Good morning, my friends. Mike announced this morning that we'd only received three hundredths of an inch of rain yesterday. Add that to the full three inches received in the 12 hours previous, and you can see that conditions are dire. At three hundredths of an inch, how can anyone argue that we're not in a drought? We're expecting a similar day of weather today. It'll make the birds happy because I only fill their bird feeders if I can venture out without donning my storm gear.
It was a productive day yesterday. If you've read yesterday's post, then you already know we were home and had the groceries put away before lunch time. I'm hopeful we won't need to go again before we leave, but it's probably unrealistic to think so. It seems there's always something missing. A lot of the food we'll eat on travel days will be made ahead. I'll say more about that as I go along with my travel preparations.
As for yesterday's sewing, my first stop when the groceries were taken care of was to stitch Tiny Treasure #31. This one contains satin stitch, stem stitch, and chain stitch.
From there, I was ready to do some quilting. I sandwiched "S" is for Sew, and went to work.
As usual, my quilting fairy godmother, Ila, provided me with the perfect thread color. (Thank you, Ila.) I had a spool and a partially wound bobbin of this brown.
It's a 40 weight King Tut thread.
Before I could start, Sadie posted for her picture on this quilt since it blends with her beautiful furs so purrfectly.
And then I went to work. I hadn't given this a lot of thought, and so I just put my needle down and started sewing, letting my hands decide what we'd do with it. In the sashings, I stitched some criss-cross applesauce straight lines. I did the same thing in the horizontal sashings, but I stitched-in-the ditch when I came to the space between blocks. It was easier than cutting threads there.
When that was finished it looked like this:
It's a little hard to see in the image above, but it makes a sort of star pattern at the intersections of the blocks. Here's how it looks from the back.
In the outer border, I first used my chalk pencil to outline a square. This was to help me keep the the same size from corner to corner. And then I fit a quilted spool of thread within the boundaries of the square.
From there, I quilted a looping meander to the opposite corner, ending with a threaded needle.
When all four corners were finished, it looked like this:
When I was squared up, I was happy to see I'd successfully positioned the sewing machines on the back so that they were left complete.
The binding strips are cut, but I stopped for the day there.
Today I'll sew the strips together and then sew them to the quilt. Probably I'll spend the rest of my day hand-sewing the binding. It'll be nice to get in one more finish before we leave.
If I play my cards right, I might be able to finish one more tiny quilt. Next up on my list will be My Embroidered Garden stitched in November.
So today starts a list of tasks on my calendar's to-do list. And "Lists" seems like a good place to start on any list, right? Sometimes I just write "Make a list" at the top of the list so that when the list is complete, I can cross something off right away. Actually, I have lists created from many, many trips like this. I just need to update them each time. As it stands, I've tried to remember every single thing I need to do, and I've written it on the calendar so that it all gets done without overloading myself on any given today. Today...lists. Tomorrow...the world. And with that send off, I think I'll get on with it. Busy days are ahead. Rest up, my friends.
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