Just Another Saturday

I was busy, yesterday, cleaning up the bookcase and doing some stitching to keep busy while the furnace man was here.  I had to be visible to the dog as he was "anxious" over the noises coming from the crawl space under the house.

During my "busy-ness" I noticed this little 6 inch piece pinned to the wall and very dusty and dirty. So this morning I washed it in the sink with some Dawn.  And it's now drying flat on the kitchen island. The baskets were sewn by machine but the handles were appliquéd by hand.

I remembered making this while my husband and daughter were off skiing in Vermont--long ago. And I am reminded that the making took an entire day.  I think I intended to make more--but..... the process wasn't what I would recall as being "fun".  It could become a "center" for something in the next few weeks?

And here we have the in progress patchwork--all stitched by hand, but at a much faster rate (I must be getting better with this as I get older?)  In order to make the nine patch I had to UNSEW one patch and replace with another as the long strips were all the white fabric squares.  Then I stitched the three rows together.  I then had two sets of two rows each but they looked boring so I decided to unsew some white squares and add in blue ones.  Except it was trickier as the hole left by the unsewing was U shaped.  So three sides to stitch on each blue replacement.  But I managed.  Now I am planning to do the long seam on each to stitch them to the center.  The nine patch is the onion dyed fabric.  The blue was a tea bag and a tiny spot of blue craft paint.  So not plant based.  Though I do know now I can get a sort of blue with red cabbage and lemon juice.  Actually more of a violet.  But I am liking this small patch project.

I got my haircut yesterday.  I mentioned that I thought the previous cut was a bit too short.  And while looking at my hair-- the stylist reflected that it did indeed look like a few areas had been cut a bit too much.  "A few areas".   Now that made my day.

G brought home a cherry pie from Whole Foods in Portland.  They just never have any cherry when I shop there and G said this pie--here in my house--was the ONLY cherry pie.  I feel so amazingly happy about that.  Really.  People say I am so difficult to please.  Whole Foods Cherry Pie.  Easy.