RSC in Blue

 I got a little sewing time in and was able to correctly make the alternate BITA blocks in blue today.

Well, this set of 4 is correct. The 16 patch looks good. 

I see an oops in this one. Top left block needs a little fix. Out comes the seam ripper.

Wednesday night was the bands Pre-MPA. We did a quick run to Kohls for black dress pants after Guard practice Tuesday night. They did well and will work on what the judges recommended on their 2 pieces. Next Friday night is their MPA.

I had found a good recipe site - Amybakesbread. There was a yummy looking cinnamon focaccia recipe that looked good. I decided to try the chocolate chip scones instead this time. I am waiting for them to cool a bit before I try them.  

I'll link up on Saturday with the RSC.

Crochet

 

I knew I wanted to bring some grey into this project. After finishing off the dark granny, I pulled out the grey and added a round to each of the colors.

I think it will work, but I'm still in the deciding mode. I do have cream as an option as well. 

My sister is on her way home today. The kids are at school. Aidan has chess club after school and Emily has their pre-mpa music performance assessment for symphonic band tonight. They are grouped with 4 middle and 4 high schools tonight to each play 2 of their 3 pieces. Judges will give feedback for the actual MPA which is next week.

I've got normal work. 

My FIL was released from rehab Monday. Horrible communication as we had a meeting scheduled for Tuesday at 3pm. The phone call Monday morning saying he was waiting for a ride home was not expected. Sigh. 

Beach

 No tiny Midget progress, but I did get flower inspiration this week for my borders. The beach and walking in Shalom Park near my house gave me lots of ideas.

89 degrees last Thursday.  Terri and me. No, we are not twins. She is 7 years older than me.

A weekend at the beach

 My sister Terri is down visiting and we escaped to St. Augustine for the weekend. A little windy and overcast but it was lovely.

Yesterday was a few nature walks, beach time in the afternoon and mini golf and a soft serve in the evening. Lots of pretty flowers.

This was our balcony view.

A little crochet and reading got done as well.

Wacky Wednesday crochet?

 Ok, I'll work on a title for that one. 

I added 4 granny squares last week and I did the same since Sunday's post. It was a crochet type of week I guess. I did one in country blue, which is my medium and 3 lights. 

I was very excited this morning when I woke up and saw the sourdough starter finally behaved and rose last night and fell a bit this morning. I decided to try making a bread. It is in the oven right now. I'm just so excited it finally rose. Not sure if it was the warmer temps (it's been in the 80's all week) or that I switched to a bottle of water a few days ago when feeding it, or the new flour from Sams's club I just got into. Anyway... baking bread smells yummy.

I just need to find a recipe where the Dutch oven is not in the oven at 500 degrees for an hour. I pulled it out when the smell bugged me with 20 minutes to go. It was still plenty hot when I added the bread on the parchment paper to bake. I think the next batch will be in my Stonewear bread pans. 

We will see how it tastes for breakfast with some eggs.

Bringing back Tiny Tuesday.....

 In this case, I pulled out the midget applique that I hand pieced and hand appliqued into a quilt top. The borders need more flowers added to it.... and maybe some leaves?  I made these while sitting in the car line at the kids elementary school. It looks like I started it back in January 2015!  Probably time to get the top finished this year since they are in high school! Who knows, maybe I'll get it hand quilted before both are out of college? He he he

These blocks are so vibrant! Some of my favorites are in this photo.

Slow Sunday Stitching.

 I'll be doing a little applique today on 2 projects. This dresden plate circle, needs a little repair to secure it to the top. I'm hoping once Aidan is home from his ACT testing this morning, I can finally get my quilt holder up on the wall so I can hang this quilt in the kitchen/living room area. I need a tall person to help me!

My other applique is to get this body of the butterfly stitched down and then I'll add some embroidery for the antenna. I've got 8 more of these blocks to get onto their background and get finished off. 

Four more granny squares were crocheted this week to add to the pile. 

Yesterday, Emily's riding partner called out sick so our trainer asked if I wanted to ride with her. I've been sick all last month so no riding since early December. I just did a little walking and a trot a few times around the arena, then I was content to sit on my recliner... I mean Goody the horse and watch Emily deal with an ornery Doc who was not understanding to pick up the canter.

After our lesson, there was an estate sale about a mile from the riding place that I wanted to check on a Singer sewing machine. Alas, it was gone but Emily wanted to walk through the house. Everything was marked as they were going to gut and remodel it. In a punchbowl box of cut glass there was a cut glass platter. Ours dropped and shattered a year ago, so I pulled the platter out of the box and asked the price. It got washed last night and is all clear and shiny now and very heavy!

 It came home with us along with this pretty quilt rack. I was thinking I would paint it, but I wiped it down and polished it and now I am not sure. I'll think on it.

Linking up with Kathy and the Slow Sunday Stitchers.