Posts from — September 2009

So yesterday the man/boy and I spent sometime getting the hovel sort of cleaned up in preparation of a landlord visit. After her pre-inspection inspection, she offered us a box of produce from her garden! There were tomatoes of different varieties, some little red chili peppers and some larger green chilis. I started thinking about marinara sauce, but R’s thoughts went to the more obvious – Salsa!

We had enough tomatoes for both, including 2 attempts at salsa. (R was not impressed with the first, so try try again.) I liked both, but the first was quite a bit hotter than the second. They’ve been cooling and blending their flavors in the fridge all night, so I’m curious to see how they’ve changed.

Dinner is going to be good tonight!

When did that happen? Flew right past when I starting working again. It’s been a good summer, though. Great mild weather and lots of relaxing weekends…but not much knitting to show for myself. Instead, i was, well, I was…

SEWING!

Weird, huh? That’s what I thought when I followed my whims at JoAnns one day and bought some funky fat quarters. I had no plan for them, but they were just so cute and colorful. (and on sale!)

It wasn’t 3 days before I had checked out 20 quilting books from the library and had implemented a plan.

layout

A week later, people, and I had a quilt top. It happened so fast, I was actually surprised. Turns out, no really, that the creation of fabric (knitting) is way slower than cutting and seaming the fabric (sewing). Sometimes I am impervious to the obvious and must experience it myself for it to sink into my brain. I’m sure this is totally normal.

It took longer to get the thing basted, than it did to piece it, but I perservered and started hand quilting it a couple of months ago.

block detail

The basting was kind of a pain in the knees and the back, so I might do something differently… The handquilting is also not rocking my world, so again next time…

Yep, there will definitely be a next time. I’ve already started cutting…