I have been working all day trying to get everything done, thinking this was Friday. The laundry is done, bed has clean sheets, floors are mostly done, oven is cleaned, watering is done. I still have meals to prepare and a kitchen floor to clean. Does this mean I’ll actually get sewing time tomorrow. I won’t count on it, but would love it if I did.
Progress is very slow on these socks as ideally one has to sit down. I am nearly to the toe decrease and once there, the socks get done rapidly.
This little fellow and friend have visited us several times today. He is a black headed grosbeak and loves sunflower seeds. He tosses the other seeds overboard.
And look! This plant volunteered in the hoop house this year. It is right at the top and will be a delightful treat for these birds.
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These came in the mail today from my cousin. I’m guessing my aunt had started a quilt before she had her stroke and these are the result.
I changed how I’m going to make this quilt. So I placed the pattern under my light blue background, then sprayed each cutout piece with an adhesive, using the box to catch the overspray. They I laid the pieces in the proper place on the background.
This is what he looks like now. I’m still deciding if I want to applique before or after adding the batting and backing. The pattern maker suggests, I applique all three pieces together.
There wasn’t much sewing time today, but this pattern calls for bias tubes to make it look like stained glass.
This morning before the sun made our part of the world warm, I was able to get out to the garden and pick some food for breakfast and lunch. I wish photos could show how good these berries are.
For lunch I dug potatoes (the blue round items are blue potatoes) and onions, then picked some cabbage which turned into an excellent coleslaw. I had a red pepper which I added and dressed it with avocado/rice vinegar. We had the rest of it for dinner tonight.
So now there are three big piles of wool waiting for sale and/or processing.
I know I said I wasn’t going to test any more quilts for a bit, but this is a Christmas wall hanging and just too cute to pass up. The border for this quilt is these small log cabin blocks – just 28 of them. I quit for the day
wrangled sheep. Well actually we held doors open and shut as needed, while the fellow who owns the sheep wrangled the sheep into his livestock trailer. Only one photo because it’s difficult to help herd sheep while trying to get uncooperative sheep into a trailer and keeping let the ones already on there from getting back off. So for the time being we are down to three sheep . We will be getting more sheep – sometime – either this summer or next spring.
So in between, I took the woody stems out and using a coffee grinder, ground up some of the dried herbs,
so I flicked open the locks.
. We have picked some of the broccoli, and replanted the lettuce.
And replanted parsley. I had some outside, but the sheep REALLY enjoy them.