It's the 24-hour interval I larn to the dentist. (Sigh.) Who doesn't loathe going to the dentist? I'm only going inward for a check-up together with cleaning...I hope. One never knows alongside the dentist. I holler back nosotros should only dispel the notion that going to the dentist is ever skillful news. One tin solely live allow downward from the minute ane walks inward the door. It tin live a "Look Ma! No cavities!" variety of day, together with I suppose there's some relief inward that. You yet receive got to sit down through the cleaning. I'm for sure some of those techniques originated quondam during the Castilian Inquisition. On the other hand, instead of relief, y'all mightiness larn something much, much worse. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the torture of getting my teeth cleaned volition live the worst of my worries. It makes those days when I larn my pilus permed audio downright blissful.
So let's see...what's happening also the maiming of my mouth? I sat for a skillful long fourth dimension stitching yesterday. Some days are similar that, together with slow-stitching is an fantabulous way to attain something piece simultaneously procrastinating. I do similar multi-tasking, y'all know.
After that, I checked on the poppy. It's slightly to a greater extent than open, together with there's a niggling fleck of carmine color showing. Still...no dice. Maybe today. I haven't checked yet.
When I finally made my way into the sewing room yesterday morning, my finish was to brand 2 to a greater extent than blocks for the Countdown to Christmas sew-along. These blocks were posted yesteryear Moda earlier Christmas lastly year. They were all inward carmine together with white, but I'm trying to role my bluish together with dark-green scraps for this quilt. I'm going to receive got to give it a dissimilar name. I'm thinking something similar "Caribbean Waters" or something along those lines.
The showtime block was called Candy Cane Christmas together with designed yesteryear Jen Van Orman of Heritage Threads. Since mine is a dissimilar quilt, I'm calling my block "The Gift." This was an fantabulous tutorial, together with the block went together rattling easily.
The adjacent ane is called Grammy's Staircase, together with it was designed yesteryear Heather Long of Coffee together with Quilts. This is rather complicated to sew together together, but it was piece of cake alongside Heather Long's fantabulous instructions.
Here are all the blocks I've made for this quilt thus far. This is solely almost one-half of all the ones I'm going to make, but they'll run on alongside the same colors of white, blue, together with green. What would y'all telephone vociferation upwardly it?
Edited to tell I'm linking upwardly to the CDTC Linky Party at Mama Spark's World.
From there, I was laid upwardly to direct some threads for quilting the Cardinal Mosaic.
It's a modest quilt...lap sized, or wall hanging...and thus it shouldn't receive got too long. I receive got a lot of partially used spools of thread, together with thus I'm hoping I'll receive got plenty of each to complete it off. First, I receive got a injure bobbin together with a nearly total spool of this thread for the quilt back. If I run out, I receive got some other spool that is closed plenty to the same color that no ane would uncovering the difference.
For the bluish background on the quilt top, I'm hoping I receive got plenty of this variegated dark blue. I'm pretty for sure I do.
I'll live quilting feathers into the cardinal, together with I hold off I receive got plenty of this carmine variegated to do that.
There is only a niggling fleck of dark on the bird's human face upwardly together with legs. I should receive got plenty of this black, together with inward whatsoever case, I ever receive got lots of dark thread on hand.
This is ane of the dark-green variegated spools my friend Ila sent me a few weeks ago. I'll role that for the holly leaves.
And this variegated dark-brown for the tree branches.
So, I spent some fourth dimension yesterday getting my tension laid right, together with I practiced doing the feathers I'll role for the bird's body. It's looking pretty skillful here. (I flipped the extra quilt dorsum over the excess of the batting together with practiced there.)
Checking the back, it looks pretty skillful at that spot too, together with I holler back that bluish is the correct color for the quilt back.
Just equally I was getting laid upwardly to start quilting inward earnest, my furry friend's feet showed up. Here, I had to paws. (Ha! I'm thus punny.) Sometimes a guy only needs to nuzzle for a bit.
And then, I started quilting only to run into how it was going to look. I solely did only a few loops of feathers when I quit for the day. I'll selection it upwardly hither this afternoon if I last my trip to the dentist...and there's no guarantee that I will. Fortunately, I've given y'all instructions thus y'all tin complete this off for me if I popular off of molar trauma.
It was fourth dimension to quit because I was trying something novel alongside our CSA veggies lastly night. Mike was smoking/grilling a flank steak. I'm constantly on the sentry for recipes that role greens of all kinds. Think, kale, bok choy, chard, spinach...that sort of thing. We were combining 2 recipes. We marinated the flank steak, together with and then it was served upwardly alongside this "leafy greens salsa verde," made from kale. I spread it out on a warm plate...
And then, nosotros set the sliced flank steak over the exceed together with and then topped off the whole matter alongside some grilled scallions. Oh my, that was thus yummy.
The salsa verde tin live made alongside a clove of garlic, but our CSA portion has garlic scapes, together with thus I used ane of those. I made the salsa verde using my nutrient processor, together with I chopped things finely, but non to puree stage. This recipe did away alongside one-half a bunch of kale, one-half the dark-green onions, together with ane of the 5 garlic scapes from lastly week's share. I receive got plans for the residual of all three, but our adjacent pick-up is tomorrow. Right forthwith the vegetables are winning the race. So anyway...here's my adaptation of the 2 recipes I was combining.
Flank Steak alongside Leafy Greens Salsa Verde
Marinade for Flank Steak:
2 pounds flank steak
1/4 loving cup carmine wine
1/4 loving cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon dark pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1/8 loving cup soy sauce
1/8 loving cup worcestershire sauce
5 cloves garlic, crushed
juice of 2 limes
Leafy Greens Salsa Verde:
Kosher common salt together with freshly dry reason dark pepper
six scallions
½ modest bunch kale, Swiss chard, collard greens or mustard greens, leaves together with stems rattling finely chopped (about 2 1/2 cups)
1 whole garlic scape, finely chopped, OR garlic clove, finely grated
⅓ loving cup olive oil
1 tablespoon canola or grapeseed oil
1 lemon or lime, halved
Flaky salt
In a large bowl combine carmine wine, vegetable oil, dark pepper, salt, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, garlic together with lime juice.
Place flank steak inward a ziplock pocketbook together with pour marinade over. Push out equally much air equally possible. Refrigerate for 8 hours. You tin role vegetable fossil oil instead of olive fossil oil thus the marinade doesn't solidify inward the refrigerator.
When laid upwardly to cook, start Traeger grill on Smoke alongside the lid opened upwardly until the burn is established (4-5 minutes). Set the temperature to 225°F together with preheat, lid closed, for thirty minutes. Smoke for 3 hours.
Pull the steak off the grill, wind inward foil, together with allow sit down for 10-15 minutes.
While steak is smoking, brand leafy greens salsa. Salsa should live made at to the lowest degree ane hr earlier steak is laid upwardly to serve to allow greens to soften together with flavors to meld.
Cut four of the scallions into 2-inch pieces; laid aside. Finely chop remaining scallions together with add together to a medium bowl alongside kale, garlic together with olive oil; flavor alongside common salt together with pepper. The mixture won’t just live saucy yet, but equally it sits the kale volition soften together with loosen up.
When laid upwardly to serve, spread salsa verde on a warm plate.
Thinly piece the steak together with provide to plate alongside salsa verde. Top alongside seared scallions. Squeeze lemon or lime over everything together with sprinkle alongside flaky salt.
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So, I holler back I receive got fourth dimension to brand it a niggling tedious stitching earlier I demand to receive got off for downtown. Wish me luck. I promise to live dorsum hither tomorrow to tell almost my ordeal.