Good morning, my friends. The sky has turned a little gloomy both yesterday and today. It works for me because it's a grocery shopping day. We were just there last week, and so our list is relatively short. Also today, I need to feed our hungry birds. I know they're hungry because they can empty our feeders in two days. Also, it's that time of year when I need to remind myself to water the flower pots. I'll check on those while I'm out and water them as needed.
As for yesterday's comings and goings...there was no coming nor going. We stayed home all day. It was a good day for sewing. First, as expected, I finished off October's block for A Year in the Garden.
There are just two more blocks before I can add this to the list of large quilts to be sewn into flimsies. (That list happens to be empty just now.)
After that I did my PT exercises and a little bit of housework. After lunch, I was ready to move along with the head rests I'm making for the RV. When I arrived in the sewing room, Smitty was Johnny on the spot to help out.
With his help, I drew in all the lines as I wanted to stitch them. I'm making both head rests at the same time, and so I drew lines on both.
Sadie held the second one down while I stitched on the first.
I'll admit to approaching this with a bit of trepidation. Could I really draw all those lines and keep them straight and evenly spaced? And if I could draw the lines, could I really stitch those circles nicely rounded? And could I really stitch all those straight lines and keep them parallel? As it turns out...Yes! Yes, I could! Yay me! It's working!
Here's a little different angle to give you a better look.
And that took the whole of my sewing day. I haven't started on the second one yet. With the lines already drawn, it'll go faster. Probably, I spent at least an hour just drawing the lines yesterday. That'll be today's project, and then I can make the tabs I'll sew to the top where the velcro will be attached. It's confusing to try to describe in words, but I know exactly what I'm going to do. I'll show you the whole process as I go along.
It was nearing dinner time by then. I had in mind to try a new recipe for
Chicken Piccata Pasta. This was pretty easy, and we liked it. (Mike likes anything with capers, and so I knew he'd like this.)
As a side, I served each of us a breadstick from Seattle Bakery. I'm really liking these. They're so easy. I spray a little olive oil spray over them, then sprinkle lightly with some garlic powder and Italian seasoning. Then, I can bake them in the toaster oven for four minutes, and voila! An easy and tasty side dish. These are available with the rest of the breads in our grocery store.
A couple of notes about the recipe: First, it calls for radiatori pasta. Our grocery store doesn't carry that shape. I used trottole, and that was a good choice. The recipe suggests fusilli, rotini, or rotelle as well. Second, it tells you to add a quarter cup of pasta water. I thought it thinned the sauce more than necessary, and so I'd hold off adding the pasta water in the future until I see how the rest of the ingredients go together.
So that brings me to this morning. As I've mentioned, we have grocery shopping to do. Before we go, I'll take the first stitches on Block 7 for Le Jardin.
Originally, I thought we'd set up the sawhorse and plywood tables in the garage today. With grocery shopping on the list, and PT tomorrow, we're going to wait until Thursday. The weather will be nice and warm that day, and we're expecting warm weather through the weekend at least. It'll be a good time to be out sandwiching quilts, and I'll be able to keep the garage door open. Probably, I'll get some kitty help. You can't beat that.
Okay...so off I go. Stitching awaits.
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