Yesterday I was minding my ain business, stitching away on the Pumpkin Pie stitchery, in addition to that bullion stitch but kept afterward me.
"Neh, neh, neh...you'll never destination this piece. Neh, neh, neh. You'll practise something slow similar a Lazy Daisy or something. Neh, neh, neh."
Finally, I could receive got it no more, in addition to so I took the whole slice out of the hoop in addition to returned to the video Meg Hawkey posted on YouTube. When I linked to this a spell back, I gave yous the incorrect link. I misunderstood in addition to idea the videos could hold out constitute on the Crabapple Hill Studio website. In fact, Meg has a YouTube channel where she's posted some splendid videos on some of these scary stitches. Here's the video for the Bullion Stitch. If yous can't meet the video, so click correct here.
Since I had the absolute pleasance of having Meg sit down correct side yesteryear side to me inwards flat in addition to demo me how to practise the stitch, watching the video was similar having her correct beside me again. I stopped in addition to started the video equally I needed to, in addition to so I completed my showtime circle of bullion stitches. Ta-Da!
And since I've been whining almost this stitch for a company year, I'm feeling pretty darned self-satisfied at having jumped that hurdle. But I wasn't finished. I needed to brand some other circle or so the ones I'd already done...thus:
And so I needed to fill upwardly inwards the middle amongst French knots. And at that topographic point yous receive got it...one consummate flower.
(Polishes fingernails on shirt.)
There wasn't much left to stitch afterward that, but I wanted to instruct on amongst my salsa canning. My showtime destination was the greenhouse to harvest whatever tomatoes needed harvesting. I picked some other ii 1/2 pounds.
And at that topographic point are more...oh yes...there are more.
So the salsa recipe was enticing because it entirely required ii lbs. of tomatoes, non to holler but existence "salsa," for which nosotros are seriously Jonesing. Last year's salsa was used upwardly months ago. By now, we're barely hanging on to life yesteryear a thread, so cracking is our necessitate for salsa.
In desperation, I tried this recipe from Marisa McClellan's book, "Preserving yesteryear the Pint." It entirely requires ii lbs. of tomatoes, in addition to I already had those fifty-fifty without yesterday's harvest. The salsa is barely cooked at all, in addition to so funneled into jars for processing. When all was said in addition to done, I had v one-half pints addition a niggling bonus for the cook. The bonus went take away into the fridge to cool.
The showtime matter yous powerfulness reveal almost this is that the salsa is floating inwards a higher house some watery liquid inwards the bottom. When I milk shiver it up, it mixes better, but it looks less-than-appetizing similar yous meet it here. The tomatoes are barely cooked, equally I said, in addition to so the salsa behaves similar jars of raw-packed tomatoes. The await is okay for plainly tomatoes, but non so cracking for salsa. Nevertheless, desperate salsa times telephone vociferation upwardly for desperate measures in addition to so nosotros tasted the bonus jounce when it was cool enough. It was underwhelming. It needed to a greater extent than vinegar in addition to something else. This morning time I tried adding some Tabasco in addition to a niggling fleck of flavored vinegar, in addition to that improved the flavour significantly. Having determined that, I powerfulness plough over this some other try, but I'm non prepared to portion a recipe amongst yous yet.
While the salsa was processing, I finished off the end of the Pumpkin Pie piece.
It's okay if yous await at the blossom some more. You tin move stroke it if yous like. Certainly, I have. After I took it downstairs, I pulled some fabrics I'd similar to purpose to brand my niggling wall hanging. I don't know if I'll purpose whatsoever or all or none of these fabrics. For now, they're seat out beside the slice in addition to I'll circle them for a fleck spell I create upwardly one's heed what to practise next.
As for yesterday's "next," I wanted to instruct started on the August block for Tuxedo's Tales...this one.
So, I picked out my fabrics in addition to applied fusible to all the pieces.
Then I fused them to the background in addition to drew inwards the stitching lines.
That was equally far equally I got, but I'll instruct the stitching finished today.
First, I'll instruct started stitching the side yesteryear side quilt store names in addition to cities for Row v of the Shop Hop quilt.
Our atmospheric condition has turned much cooler in addition to Fall-like. Have things cooled off where yous alive too?
Oh yes, in addition to I almost forgot! Quilting Snowladies was a showtime house winner at the Oregon State Fair.
Quiltmaker's Garden was a minute house winner.
So, I'm pretty happy almost that. Sue in addition to I volition hold out heading to the fair this Thursday, in addition to I'll meet the residue of the quilts then.