How many times do we go out expecting to be back in an hour and it turns into 3 or 4 days? Exactly! And that’s what happened to us today. We went to look at some granite for the vanity top, which we didn’t find, then made a few more stops and before we knew it, the day was nearly gone. We bought a few more cases of water, so now if we get snowed in without power, we’ll be okay. However, I still need to get some 5 gallon containers of water for the animals.
I did get some cutting and sewing done. I decided to do the 2013 Homespun Hearth Super Bowl mystery quilt again since I liked it so much. It is all cut out now and with these 24 blocks sewn, I am at the half time mark for the flimsy. With tomorrow’s schedule, it may have to wait until Thursday.
The quilting is done. The binding is done, but I don’t have enough energy left to apply it. Maybe on Sunday. This is another quilt going to the 4H group to give a person displaced because of the eastern WA fires.
Tomorrow is another wonderful day of rest. It should give me the boost I need to get back some creative juices. Enjoy the day and we’ll meet again on Sunday
Today was intense. After the workout this morning, I came home and made pear sauce and knowing the freezer is too full to add more fun, I canned some of the grapes I had frozen.
Did you know the grapes would float like this? I filled the jar with grapes and because they grapes are very sweet, I didn’t want to add sweetening. So I just added water and canned them in a water bath. They don’t look the same as the fruit cocktail ones, but then maybe they wouldn’t look so full if it was just grapes. It was a good experiment and since I’ll use them in smoothies, nothing is lost.
After lunch, I headed to the studio as I had cut out a quilt top last night that I really wanted to sew. So I pushed myself and the flimsy is done. It is 59 x 70, which is about the same size as the one I made yesterday. I like this pattern as it is so fast and easy and looks harder than it is. The binding will be the blue color. I see this as going to a kid of any age.
Now tomorrow morning, I must clean all this mess up as Mary is coming over and we will do some embroidering and she will help to fix the quilting machine. And I must get a lunch ready as well.
After my Wednesday time at the gym, I came home, made cookies and lunch. Then I picked the rest of the beets in the garden.
They are now cooked, but I ran out of energy to put them in the jars and actually can them, so that will happen tomorrow.
The cookies I made were 1 cup of oatmeal to 1 very ripe banana. Mash them together. You may add nuts or chocolate chips, if you like, but don’t need to. Bake 325 for 15 minutes. They are terrific to have on hand after a workout or for that matter any other time.
I did get the fabric washed and dried for the sashing and the back of the patchwork quilt, but cutting will wait for another day after all the blocks are done. Its seems I always plan to get more done than I do.
The quilts I had made earlier have been delivered to some of the people living at the Okanogan campground tent city for families who were burned out and had no where to go. I understand that the Wenatchee group gave 80 and Spokane another 60. However many more are needed and will be given to these people as soon as they are completed. So I have started on my next set of quilts. It seems patchwork is always welcome, so this is the one I started today. I think I may want 30 of these blocks as they will measure 10″ finished.
In addition to that the summer is over and it is getting colder and darker. Today we took the shade cloth off the greenhouse and picked most of what was in it. There are still some squash, celery, and beets.
