Lotsa Sewing

Good morning, my friends. It's a grocery shopping day today. We have a couple of stops to make, and it seems like a good day to get our beloved Egg McMuffin. So I'm writing fast. Try to keep up, okay?

The quilting is finished on the Domestic Affairs quilt. When I pulled it off the machine and headed downstairs, I found Smitty at the top of the stairs guarding against intruders. I'm not saying Sadie falls into the category of "intruders."

On the other hand, she was being stealth as she waited at the bottom of the stairs.

So, the last bit of quilting I needed to finish was this leafy flowery motif in the outer border.

Here's how it looked in the light of the living room windows.

Here's a look at the back.

This spot in the living room gives me the best light to show the quilting from the back.

When I finished taking pictures, I took it downstairs to sew on the binding. Sadie thinks this is her quilt.

It's called Domeowstic Affurrs, right? It must be for me.

Smitty just wanted to know when we were going to get busy sewing on the binding. He sat beside the binding strips, clearly annoyed at the delay.

You can have this quilt, Sadie. It's too foofy for a Mancat like me.

He did consent to helping me square it up.

And then, I sewed on the binding.

There was still time in the day, and so I finished sewing the borders on the Shop Hop 3.0 quilt. Now it's ready for sandwiching and quilting. It ends up at 65 x 59 inches.

And that was enough time in the sewing room for one day. I took Domestic Affairs upstairs and started hand-sewing the binding. Before I stopped for the day, I'd stitched around the first corner.

And after a hard day's work guarding the purremises, Smitty was settling down for a late afternoon nap.

For dinner last night I tried this super easy recipe for Quick Shrimp Chowder. I took a picture of mine, but it was kind of boring...just a bowl of something lumpy and white. Here's a better picture I found online.

This is ordinarily the kind of recipe I'd avoid because it contains two cans of Campbell's cream of potato soup. And...I don't know...I used to cook that kind of stuff all the time, but converted to mostly fresh ingredients at some point. Still, I sometimes see something that looks easy and tasty, and so I'll give it a try. This was very good. It was plenty salty, although not overly so, without adding any extra salt. I'm sure it got that salty boost from the canned soup. In any case, it was good. And it was easy, which makes it a good recipe for the RV. I'll share it here since it was one of the Cooking Light Diet recipes and it's no longer available online. Here's a screenshot from my Paprika app.

We had ours with a side of crusty bread, although the oyster crackers would have been a good addition. Also, I used 2% milk in mine. 

I expect we'll be home around lunch time. My afternoon will be mostly devoted to hand-stitching the binding. Also, I want to bake some muffins today. If there's time for sewing, I'll get to work finishing the quilt top for Snow Happens.

Okay...gotta go. Groceries await.