Daffodil quilt

Finally finished binding this off. It's about 18 inches square.

Strawberry muffins

I used the recipe from Good Housekeeping for blueberry muffins and just used strawberries instead of blueberries. Seems to work fine. I will make some more and freeze them.

Cinnamon Strawberry muffins

Ok, I realize the picture is of bread but I actually made most of it into mini muffins. I got this from Everyday Reading. I think I didn't mash the strawberries enough and it turned out to taste a little more....bland? than I expected. But everyone liked them. I don't know that I'd make them again but they weren't bad.

Mini cheese pies

I just used the cheese pie recipe but without the topping. I put raspberries on afterwards. They puffed! But quickly deflated.

Daffodil Quilt

I'm working on the binding of this quilt, first at the Slipped Stitches meeting and then while I got my hair dyed. 

First I tacked down the edges.

Then turned it under so the top looks like this.

Then sewed down the back. It still needs another line sewed down to hold the edge though.

Scarf/Shawl

This is a present (which I had hoped to complete and give last November, but whatever). It's a little more pink than it looks here, but Sara liked it well enough I think. And I practiced increasing and decreasing, so I learned something new!

Watching the birds

The tub one on the right is the really squirrel-proof one.
When they jump on it, it slides down. The one with the
baffle they love. They just hop on from the windowsill
and camp out there.

After much effort, I have finally settled on a more or less acceptable mode of bird (and squirrel) feeding. The squirrels ate two suet feeders, and then they ate one of those long tube feeders (literally. they ate the feeders, not the seed. Well, they ate that too but they also ate the feeders). So I got a "squirrel-proof" feeder, which is now the squirrel-feeder. Then I tried AGAIN and this time finally got a really squirrel-proof feeder. So far anyways!

New suet feeder. They're already nibbling on it and they
popped it open so I had to fix it and put twist ties on
but so far they haven't actually eaten the feeder.
Anyways, they're cheap.

I've seen chickadees, which I love, nuthatches, which I never know how to pronounce, a possible woodpecker, what might have been a junco, and a....purple finch? I am rather doubtful on that last one, since it isn't exactly the right time of year for them, but the weather has been so weird anything is possible.