Lotsa Sewing

Good morning, my friends. We're moving into "Sew Season," not to be confused with "Snow Season." We do get snow here, but mostly, we get rain. And, thus, "sew season." I had a couple of other things to do yesterday too. In spite of the grown-up stuff, I still had a good sewing day.

When I arrived home from my voyage into town a couple of days ago, I was dazzled by this holdout of our Autumn trees. This one is on the south side of the house. At this time of year, the sun is low on our horizon, and so it gets sunshine (when the sun shines) for most of the day. It's always the last to lose its leaves.

My first stop yesterday was to get in a Bowflex workout. After that, the butter was soft enough to get to work making our favorite Gingerbread Biscotti. This turned out great this year...just the right amount of crunch. I'm a terrible "drizzler," but I managed to do the drizzling without flinging it all over the kitchen this time around. Biscotti is a cookie with a process. It's in and out of the oven several times before it's finished. While I monitored that, I did my one small housekeeping chore.

From there is was smooth sailing sewing-wise. Sadie was my helper cat for the day, but she's getting bored with this mosaic project. She'll be happy when we do something else. And she's appalled at the mess.

I'm on square number 47 of 58 mosaic "tiles" for this project. Probably I'll do one more row today, and then finish all the tiles by tomorrow. After that, I'll be sewing all the pieces together, and then readying it for top-stitching. Here's your peek.

With that finished, I spent some time hand-sewing the binding for the Beach Bums. I'd just barely turned the third corner when I stopped. I'll finish this today.

Also today, I'll finish up the 7th of seven stitcheries for the Girls' Getaway quilt. With that coming to a close, I'm ready to trace the design for "Snow Happens."

Happily, the missing blue perle cotton floss showed up yesterday. Mike uses the ATV to ride out to the mailbox (a distance of about a quarter mile). When he got on the ATV yesterday, he found the package with the floss sitting on the ATV running board. Apparently, he'd dropped it the day before. So I'll be able to start on this as soon as I have the design traced. I have some great fabrics in my stash for finishing it off too.

Except for taking a walk on the treadmill this morning, there's nothing else on my agenda. So it'll be an NBS day. Here's the to-do list: 

1. Finish Girls' Getaway

2. Trace Snow Happens

3. Another row for Mosaic

4. Finish Beach Bums

5. Begin making way through WIPs list.

Sounds like a good day, doesn't it? I'm going to get started right now.