Not a lot was accomplished yesterday. My pedicure mid-day sort of shot a hole inwards my timing, but it was in all probability expert to direct maintain a petty interruption from sewing. When I got home, I went to piece of occupation finishing upwardly the final petty corner on the Gingerbread Village. (I'm thinking of calling it "Santa's Village" instead.) When all the roofs together with windows were added, it looked similar this.
When I did the previous village, I added inwards to a greater extent than trees, pots, together with steps. This hamlet is to a greater extent than playful alongside lots of peaky roofs, to a greater extent than trees, chimneys, together with fewer colors. It was tempting to add together inwards some steps, but really, I couldn't notice a infinite for anything else. It was fourth dimension to mucilage it all down. If you lot await inwards the upper right-hand corner of the epitome above, you lot tin sack come across that 1 of the doors has shifted. It got straightened out inwards the gluing process. The best mucilage for this is Roxanne Glue Baste-It.
The film I took of this yesterday turned out blurry, together with hence I'm borrowing an onetime film from when I did the get-go "Happy Village." It has a dainty long, narrow mucilage tip, together with hence it's slow to teach inwards nether those tiny pieces.
As I was doing the gluing yesterday (doing the gluing: pure poetry), I realized I should direct maintain glued downward the larger background pieces earlier adding the doors, roofs, windows, etc. Oy. And at nowadays I was concerned nearly how good this would work. I glued equally much equally I could together with hence endeavored to deed it over onto the textile I chose for the quilt back. This 1 was inwards my Christmas stash. It was large plenty together with had only the colors I wanted, together with hence it seemed similar the obvious choice.
The best way to deed these, I've found, is to slide them over onto my largest foursquare ruler together with hence slide them onto the backing piece. After that, I set the sparkly tulle over the top. So far, hence good.
The adjacent chore was to pivot baste it, together with I added hence many pins it isn't fifty-fifty funny. After I took this photograph of the pins, I set fifty-fifty to a greater extent than oriented vertically, to live on certain none of those pieces tin sack move.
When it was all pinned to inside an inch of its life, I picked the whole slice upwardly together with held it vertically. Sigh of relief. Nothing moved. After that, I set rulers across the whole slice over again together with allow it sit down over nighttime to give the mucilage a adventure to dry. Today I'll start stitching on it. More to come upwardly on this piece.
After that I did a petty to a greater extent than piece of occupation on the Quiltmaker's Garden. I quilted some to a greater extent than of the gazebo "floor" together with some of the uprights. Also, I added terry twists to the outermost correct border of the quilt. I had a difficult fourth dimension deciding whether to quilt "twists" at the extreme border or whether to precisely quilt a straightaway line. Obviously, I opted for to a greater extent than twists there, leaving some allowance for trimming together with the quilt binding.
After that I quilted the 4th of 5 roses. One to a greater extent than to go.
And hence I started quilting the "pavers" at the bottom of the quilt.
Looking over again at the whole quilt, you lot tin sack come across that the "pavers" at the bottom are arranged inwards a zigzag design, together with hence I'm quilting alongside a straight-line zigzag pattern to emphasize that shape.
It's a petty tedious, together with it'll require cutting thread fairly frequently. Nevertheless, I remember it's the best selection for that section. Fortunately, it's a small-scale section.
That was equally far equally I got earlier nosotros needed to teach set upwardly for our dinner out. We went to 1 of our favorite restaurants inwards the petty town of Dayton, Oregon, precisely downward the route a bit. I wrote nearly the Joel Palmer House inwards a previous post. Joel Palmer was 1 of the original Oregon pioneers, together with the history of the eating theater is fairly interesting. We were in that place final fourth dimension to celebrate 400 days until Mike's retirement. My, how fourth dimension flies.
Interestingly, the carte that nighttime was similar to final night's menu, alongside precisely a few changes. We started alongside this carrot tartare. I noted this was slightly pickled at our final visit, but final night, it was to a greater extent than sweetness than pickled. Anyway...yummy. We licked the petty spoon plate it was served on. Now that we're retired together with officially old, nosotros tin sack teach away alongside that sort of materials together with folks precisely about us precisely grin together with remember we're cute.
The adjacent course of report was a wild mushroom soup. Delicious. It's decorated alongside a petty chip of creme fraiche. You demand to empathise that the Joel Palmer solid is famous for using mushrooms inwards their cooking.
For the original course, I ordered the cheese tortellini. The sauce was wonderfully flavorful together with creamy, together with in that place were mushrooms mixed inwards throughout the dish. The carmine threads on transcend looked similar saffron, but the chef told me they were Asian pepper threads to add together a petty heat. I'd already eaten them alone, together with in that place was petty heat, but they were hence pretty in that place on top. Mike had the beef stroganoff, together with his was delicious too. The beef was a whole lot to a greater extent than melt-in-your-mouth tender than the stew meat I operate when I teach inwards at home. Go figure.
For dessert, Mike had this petty chocolate cake garnished alongside blood oranges.
Mine was a caramel apple tree crepe stuffed alongside ricotta cheese together with apples. Of course, nosotros both got a birthday candle to low-cal the way.
It was a dainty evening, equally it ever is at the Joel Palmer House.
When I got upwardly this morning, I works life this belated birthday gift from Matthew. You demand to empathise the history behind this gift.
When the kids were petty together with they'd inquire me what I wanted for Christmas or my birthday, I'd ever essay to come upwardly up alongside something useful, but inexpensive, because later on all, they had only a small-scale allowance, together with I didn't desire them spending all their coin on me. So I'd ever nation mensuration spoons or mensuration cups. This went on for years, together with equally a cook, 1 tin sack never direct maintain besides many mensuration spoons or mensuration cups, right?
So hence 1 yr Matthew asked me what I wanted for Christmas, followed speedily with, "And don't nation mensuration spoons!" which gave us all a expert laugh. So when he asked me the other twenty-four threescore minutes menstruum what I wanted for my birthday, I was difficult pressed to give an answer. There actually is zippo missing from my life, together with hence what I actually desire is time...time for sewing, fourth dimension alongside my family, fourth dimension left inwards my life...time. What is to a greater extent than valuable than time? So, pressed for an reply I joked, "Well, you lot tin sack ever give me mensuration spoons." And nosotros all had a expert express joy nearly it.
Then, fast frontward to this morning...this. So funny together with cute. Thank you, my love Matthew.
On today's agenda, a petty cleaning, but hence I'll teach started stitching the Gingerbread Village. I'll live on glad to direct maintain everything stitched inwards identify together with shiftless. "Shiftless" equally opposed to "shifty." You can't trust a shifty quilt.