How to Spend a Rainy Day

Good morning, my friends. I'm writing fast this morning. Mike and I have appointments for a COVID booster, so we'll be heading out early this morning. Let's just get right to it, shall we?

Knowing rain was coming, I went out early to check on the flowers. The Garden Treasures peony looked pretty much the same as when I looked at it the day before. The Fairy Princess peony was starting to show more of itself.

The Edda clematis continues to add more flowers.

And that was pretty much all that was going on in the garden. Back inside, I spent some time stitching. I might have finished this, but I had other things on my agenda, and I needed to move along.

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I was making dinner early in the day. When that was finished, I sat down to work on my quilt binding. My trusty stitching cat took up residence on my lap.

With her help, I turned the second corner. 

From there, I was ready to sew the fifth row of blocks to the Stair Steps quilt. The five blocks were laid out in order, and then sewn together.

And then I sewed them to the rest of the quilt. With one more row to go, this is going to be a very large quilt. The blocks are 16 inches square.

And it’s kind of a puzzle figuring out where to add rows. I turned this around and around and around trying to figure it out. Even then, I wasn’t sure I trusted myself to sew it together right, but I did. There’s just one more row. I pinned a note to the bottom of the quilt to save myself similar frustration with the final row.

For now, it’s put aside, and I’ll make the second row for the Jawbreakers project. I have one row of blocks so far.

The remainder of my sewing day was spent doing the cutting for the second row of blocks.

There was still just a little time left in the day, and so I headed back to the Santas and finished them off.

There hasn’t been time to iron and photograph the finished stitchery yet, but I’ll get to that today. We’re expecting a little more rain today, but then the rest of the week should be nice. It’ll probably be another mostly sewing day. We might treat ourselves to lunch after our vaccines. If I’m remembering right, our last booster didn’t make us sick, and so I’m hoping I won’t notice this one beyond the stick. 

And with that, I’ll be on my way. Have a good day, Everybody.