Yesterday morn I was out of the family early on to endeavour to trounce the crowd at the grocery store. I had a long listing together with checked out alongside a total cart. Heck, the fresh vegetables took upward one-half the cart! I'm making a roasted vegetable side dish for our vacation repast together with it has sweetness potatoes, onions, rutabagas, parsnips, together with carrots. Also, I had 4 pounds of mushrooms for the Pioneer Woman's Burgundy Mushrooms, which is pretty darned good. I don't ever similar her recipes, merely this ane is a winner. I've linked to the recipe there. If you lot desire to endeavour it, create non underestimate the size of the pot you'll want. Four pounds of mushrooms fills my Dutch oven to the brim, merely you'll live on amazed at how they shrink down.
Before leaving, I spent unopen to fourth dimension alongside my dull stitching.
They were a petty fleck fiddly alongside together with then many pieces. Getting them nether together with over together with inwards the correct location earlier fusing them downwards was a fleck of a challenge. It's difficult to run across inwards that image, merely I'll live on stitching whiskers together with mouths onto them earlier they're finished. I gave this ane a pinkish nose. Here's my model.
Also, they bring buttons for eyes. It took all afternoon, merely past times day's end, I had all 8 of them finished.
Today I'll larn the hearts together with stars fused onto the quilt...that's what the alley cats are quilting. Then I'll top-stitch them together with stitch on the eyes. If I larn that far, this ane volition live on gear upward for sandwiching together with quilting.
Meanwhile, Smitty has been on a photograph shoot for this month's embrace of Winter Cats Magazine. It's non genuinely inwards publication, merely it should be.
It has been raining pretty steadily for the past times week. I've been lucky to operate out betwixt pelting showers inwards my comings together with goings. The forecast shows it clearing upward this afternoon together with tomorrow. If so, I'll operate out together with create a few outdoor things. There are a yoke of housekeeping tasks on my calendar for today, merely I'm hoping to brand it enough of sewing fourth dimension too.