Posted in fabric, quilt, quilting, sewing on June 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Well, I don’t have my camera, but I do have my scanner. So here are my new quandaries:
Bleeker Street by Marcus Brothers
Metro Blue by Marcus Brothers
These aren’t the kinds of colors that go with my house or my decorating, but they’re beautiful and I thought that the fat quarters packs would make good stashbuilders. I’m [...]
Posted in life on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Woe is me. I am all worn out from the excitement (and from banging my head on the breakfast area’s chandelier–that still hurts). Even worse, I am now back in Indiana, but I left my camera there. Phooey. I have so much to take pictures of… I finished the crocheting for Tranquil Retreat, and I [...]
Posted in house on June 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, that’s it, folks. I own a house. It is a McHouse in a McNeighborhood, that’s for sure, but… it’s what’s on the inside that counts, right? What is on the inside right now is gray carpet, pale trim, and dead-fish-belly-white walls. Don’t worry. I will work on it. Here is my canvas:
The grayt room [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on June 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Gardening is wonderful. Really. You should try it. A window box is enough.
The closing is tomorrow, and I’m feeling… at worst afraid, at best profoundly uninspired. There is really a lot of running around to be done before I drive out there. There is really a lot of running around to be done once I’m [...]
Posted in collections, crochet on June 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I recently treated myself to one newsstand issue of the British version of Country Living. While I found it a bit short on articles and a bit heavy on advertising (maybe it just seems that way because I want to buy everything that’s advertised, but can’t), it really made me squeak with happiness. There are [...]
Posted in quilt, quilting on June 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Ohhhhh my. My mother has worked her magic. My Maison de Noel quilt top has been transformed into a real quilt, and it’s sooooo lovely.
I’ll never get over the transformation from warped, buckling, raveling, maddening quilt top into snuggly, sophisticated, totally-with-it quilt.
And my mother’s getting pretty good with her Gammill.
This top was pieced from [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on June 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(ahem) They said it couldn’t be done, but they obviously underestimate the power of a naive gardener to make sweet peas bloom in 90-degree weather.
Getting there, with pretty raindrops, aaaaaand…
Full blown. Phew! That was exhausting.
Posted in sewing on June 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve finally knocked out the three cushion covers that I bought all of the cute red florals for.
My feelings about the results? Meh. As I have said many times, and will continue to say, there are people in the world who can sew straight seams. I’m not one of them. The covers are [...]
Posted in baking on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We are having a second consecutive day of cool temperatures and steady rain. I love it; cool reprieves like this are part of what makes the first half of summer, my favorite half. And rain! The smell of rain-laden air makes me so happy. I don’t know why, it just does. A second morning glory [...]
Posted in crochet on June 22, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I am 7/8ths finished with “Tranquil Retreat.” I have only one more strip of six squares to crochet, and then it’s sewing and finito. I have crocheted most of this afghan while watching DVRed episodes of Mythbusters, and to quote The Hyneman, “I’m so excited I can hardly stand it!”
I memorized the pattern the eighth [...]
Posted in baking on June 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the misty era of wayback, I saw a cooking show (I can’t remember which one; Alton Brown overshadows all my memories of previous cooks) that took a field trip to a State Fair. The first-place blueberry pie baker shared her secret: lime juice. Blueberries can get cloyingly sweet and bland when baked, so they [...]
Posted in garden, gardening on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m such a lucky gal, in my garden. I feel like I’ve hardly seen it in a week, and it’s going absolutely crazy without me. I’m discovering new things every time I go out there. For example, my precious purple-red-yellow snapdragons seemed to have finished their blooming, and I was wondering if I should cut [...]
Posted in collections, family, life on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I cannot shake the opinion that it is good to have stuff. One doesn’t necessarily feel that way when one is receiving a moving estimate, or when one is packing box after box after box after box… but the rest of the time, I think it feels good to have stuff. In this move–which will [...]
Posted in crochet, family, garden, gardening, life on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Um, the post about my “sweet pea in 90 degree weather” victory? Yeah, I’m redacting that. A friend saw the picture and called it a pansy. I looked at it and thought, yeah, it really does look like a pansy, I mean REALLY, but I didn’t plant any pansy seeds I only planted sweet [...]
Posted in life on June 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in this throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an [...]
Posted in baking on June 15, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As far as I can tell, scones come in two varieties. The first kind is meant to be simple and light, and to carry a heavy load of clotted cream, strawberry jam, orange marmelade, or gooseberry preserves. These are the scones you get with a cream tea in England. I have a standard recipe that [...]
Posted in garden on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They say it won’t happen, but They obviously underestimate the power of a naive gardener to make sweet peas bloom in 90-degree weather.
Warm… warmer…
Disco!
I planted these pots in two waves, first in a fit of early-Spring optimism, second in a fit of post-freeze desperation. Each pot ended up with two climbing sweet peas and one [...]
Posted in quilting on June 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Is that proper Italian? One gets all of the contractions confused. Anyway, she is finished and she is beautiful!
The red and green summer quilt, my friends. It is 68×84, and has four big white blocks by five big white blocks, with hourglass sashing in between and as a border all around. It is made of [...]
Posted in memes on June 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(taking the general tag from Posy)
1. My mother taught me to knit when I was six. I took it up “for serious” in 2004, but seem to have slowed down since last winter.
2. I defended my dissertation 14 months after starting my Ph.D. studies. It sounds impressive, but the truth was I’d started my [...]
Posted in life on June 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Oooh, it’s my first post. How intimidating is that? Let me tell you about myself and what this blog is for:
I enjoy cooking, knitting, gardening, piecing quilt tops, and the occasional bit of garment sewing. I’m also fond of blue transferware, murder mysteries, and Mythbusters. This summer, I am going to buy my first house, [...]
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