Today’s pickings – a canner load of beans
8 large zucchini because I forgot we had planted them in that spot and I thought that was a different type of squash.
5 ears of corn – most of the corn didn’t do very good this year. I will have to deal with canning and making zucchini patties and bread the rest of this week.
Often when I get a new machine, they aren’t interested in what I have to trade in, so they sit here. It was time to clean all that out. So I pulled out the machines and readied for sale the ones that are working. There are two that don’t work well enough to sell them. Since they are electronic machines, I’m not sure what I can do with them. And I’m not sure if anyone will want the accessories that came with them. However, the machines are leaving here shortly. I just have to decide how to deal with them. The good ones will go on Craig’s list.
The big garden now has some empty spaces from where the first potatoes, the onions and the garlic were planted. No, I’m not coördinated enough to have planted something else there this year.
It is a bit warmer today, but I’m not going to complain as I remember too well, what the cold days feel like. Instead after the produce harvest this morning, I spent some time in my studio which is a cooler basement area creating a few more blocks.
The Sew Fun this week was put on by Lana Jones. She comes up with ideas in her sleep – of which she doesn’t need much. These 3 signs used sticky metallic paper on boards and mounted denim. Aren’t they cute?
Using a piece of tile that she found at Lowes, she put metallic paper on these “rocks”. And they did look like flat rocks. This is such a wonderful way to give a little inspirational gift.
These are made of “Ice Resin” a product to pour in molds. These would make lovely jewelry or nice for key chains.
This is where she caught me. I loved this lightweight jacket you see in peach and black. And it can be made totally on the serger. So I will be looking for fabric to make this.
This book also had some fun projects and the items in this book have both the patterns you can cut out or if you have a Accuquilt, they have a die by Edyta Sitar to make them.
This “Buddy Blanket Bear” has only a stuffed head, so if a young child likes to take a huggie to bed, one could either hand or machine embroider on the open skirt.
After all this, I took a brief rest on the deck. Isn’t this a lovely view? It was such a pretty day. Tomorrow will be more garden time and maybe zucchini bread baking. Don’t hold your breath on that though.
A little shopping and this marvelous new workhorse came home with me today. Babylocks are quality machines and I anticipate much enjoyment using it.
This is her on the left and the Evolution she is replacing is on the right. She has a knee pedal, plus a larger harp area and the foot lever is on the front of the machine. The throat (harp) area is large enough to use on quilts, so this one should get much more use. I only used the Evolution for finishing off seams as it was difficult to get bulk through her. Now I have to clean the threads etc. off and put her up for sale. The store’s policy is that anyone who buys a used Babylock can take the operating lessons from them for free, so that will help, plus a used machine sells for a lower price than a new one.
It’s a START. This quilt pattern is also from “Strip your Stash” . And once again it is a large lap size. It is going a bit slow because I am cutting a lot of scraps as I go.
Today is the first day of the rest of my life, right? Therefore, it is time to start learning how to use the serger for other than just finishing seams. I went to a class today and we learned this cover stitch decoration as well as how to thread the machine for this procedure. We also learned how to do another stitch, but since I didn’t have wash away thread, that didn’t get done.
After the chiropractic appointment, we stopped to shop at Whole Foods. While there we each had a large burrito. They were HUGE. This is the half that I couldn’t eat. We were running late so I decided to take a raincheck on the infomercial at Sew Fun and will attend that next week.
As we were coming home, I received a call from Mary, who wanted to come over for a
These are today’s pickings. Probably 60-70 garlics for use and storage, 6 onions and a few potatoes for the next week’s use. I am so thankful for a good garden this year.