Sunday stitching

I've done a bit of hand stitching while up in Vermont and away from a sewing machine. I've added 3 blocks to the collection while stitching outside on the swing near the fire pit in the evenings. It is a nice relaxing spot, looking out over the lake.

I've also added the grey surrounds on a bunch of my granny squares. I do need to crochet a top to 2 kitchen towels for Mom today before we head out tomorrow.

Aidan has an F1 race to watch today. Mom and Dad are headed to church, and my sister and a niece are planning to come out today to visit. It should be a nice day at the lake in Vermont.

Travel day tomorrow, when we have to head back home and see what hot and humid Florida feels like again. 

Linking up with Kathy and the slow Sunday Stitchers.

 

25 hours without internet

 We also live in a dead area for our cell phones..... we tend to use the in house wifi for our phones.

Everyone is alive.... although someone didn't make a peach cobbler as he was unable to google recipes. I did point him toward the bookcase of cookbooks. He did find one for a cobbler ... and said 'Did you know you have a Chinese cookbook? Yup, I do!. Does Emily know? Not sure'. He took it to her, since that is her wheelhouse for making things.

We had no phone (through the wifi for the land line one) and no tv as we do streaming. I occasionally had one bar on my cell phone.  It was probably a good thing we could not watch the hockey game Monday night.... as we are both rooting for the Oilers and they lost big time to the Florida Panthers (we are lightning fans!). 

I work from home, and log in through my work's VPN. No internet means not able to work. Arrrgghh. 

I did drop a load off to Goodwill and got it out of my house around noon yesterday. I might have finished my audiobook and needed to get to an area I could download the next one .... hehehe. I also did a check on our outage. Yup, was still out with expected 6:30PM resolved time. It came back a little earlier - with no notification from them. Greg just happened to check and it reset and came back around 4:40PM. We lost it around 3:30 PM the previous day. So much for signing up for a text notification of it coming up. 

I really did not get much done as I had no motivation. I did give the dog a good walk before it got hot (before 8AM) and chatted with a couple of neighbors. One also worked from home but had Verizon cell service. We have TMobile. The other has a different provider than Centurylink for internet so she was fine. They are putting in fiber across the road so I'm sure they cut a line somewhere. 

I did mark stitching lines on the back of one of the shoo fly blocks and one of the flowering snowball blocks. I started on the flowering snowball.

And got these 3 parts together. I need another one like this and then the two lighter parts with a yellow square in the middle.

I also got the two orange sting of beads blocks done for the month. I got the darker orange one with green peels done yesterday.

Back to work today. Greg took the kids to the bank to get their own checking accounts and a card attached to it. We will still be paying this, but it will establish their credit ratings and we can separate out their use of the 'card' they each have in their name for paying for gas and things while they are out and about. Greg had it lumped in with his and was questioning things and I had to explain which kid was where for each of the dates listed. He was questioning Jacksonville Food Trucks. I explained, the end of April was Skills USA for Aidan and they did not cover food, we did. They covered the hotel and getting them up there and back. We pay for gas and food for them. Some extras we discuss and pay, some things they pay out of their monies. Like Aidan and books he bought while at Skills USA. They are pretty responsible with their money. 

Aidan is off for his Senior formal photo for the yearbook. They have men in tuxes and ladies in a black v shape by their neck. Very different from what mine were, but $25 and done. We will do outside ones ourselves for him at his request.

I'd better finish this now as it is the end of lunchtime and time to get back to work. 

 Instead of clearing out the front rooms for painting... I puttered in the cluttered and unorganized sewing area yesterday. It felt great to play with fabric.

I did drive to the Market of Marion first and got some fresh veggies. My $15 haul. Peaches, tomato, eggplant, peppers, tomatillos, zucchini, cukes and corn on the cob.

I cut out parts to make the last needed Birds in the Air Block. This has been placed in the correct spot and is ready for assembly.

I added the green big triangles to the alternate blocks from last month.

Then the bright and shiny new idea took over. Happy Village is a pattern on Accuquilt that is free for me as a member. I actually have all the dies for it as well, and decided to use the eggshell #184 Kona bolt I got from Missouri Star Quilt Company as the background. I did finish cutting out the backgrounds for the rest of the butterfly blocks before starting on this, just to make sure I had enough for those blocks to be consistent. 

The pattern uses the 8 inch Cube - shape 1 and 3. Those are the big guys. The Shoo Fly block will finish at 12 inches. I think I cut out parts for 5 blocks and was pulling different shades of blue for them.

Then the Flowering Snowball die is the curved one. This one is a fun one to hand piece. I was thinking an all blues/teals quilt. But the purple and green fabrics seem to have gotten cut? We will see, it might change back to all blues and those go into another quilt. Plenty of time to decide. I did cut out parts for 6 of the 12 inch blocks. I did go with a yellow as the center of these. I do love a touch of yellow in things to brighten it up. 

I finished listening to one audiobook (Libby) and started another. I finished 'The Book of Lost Names' by Kristin Harmel.  This was a great book.

Then I went back to a cozy mystery series of the Torrent Witches I had started on Audible by Tess Lake. I'm on book 5 - Holiday Witch. It is nice and light and cozy to listen to.