my newsletter you can do so by clicking here cath s pennies designs newsletter sign up that s all for today happy day posted by cath s pennies designs at 12 07 00 pm 11 comments thursday june 9 2016 stephen king oh oh oh stephen king was in town yesterday in the lovely town of sewickley pa i might add he was visiting to promote his new book the event sponsored by the local book store in sewickley was held in the auditorium of the sewickley academy a private school it was a small venue with only 600 tickets sold for the event my husband and i were extremely fortunate to have two amazing daughters and one future son in law who camped out overnight on a chilly rainy night last month in the hopes of getting tickets for this very special stephen king event they arrived at the bookstore at 8pm with blankets pillows and folding chairs and along with hundreds of others waited until 10 am the next morning to buy the tickets both girls grew up knowing our love for this author so when rach heard about the event she knew she had to do everything she could to try for the tickets jen rach and brad not only were able to get tickets for my husband and me they managed to get front row seats for us this was to be a surprise father s day gift for my husband it was indeed a surprise actually i knew about it but had to keep it secret from my husband it was very difficult to not tell him why i was texting so much back and forth to my daughters that evening and the next morning my husband and i have been huge stephen king fans from way back i m pretty sure we ve read every one of his books i remember way back when we first got married i knew when to watch for his new books and would always put my name on the wait list at our local library back then i was happy to get library books nowadays to support mr king and all his greatness we buy his books now this is just a small part of our collection i see a ken follett book in there that should be on the ken follet shelf so just ignore that and know that every other book on those two shelves are mr king s books it was an absolutely wonderful evening i expected him to read excerpts from his new book but he told us that since we had all already purchased the book the ticket cost included a book there was no sense in trying to promote it instead he just simply talked his own personal stories about his life and his family and how he got to be the great author that he is he did make mention that people who read books are becoming a rare breed sad but so true he s just a regular guy dressed in blue jeans and what looked to be an old tshirt and sneakers that were purchased by his grandson so that he could look cool while on his book tour front row seats to see this man he was a mere 10 feet away from us big smiles on our faces when it was all over we even went onto the stage and sat in his chair in other news i ve been working on a secret project i m not permitted to give the details yet but i m honored and thrilled to be asked to participate within the year expect surprisingly great things for all of us who have the love for wool it s thursday and tonight is the big pens game if we win tonight the stanley cup is ours for the year go pens have a wonderful weekend everyone i ll be back next week some time with a new design maybe posted by cath s pennies designs at 4 05 00 pm 6 comments friday may 20 2016 for the birds i ve been taking care of our local birds for many many many years i don t even want to think about how much i ve spent on bird food over the years it doesn t matter how much though because they bring me entertainment and joy so any amount is worth what they give back to me my husband before he retired never realized how many 50lb bags of sunflower seeds i would buy over the late fall and winter months now that he s retired he s figured it out thankfully he s now enjoying the birds almost as much as i do i buy my sunflower seeds down at our local diamond milling company it s close right in town and they bag the seed themselves so it s just the best quality for the money i ve always just fed them in the fall and winter and put the feeders away for the spring and summer but after my last post about feeding the birds i received several emails from my customer readers that suggest that i continue to feed them over the summer too so i went back down to diamond milling and bought a 50lb bag of mixed bird seed this mixed stuffed has cracked corn as well as a few other types of seed along with sunflower seeds well i have to say so far this stuff is bringing in different birds that normally visit i m getting birds that i don t even know what they are i m constantly asking google to help with identifications the most delightful birds are the hummingbirds and the baltimore orioles i have a special feeder for the orioles that has clips on it to hold oranges as soon as i put the oranges out the orioles are there it s like they re watching and waiting for me then i read that they love grape jelly since it was getting expensive to feed them an orange everyday i put out a spoonful of jelly just to see what would happen whaddayaknow they love the grape jelly i put it out and by the time i was back in the house the orioles were gobbling it up they re so pretty to watch my hummingbirds appeared last week i have 4 different feeders out for them as well as a pretty little hummingbird swing i haven t been able to get a picture of them sitting on the swing yet but here s a pic of the swing as well as a couple of the feeders i have another feeder at the back of the house and a feeder by our side porch i m going to attempt to train them to be hand fed too so i ve put aside my stitching for now i ve been incredibly busy outside i m remodeling and re landscaping all areas around the house i ve re done the vegetable garden hubby replace the rotted wood on the raised bed for me now it s almost twice the size so i ve lots more room for plantings my latest project that i m finishing up is the flower bed by the driveway it s always looked nice but i wanted a different look i wish i had taken a before pic but this is what it looked like when i started digging it up my husband put down a brick border for me and i worked on digging up and sifting the big rocks out of the soil so many rocks in this soil i have a good use for rocks though which i will share in another post at another time this took me a few days to get this far exhausting work but well worth the effort there s a new landscaping business that is just down the road from us now saddle your donkey landscape and supply so convenient hubby went down and got a load of gorgeous smelly mushroom manure for me this is not quite finished yet i still need to get more perennial plantings much thanks to my sister in law for the professional help with the landscaping janet told me what to plant and how to plant it we went back down to saddle your donkey and selected the boulder for the focal point of the area i m so excited to finish this now but have to wait for the perennials to be available at our local garden center i ve still lots more to do so stitching designing and patterns are put on hold for a while i spend my evenings relaxing reading and sketching the sketches will soon turn into new designs and as excited as i am to work on new designs the landscaping work has to get done my daughter is getting married in october and we are in the beginning stages of planning a special garden bridal shower which will be here at the house i was hesitant at first when the idea was suggested but now with all the landscaping getting done i m getting more and more excited about it another gorgeous day is happening right now so i m off to dig up more stones so that i can plant some old doors pictures will follow in another post of my progress be kind and have a happy day and wonderful weekend posted by cath s pennies designs at 9 58 00 am 2 comments sunday may 8 2016 happy mother s day this is a new design in it s very beginning state i ve a few adjustments to make to it before it s ready to sell as a pattern i thought it was a nice message for mother s day i was hoping to have it ready to sell a few weeks ago but i ve been so busy outside i just haven t had a chance to work on it i m re doing all of my flower and vegetable gardens this year new landscapes new stinky mushroom compost and new borders arrangements with old doors wheelbarrows birdhouses and lots of galvanized buckets and watering cans i m so excited to finish but only because i m anxious now to plant the flowers and vegetable so that i can watch them grow in their new spaces love gardening but don t love how muscle sore i am at the end of the day the wrens are singing their nesting song right outside my window right now and it s as if they are calling me out to play heading outside now to inspect my results from yesterday s work have a wonderful mother s day and kid s call your mom better yet visit your mom posted by cath s pennies designs at 8 45 00 am 1 comment saturday april 30 2016 not so sweet bittersweet oh how we all love this pretty orange red bittersweet vine in the fall it s so pretty for decorating but it s really nasty stuff the vines grow fast and furious and will twist and twine around everything i don t know where it came from but we have it growing all over our property and it s viciously taking over hubby and i spent 5 days this past week working on clearing it out the main problem is down at the bottom of our property close to the road this is a picture of it after i had already removed about 15 feet of it it s so difficult to remove too since they are all thin vines twisted together each stem has to be individually cut then i have to build up the strength of 10 men to pull on the vine in the attempt to unwind it from all of the rest of the mess think of it as a giant oversized clump of dmc floss imagine trying to unravel the strands of floss from a jungled mess and you can slightly understand how evil this bittersweet vine is to remove i had started working on it the first day after hubby saw my struggles he joined me in the battle we cleared out enough of it to expose some of the main roots then he got his bobcat out now let me tell you he s had this bobcat forever years and years it s been around and finally after all of these years he taught me how to use it yes indeed i climbed into that seat and powered it up and i operated that monster machine like a true master haha actually i was very scared but once i got used to it wow i felt so powerful it might just be my new toy to play with this summer anyway that bobcat really helped we cleared out most of it there s still quite a bit yet to do and i hope to get it done this week the entire jungled mess was probably a good 20 feet across and a good 10 feet wide so after 4 days working on it we re both muscle sore we unloaded it all up by my husband s garage and he set it afire it was gone within a matter of an hour yes we re permitted to burn here in daugherty twp next i have to work on the tree that s beside it it s actually a dead ash tree but the vine is so twisted up and around it the bittersweet is virtually responsible for holding up the dead tree so with the benefits of the vine giving us pretty berries in the fall the vines if left alone to grow for years and years can become very interesting to look at too this is how the bittersweet vine looks along the edge of our woods close to our driveway the vines look like giant twisted ropes this actually looks like a huge snake wrapped around a tree but no it s the evil bittersweet vine doing it s thing i plan to get hubby to use his chainsaw to cut the twisted parts out i ll use them in my garden for decorations so yes bittersweet is a good name for this awful vine it s more bitter than sweet because it s taken over a lot of our trees and making a jungled mess but the sweet part is the pretty berries on the vines in the fall and also the amazing art that those big twisted vines create today and tomorrow we shall rest our sore muscles and then monday as long as the day is bright we shall go back to our battle with the bittersweet have a wonderful weekend god bless and be kind posted by cath s pennies designs at 1 14 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