T Stands for Tuesday & Very Hot & Humid at the Lake & Wool Quilt Progress

   Hi everyone, I am thinking this may be our last Tuesday for August.  On Tuesdays we share a post with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T. Anyone is welcome to join in for the T Party just be sure and share a drink related photo in your post.

   We have been back to very hot and humid weather again here at the lake, looks like it will continue for awhile. No rain here either for over a month so everything is drying up and burning up. Of course the chipmunks are still eating my tomatoes-they must need the food this year, as I have never had this issue with them before. They seem to love the small green ones-so I have not yet had one tomato make it to full size. 

   I baked us up another keto New York Cheesecake last week-this one topped with cherry preserves. Yum. I need to churn us up another batch of ice cream this week.

  I got the quilt backing sewn on to the wool quilt along with the thin batting. I messed up my measurements and needed 4 yards instead of 3 yards. But, I think it ended well as I found just enough of a plaid flannel in my stash that matched up to the colors of the fishing print. 

   This turned out to be quite the job getting the three layers smoothed out, pinned, and sewn together. I left a small opening and turned it all to the right side. Hand stitched down the opening. I like the plaid on the back as it picks up the plaids that are on the front.

   Now I started working on the outer edge with a blanket stitch. I had to stop to figure out a better way to hide the knot so not noticeable as there is no "back" side to this quilt that won't be seen. I took this out three times already. I asked the question on how to do this on my slow stitch group on facebook and someone gave me a way to do it-so we'll see how that goes. I will alternate different colors of wool "thread" (yarn)

  I then plan to put it on the hand quilt frame and decide from there what I want to do next. I wanted to add the thin batting to give it a little body and be against all those seams-so it needs to be either tied-like those old country style quilts-or  some large stitching near the seams-not sure yet.

   As soon as I set this up in my extra room where the desk computer and much more is-Larry's sister called and said they wanted to drive down to see a lake house. Larry had found it-it's about 15 minutes by car from where we are or a 5 minute boat ride apart. They want to rent it out for most of the summer, and spend time there during the fall especially. So I took this apart and set it up for the blow up double mattress-those are so nice now to have and actually really comfortable too. They came in very late Saturday evening, and left early Sunday afternoon. Allot of driving-about 7 hours. It would be a bit less but almost the whole route is under construction right now.

   We all went to check it out-it's a cute house, small rooms, it does have 80 foot of water frontage-not bad-but they are in a cove so all the docks are very very close together, as are the houses. Not for me at all-but the advantage of it is they don't have to contend with the high waves hitting their dock like ours. and looks like a family cove so may be nice for their young daughter to find friends. 

    It's way over priced for what needs to be finished up to make it nicer for renting-so we'll see what they decide. (they are looking to buy a lake house and then rent it out most of the summer)

   That's been my week since last Tuesday. I did wake up with a horrible tooth ache this morning from the area where my new crown was put on just a couple of weeks ago. Feels like an infection of some sort-so hoping I can get in this week to find out.

  For my drink reference-I poured me a glass of cashew milk over crushed ice-It's from the company Elmhurst that I had shared awhile back. Just cashews and water nothing else.

Happy T everyone.