eating my feelings

Melissa's yellow and green summer squash sauteed in butter with the very first Roma tomato and onions,  hash brown and (a splurge!) scrambled eggs ... think it will lift my moaning myrtle mood?

Sven Thorson

 my Viking, Sven, lost the will to go on in the middle of a seam...

i unscrewed his bottom plate and realized that his innards are beyond my skills - so i put him back together and packed him up for the repair shop ... our sewing machine repair guy lost the will to repair machines, and now there will be a search for his replacement ... difficult ... and there are no dollars to pay anyone, either...

 there would be a huge sigh here, but sighs aren't cutting it this morning...

wah wah wah

Toilets are the perfect place for a good cry. The echo really makes it feel dramatic. 

Moaning Myrtle

taco tuesday

let's go taco 

Nellie McClung 🇨🇦

the fifth block of 150 Canadian Women is called Sail Boat and is dedicated to Nellie McClung

Melissa's block 5

dianne's block 5

five weeks done and 145 to go (give or take 6)

half-birthday surprises

new books to read!!! (Melissa gave me the Everything Trump Touches Dies book early so i wouldn't have to read about Thing One today)

and handmade shark attack goodies from a generous, giving,  awesome friend and fellow resistance fighter

thank you,  thank you,  thank you!!!

 

147 half years

gonna spend my day eating chinese food and reading and sipping tea and watching The Meg and stitching and scarfing down half-birthday cake 

 WON'T YOU BE MY CHUM?!?

stabby stabby stabby

 i almost missed working on any christmas in july stitching...

till Melissa reminded me that the next hand embroidered quilt we worked on would be 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Crab-Apple Hill

 (we had agreed, again, that Melissa will do the tracing and piecing and i will do the tracing (boo) and stitching, pressing and trimming)

 i have renamed it Santa's Tree cuz this panel

is gonna be the center instead of pieced pinwheels ... it will hafta be cut down considerably

and,  of course,  the floss will not be red...

green for everything except the berries and Rudolph's nose ... the background fabric and the (first two) skeins of floss are from stash ... the floss colors are, in Real Life,  more grey than pictured and the fabric is, in Real Life, less grey - sigh

 the borders are all traced (it's my least favorite part and Melissa wimped out before she even started, so i traced and traced and traced for four days to prove a point ... i think she was secretly snickering the entire time) and i've stitched half a skein's worth of green...

anywho...

for the next few days weeks months  however long it takes, i will be stabby stabby stabbying the four borders, and pressing and trimming - then this will join the last embroidered (Vintage Tin) blocks in the Great Pile of Stuff...

 and they may become quilts someday