Back At It? Maybe....

 Things break.

One of the brackets on my quilting frame broke.  Then, since I couldn't quilt on the Polaroid quilt I decided to rearrange my room again.  I'm not sure what I've done makes any sense but it's done now.

Between the time the bracket broke and today I was trying to figure out where to find one online that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.  Also between then and now my spousal unit got a couple of presents from me (since the one he had was old and was giving him fits)....

He did super glue the bracket and it lasted about a day... but today he took the broken one, measured it, put it in his CAD program and 3D printed a new one.  The new one works better than the old one and since he got about $500 worth of printer filament for free a couple of weeks ago it didn't cost anything!

I showed him the plastic gears that are starting to lose their teeth too and he said next time there isn't a quilt on the frame he'll take one of them and create a file and print me 2 new ones!

I did keep busy while I couldn't sew, now that the cold weather is back I'll go back to baking sourdough everything on Saturdays.  I found a really good sourdough brioche recipe that is a favorite here and I make bread, rolls, cinnamon swirl bread, cinnamon rolls and cheese Danish with the dough.  This was last weekend's work.  Someone gave me a bunch of grapes from their vines so I made grape jam too.

At the moment I've got more bread, rolls and cinnamon things with and without raisins proofing in the oven so I can bake around 8:30 tonight.

Tomorrow I'll mix a couple of traditional loaves of sourdough, maybe a cheddar jalapeño one if I have enough gumption and a plain one.

Soup and chili weather is upon us so bread is very important. 

Hopefully next weekend I'll have sewing to report.  If not then definitely the following one since I have a couple of days off and we are not going anywhere, just working on some home improvement. 

That's it from here for now.  Everyone have a splendid week!

And Then It Was a Month Later

Hello blog readers.... 

So, it has been a month since I posted anything.  Time got away from me.  I haven' t had time to quilt on the quilt on the machine in my last post so it still looks just the same as it did. (Polaroid quilt).

I've been working 50-60 hour weeks.  Hopefully that will lighten up by the end of October.  Today I repotted plants and set up a grow light situation since I'll need to supplement the light for my plants over the winter.

My daughter went to my local fabric shop (Gee Gee's) and bought fabric to make my daughter-in-law a quilt.  So now she has a quilt top in progress and one still in fabric stage needing to be cut!  Maybe she's starting to become a fabric-aholic like me?

In other news, a friend of ours gave me a quilt!  She is one of the 3 or 4 other ladies in our congregation who quilts and I love everything she does.  She pieces the tops then sends them out to get them quilted, I told her she should come over here and use my quilter but she likes to do bigger (king size) and I have to do king size in sections so she hasn't taken me up on it yet.

I remade the bed right away so I could put it on there!  One day we'll get our bed side tables under control.  Small house so things tend to go where only we will see them. :)

What else..... made my first sourdough bread using flour I ground myself.  They didn't get very airy but they sure tasted good!

I think that's about it for now.  It's 5 PM and I got off work at noon but I just don't have much gumption so I think I'll go watch youtube quilting instead of doing my own.  Hopefully next week I'll have some gumption.

Squishy Mail and Friday Update

 Happy Friday!

Yes it is.  My Labor Day Sale purchase from Shabby Fabrics was at the post office this morning!

Today I'll be working on Polaroid quilting:

Also got the embroidery around the hearts on the next thing that will go on the quilter done:

Other than that I'll putter on the Marilyn quilt when I need a break from quilting.

We have several things we are doing later today and tomorrow but I am hoping to squeeze in as much machine time as I can since I go back to work on Monday and I don't have time off until November.

Wednesday Report 9/4/24

 Good morning!

Just a quick check in today.  I took this week off so there is sewing happening.  I got the binding on the quilt that I'm gifting today. 

Again, I don't have a space where I can get "good" pictures yet.  I think once hubby gets the addition really done I'll be able to take pictures out there since he is an amateur photographer.

The Polaroid quilt is on the quilter and it will also be a gift quilt for a young lady I know.

Next up will be a baby/lap quilt that I think I will list on Etsy, unless I think of someone to give it to.  I have to go around the hearts with an embroidery stitch so I spent the morning organizing what of my thread I've found so far and picking a purple to do that.

I got the cedar chest moved out from under the quilter storage and moved all of the bins under the quilter so now the plastic fabric bins are all hidden most of the time if there is a quilt in progress on the quilter.

You can see the spider plant I'm trying not to kill, a couple of avocado seeds that are drying, behind them in the plastic pot are a couple of avocado seeds I'm trying to sprout, in the little jar are some starts from a really common viney house plant that I can't remember the name of and on the right are 4 basil plants.  

I'm not sure how the basil is doing so well, usually after we use what we want off of the plants they die.  This time they lasted a couple of weeks in the little pot they were in so I told my daughter I was going to repot it and try really hard not to kill it so we could save some money by not having to by fresh basil.  She does a couple dishes with it and I always add it to curry, even though the recipe I use doesn't call for it.  Basil is yum. 

Today we have to go do a grocery shop.  Hopefully I'll get to get some quilting on the Polaroid quilt done.  My only sewing goal today is to deliver the quilt and get the embroidery around the hearts on the little quilt.