Snowmen in September

Good morning, my friends. I gave myself an easy day yesterday. There were a few small tasks to take care of, and I did a Bowflex workout. Also, I pureed the watermelon given to us by our CSA farmers. I'll make some watermelon sorbet from that later today. I've made sorbet from all kinds of fruit, but watermelon is my favorite.

Since I was taking a lazy day, I didn't make it into the sewing room until late in the day. Smitty was my helper cat.

As a reminder, my goal was to make this block...the 9th and final block for the Merry, Merry Snowmen project.

Before anything can happen on these, I must first make the background. This one involved some piecing. I needed to applique the peeking snowmen for two sections.

And then I also needed three square-in-a-square sections.

Since I'm working from my stash for this project, it can sometimes take a while to choose fabrics that look similar to those used in the pattern. A lot of the time spent on this project is simply selecting fabrics. When it was all pieced together, it looked like this:

Yeah...my picture is crooked. The block is straight.

It was close to dinner time by then, and so I stopped there. Today I should have plenty of time to finish fusing the applique. Top-stitching might take longer. 

Today I have one housekeeping chore on the list, and I'll get in a walk on the treadmill before I get back to my sewing. Oh yes, and I must churn the sorbet. I'm making good progress on June's block for A Year in the Garden, and so it's probably a good time to trace out the next one for Le Jardin. Here are the blocks I have for that project so far. These are fun to stitch.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I might have to redo the one on the right. 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. They stitch up pretty quickly, and so I'll decide as I go along. 

The promised rain hasn't arrived yet, but it has been much cooler during the day. I'm not convinced we're finished with the hot weather yet. We'll enjoy the cooler temperatures while they last. 

Earlier this morning, I tried to schedule appointments for flu and COVID boosters. If you've been paying attention to the news then you probably know our whackadoodle Secretary of Health and Human Services is going to make America healthy again by denying vaccines to the populace. We've always gone to one of our local grocery stores for vaccines. When I tried to schedule at our usual place, the COVID vaccine was not one of the choices available. Instead, I went to a local pharmacy. There, I could schedule both vaccines, but I was informed we'd need prescriptions for the COVID vaccine. It's my understanding that anyone over 65 is eligible without a prescription, but I've also read that providers are being extra cautious in the administration of vaccines because of these changes. Now, I have a message pending with our doctor asking for prescriptions to get the vaccine. I'm hoping that will come through because neither of us has had COVID, and it's become our personal crusade to avoid it for the rest of our lives. It would be so helpful if our HHS secretary shared our quest to keep our immunizations up-to-date. 

When the orange turd won the election last year, my first thought and fear was the appointment of Idiot Man to be secretary of HHS. It has been every bit as frightful as expected. It's not surprising that his own throat is trying to keep him from speaking. I only bring this up if you, like me, would like to get vaccinated against this winter's viruses. Plan ahead, my friends. It's more difficult than it should be.