Daily Notes- July 14th

Class Home Work.  Templates for tiny one inch patches and view finders for other sided patches.  So you can find nice variations before cutting.  These just tumbled out of the envelope for this picture but you can see what the viewfinder does best.  Like that little one with the tiny point of purple.

These are "my size" which is --for the smallest square--9 little graph squares by 9.  Then 18 by 18 little squares.  Because I can freehand cut that size without thinking.

I have had--in a drawer--for years and years a large expensive hand dyed piece from a professional dyer.  She used to sell dyed cloth.  Her first name begins with an M. I decided to wash and dry it before using.  My finger tips are purple.  The dye runs.  I am beyond angry.  The stuff was expensive.  And there's 1.5 yards of it.  It's now in the washer with some dark colored old clothes.   I fear it will continue to shed dye.  It's a color way cloth running (how true) from yellow to orange to red to green to blue to purple.  I used to own a bottle of something that stopped dye from running.  Synthr... something.  I'll look for it.

Meanwhile my finger tips will be dark blue.  Like frost bite.

Hallmark Christmas Mysteries most of yesterday.  Three nice zucchini from the garden.  Panic attack for Riley.  G was nailing something to the wall in the garage that backs up to the wall where Riley and I were watching tv.  I asked him to stop.  He did not.

Goodwill today.  No cloth.  Nothing.  So we drove across Town to the other Goodwill.  I found a very nice pink linen shirt for one dollar and ...even at the full price of $6-the nicest white linen shirt which I think retailed at the time I was buying this brand 1995?--for over $100.  And I put it on and it's now my best/favorite shirt and I'll be wearing it all the TIME.  Really!!!.   So nice.

I also got a nice spool of twine to use to tie up my tomato plants at Goodwill.  And some zebra stripe paper clips.  My favorites.  So I'm happy.