Matthew paid me a surprise take in yesterday, together with thus my plans for the twenty-four hours were set on hold. We passed 1 some other equally I was leaving to move my pilus cut. By the halt of the day, Smitty was downright despondent over the lack of sewing time.
Sadie gave upward together with napped inward the cubby of her scratching pole. Sometimes she likes to move into that infinite where the toy mouse hangs.
Matthew stayed the day, ate dinner alongside us, together with and thus stayed the night. He'll caput dorsum to pass the twenty-four hours alongside Lyndsey this afternoon. I'll hold upward leaving this morn for my monthly pedicure.
For dinner terminal night, I was on a mission to purpose upward some of the CSA veggies. We had a beautiful caput of lettuce, together with I used it to brand this Butter Lettuce Salad alongside Oranges together with Red Onion Dressing. The blood-red onions are marinated/pickled inward the dressing, together with and thus fresh oranges are added. Otherwise, the lettuce is the star of this show. I had some CSA saccharide snap peas too, together with thus I tossed those inward equally a agency of dispensing alongside them.
Now, you'll receive got to purpose your imagination alongside this adjacent dish because it isn't a looker. The other members receive got been raving most it on the CSA Facebook page, but this was my starting fourth dimension time making it. This is a recipe from Smitten Kitchen, together with her recipes are ever winners. I used her Swiss Chard together with Sweet Potato Gratin recipe to brand this dish. It takes a adept amount of Swiss Chard, together with I didn't receive got enough, thus I supplemented alongside CSA spinach together with kale. Also, it tin post away hold upward made using regular potatoes, but I used sweetness potatoes.
The recipe makes a ton of food, together with it's supposed to hold upward baked inward a ix x 13-inch baking dish. I split upward mine betwixt 2 8 x 8 dishes alongside a innovation to freeze the minute one. She suggested baking it starting fourth dimension together with and thus reheating afterwards thawing the frozen dish inward the refrigerator, together with thus that's what I did. Anyway...although it looks equally if it's already been eaten, I tin post away state yous that it was delicious. It's a chip of a to-do to set it together, but it tin post away hold upward done ahead of time. Greens are ever the hardest CSA vegetables to use. It's ever a process to uncovering a recipe that makes them gustatory modality adept together with uses upward thus many. I used a combination of chard, kale, together with spinach, but really, I recall yous could purpose whatsoever greens yous desire inward this dish.
Mike together with Matthew needed to practice some operate exterior afterwards dinner, together with thus I was able to brand it a piddling sewing fourth dimension at the halt of the day. It was fourth dimension to start sewing the blocks together for the Republic of Guatemala quilt. I was but getting railroad train to sew together on the starting fourth dimension horizontal lattice strip when Sadie showed up.
You're doing lattice strips? Blech! I abhor that sort of sewing! I'll come upward dorsum when yous start laying out piddling bits together with pieces, together with and thus I'll assist yous alongside the layout. Deal? Deal.
So if I was doing lattice strips, together with thus yous know I had at to the lowest degree 1 row sewn together. I set it out on the flooring to receive got a look...
together with and thus alongside no assist from Sadie, I sewed the starting fourth dimension lattice strip to the bottom.
Your quilt is non large plenty to suit my handsome together with hulking furry body.
Well, I assured him that the quilt was entirely but getting started, together with and thus I sewed the minute row of blocks together.
I was inward the procedure of pinning the minute lattice strip to the bottom when I needed to halt for the day.
The quilt consists of 8 rows of vi blocks connected past times sashings, together with and thus a lattice strip betwixt each row. There is 1 narrow border roughly the whole quilt. Since I'll hold upward working alongside this on together with off the machine, I worried a piddling most the raw border at the top fraying together with stretching from thus much handling. It seemed a adept persuasion to sew together a draw of piece of job of stitching across the top to stabilize it until I tin post away sew together the border on. That volition hold upward the terminal strip I sew, together with the quilt volition move a lot of treatment inward the meantime.
So, I didn't move much done yesterday, but I'll receive got all of this afternoon to operate on it. I should hold upward able to move good along past times day's end.