There was nil but sewing on the agenda yesterday, although I volition acknowledge to getting a caput starting fourth dimension on tonight's dinner inwards my wanderings. We've been taking Sundays off from our diet card as well as I brand something nosotros both truly like, calories notwithstanding. The colder months are the best months for cooking. It's the flavour of the Dutch oven, as well as nutrient cooked depression as well as piece of cake is e'er so tasty. Besides, it makes the menage aroma good, which simply makes the nutrient sense of savor better, if y'all desire my opinion.
So anyway...Mike requested Coq au Vin for this Sunday. I've only made it in 1 lawsuit before, as well as it must receive got been inwards 2011. The recipe calls for tabular array salt pork, as well as I was excited to teach a hunk of tabular array salt pork out of our freezer. When I pulled out the frozen tabular array salt pork, it was marked 2011, as well as so I figure that's when I lastly made it. And, yeah, that tabular array salt pork is out of the freezer now, but it's non going into the Coq au Vin. I do receive got my limits. And, bummer, our grocery shop no longer keeps tabular array salt pork inwards stock, so I decided to role pancetta instead. We'll come across how it turns out. Coq au Vin takes ii days to make. Today I simply receive got to set it inwards the oven as well as permit it become to town. Actually, it's non going anywhere other than our bellies. But that volition receive got to hold off for tomorrow's telling.
As for yesterday, I went to go on the adjacent v blocks for Mulligan Stew. As I've mentioned before, the patterns for this quilt tin sack live institute inwards this book
as well as y'all tin sack read to a greater extent than well-nigh it at this quondam weblog post. There are several projects inwards the book, as well as I'm making the Mulligan Stew quilt because it uses all the blocks. When it's finished, it volition facial expression something similar this:
This is my oldest UFO, as well as I've been working on this quilt positively forever. I'm planning to large stitch manus quilt it when it's finished, as well as so I await someone else volition receive got to complete it after I'm dead. Any volunteers? I've been making the blocks v at a time, as well as I'm happy to tell that I straightaway receive got 50 out of lx blocks. These are the ones I finished yesterday.
As y'all facial expression at these, know that the actual symbol that would receive got been used along the route is to the left of the block name.
The stories tin sack live interesting as well as emotional, as well as so I portion some of the ones I similar best. This 1 caught my optic because he's talking well-nigh Vancouver, Washington, simply to the due north of us here. I know correct where that rails line is, although it isn't operated past times SP&S whatever more.
Here's my quilt block:
I liked the story associated amongst this adjacent 1 too.
The story got me wondering well-nigh the sow's ear purse. Of course of report most people are familiar amongst the adage...
Nevertheless, at to the lowest degree 1 soul has truly done it! You tin sack read the post well-nigh it correct here, as well as there's a painting demo of a traveling steal made from a sow's ear. It isn't silk, of course.
With that aside, here's my quilt block:
I lead the fabrics trying to agree the ones that are pictured inwards the book. This is a scraps-only quilt, although I did cutting some fatty quarters along the way. Some of these fabrics are homespuns, but most are simply regular quilter's cotton.
When this block was finished, the quilt purrlice showed upward to supurrvise.
Is this the mass you're using?
Hm...this rotary cutter blade is dull. How tin sack y'all fifty-fifty cutting anything amongst this?
And what well-nigh this here...honestly, I don't know how humans teach through life at all.
You do know that your cutting would live to a greater extent than accurate if y'all had the entirety of the ruler on the table, right?
Okay, good everything seems to live ship-shape here, although I receive got some grave concerns well-nigh your technique.
But if you'll simply follow my gaze inwards this direction...look amongst me...follow my eyes...you'll discovery that my catnip bowl is empty.
Which makes this adjacent block so exclusively appropriate to the moment.
And this one, because I remember his adjacent displace was to receive got a nap. Quilt purrlicing is so real exhausting.
And so in that location they are. Five to a greater extent than blocks. Ten to go.
From there, I was form of undecided well-nigh what to do next. The Chicken Buffet blocks are calling to me, as well as so I got out the adjacent 1 as well as looked it over. It truly would live so much easier to do if Big Bertha were dorsum on the job, as well as so I set it back. I'll simply hold off for her to experience better. Maybe I'll do ii adjacent fourth dimension around.
Instead, I took a facial expression at my white board. This is how I proceed my projects organized. Way dorsum earlier nosotros left on our trip, I had well-nigh a dozen sandwiched quilts on this list. Now I'm downward to simply two...Wind inwards the Whiskers, which is nether my needle, as well as this niggling St. Patrick's Day tabular array topper.
I'm planning to complete that 1 no afterward than January.
Which brings me to this terminal section. This includes the quilts where all the blocks are finished, but they aren't yet sewn together. There is only 1 there, as well as that seems similar the obvious projection to go on next.
I'd already pulled a bunch of fabrics from my stash to complete it off, but I didn't know if I had plenty of whatever of them to lead my vision together. Sadie was a large help here.
Oh, I'm feeling real pawsitive well-nigh this one...it sets off the colors of my furs purrfectly.
All of these are divine. You receive got my consummate appurroval to role whatever or all of them.
And run upward it shall be. I receive got plenty of everything. There is fifty-fifty a large plenty slice for the quilt back, as well as so I'll live able to complete it off without purchasing whatever to a greater extent than fabric. It's a niggling similar getting a large coupon payback at the grocery store. That's where I'll starting fourth dimension today.
Toward the halt of my Coq au Vin preparations yesterday, I got out my sourdough starters as well as fed them. We're having Thanksgiving at Erik as well as Mae's menage this twelvemonth (Hooray!). I'm bringing sweetness potatoes as well as cranberries. Since the kids receive got such busy lives, nosotros haven't seen much of them lately, as well as thus, in that location receive got been only express opportunities for spoiling them. I decided to brand a brace of loaves of staff of life (one for Erik as well as Mae, as well as 1 for Matthew), as well as so I needed to teach the starter fed as well as activated for baking. I'll role what I poured off the whole wheat starter inwards those loaves. When I left it yesterday evening, it looked similar this. The safe band marks the level.
When I got upward this morning time (about 12 hours later), it looked similar this. So, yahoo! That puppy is active. I won't teach started on the staff of life until Tuesday, as well as so it'll teach a brace to a greater extent than feedings betwixt straightaway as well as then. I'll receive got to picket it carefully to avoid whatever spillovers.
It's some other chilly morning. Sadie knows the correct matter to do.
Today I await to complete off the latest Sundress block, as well as so I'll postulate to describe out the adjacent names for the Shop Hop quilt. After that I'll teach to go sewing Home & Heart into a flimsy. It's going to live a practiced day. I promise y'all receive got a practiced twenty-four hours too.