Good morning, my friends. That most-hated task, grocery shopping, is finished for the week. We got off to a late start yesterday morning. It was after lunch time when we got home. We put everything away, had our lunch, and then we each took naps...pretty much required after a grocery shopping trip. Finally, I was able to get back to my sewing.
It took a while, but I finished the hand-stitching on the ninth of nine blocks for the Merry, Merry Snowmen project.
Good grief. It was after 4:00 p.m. by the time I finished. Now all the blocks are complete, but they are not sewn together. Here's what I have for this project so far.
Pawing through my stash, I came out with these fabrics to finish it off. The tan on the left will be the quilt cornerstones. In the middle is the fabric for the inner border. The one on the right will be the outer border.
I wondered if that was too patriotic, but then decided there are enough stars in the quilt blocks that it can work in a winter-themed quilt too. And I wouldn't say this is a Christmas quilt exactly, but there is enough Christmas symbolism to suggest that.
Okay, and the only other stitching I did was to make some more progress on "A Year in the Garden." I haven't taken any more pictures of my progress yet, but this is the one I'm stitching. I'm a lot farther along than shown here. It should be finished in the next day or two. There is just a little bit of the curtain at the top, and the flowers on the left side. Probably I won't finish it today, but tomorrow is a pretty good bet.
Knowing I'd need something new to stitch, I went ahead and traced the design for Le Jardin. This is the third block.
If you've been paying attention, then you know the first block I stitched wasn't quite right. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the drawing I used to trace the design onto fabric was cut off at the bottom, and so I simply turned it around and drew it like the top. As you can see, the one on the left had the lower two lines closer to the 15¢ price. The one on the right should have been done the same way.
So while I had this project out of its box yesterday, I took a look at the rest of the blocks. As it turns out, I should have been piecing the finished designs log-cabin style. I'll endeavor to get those caught up when the third block is finished. But I figured out that the blocks are different, and so it won't matter that the first one was stitched wrong. Also, I went in search of pictures of the finished quilt. I found this one on Pinterest. Most everything I clicked on related to this quilt had been removed from the internet. This was the best photo I could find.
So no worries about the blocks I've already done, and I'll catch up on the piecing soon.
It won't take long to stitch this third block, and so I looked ahead at my embroidery projects. The next one I'll do will be a "Short" project. Since I can never choose from my long list of projects, I let Mr. Random Number generator do the choosing. This time, he chose #21, which happens to be Autumn's Harvest Pumpkin from Crabapple Hill Studios. Sometimes Mr. Random chooses wrong, and I have to ask him to pick something else. This pick is perfectly timed.
Here's a closer look at the designs on the pumpkin.
That will be a fun project for fall. I'm pretty sure someone gave me this pattern, but I can't recall who. If it was you, then thank you. I'm going to have fun with this. And all of that to say that one of today's agenda items is to sort through my stash of embroidery floss and come out with some good colors.
We're not big fish-eaters, but we like salmon and halibut. I'm trying to incorporate more Mediterranean Diet principles into our dinners, and so I'm working at adding more fish to our dinner menus. This was pretty easy...easy enough to do in the RV, which is always a bonus. The red pepper sauce is made in a blender or food processor, and then the fish marinates in it for 20 minutes. Some sauce was set aside for serving. I roasted the halibut in my toaster oven at 400°F for 20 minutes.
The recipe suggested serving it with summer squash. It's Mike's favorite vegetable, so sure. I slice it, add plenty of garlic salt, and a couple of pats of butter. Then it's microwaved for about 8 minutes until it's softened and cooked through. So that was an easy and tasty dinner.
All right. Today I'm getting my monthly pedicure. The last one was back in May, and so you know I've got some gnarly looking toes right now. It'll be good to get some TLC for my feet. I have a couple of easy housekeeping chores on my list. I'm hoping I'll have some time for sewing, but maybe not. If I can avoid getting into rush hour traffic on my way home this afternoon, I'll be a happy camper, sewing or no sewing.
Please bear with me while I belabor this COVID vaccine issue for just one more post. Yesterday I received the regular newsletter from the Oregon Health Authority. Contained in the newsletter was this notification:
I'm still hopeful that our governor will sign an executive order so that everyone can get the vaccine without a prescription. Also, I feel fairly confident my doctor will provide one. Aaaaannnd...I'm hoping we'll get into the study I signed up for yesterday that will pay us to test the new protein-based vaccine side effects. If none of that works out, we can always drive north about an hour and cross the border into Washington. We can get the vaccine there without a prescription. So there. There's more than one way to skin a cat. But please...don't skin any cats. With winter coming, they're going to need their fur coats.
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