I believe I said “we don’t do boring” here. I was sitting here spinning wool, minding my own business when from the laundry room smoke detector came a terrific racket . There was also a bit of smoke, but we didn’t figure out from where it came. I am dehydrating grapes into raisins, but that didn’t seem to be the source, nor did the dryer. So it remains a mystery until we can figure out how to repeat it.
Beau seemed today to have forgotten that his job is protecting livestock in the pasture and preferred to get out and protect the house occupants. Lacey received the treats for staying in the pasture and DH spent several hours mending the fence that Beau smashed. (No, we don’t do boring)
There was some sewing time – the Psalms flimsy is finished. It seems the tops are piling up faster than I’m quilting them, so I placed it in line to be quilted. I want to finish it and get it mailed off before Mother’s Day.
Mary is coming over tomorrow. In anticipation, I was looking for a “silk” fabric that I want to embroider to make a tapestry. That won’t happen tomorrow as I didn’t find it, but I did find the Sunbonnet Sue blocks for which I was looking when I found the kits for the Psalms quilt and the giraffe quilt. Now, I need to go looking for something else and that poly silk that I saw last week will turn up again. I have found a number of items that I didn’t know were missing until I went looking for something else and the missing are slowly getting done. Another thing that turned up were large boxes of fur fabric. I haven’t been into making stuffed animals the last few years, but maybe I need to make some to clear out some of those boxes. With all this, one would think there would be holes on the shelves where these items were. No, not one hole on the shelves! But this fur is taking a share of the floor. I haven’t been purchasing either. But then a friend did send me some pieces that I need to use, so they are on my list to be used before summer. I’m thinking of something like a ‘hole in the barn door”, with a special motif in the center. Yes, by the time it happens, that may morph.
I think I should open this place up for those of you who would like to come over and sew or quilt. (I have a guest room) Then maybe with more hands, I’d get more projects done. Just let me know when you’re available. Ideas, patterns, and fabric along with equipment are here. No, not a bit of gardening was done today.
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Finished! I started with 68 stitches on #3 needles, but they seemed a bit small, so actually followed the pattern by using #5 needles. While the leg is so stretchy, there is quite a bit of leeway, the foot, had to be taken down a number of stitches to make it small enough. This is an 8 ply wool, I purchased in Australia, so is a bit thicker than I usually knit. They will probably be very comfortable in my boots.
I was looking for something else, but this is what I found. Somehow, they were put in a tub and the tub was put on a shelf and though I knew I had them, I didn’t know where. I don’t even remember how old they are. The giraffe is the only one open so far and the pattern date is 2002, although, it probably was purchased in a later year. They are kits, so the fabric is with them. They are reasonably small – the giraffes are 25 x 23, the owls are 36 x 42 – and the elephants 25 x 33 I may just make each of them into a baby quilt. The instructions are a bit scarce and the giraffe pattern is only of the three giraffes, but they include fabric to make legs, hooves, and faces. Too bad, they didn’t create the pattern that way. These will be next on my list, if only to get them done and out of a box. I can at least get them to the flimsy state, which is where I seem to be stopping this year. Maybe that’s a good thing as I’m supposed to be able to see better after the April cataract surgery.
Then I received a bit of a happy surprise this afternoon. Mary and her daughter, Tiffany (Tristan’s mom) came over to show him off. He’s a bit unhappy as he had just seen the doctor. He looks all boy to me.
