November Rain
The rain that we had overnight has taken all the snow away. The gloomy weather is still a good trade off to allow us to start fresh with snow cover.
Dennis has always taken several cookies with him into the patio porch with his early morning coffee. My feelings were that with his morning pills that he takes right after getting out of bed, there had to be something in that stomach other than pills to irritate the stomach lining. This morning, all I had to send him off with was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The cookie jar was naked.
There needed to be some baking done this afternoon. I made a pan of lemon brownies. Same recipe that I use for brownies, only adding lemon flavorings to make a yellow colored batter. It did make the house smell like there was a wana-be Martha Stewart on the premises.
After kitchen duty was done, I headed into the sewing studio.
I started using scraps last fall for a scrappy quilt. It was put on hold while I worked on Carrie’s skate towels. I worked on the scraps while I was on the quilt retreat. Then again they were again put on hold for an embroidery project. Today those scraps were whacked at again. After doing some sewing, a break was needed to see just exactly would be needed to make a double sized quilt top. Sixteen various scraps sewn together to make a ten inch block that will be an eight point pinwheel design. I always am up for a challenge.
The pinwheel design takes me back to the vinyl pinwheels that were attached onto two foot round dowels allowing the pinwheels to rotate at will. Carrie and Kevin would run with them to make the pinwheels twirl in a fairyland of colors so fast there was not one individual color that could be picked out. Fond memories of innocent times.
It will be some time before there are enough scraps cut and sewn for the quilt top. My goal is to have a scrappy pinwheel quilt backed with warm fussy flannel completed for my bed in November of 2020. The quilt that I made for Dennis’ bed is backed with flannel and is wonderful. The flannel on the back does not allow for the quilt to shift off of the sheet while the body moves during sleep. I learned that trick from my sister-in-law, JoAnn. Sewers are never too old to learn a trick of the trade.
Time to close down the sewing studio and get supper going. Hmm. Fixing meals . . . not so much fun anymore. I’d like to wiggle my nose and have it appear on the table to enjoy.
The rain has done its duty of taking the snow cover away. We could do with a break on having new snow.