Sunday Inspiration

 

I made Hibachi For Lunch

 I never let lack of ingredients keep me from making something I've got a taste for if I have the ingredients to make it happen,  I grilled 2 chicken tenders & 1/2 of a small steak on my little portable grill, did you know soy sauce & honey is a substitute for teriyaki sauce? I used spaghetti noodles because that's what I had, I added parsley for the illusion of green onions 😄 

Even cutting the yum yum sauce recipe in half was still too much for one  ,after it was over with I noticed it recommended chilling for an hour fir the best flavor,but it tasted fine , I  probably wouldn't had chilled it anyways ,I was hungry!😄

The trees are starting to turn around the river that runs long side the park ,Grace & me git a walk in just in time before dark ending with a glorious sunset

Grace turned 8 yesterday! Where did my baby go?😄

I didn't get any sewing,crafting ,quilting,nothing done today😄but it was all for good cause,I walked with my back fence neighbor who is getting over hip surgery,visited with her for a while then rounding the corner back to my house picked up my 94 year old neighbor & walked around the neighborhood again ,needless to say I got some walking in today 😄 

Plans For Rerouting The Red & White

 A little while back the red & white top came to a stand still when I ran out of the white & the red was looking skimpy,of course the shop was out of both with no plans to carry it again before Christmas,after looking at a few shoos I finally found a white on white with a different print but the same white hue

After a few ideas of how to make this work so the eye didn't automatically notice two different prints,the shoo owner suggested to use the new print to frame around it "borders "  but as that would make it way bigger than I want I've begun removing 3  rows   from each side, I'm going for a full size not a queen 😄

I'll add the remaining rows to the bottom that was already cut out & go from there

Meanwhile,are you ready for Christmas cookie baking? I picked up these gorgeous big ole  cookie cutters yesterday at the Northport Pickers Holiday Market, can't wait to try them out!

First Holiday Market Of The Season

Its that time of year when we start to see the beginnings og Holiday Open House at  local shops, Antique Malls , church bazaars &  more celebrating the season & today our newest antique  mall launched their first Holiday Market & the vendors did not disappoint

Slow Stitch Party For One

  Trying to work on finishing this drawn out 2 year project that it's almost redicilous😄 for stitches I use regular sewing thread to embroidery to quilting thread, you can only surround yourself with so much sitting on the couch plus not to mention threads, flying pins etc which is not the problem but when the doorbell rings & it's your niece with the baby,needless to say running to & fro for supplies, vacuuming everytime I turned around was my beating me down😄 so I got it all out & moved my work station to the dinning room

Just a few more stitching details on Ann & Andy

Then they will be ready to be sewn onto the mal pages & sewn to the cloth page

Only 2 pages in the tiny Christmas stitch journal from last year

Now that the slow stitch projects have a designated location its more likely to get finished quicker & everythings safety out of reach for curious little vistors😄

October Recap

"Note to self" never make a list of alllll your UFO's it makes it look like you didn't get anything done😄 the last 2 aprons were completed 10/07

The first Fall quilt was completed 10/17 I had added a 4 patch border to this panel  back in Sept,Oct.5th the outter border was added & stitched pumpkins 

This  scrappy strip quilt top had been ongoing for at least 2 years, finally a finished top 10/17

The tiny 9 patch almost made it off the list with multitasking cutting & chain sewing

Along about putting row 4 on I noticed one little block had come unstitched, well once these tiny things are trimmed to size there's no saving them ,the seam ripper is not their friend,as I began to take it out it was like a domino effect ,then it dawned on me I hadn't reset the stitch length,the stitches were too long for such tiny squares,so after all the fun of that I finally got 6 rows together & called it a night

I did get a lot of finishing touches  done in the slow stitch journal & a new plan for the red & white top to get it finished, todays plans are cleaning around the house,finish the last 3 chapters of the book Ive been reading & lots of random sewing & stitching