We had a prissy brunch amongst Erik as well as Mae yesterday. Pretty much everything that could become incorrect inward the cooking went wrong...the eggs stuck to the pan, as well as the Hollandaise broke. I brand Hollandaise at to the lowest degree iii times per year, as well as it's the inaugural off fourth dimension it's ever broken. Oh well. Everything notwithstanding tasted good, as well as the nutrient was entirely window dressing. It's e'er proficient to run across the kids. It was over much every bit good soon, as well as they were on their way domicile again.
From at that topographic point I got to occur some other "monthly." It was fourth dimension to create the Oct Tuxedo's Tales block. First...the fusing:
When that was finished, I drew inward stitching lines, sorted through the push kit, as well as set the buttons out inward their places.
Then it was fourth dimension to create the top-stitching.
Finally, I sewed on the buttons, as well as it was finished.
It's cute, but non every bit cute every bit this cat:
That's Erik at well-nigh historic menses 5. He'll live 39 tomorrow. Where did the years go? And, yes, I did brand that costume. It was my inaugural off as well as final fourth dimension working amongst mistaken fur. I'm a quick study.
The entirely monthly left for Oct is to brand some other row for the Shop Hop quilt, but I haven't done the embroidery yet. That means, I'll selection from my UFO list. Today I'll live working on my oldest UFO, the Mulligan Stew quilt. I'm embarrassed to tell I started it inward Apr of 2013. The final fourth dimension I worked on it was September 2, 2017...just earlier nosotros left on our trip. So, I select a proficient excuse for non working on it for a long time...we drove around the perimeter of the province inward the interim. But that doesn't explicate the other 5-1/2 years since I started it.
Today I'll teach a start on making 5 to a greater extent than blocks, which volition convey my lucifer to 45 blocks out of 60. This is the most up-to-date pic I select of all the blocks together, as well as fifty-fifty it is woefully out of date.
There are entirely thirty blocks inward this image, as well as I've made 10 to a greater extent than since then. I'll teach a to a greater extent than up-to-date pic of it when I complete the adjacent grouping. Some twenty-four hours it volition live finished, but I don't know when. It sort of begs for big-stitch hand-quilting, as well as hence I promise I alive long plenty to complete it someday. Possibly I could become for a globe tape inward the Guinness mass for the longest quilt-in-progress. What create you lot think?
We're told they'll live paving our route today, at long last. We received give-and-take that our route would live paved final leap spell nosotros were notwithstanding traveling. All summertime long nosotros as well as our neighbors select waited amongst bated breath for the paving to start. All summertime long, the county crew would come upward up as well as work, work, go similar crazy, as well as we'd retrieve paving was imminent. Then...nothing. Weeks would become past times as well as nothing. Then, they'd come upward up as well as work, work, go similar crazy again. Then...nothing. Then a sign went upward at the outset of September that said, "Paving End of September." Well, that sounded really promising. Then "end of September" came as well as went, as well as nosotros were into October. One of our neighbors seat upward a sign below the sign that said, "2019?"
Mike was out yesterday as well as told me the paving car is parked close the route now, as well as we're told the paving projection volition start today. It's supposed to live a 2-day job. I promise they go faster on the route than I've worked on the Mulligan Stew quilt. Otherwise, it could live some other dingy wintertime hither at the Three Cats Ranch. Fingers crossed. What else tin terminate you lot do?