Rainy Day Sewing

With the weather changing to the wet season, it's giving me a lot more time inside for sewing. Things are moving right along in the sewing room, and my mouth is watering at the possibility of starting a new project that has been sitting on the shelf for a while. I'll say more about that at some point in the future. For now, I'll tell you about yesterday's activity.

Of course, the day always starts with a little embroidery. I filled the hoop I was working on...

and then moved the hoop to encompass as much of the remainder as I could. You can see there's just a little bit remaining to the left side of the hoop.

And this being Sunday, I'll be linking up to:

After that I moved into the sewing room. When I stopped sewing on Friday, I was working on the dark green blocks for the Rainbow Jubilee quilt. It was time to start cutting and sewing strips together for the green part of the four blocks I was making. Smitty kept me company.

He was an excellent assistant, holding the rule in place so I could cut my strips.

It's tempting, isn't it? I could give him a tail like Sadie's.

Eventually, I had the strips cut and sewn together.

From there, I needed to trim them into squares.

Then I laid them out with their black and white corners...

And then I sewed everything together.

They'll be joining the rest of the blocks I've made for this quilt so far.

It was a little worrisome whether the dark greens would give enough contrast with the bright greens I've made already. I think they'll be fine.

While I was sewing, Mike was out working in the trailer. The "laundry room" is in this cabinet to the right of the closet.

He was busy installing a new Splendide washer/dryer combination in the cabinet. It looks good!

This is a newer version of the washer/dryer combo we had in the old RV. We'd hoped to get a stackable set. If we'd done that, we would have had to give up the rod and shelf above the washer. Space is at a premium here, and so we went with the combo instead. The one in the old RV worked great, and this new one has a slightly larger load capacity, which can only be a good thing.

But here's the best part. You can see in the image below, there's a good amount of space behind the unit. A sewing machine will easily fit in here, and possibly, my travel ironing board will fit as well. Cool.

As long as I was out taking pictures, I took a picture of the little wall-hanging now on the wall in the living room.

There was just one more thing I wanted to accomplish before the end of the day. There was baking to do in the form of these Gingerbread Biscotti. We both love biscotti, and this is my favorite recipe. I've linked to the recipe and made some other comments right here, if you're interested in trying this yourself.

Once they were cooled, I drizzled them with melted white chocolate. Mmmmmmmmm.

We're only keeping a few of these and then sending the rest home with Erik and Mae. Erik's birthday is Tuesday, and they're coming for a birthday brunch of Eggs Benedict this morning. The biscotti is just a bonus for the two of them.

With that in mind, there's much to do this morning. I'm on my way to the kitchen now.