Making a Dent

There was quite a bit to do yesterday, although hands-on work was at a minimum. Mainly, my day was spent setting timers and then responding when they went off. By day's end, we had a yummy turkey dinner. But first...slow stitching, of course.

As I mentioned, there isn't much hand embroidery on the Dancing Chickens & Flying Pigs block. Already, I have most of it finished:

Also, I've signed up to make four pay-it-forward gifts over the next year. This one is for a friend from high school who doesn't read my blog. I'll be able to show it as I go along. Here...I kind of messed up because I thought I was tracing with a brown pen, and was surprised to find it was purple. It's hard to see color when I'm staring at a bright light box. It was tempting to start over, but I adjusted the colors to include a lot of purple and lavender. It should turn out fine.

This was a free pattern from Jenny of Elefantz at one time. I tried searching for it online, but couldn't find it. My original download was in 2013, and a lot has changed on her site and others since that time. I'll be happy to send it to you if you want it. Just email me.

Also, as I perused my stash for any purple fabrics that might do for a small border and a backing, I came across this long-time resident. I love it when I can use one of my oldest fabrics. This one was probably a gift from someone, but I can't recall when it came into my life. There is 3/4 of a yard, so plenty for this project.

From there I needed to make a salad, but then headed into the sewing room where the Cat Force was ready for action.

What are we sewing today?

Oh, Smitty...purrlease tell me she's not sewing more of those bonus triangles. Those are pawsitively boooorrrrrrring!

I'm afurraid so, Sadie. She sets these "goal" things for herself. I don't understand why she can't go outside and hunt some birds, but then, nobody asked me.

Well...these don't even smell very good. Purrhaps we could disrupt the purrocess enough to discourage her purrogress.

Pawsibly, this one would make an excellent place to bed down for a nap.

Maybe if I lie on this ruler, she'll be purrvented from moving furrward.

Despite their heroic efforts at discouraging me, I did make a dent in the bag yesterday.

As for those pink and white ones, I have quite a few of them generated when I made the Snow Globes quilt top (still waiting its turn to be quilted).

Also, I pulled this printout from my bag of bonus triangles. It was something I thought I might do with at least some of the resulting HST's. This is called the Arrow Baby Quilt, a free pattern from Bernina's We All Sew website. I probably have about 48 of these, and so I should have enough to make a pretty good-sized quilt from them. If I mix them with other colors...even bigger.

Probably, I sewed several hundred of those yesterday, all the while tending to the turkey that was in the oven. The only other thing I needed to do was to make some mashed potatoes and roast some asparagus, and we had ourselves a nice turkey dinner last night. It was kind of nice to do something a little bit special. We missed Erik and Mae.

There are leftovers for another meal too, so this will keep us fed for a while.

There was a pretty sunrise this morning. Our weather is going to improve significantly over the next two weeks. Definitely, we'll be getting out to do some yard clean-up.

Mike was greatly improved yesterday and even moreso this morning. I think he's over the worst of whatever crud he picked up. It would be nice to know whether it was COVID since that would give us a lot of information, but probably we'll never find out. I've been reading with interest some articles about testing for antibodies, and that could give us good information if it ever comes to pass.

On today's agenda, more slow-stitching, a bucket of weeds, and a little housework before I get back to the bonus triangles. They feel a little less formidable now that the bag is less full. There are still many more to make though. I expect it'll be a day or two before they're all sewn together. After that, I'll be figuring out what to do with them.