(A warning: This is a long post, and I rambled a bit. I put the stash report first, in case that’s all you’re after.)
This was a good week — no shopping (ZERO yards in)! There was also a lot of sewing going on, but I was working on existing projects for the most part (3 yards out on a family reunion quilt).
YTD 75.75 yards out
YTD 85.5 yards in
YTD Net: 9.75 yards IN
Goal is net 75 yards out. Good thing it’s only April — lots of time in which to improve.
Accomplishments this week were completing a customer quilt on the longarm, pinning up an oversized queen-sized customer quilt on the longarm so it’s ready to rock and roll, started knitting a new pair of socks, working on a family reunion signature quilt, and working on a gift project. Here are pictures I can share:
This sock is knitted from some Opal self-striping yarn (75% wool/25% nylon). I’ve completed the heel, and am ready to do the heel turn. Yarn like this is absolutely addicting because you don’t know what’s coming next. Well, until you figure the repeat out, but by then you are several inches into it, and it’s still fun anyway. After last week’s fiasco with a new pattern (the sock was getting HUGE), I’ve reverted back to my original successful pattern. When will I learn . . .
I’ve already blogged about the family reunion quilt here. I’ve sewn the corners on all 98 of the signature squares. Thankfully, this pattern has no sashings, so it will go together pretty quickly.
The customer quilt was a twin-sized airplane-themed cutie. I quilted it with Jodi Beamish’s panto “Popcorn” to simulate clouds. And speaking of pantos, I blogged here about my favorites and also sharing your favorites, so if you are a panto user, pop over and read the other comments and perhaps add one of your own.
For fun, (okay, I really do have fun EVERY day — it isn’t just once a week) seven of us neighbor ladies (and we all live in seven houses in a row, so how fun is that???) met at the local Perkins for breakfast. We were having so much fun, the people at the next table wanted to join us. Thursday was a lovely day, and Perkins is probably a mile or less from here, so I opted to walk there. (Okay, okay, okay, I did accept a pick-up ride with Marilyn halfway there, but I did walk all the way home with Karen.) Don’t you just love springtime?
I took this photo on my walk. This is the long-way view of the pond behind our house. And I wish you could hear it. The blackbirds were singing their hearts out and the pond just sounded alive with activity. Did I already say, don’t you just love springtime?
Saturday DH and I were sitting out on our deck having a pretend latte (I brewed a couple of cups of pretty strong coffee in the Keurig coffee brewer and added some hazelnut-flavored creamer). As good as the $4.00 kind! Anyway, we spotted a great blue heron hanging out along the side of the pond. Here is the un-zoomed regular photo view of the pond from the deck (I marked in red where the heron thought he was hiding):
Here is a photo with my beloved Panasonic 12x optical zoom/4 times digital (total of 48x zoom), which I’ve blogged about before:
This really isn’t a great picture because I’m all the way zoomed out, and it gets pretty grainy. It’s good if I stick to just the 12x, but sometimes that just isn’t enough (but I’m unwilling to pop the big bucks to get a super-duper camera). It’s fun to be able to get shots like this without leaving your pretend latte on the deck!
Oh, and I also worked on our family tree. My dad is the product of a short-lived marriage of the 1920s. I can’t find any trace of his birth father after the 1930 census, so just a shot in the dark: anybody know anything about Kelsey Jordan, b. 1880 in Iowa (also lived in Oklahoma, Minnesota, Colorado), parents were (supposedly) Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss Jordan and Laura Salome Dunning??? (I can find more info on BMP & Laura, but not Kelsey.) I keep searching, but the mystery continues. I guess I deserve it — I always did love a good mystery, and they are so hard to find!
Sue
