It was cool as well as overcast yesterday...a squeamish alter from the record-setting estrus of only a few days ago. After spending some fourth dimension alongside my dull stitching, I got to operate canning carrots. We larn as well as then many carrots inwards our CSA shares, it tin travel difficult to travel along upward alongside them. These are spicy dilled carrot spears, as well as they larn eaten fast.
If nosotros larn to a greater extent than carrots (and I know nosotros will), I'll brand some other batch of the carrot cake jam I made concluding yr because that materials is seriously delicious.
After that, I went dorsum to operate on the Shop Hop quilt. The adjacent block was from a side trip nosotros took into Santa Fe, New Mexico. We were stuck inwards Albuquerque for a calendar week waiting for a role to repair the broken landing gear on the RV. We'd already done a side trip to nearby right here. We had plenty of fourth dimension for a foray to the northward to see Santa Fe, a house I'd wanted to see for a long time.
There was a quilt store inwards Santa Fe, which made this excursion fifty-fifty to a greater extent than desirable. I purchased several yards of this cloth because the colors were as well as then beautiful equally it was unrolled off the bolt. This petty swatch hardly does it justice. At the time, I hadn't yet started collecting regional prints, nor was I fifty-fifty unopen to having an thought to brand a quilt from them. It was only a happy accident that this i was amid the prints I chose that day. You tin read my spider web log postal service most Santa iron Quilting right here. We visited this store inwards 2011. Is it withal inwards business? It would appear so! You tin run across their website correct here.
Next upward is a cloth from our memorable see to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, concluding fall, as well as a wonderful twenty-four hours spent alongside my honey friend Robin. Robin was form plenty to chauffeur me all some that day, showing me the best quilt shops inwards the area. The Old Country Store was only i of them. We visited as well as then many shops that day, I exclusively wrote i spider web log postal service most all of them. You tin read it correct here.
This cloth was a larger scale than I commonly expect for, but it represented the expanse as well as then perfectly that I couldn't resist it. With that inwards mind, this block takes upward double existent estate on the quilt. It volition travel i of 2 middle blocks that gets extra space. When I produce the adjacent row of the quilt, you'll run across the other one.
This adjacent i was from a trip nosotros took across the read to a greater extent than most our see correct here. As is ofttimes the case, We were inwards Glendive, Montana, because nosotros needed to receive got all iv tires replaced on the RV. Have you lot e'er noticed how many quilt store stops coincide alongside RV problems? It's how nosotros brand lemonade from lemons. In whatever case, soul had told me most The Enchanted Room, as well as nosotros only happened to terminate upward inwards the town where it was only downwards the street from the tire shop. Divine intervention, I presume. You tin read my spider web log postal service most the store right here.
So this was some other happy accident selection of a fabric. I chose it to utilization alongside my Hobo Quilt (still inwards progress), but it was also instance of the areas we'd only driven through. It was nearly iv years agone when nosotros visited. Are they withal inwards business? It appears so, although the expanse looks unlike from when nosotros visited. It could travel they've relocated. In whatever case, you lot tin notice their web presence correct here.
Okay, as well as then this adjacent i was a real interesting shop. We were on our way dorsum from a see to my spider web log post most this shop, I mentioned that it was genuinely a co-op. Such a modest town couldn't mayhap sustain a quilt shop, as well as and then a grouping of quilters ran the store together. They were real excited when an actual client (me) stopped inwards that day, as well as they were amid the friendliest women I've met inwards my quilt store visits.
This pear cloth was some other I chose earlier I'd e'er come upward up alongside the thought to collect "regional" fabrics, as well as way earlier the Shop Hop quilt was conceived. I only happened to similar this one, as well as I bought several yards of it. So what's your guess? Is Highland Quilts withal inwards business? They are, but I didn't notice a spider web presence beyond their Facebook page as well as a Yelp review. It's only practiced to know these quilters receive got kept the co-op going. Good for them.
Finally, this i from Friends & Co. Quilt Shop inwards Cody, Wyoming. My friend Jacque at right here. It was some other quilt store as well as then stuffed to the gills alongside goodies that it was difficult to run across everything, as well as their regional fabrics were difficult to conduct from. I selected this one.
Checking to run across if they're withal inwards business...hm, let's see...and it would appear they are. You tin notice their website right here.
Just equally I was finishing upward the row, my furry friend came in.
Hey! Is this your camera? Maybe I should accept a selfie!
Wait...was I likewise close? Did I set olfactory organ prints on your lens?
I offered him some catnip, but mostly, he only wanted to hang out. It was unopen to dinner time, as well as it never hurts to brand your purresence known.
When I had the 4th row sewn to the balance of the quilt, I stopped for the day.
I'm only a tad behind on this since row iv was supposed to travel finished inwards July. Maybe I'll larn some other row done earlier the calendar month is out. We'll see. It's my dominion to attempt out to larn i row per calendar month done, as well as there's no penalisation for breaking it. It's i of the benefits of making the rules equally you lot larn along.
As for today's efforts, I didn't e'er larn to the grocery store yesterday, as well as and then I'll travel doing that today. When I larn dorsum into the sewing room, I'm going to outset sewing Wine Country into a flimsy.