The twenty-four hours started out innocently enough. I finished off the "Remember" stitch sampler. Filling inwards the handbasket with tiny "x" stitches took absolutely forever.
When it was finished, I took it downstairs for pressing, as well as here's how the whole affair looks.
There's something incorrect with the "buttonhole fan" at the bottom correct of the icon above. Where I started on the left side of the blueish floss, I think I stitched it backwards. The offset stitch should get got been vertical, with the other ii fanning off to the right. When these were traced, precisely the bottom line as well as some dots for the French knots were traced in. I tin think looking at it as well as trying to figure out how to start. Now I tin encounter the fault of my ways, as well as thence I'll cook that.
Eventually, I'll pair it upward with the "Stitch" sampler as well as brand a footling wall hanging from it. That won't occur anytime soon, but that's the plan.
Then it was fourth dimension for Smitty's bad twenty-four hours to commence. He had to go to the vet for his annual physical as well as update to his immunizations. It was similar rubbing common salt inwards the injure of a summertime that has gotten off to a really bad start for him. He got a build clean mouth of health, but those immunizations made him experience a footling puny yesterday. Today he's dorsum to his spirited self.
Just FYI, Coyote Man did non come upward yesterday, as well as thence nosotros left a vocalization post service message with him expressing our line of piece of job concern that the entirely affair he's done inwards the past times calendar month is to collect his fee for service. He called dorsum as well as left us a message, expressing his apology as well as promising to come upward out today. Hmph. This is taking a ridiculously long time. Set the traps, Man. We're tired of waiting, as well as we're really tired of your excuses.
When I got dorsum from the vet, I decided to piece of job on finishing off the "When Life Gives you lot Scraps" mini redwork quilt. The concluding fourth dimension it came out of the box, it looked similar this.
This is a gratis projection from Kaaren Johnston. You tin abide by the pdf correct here. When I took it out of the box, I institute this sometime pattern within with it.
Apparently at some point, I got the brilliant persuasion to laid it the same way every bit this projection I made some fourth dimension ago. It offset appeared inwards the September/October 2013 lawsuit of Quiltmaker magazine. I changed it upward a footling fleck to state "Home Sweet Home," as well as made it every bit a housewarming gift when Erik as well as Mae bought their abode several years ago. Also, I added their identify break higher upward the door.
I made this earlier I had a practiced concept of the usage of contrast inwards quilts, as well as thence my edge didn't demo off the star variety really well, but I all the same similar this footling quilt. I worked on it spell nosotros were traveling, if retentiveness serves, as well as thence it is infused with practiced feelings near that trip.
Sadie didn't desire me to brand the same "contrast" errors as well as thence she helped me pick out the fabrics.
This i volition piece of job purrfectly for the star.
Find yourself a enterprise ruby as well as you'll brand something meowarvelous.
So, I cutting the redwork slice to the same size every bit the master Home, Sweet, Home slice as well as and then added this border.
Sadie liked this cloth for the background, as well as she was helping me pick out the binding strips too. How could I ever larn anything done inwards the sewing room without my footling cat?
So I quilted the centre component pretty simply. I outlined the footling daughter as well as and then stippled to a greater extent than or less her. I quilted the footling embroidered quilt blocks too. I started quilting inwards the border, but didn't similar how it was looking, as well as thence I took it out earlier I'd traveled really far. I've given it some persuasion over night, as well as I think I'm going to go out the edge unquilted. It doesn't demand quilting from a functional standpoint, as well as I think the quilting volition precisely goal upward existence a distraction. With that decided, all I demand to do instantly is cut it as well as sew together on the binding.
Okay, thence I've told you lot many times near my suspicions regarding the motives of kohlrabi. It's i of the CSA mystery vegetables. If you lot scroll to the bottom of this post from iv years ago, you'll encounter where I've made it clear that I think kohlrabi is something of an abomination from a blueprint standpoint. The entirely affair I'm to a greater extent than suspicious near is washing machines. As long every bit we're taking a trip downward spider web log post retentiveness lane, you lot tin encounter how my washing car phobia came near if you lot click correct here.
But getting dorsum to the kohlrabi, my swain CSA members get got been raving near this recipe for Kohlrabi Fennel Slaw with Blue Cheese as well as Walnuts. And, hey, they weren't precisely kidding around. This is actually good! Even the Resident Engineer, who tends to endure suspicious to a greater extent than or less novel recipes, liked it. (Yeah! Mikey likes it!) I used the grater blade on my nutrient processor to "julienne" the kohlrabi as well as the fennel, as well as that worked out precisely great. It has the added do goodness of using a fennel bulb, some other of the to a greater extent than sinister characters inwards our CSA shares.
Ordinarly, I'm choosing a primary class earlier I pick out the side dish. For this meal, I went inwards the contrary direction. With the vegetable crisper apace filling upward with kohlrabi as well as fennel, I decided to endeavor the slaw, as well as nosotros had it with these yummy Turkey Burgers with Cranberry-Apple Relish. This is i of the gems nosotros institute spell nosotros were next the Cooking Light Diet, as well as it's larn a favorite of ours. If you're all the same undecided near your bill of fare for the Fourth of July, I tin highly recommend both of these dishes.
While Mike was grilling the burgers, I went exterior to banking company fit on the condition of the calla lily. Oh my gosh. The 4th blossom has opened. Is this pretty, or what?
Also, inwards yesterday's mail, I was reminded of my previous pitiful determination to watch the Crabapple Hill Studios website, where I institute all of these patterns on sale. I noticed the "Lemonade" first. Then, the "Margarita," as well as then the "Root Beer Float." As I kept browsing to a greater extent than as well as more, I realized I could pose all of these patterns into a unmarried quilt, laid 4 blocks x 4 blocks, as well as thence how could I resist? Yeah, I knew you'd understand.
I get got embroidery patterns to brand beyond my life expectancy, but that's okay. It makes me happy precisely having them inwards my possession. I've ever been i for inexpensive thrills.
So today I'm making a brusk trip to the grocery store. I get got nutrient that volition get got us into side past times side week, but our plans for the Fourth get got changed. Instead of going downward to the Willamette River fireworks, every bit nosotros do every year, we're going to get got a smaller get-together here. Mike is going to smoke a distich of flank steaks, as well as the residuum of us volition contribute salads. It'll endure a squeamish serenity celebration this year, as well as that's precisely fine with me. We dearest our days spent on the river, but it is a commitment to fix early on inwards the afternoon, as well as and then hang out all twenty-four hours as well as into the nighttime waiting for the demo to commence. After I larn dorsum from the grocery store, I'll larn a start on July's pinkish blocks for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge.