December Fabric Journal Page for 2018 Completed & Silk Hankies

Several weeks before Hub's surgery I engrossed myself into my 2018 fabric journal pages. This is one project I really wanted to complete by this year's end.

    At the woods home my florescent lighting above my desk in that craft room does not work in the summer time when it is hot. Never could figure that one out as we have the central air. So it was always too dark in there to work on a close project like this. Then we spent months looking for lake houses etc mid 2018 and actually most of 2019 just got away from us too.
   Sometimes this just happens in our lives.

  A few days before his surgery date, I worked on the December page-it really kept my mind from "freaking out" over everything.  I finished it very late the night before, and just now took a look at it and decided it was finished.
   Next up is sewing together the 6 months of pages into the second book.

  I took this photo a few days before the surgery-these guys are fun to watch-although they can get themselves into allot of mischief. We also seem to have lots of the small grey squirrels here too.
  To the left of those pots is where we buried our Miss Calico-covered a large area with many rocks-and my rock that I wrote on with permanent markers did stay on-just can not see it when wet after a rain-so that pleased me.

Also the day before we left for the surgery-I wanted to try spinning the silk hankies. I am not sure I would enjoy spinning any more of this.
    I even wrote to the seller that I was having difficulty seperating the thin layers-and found it very hard to draft out-into smaller roving to spin-the fibers do not slide apart like wool does. I actually thought when she dyed this her water was too hot for silk-I may try dyeing some white silk hankies and dye myself.
    She told me it is a challenge at first to get the layers apart, and that she would never spin it herself-she stretches it out and then knits with it that way.-so I think I will weave with it that way as well
   Always fun for me to try something new in fibers. Saori weaving style (free form-anything goes) will work out great for this spun silk
  I am spinning more buffalo and finally happy that it is not so thick. I can't get anymore of this as the person selling it below wholesale prices has moved from West Yellowstone and gave up her business. So I was glad I kept buying more of this roving at the time-I love spinning this buffalo fiber-very short fibers-very soft-just very hands on spinning experience for me. My mind would just put me back in Yellowstone and those mountain day pioneer days-haha If I could really time travel that is where I would go for sure.

  Happy weekend everyone!!

T Stands for Tuesday and This and That

  Tuesday is upon us again-first one in September '19.  This is where we gather together and share a beverage photo and post and meet up with our hostess Bluebeard and Elizabeth  You are most welcome to join us-link in my right hand column.

  It's late Monday and the lake is winding down. Wow Sunday the lake had more boats on it than Memorial Day. I think everyone was out there do to the rain storms late friday, and all day Saturday, and many of our neighbors left early early this morning already. 
     As fall approaches Hubs will be able to enjoy fishing on the lake again.

  I made two slabs of baby back ribs just in case any one dropped by for Labor Day. We had invited our one friend who is home alone this weekend but he said his sister and family were driving up from Georgia-I told them they were all welcome.
    So I ended up with a slab and a half of ribs left over-kept out one more meal for us and froze for another meal.

  I smoked these over charcoal and hickory and them smothered them with sauce in foil to keep them moist-turned out delicious.

This morning I decided to make us a gluten free pineapple upside down cake-I baked this in the electric oven in a large glass pan-turned out really moist and delicious-I am getting the hang of this electric stove-finally

I can't drink most beers do to the gluten in them, but here is a stout my Hubs enjoyed with his meal

I had iced tea

Here is a photo I captured of the rain

One evening I got out the October 2018 calendar page to begin working on the next fabric journal page. I saw where we knew we won the bid on this lake house. So I dug out a quilt fabric scrap that looked perfect, some stamps, and then colored in with these fabric markers-had fun  These are not suppose to need heat setting, but since this fabric needs a good ironing I will go ahead and heat press too.

And in the mail I received the two silk hankies that I ordered-inspired by our artist friend Barbara-love the colors! I took photos of front and back side These are many thin layers that you pull off and then smooth out into roving for spinning-or just weave, knit, or crochet without spinning first. really anxious to try this. would all work out nice for needle felting as well.

I think these will be fun to play with.


Wednesday the washing machine saga continues haha
     Last week they were to put a new motor in-I waited all day and they never showed up-really not like sears to do this. I did get allot accomplished at the woods house but still. When I got home and called them they said "oh I see you were scheduled for today but they decided not to come"-what??? so of course they got an earful from me about how irresponsible they are-so I return on Wednesday and hopefully they will show up and get it fixed.

That's all for me this Tuesday Happy T everyone!!