What could survive meliorate than nutrient in addition to cats? Smitty says I receive got it the incorrect way round. Cats should larn exceed billing. And I had a whole charge of cats when I tried to sew together the binding onto It's Raining Cats in addition to Dogs yesterday. Sadie has claimed this quilt equally her own, in addition to she's non ashamed to tell so.
Yes, in addition to the binding strips too. All mine.
She was a lilliputian release at coming human face upwards to human face upwards alongside a woofie, fifty-fifty if it is merely fabric.
Smitty to the rescue.
Don't yous worry, lilliputian lady. I'LL salve you!
(He's been watching Dudley Do Right videos on YouTube.)
Sadie was release plenty yesteryear the woofie she decided to exit the area. I had alone Smitty to assistance me alongside the rest. He was extremely helpful equally I pinned the goal of the binding strips together.
I constitute him a novel task belongings downwardly the quilts to survive sandwiched pile.
And alongside hence much help, how could I non survive successful? One binding...sewn on. Hand-stitching to follow. I'll larn started on that today.
Between that in addition to housework, I'd used upwards most of the day. But Mike in addition to I had a fun flush planned. We attended the 1st Founders Dinner at 1 of the local wineries where nosotros are members.
The flush started alongside some delicious appetizers in addition to a solo guitarist playing classical music. The appetizers were flowing freely, in addition to eventually, nosotros waved them off. Dinner was to follow, subsequently all. This 1 was a crostini alongside some duck pate alongside an onion jam. So crush in addition to tasty.
This 1 was some golden beets roasted in addition to diced upwards alongside some creme fraiche, in addition to then piled onto a beet chip. I actually liked this one. I'm a beet lover.
Ply me alongside plenty wine, in addition to I'll allow yous accept a selfie.
Here's the dinner menu. I promise yous tin read it.
The get-go course, soup, was hence tasty. The "broth" business office of the soup was made from roasted fish that had been pureed, hence that it had no butter or cream inward it, in addition to yet, it had the same creamy texture. That lilliputian "log" lying across the exceed was a sort of savory sweetness biscuit-type breadstick. The soup had some razor claim in addition to Dungeness crab. Yummy.
I totally forgot to accept a flick of the 2nd course. It was fish alongside the most interesting watermelon radishes...so named because they were cherry inward the middle in addition to greenish merely about the edges. I'm most lamentable I didn't larn a flick of them, but I constitute this 1 on Flickr.
We also had our get-go gustatory modality of sunchokes (aka Jerusalem artichokes). When I'd eaten everything on my plate, I realized I'd forgotten to accept a picture. For a moment, I considered walking merely about to some full stranger to run across if at that topographic point was anything left on their plate. That should receive got made me popular, don't yous think?
Okay...so moving on...third course of educational activity was this sort of ravioli looking thing. It was layered pasta in addition to filled alongside stinging nettle. No stinging though. The stinging business office is neutralized inward the cooking, in addition to it was actually tasty. It was foraged from the fields at the winery. The lilliputian greenery on exceed is bittercress. It grows inward most gardens inward the leap in addition to causes the worst weed problem. Once it goes to seed, it explodes when yous endeavour to line it up, spreading its seeds everywhere. I've talked virtually bittercress inward the garden before. You tin read merely 1 of my weblog posts virtually it right here. Before it goes to seed though, it is edible, in addition to rather tasty. And it's gratifying to survive able to line it upwards in addition to swallow it alive.
Then nosotros moved on to this lilliputian salad. That's a type of caprine animal cheese inward the forepart there. The salad was made upwards of frisee in addition to radicchio alongside some bites of delicata squeeze inward the mix.
Finally, this tasty chocolate pots de creme. It was made alongside both night in addition to milk chocolate, in addition to it was delicious. It has some candied blood orangish tegument in addition to pomegranate seeds on top.
And that was our evening. I honey these kinds of dinners. Mike made the reservation equally presently equally the statement crossed his electronic mail threshold. He didn't fifty-fifty enquire if I wanted to go. He knew I would honey it.
So today I'm going to start sewing together these lilliputian pump stitcheries. I've been calling this projection "A Year of Hearts," but I'm thinking of calling it "Hearts A-Plenty."
Here's what I receive got inward take away heed for it. First off, if yous await closely at the June pump (second row, on the right), yous mightiness uncovering that I cutting it wrong. There's plenty at the exceed for a quarter-inch seam, but if I create upwards one's take away heed to exit them equally is, I'll demand to sew together a lilliputian "mercy strip" at the exceed to larn it centered inward the block a lilliputian better. On the other hand, I'm thinking of trimming them all that way in addition to making them square. If retentiveness serves, they are cutting to 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches. I could cutting all of them to 4-1/2 inches foursquare in addition to no 1 would survive the wiser. Except you, of course. You won't tell, volition you?
Okay, in addition to then, I picked upwards this lilliputian Itty Bitty Hearts designing when nosotros visited the Quilted Owl close New Orleans a twosome of years ago.
It was a minute of insanity. This lilliputian pillow I saw at that topographic point was hence darned cute.
I don't unremarkably brand pillows, but I figured I could brand a lilliputian quilt from it. And it's paper-piecing, hence yous know I was blinded yesteryear cuteness when I bought it.
Fast frontwards to today, I figure these lilliputian 2-1/2 inch hearts would brand cute lilliputian cornerstones inward the Hearts A-Plenty quilt. It isn't hence much a "pattern," equally it is a container for threescore of these tissue paper-piecing templates.
I demand 20 for my project, in addition to hence I cutting out plenty of them yesterday to larn the task done. I figure a block at a fourth dimension won't survive also painful. The programme is to brand hearts inward colors that coordinate alongside the embroidered blocks that are adjacent. It volition all move clear to yous presently enough. And I'll purpose this long-time resident of my stash for sashings in addition to borders.
It occurs to me that this form of turns it into a Valentine's Day quilt, but hey...it's hearts. What else am I going to create alongside it?
Okay...so I receive got pretty much an NBS twenty-four hours ahead. Let's merely run across how far I tin larn alongside this.