Plenty of Sewing

Good morning, my friends. Yesterday's outing took less time than expected. We finished with our vaccines a little too early for lunch, and so we ran a couple of errands and then headed for home. Also, we both feel fine after our vaccines. I don't even have a sore arm from it. 

Before we left, I had time to press and photograph the Santa Quartet. These guys will get a border eventually. 

It seems small for a table runner, even with a border added. When I left it, I asked the Santas to discuss among themselves what they would like to become. Perhaps a coffee table runner would be a nice addition to the Christmas decor.

And there was time to stitch the first Tiny Treasure in the next batch of twelve. This is Tiny Treasure #49. It includes stem stitch, straight stitch, lazy daisy, and French knots.

I'll just keep going with those, one per day, until they're finished. I'll reach Tiny Treasure #60 with this go-round. After that, I'll have just one more go-round to finish off all 72 of them. After that...I have a plan. I'm kind of excited to see how it will turn out. I'll say more about it eventually.

After lunch, I made some more progress on the Homestead quilt binding. Now I've turned three corners. I expect to turn the fourth corner today, but I probably won't finish it until tomorrow.

It's a good thing because The Story of My Day is getting antsy about going under my needle. Also, I'm ready to get started. Possibly, if there's time at the end of today, I might start on it before I finish the quilt binding.

Okay, and then I spent the rest of the afternoon in the sewing room with my very helpful sewing cat.

The pieces for the next five Jawbreakers blocks were already cut the day before.

First, I needed to make and trim 20 HST's.

And then I needed five 4-patches.

And then I could stack all the pieces to be sewn into quilt blocks.

When all five were finished, they looked like this.

Then, I could lay them out with the first five blocks, and the first two rows of this quilt were completed. There will be six rows in all.

We had a few sprinkles yesterday, and slightly warmer temperatures. It seemed like a good time to see if any more peonies had opened. They're not quite there, but I expect to see these two open completely by the end of today. The first one is the Fairy Princess peony.

This one is the Garden Treasures peony.

For dinner last night, I tried this recipe for Thai Peanut Chicken. It was simple and good. There's enough left over for another meal. This would also be easy enough to do in the RV.

I made the recipe as written. We thought the "sauce" was a little skimpy, although it covered everything. Still, I'd probably double the sauce ingredients next time around. We had it with some store-bought peanut sauce. That worked too. There are lots of these on the market. We used this one.

Okay, and so the sun has returned today. We're expecting some warm weather over the next week or so. My knees have recovered enough from planting the vegetables that I'm going to give them another beating by doing some weeding today. We've had rain over the past few days, and so it's a good time to pull weeds. There's one housekeeping chore after that, and then I can get back to my sewing. Have you noticed that life is just a series of obstacles getting between us and our sewing?

Also on today's agenda, I'll make some more progress on the quilt binding. I'm hoping I'll finish it no later than tomorrow. Next up on my list of WIP's is to make Block #2 for "Where the Cows Come Home." This is the block for which the quilt is named. Here's the picture from the book.

The quilt pictures in the book have been done with wool. I'm using fabrics from my stash...all cotton...but I try as much as possible to replicate the colors shown in the picture. If I can finish this, I might get a start on quilting The Story of My Day. Doubtful, but one can aim high, right?

Okay, so it's a busy day ahead. Time to get to work on the next Tiny Treasure. What's going on in your sewing room today?