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Yesterday morning I spent a couple hours working on my GOOD Enough COVID 19 quilt.

This isn't the way it ended up but rather a practice run at what 6 feet by 6 feet would look like. Makes me think of a path.

I need 12 to 14 more blocks.

Which means it will be made from 36 to 48 blocks.

That makes me think of years, 3 or 4?

I am leaning towards 36 blocks, with strips of fabric along the sides to make the 6 foot by 6 foot measurement.

Another practice run, it's really lap quilt size at the moment.

I had a random thought awhile ago, that it might be strange to sleep under and use a quilt named and created in response to a pandemic.

I've decided it's not. 

This quilt is mostly about living and celebrating what we can and protection.

It's about caring, which is a form of mending and a form of healing.

It's about life, which is really, mostly...complicated and messy.

three words

Indigo

Play

Sweet

I added the dot on the lower left hand wing today on my lunch break.

It's a wishing dot.

The thread and base fabric are from Deb Lacativa.

 

a tale of three

1. Garbanzo beans sauteed with veggies and paneer.

2. Hummus + roasted beets + cauliflower gratin + crackers

3.Gratin blended + water + garbanzo beans + rehydrated red peppers.

And as a bonus round,

The three not so little, not so much kittens anymore...

The boys still try to squeeze into small places together or with Widget.  It never goes well...one ends up sitting on top of the other and that just doesn't last for long, especially if Widget is involved.

And so they are exploring bigger baskets.

Widget has been trying out the washing machine. 

And where Widget goes, Timber usually follows...

I meant to...

And that seems to be the way it goes.

I am untangling yarn as well as a few other things,

dressing up left over curry corn chowder from work with spinach, pumpkin seeds and panner, 

and glad that beets and carrots keep well. 

I really haven't been cooking much lately. 

The carrots are really yummy raw though. 

Maybe I should go put some beets in the oven right now!

15 + 60

An hours worth of stitching this morning on the Peace and Plenty blanket:

As I stitched I listened to a new podcast I've discovered:  Seamside.  I've listened to four of the five conversations so far and have found them all interesting. 

Fifteen minutes of collecting yesterday added to my collection of plant materials for projects:

Dandelion stems for cord making, daffodils and Camellia sinensis (the Camellia used for making tea) for dye.

Dandelions will continue the process of developing seeds even if picked.  Something to consider.

That's for tomorrow.

getting back to 15 minutes of making

Today's 15 minutes, the product of a lot more time experimenting.

 

I can see a row of these on  my Peace and Plenty quilt.

choosing

I've been spending a lot of time sorting and reorganizing.

Use it up, give it away, and decide what I really want.

How I want to spend my time.

What do I enjoy the most?

One thing I know I love...color.

This is the dresser I have by my bed.

The drawers were a bit of a mish-mash of things. 

Now one drawer is full of journal materials.

Another full of thread, needles, a few scraps of fabric.

The rest projects that I can pull out and work on for a little bit and then put away easily...insomnia projects.

Similar decisions are being made in the garden.

What can I care for, what will thrive on it's own?

Very excited to find the fig is alive.

 

other things

From last weekend's walk.

I love this one just as much as the loon floating on the water.

Going under...what will be found?

Leftover soup found it's way into quiche as the liquid component.

(Avocado is one of the few non-local foods I eat, from California so not too far.)

My hummingbird feeders: fuchsias and petunias.  As well as lobelia and creeping charlie.

And "mending to wear."

That's when you mend something and then put it on so you can wear it that day...

 

a few things

There has been a lot of gardening. 

(Achoo!)

Walks along the bay....

Some cooking:

Marti's corn soup with a few twists of my own.

Salad with ingredients from the farmer's market, local paneer and asparagus from the garden.

And a start...

that went awry.

Somethings do.