This quilt is 54 inches square and finished. It is now in the laundry room waiting to be washed and then will be put in the charity pile. It seems there are so many requests end of summer that I like to get ahead.
And the dentist and the ophthalmologist are now behind me. Yes, I get to go back and have a couple small fillings in June, but the eyes are no longer swollen and the eyesight is 20/30 in one eye and reading distance in the other. So now I’m a happy camper.
And just to have a bit of fun, these two decided to go investigate the neighborhood today. They got about 1/2 mile away when a neighbor called. They love the game “catch me if you can”. But fortunately that doesn’t last too long, and they are ready to get into the car and come home.
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They don’t look like much at this point, but there are 3 seams in each piece and they take time to do. I have about this many more pulled out to stitch and the drawer will look like this and will fit again.
Meanwhile the sheep have been having a wonderful time grazing the weeds.
Sheep are interesting in that they take a bite of this and then of something else. It’s rather like if you eat a bite of carrots, then a bite of potato and continue around the plate.
I started to quilt this flimsy because I thought the machine problem was solved. It is not, the thread refuses to stay between the discs and therefore the horrible mess on the underside.. 15 minutes to put it in and two hours (with interruptions) to take it out. So after removing the stitches, it was on to better things.
The garden items that are in the ground, plus the blueberries, raspberries, grapes and apple trees all received their dose of fertilizer since it is supposed to rain tonight and then not again until next Tuesday a week away. Now that they have been fertilized, the rain can water it all in. I also did the plants in the hoop house and watered that in. My this all takes a lot of time. Oh, yes, I also had to get more peat moss as we are trying to improve the soil on the hill.
I pulled this out today, hoping to get to sew, but such was not the case. It is a very cute Martha Pullen design for the 18″ dolls and will refresh my heirloom skills. I intend to take it methodically (read that as slowly), so I don’t have to unsew any of it. I have the fabric, trims, buttons and elastic and I’m ready to go, when there is some me time.
This is the first block of 9 monthly installments of Critters at the Circus published by Quilt Magazine. They are really cute blocks which use mostly scraps. I will show them to you each month as I complete the applique stitching on each.
And the applique on the “fish” is completed. It is now hanging in the “to be quilted” closet, which is way too full.
The sun is still shinning and I found someone to dig and clean out the vegetable beds. We now have a few peas and potatoes planted and 100 onion bulbs. The garlic was put in last fall. So I won’t be putting too much more outside until we are past the frosts. By then the beds should be ready to plant.
Do you remember these sweet potatoes that I put in water. Today I was able to take the starts off them and put them in the water. There are probably 12-15 starts in this jar
Today, I mopped all the floors upstairs, then we went to our chiropractic appointment and to Whole Foods, where we wandered, looking for new products that didn’t have oil. Now that is challenging. We found some Engine 2 crackers and pizza crusts, but not much else. However, since we were there and I am behind in starting seeds, we picked up some cauliflower, broccoli and other starts – about 1 in all. Most started cups had about 4 starts in them if I am careful when I transplant.
Every so often, messes get to the point that I can no longer think. Today, I was at that point.
No more walking room, so they went on the cutting table and I mopped the studio floor as well.
I can now walk through the room,
However, I needed to take care of all these scraps in the boxes.
Just as these weren’t all created in a day, they will not all get taken care of in a day. I will leave the larger pieces by color, cut some of the smaller pieces into various squares and leave the strips for a strips quilt someday
Today the mattresses arrived! And the weather cooperated with sunshine. These news beds are so high, yet there is less room under the bed. Interesting.
