I Dug Out The Flannel Quilt That Needs Quilted

  I put this on my Facebook page, but decided to share here too.

A few years ago-years just go by don't they??- I sewed up a large flannel quilt for us and a smaller one for my author friend that lives near Yellowstone park as a Christmas gift a couple years ago now.

I had hunted for Yellowstone inspired animals etc in cotton flannels after my trip there in 2017. For mine, I also bought a one piece flannel backing fabric and I bought a wool batting. Wanted this to be warm and cozy.

 Last year I got frustrated with the hand quilting-the layers are just too thick for even stitches. So I put it away. I just dug it out this morning, and trying to figure out the best way to knot it with ties. At this point I think it's the best solution-and I want to use this quilt-would be nice for this winter.

My math is not the greatest, with this being a thick quilt the ties need to be every 3 inches across the quilt at the most-can be less inches apart. I was working per block as thought it would be easier to get it all straight-but the math is not working out for me as of yet, these are 12 inches blocks-alternating with a 4 patch design-also a 12 inch block. I need to step away from it for a bit. I don't want the ties to end up at the seams either.

I set up my fold away craft table that I use for all sorts of projects-and it's perfect to work on.

I took this photo sideways the other day Early this morning we had a little bit of snow-on the very old deck-that needs replacing soon.

I still have the bad monitor so hoping these photos look ok

  In my mind I still want this had quilted-before I was working with a hoop that just was not working. I may just try again with large stitches-and work on each block  instead of going across the whole length-still thinking about this. Any ideas quilting flannel??

  This is too large and bulky to go through a regular sewing machine.

Notre Dame college out of South Bend Indiana will be playing in a bowl game today around 1 pm my time I think it is. I grew up in Mishawaka Indiana which was next to South Bend

I also splurged and bought a new weaving book-designed for the very small vintage loom I have. The Structo loom.

I found this image online-just like mine-I found a Facebook group for these little vintage looms .Larry found this for me very inexpensively at a garage sale years ago. I have it all set up to weave on now. These can be very expensive now. The above book will be perfect for patterns. My little loom is a 4 harness like my larger loom This one below almost looks like a 2 harness

 Enjoy your day!

  

T Stands for Tuesday Welcoming in Spring

   Happy First Day of Spring!  We had been so cold here in my area-low teens and 20's F in the evenings for over a week now and cold temps during the day as well. Today bright sunshine and we made it up into the 50's F. A pretty nice day for welcoming in Spring.  A little warmer this week with lots of rain coming in.

  Hoping those of you with all that snow will be seeing a melt off soon with warmer temperatures coming your way as well.

  This post is also for T for Tuesday, where we visit with friends over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's with a drink related photo.

 This past week-yep still spinning-smiles. Another skein of this pretty blended green and this blended blue. I am also working on more blues and yellows-oranges. 

  With all the different colors I have spun up for my garment project, I am thinking to make the various greens the dominant color-so I found on Etsy from a different seller, a lovely hand painted woodsy green, with woodsy yellows and browns. This is a long wool-Blue Leicester and is also 4 ounces. I am thinking that having more greens woven through out the garment will give a more cohesive look.

 

    For this rauna project I need to work up a weaving sample with these bulky singles and decide what weight of warp yarn to use. I never sample any craft or art project I just jump in and do it, but this time I need to sample since the weights of the yarns will be so different. So I brought out my adorable little loom that Larry found at a garage sale many years ago. I have not used it in all these years as I was either too busy with working-before retirement-or into my other crafts-dyeing, paper making etc.

   Isn't she too adorable? It's a shame I didn't find the time to use this already. This 4 harness loom was made in the 1920's-1930's and sold for around $10.00 back then including some accessories. Larry thinks he only paid around $20.00 for it at a garage sale, and it is in very good shape.

   The reed is rusty as you can see but everything works and in good condition.  I found a Facebook group for these little looms so was able to ask questions about taking the reed off of it's frame so I can clean it.  That was a big help for us-to know about it-as it has springs to watch for so not to lose them, I also would like to buy another size reed-this one is 15 ends (slots) per inch which is pretty fine, and I would like to buy a size 12-12 ends per inch.  I located a business that makes reeds-costly but good to know. For the heck of it I looked on Ebay in case there could be a reed for sale-but instead I found several of these looms that were not as nice as mine starting at $300.00 on up-craziness. 

  Do you like to make up a corn beef and cabbage dinner? We love it so I always make us corn beef with cabbage, little whole potatoes, and fresh carrots. This year I made up this meal on the 16th and then on StPatrick's day I made us reubens-sooo good.

  The smaller one on the left is my gluten free version. I love this cast iron grill pan for so many different things, and to weight down the sandwiches, I just grabbed another cast iron pan.

 For my drink share-the thermal cup has ice water in it, and in the background is a dessert wine from a local winery in Stover Missouri. I found these thermal cups at Wal Mart last year and made in the USA

Yesterday (Sunday) I wanted to make an upside down cake-but something different than pineapple. I grabbed a can of organic peaches that were thickly sliced with no added sugar, fresh blueberries, and a yellow gluten free cake mix from Bob's Red Mill. This turned out soooo delicious and moist. I used the strained peach juice in the cake instead of the water, and I used olive oil instead of butter.  This turned out so good.

I was able to flip this over onto a hand thrown pottery plate with no accidents-whew  smiles

Happy T Day