Month: October 2007

Week 4

Finally!! A win! Brees (who has entirely fallen from grace) and my backup Jason Campbell both had bye weeks, so I picked up Damon Huard off of waivers — not a bad pick!! In other news, LT actually broke 20! Muhsin Muhammed is finally back from his injury and chipped in. Barber had an off week, but since poor Ross’s team only scraped together 18 points (lots of midgame injuries and the Broncos defense contributed -7!), it was a good week for that to fall.

Leonard Pope isn’t doing much. I’ve definitely been having tight end problems (a problem shared by the whole league).

QB
QB Damon Huard, KC 15
RUNNING BACKS
RB LaDainian Tomlinson, SD 22
RB Marion Barber, Dal 7
RECEIVERS
WR Deion Branch, Sea 14
WR Muhsin Muhammad, Chi 10
TE Leonard Pope, Ari 0
DEFENSE
D/ST Patriots 9
KICKER
K Matt Stover, Bal 7
BENCH
QB Drew Brees, NO (BYE) 0
QB Jason Campbell, Was (BYE) 0
RB Michael Pittman, TB 9
RB Tony Hunt, Phi 0
WR Donte’ Stallworth, NE 4
WR Reggie Brown, Phi 1
WR Marty Booker, Mia 0
K Stephen Gostkowski, NE 10

And even if it’s going to clash with the mauve in the football scoring table, here’s a photo Kevin took of the trees on the Microsoft campus, which always seem to turn a few weeks earlier than the trees in the rest of the area. His flag football league has started up again, and so this is from last Saturday’s game.

Foothills

Finally, a stage of the quilt that just zooms by! Visible at the far shore of Lake Washington are the hills of Seattle (from left/south to right/north: Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, the University district). For this section, I used the same dark greens from the pine trees, plus several new teals. The result is quite vibrant from close range, but uniform from a few feet away, which was the goal. The opposite shore should be relatively monochrome, due to the distance.

The most challenging portion of this section was that none of the “squares” are actually square. Easier shapes were just short, squat rectangles, while others had “hills” growing out of the top. I mapped out the shapes on graph paper and colored in each strip as I sewed, but it was still a bit trying to keep track of each of the different shapes as I worked. Slow!

Here are all eight squares laid out along the top of the stairs.