Another t-shirt quilted

The quilting on the Lorain quilt is moving along! I was glad to get another shirt quilted and then get some of the border and the sashing quilted too. I circled what I got quilted last night.

Things are going well at the new job. So far everyone has be very nice and helpful.

What a weekend!

Friday the band played in Cuyahoga Fall, Oh. I made pumpkin snickerdoodle muffins for us. It was very hot, but we had a great crowd. I got to bed at 1 a.m.

Saturday I made Chewy Brownie Cookies for the band and crew. The show was in South Euclid, Ohio. It was raining and when the show started there were 3 people in the audience. By the end of the show there were 12. Michael still entertained the crowd as if there was 3,000 people there. I got to bed at 12:30 a.m.

Sunday the weather was nice and we headed to Painesville, Ohio. I made banana bread (I needed to use up the bananas) and oatmeal raisin cookies for the band and crew. While I was working in the kitchen, I made a double batch of Brown Sugar Toasted Pecan Shortbread dough to bake later. Went to bed at 1:00 a.m.

Monday (my rest day ha ha ha!), I drove to a girlfriend's house so we could hang out for the day. I took all those project bags I had made and she bought 14 for gifts. We headed out for lunch then we went to an antique mall. This place was huge. She was looking for a couple mirrors. We were there at least 3 hours looking around, enjoying the 60's rock music they were playing, and being nostalgic with things we saw that we remembered from our grandmother's houses and our mother's kitchens. We found one mirror that would work. It was a fun day. That sock monkey was 3' tall!

Then I spied this quilt. It was an unusual combination of elements - hole in the barn door, goose tracks, and half square triangles.

A lady who is a friend of the band's along with her husband, cleaned out some of her fabric she no longer wanted. She gave it to me to make tote bags for the merch booth. Yeah!

I spent some time getting my recipes sorted and put in the binders I use for most of my recipes. I am glad that is done. I had piles of recipes I had copied everywhere!

I did quilt on the Lorain quilt when I could. I am now 2/3 done. Yeah!

Today I moved into my new space over at a job site. We are replacing a big, long bridge and the project has a 5 year schedule so they needed space in a building rather than working out of trailers. I baked the Brown sugar shortbread cookies for work today to set the mood of what it is going to be like having me around. :) We are still at the stage of getting things set up and organized.

Progress on the Lorain quilt and the upcoming weekend.

I moved over to the bottom border on the Lorain quilt and made some nice progress.

Here you can see how I am almost to the corner.

I will be working on this over the next four days when I am off. I'm taking vacation Friday and Monday. Let's just say there is music involved. I will try and remember to take pictures. Right now I am in the process of moving out of my cubical at work to another office. The company I work for is in a joint venture to replace a big bridge and I was told to go work on that project. I took home one load last night. These are the Operation and Maintenance manuals that are in the process of being completed for the project I am currently on. I will finish those up while I am at the next project. I also had to take my plants!

Have a great weekend!

Some quilting and a visitor

I managed to get a bit more quilted on the Lorain quilt. Tonight I will work on the bottom border and inch up the border on the other side. Once I get that done I will have to get the last two t-shirts quilted before I can finish quilting the borders.

I had a visitor to the garden last evening. I watched it for a while then decided to see if I could get a picture. It was very happy going from flower to flower and nicely posed for me.

Everything needed a drink of water last night. It was hard to water the lavender without disturbing the bees, but I managed. I noticed my jalapenos are getting bigger. It is amazing that plant is surviving after having 75% of it's leaves eaten!

Lunchtime road trip

I went out at lunchtime to pick a few things up at the grocery store and knew I was going to pass by a nursery. I always wanted to stop, but never seem to have the time. Well, today I made the time and what a place it is! The name of it is Blooming Acres and the place was huge! Here are a couple of pictures on the inside - plants as far as you could see! (you will have to excuse the finger)

Lots of succulents

Want a snake plant? Here were just some of what they had

Did they have any jade plants? Oh my goodness I have never seen so many!

They had several large ones. This one is over 5 feet tall and they had more than one of these in stock!

Here is a shot out back. I didn't walk out there because it was just too hot.

Need a palm tree for your conservatory? They had those too!

I will definitely being going back to that place once the weather cools down.

Made some progress

It was a busy weekend, but I did make some progress on the Lorain quilt. I drew a line around what is quilted.

I spent a fair amount of time walking around big box stores getting my steps in. It was so humid outside, but the big box stores weren't exactly cool. I did pick up some odds and ends I needed including some small pots and sausers for some plants I needed to pot and repot. The gray pots and the jade plant came from a nursery I stopped at - more on that so read on.

From left to right: Ginger that I grew from a piece of ginger root, a jade plant, a plant a friend gave me - I don't know what it is called, and a start of a snake plant. When I was looking around to by the jade plant I picked up leaves that had fallen off other plants and those are in the round plant tray.  No, I did not pick leave off of the plants - these were ones that were just laying around.  We will see if I can get them to root.

I had stopped at a nursery to see what kind of terra cotta pots they had and to see if their farmer's market was open. They always have the best peaches. The farmer's market doesn't open until tomorrow, but that is where I found these gray terra cotta pots. I stuck one of the plants in a gray pot and filled the saucer with water. It was fun to watch the pot change color as the pot absorbed the water.

There were loads of plants for sale. I walked thru the place just to get some steps in and enjoy the plants.

They had pots of coneflowers which I would have loved to take home (not sure where I would have planted them!), but at $19.99 a pot they stayed at the nursery.

I did pull weeds, trim a pine tree, and trim a mugo pine on Saturday morning. It took four hours, but all the planting beds got weeded.

The bed next to the house was weeded two weeks ago and it was a mess! Crabgrass was the main culpurt. Here is the before and after. It only took about 15 minutes to clean this bed up.

Here is a close up the jalapaneo plant. I guess the deer eating most of the leaves has shocked the plant into producing peppers! There are four tiny peppers!

Mom and the kids spent a lot of time in my backyard this weekend.