T Stands for Tuesday and Update on Wool Quilt

   Hi Everyone,

        T is where we share our post with a drink related photo with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth. I look forward to this event and seeing what everyone has been up to and viewing their art and crafts.

    Last week Larry's sister, her daughter (12 years old) and husband wanted to get away for a bit so her husband could get some R&R from his Vet clinic.  Our lifestyles are totally different but we did get together a couple days. It was another very hot and humid week so Larry didn't take them out on our boat-they couldn't get up early and here by 7 am at the latest. and Larry just can't be out there in that heat any more. They did fish off the dock a couple of times and caught fish-they were small so didn't keep them. He also let them borrow fishing poles to take to their rented condo on the lake so they could fish as well.

     They did spend an afternoon at one of our state parks-Lake in the Ozarks State Park and had a good time. They rented a condo for the week so they could cook their own meals, and they also decided to look at lake homes and condos for sale. She says they will be back in October to look again. They are about 6-8 hours away from this area of the lake-and her husband says it would be a perfect place for him to hide away for a long weekend.  So we'll see what develops.

   I have been working on my wool quilt top this past week. 

       This was all from felted down sweaters and wool clothing that I had in my stash. I had allot of of it so this quilt really used up a bunch. I still have plenty to cut up for weaving or rug hooking, mixed media projects, and wool appliques for a folk style quilt-on cotton. 

   The quilt sewed up pretty well. The most time consuming part was to really pin-use allot of pins, and to press all the seams open-a challenge on some of the double seams together that were sweaters. My walking foot worked perfectly for this project. 

   These are photos when I finished up sewing all the rows together-the stickers to the left are the number of the rows so I could put them together in order.

   Last night I finished up steam pressing all the long rows of seams open

  Here is that photo    I am quite pleased with the results. I had originally designed the lay out for butting the edges together-no seams that way-which didn't work out at all. I hadn't thought to add more of the rectangle pieces in the rows to offset all the double seams when sewing the rows together. So I would suggest that if you decide to make a similiar quilt.

I have been debating if I want to use a batting or not, I found this batting in my stash that I only paid a dollar for. It is very thin so I think it will give the quilt a little body. I laid it out on the quilt top to help flatten it, and then folded it with the top.

For the backing, I had wool yardage in my stash from garage sale finds but decided it would not be real "cozy" as the wool was a bit scratchy.  I did have two pieces of brushed cotton in my stash, but decided it wasn't quite right for this. So I went shopping online, couldn't find what I wanted at a low price, so went on ebay and found this cotton flannel-I think it's perfect. three yards for $25.00 free shipping

   I think I will still layer this-quilt top-batting-backing, and sew around the edges leaving an open to turn-and then blanket stitch around the outer edge, and add ties in the blocks to hold the batting together.

    I don't have any art to share this week. 

         I did win a signed book though, and photo shows my beverage reference. The brand is Ice that is carbonated water with flavorings.

    This is the author I shared awhile back for her novel The Blue-the search for indigo. That was a really a good book. This one is a short story that I really enjoyed by her as well. So I was thrilled when I got the email that I was chosen to win.

Looks like we are beginning to get out of the high 90's -finally It is still hot and humid here though.

  Hope you all had a good week  Happy T 

T Stands for Tuesday

   Good morning everyone, Time for T where we gather with friends over with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth to share a post with our drink reference.

   I almost didn't join in today, but I am up in the middle of the night and decided to post.
   I did get a couple masks made last week-once you make one they are pretty easy but I had such a hard time getting a first one made-as the two instructions I had followed first had errors in them and I just couldn't visualize these. My friend referred me to Joann Fabrics site where they have several videos of different styles.
   This was for sure a recycled project-I have kept bags of elastic and sewing tapes that came from my Grandma's and then Mom's sewing rooms and I had saved in my fabrics a cotton skirt that I made back in the 60's (back when we wore dresses and skirts and blouses) I saved this because it was sort of an oriental print but the cotton was soooo soft-this was back in the day when there were fabric stores to make clothes.
  I also grabbed a pretty brown t shirt back that I had cut up which I have not made into a mask yet

all photos will enlarge just click on them In the first one you can see my coffee cup to the left

I ended up making two of these

I am in the same mindset as Kate mentioned last week not to wear one. We don't see anyone, and I only go food shopping every 14 days or so mostly for fresh foods, and I am careful to wipe down surfaces with clorox wipes and to wash up well when I get home.  But I decided to make a couple mostly to keep from touching my face in the store.  These do not really protect you from the virus.

   I was finally much less stressed last week- that was until Sunday.
       I was in my sewing room figuring out these masks and Larry was working in the garage as we finally got some nicer weather.  When I finished I figured I would enjoy the sunshine and burn more leaves.  That's when I learned that Larry had an accident getting a heavy tool cabinet out of the trailer-by himself. The wheel must have caught in the grate in front of the garage (to carry away rainwater) and he fell with the cabinet on top of him.  He did get up and get the tool cabinet into the garage. I have been reminding him to carry a cellphone with him so he can call me if he needs to and he didn't  (we don't use these so something we don't think of-we do throw it in the car for emergencies) He wanted to give this a couple days-he has a major groin injury of some sort and we need to figure out how to get an xray. He can barely walk-I have been pushing him around in his desk chair. I am going to see if I can get an evisit today and see what we can do. With this virus around I do not think that hospitals are safe for him for right now.
   So healing prayers requested.  and with the weather warming up I had hoped he could finally go fishing and we have so much to do at the woods house to get it ready to sell. Trivial things to worry about right now.

  Last Saturday I made sourdough biscuits and gravy. I made a batch for Larry and then used the sourdough starter for a batch for me with gluten free flours. These breads are not making me sick (celiac) and this one baked up and tasted like real bread-a first

gluten free batch

Wheat batch

 I did take a photo of one of our plates with the sausage gravy and two eggs-but for some reason starting with that photo the photos will not upload off my camera.
   These past few weeks when microsoft/windows upgrades it has messed up our photos. First it no longer will delete the photos off our cameras-I finally figured out how to do that off the camera itself, now since the weekend the photos will not upload from my camera to the computer-so of course I won't be able to share photos now til we figure out what is going on.
    I almost have the feeling that computer programs are not going to support much except smartphones since that is the majority now. One of my banks online wouldn't let me sign on for over a day-thought that was really strange so scrolled all the way down to the bottom of the page looking for customer service and found they had a seperate link for signing on with a desk top computer (at the bottom of the page for this).
      Not happy about this new change.

One evening last week I made our first batch of mango margaritas for 2020. When I had food shopped a couple weeks ago they had these huge mangos-so had to buy one

Closing with a couple lake views last Saturday

When we look to the far right of our deck-that area always has lots of boats

Happy T everyone