Clothes either wear out or just don’t fit well anymore. So today was the big shopping for clothes, barn supplies, and whatevers. I like the prices at Costco, so buy whatever I can there. Yes, I could go to thrift stores, but that takes more time than I have to go through the clothes and try them on. So I opt for Costco, where jeans cost 14.99 and actually fit me. So 3 pair of jean, a swim suit, and a summer dress should keep me for the rest of the year as I still have some winter tops. I will need some summer tops, but didn’t see anything I liked.
My daughter and SIL brought this lovely scarf back from Thailand for me. They had a marvelous time and highly recommend the trip.
The name of this small table topper is SPIDRON. It was supposed to be English paper pieced. The date I started it says 2008. OK, I cheated. I had all the pieces ironed around the little cardboard type papers and was supposed to whipstitch them in place. I tried and it looked awful. Then I ironed everything out flat, drew around some of the pieces, and just machine stitched it. Had I known that was going to be the way to do it, I would have cut the pieces with 1/4″ seams, instead of random seams. It is now in one piece and needs to be backed and possibly quilted. I am so glad this is done. I am not in love with English paper piecing. That is the way some of my ufos have happened. Do you have those kind of ufos – where you just don’t want to do it?
After lunch, it was time to attack weeds in the hoop house – another example Christ used. Do you know what this plant is?
Here is a close up of the same plant. I think I could make a fortune off this plant if it had value, it doesn’t “get it” when I keep pulling it all up.
Since I forgot to take a photo of the aisle before starting, I’ll show you what the middle aisle looks like so you can get an idea of what this aisle looked like.
Of course, not much else was accomplished because when power was out, nothing works, not even the well. We are so blessed in this country to have secure buildings with heat and water. When we are out of it, I start to realize how much more difficult our ancestors lives were. Not only our ancestors, but many in this world are still without. We, who are so blessed, have a responsibility to pass these blessings on to others.
This variegated green thread has been around for awhile and it fought me. But it finally decided to submit.
I am starting the braided table runner from Jenny Beyer. Each of those little pieces is 1.25 x 3″. There are 60 to a chevron row. There are 5 rows. However, it is fun to watch the colors change.
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The bowl on the left is HUGE. After cleaning and stemming, I stuffed 3 gallon bags full of parsley from the hoop house. The other bowl gave me 2 gallon bags of kale after stemming. There is more kale out there, but since I had already planted and watered 48 little lettuce plants, I was tired and moved into the kitchen for the cleaning phase.
After cleaning all the greens and feeding the sheep, I made the potato casseroles for Sabbath company. Then I prepared a salad with lettuce, red cabbage and celery. I will add the walnuts and let people dress their own. We will also have roasted cauliflower and broccoli. I’m debating if that is enough variety, but I don’t think anyone will starve. I have frozen corn I could cook as well.
We will end the meal with apple cobbler. Wish you could join us.
My next project is a test project so I can’t show the completed work until October, but here’s a teaser. I’m doing a quantity of these triangles. Put a square on a corner of a larger square. By sewing the second line
I can cut between the lines and have a little half square triangle which I will someday press and square up for a lot of little squares.
Here is what one of the finished blocks looks like.