Nothing similar a adept snowfall twenty-four hours to boot you lot inwards high gear for a twenty-four hours of sewing. I spent most of the twenty-four hours inwards the sewing room yesterday making blocks for my ii Rainbow Scrap Challenge quilts for 2019. The twenty-four hours before, I'd cutting the pieces for the Charm Stars blocks. First this one:
And thus this one:
Here are the blocks I bring for this thus far:
After that, I made 4 yellowish blocks for the Paintbox Pizzazz quilt.
And these are all the blocks I bring thus far.
On Saturday, I'll link upward to
Also, I did the 6th Tiny Tuesday block. This i is set upward inwards a diagonal setting.
Smitty helped amongst that.
Here are all the Tiny Tuesday blocks I bring thus far.
The solely other sewing-related affair I did yesterday was to larn the binding clips inwards identify thus I could hand-sew the binding for Emerald Isle.
Smitty prefers the business office of sewing amongst rotary cutters together with rulers. He likes to alive dangerously, you lot know. And thus he opted for a nap on the quilts-to-be-quilted pile for this business office of the sewing day.
All the spell I was sewing, yeast was working away inwards some breadstuff dough. When I left you lot yesterday, I'd merely pose it inwards the refrigerator. After ii hours, it looked similar this.
This dough tin endure left inwards the fridge for upward to vii days, but I wanted a loaf for dinner concluding night. The recipe told me to choose grip of a handful together with thus form it into a ball. Well...mine was also floppy for whatever sort of shaping, together with thus mine sat on the countertop looking similar this. In fairness, the recipe told me I didn't demand to endure also fussy well-nigh the shaping. Sounded adept to me.
While that was baking, I took some fourth dimension to hang the Muskcat Love quilt inwards the Mewseum. An splendid addition, no?
This wall of the Mewseum is filling upward nicely, but there's all the same infinite available. More truthful cat quilts, please!
It was a sorry niggling loaf of breadstuff that came from the oven, but hey! It was rattling tasty.
The crust had a squeamish niggling crunch. Inside, it was similar sandwich bread...nice together with soft. We ate well-nigh one-half of it concluding nighttime together with thus had a couplet of slices toasted for breakfast. It made rattling squeamish toast.
As I mentioned yesterday, this dough volition brand 3-4 loaves, together with thus I'll hold off a few days earlier I brand some other loaf...probably on Friday. Then side past times side Mon (after vii days), I'll purpose the concluding of it. According to King Arthur Flour, it should gustatory modality similar sourdough later vii days. I'm intensely curious well-nigh this. Also, I'm curious to run into if the dough volition comport differently if it's given to a greater extent than fourth dimension inwards the refrigerator. You tin aspect me to study dorsum well-nigh this, of course.
Our snowfall was generally melted past times afternoon, but at that spot are all the same a few patches. They'll likely endure roughly for a spell because we're expecting temperatures below freezing all week. The mountains were pretty this morning.
Smitty thinks the mountains are best viewed from within the house.
Sadie doesn't fifty-fifty attention well-nigh the mountains. Mornings are for cocooning inwards her book.
This morning's slow-stitching included the 6th of the inchies. I am loving this project. It's thus much fun to stitch these niggling bits each morning.
Also, I finished hand-stitching the binding for the Emerald Isle tabular array runner. Now I'm anxious for Valentine's Day to endure over thus I tin pose this on the table.
Here's how it looks from the back.
With photographic goggle box camera inwards hand, I took this moving painting I've been wanting to present you lot for a while. It's my niggling binding kit. I move on this inwards a pocket-size bin thus it's ever create to go. Inside it has a Quiltbox that contains my binding clips. The niggling triangular pouch holds my thimble together with needle threader. It plant bully every bit a niggling "pincushion" for my needles together with the flower-head pins I purpose to pivot the corners of the quilts.
My thimble is the same i I bought when I took Home Economics inwards the eighth grade...let's see...sometime during the 13th Century. Inside, you lot tin all the same discovery the niggling piece of masking record amongst my holler on it. It's the solely thimble I've ever institute that truly fits my finger. I wishing I could discovery some other similar it.
Also, these niggling truthful cat scissors.
Except for the thimble, of course, all of these items were won inwards diverse giveaways. I can't retrieve whose giveaway went amongst what, but if it was yours...thank you. I dearest this stuff.
So today I truly demand to create something a niggling to a greater extent than similar work. Since I pose off my grocery shopping yesterday, I'll start there. When I larn home, I demand to create a few housekeeping chores. If there's fourth dimension for sewing, I'll larn busy on my OMG for February, which is to sew together together blocks for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt. When I kickoff set this out for its picture, I wasn't certain I liked how the blocks were arranged. With some fourth dimension having passed, I similar it improve now. The rows are a adept mix of warm together with cool colors, together with thus I'm thinking I'll larn out it every bit is.
My ultimate goal is to bring this finished for Matthew's Apr birthday. However, Matthew is leaving to pass some fourth dimension inwards Republic of Guatemala for the side past times side few months. He won't endure dwelling identify until May. He's a fellow desperately inwards demand of an opportunity correct now, together with I intend he's institute a adept i spending some fourth dimension amongst friends inwards Guatemala.