Absolutely no quilting done by me this week. But my good friend down the street did finish quilting my Tumbling Stars quilt that I made as my RSC project 2 years ago. Yes, 2 years ago. I finally stitched the backing together and picked up some batting so Mary could do the long arm quilting.
I think she did a great job with the quilting and I am hoping the red will work for a binding with both sides of the quilt.
So what did I do this week? Cooking. Lots of cooking for a church festival and some preserving at home. I have never made preserves before. And I must admit, I enjoyed it. Now I didn't go crazy as this was my first foray into preserving but I went to the local Farmer's Market and somehow we got out wires crossed and in doing the divide and conquer shopping we bought more peaches than we could eat. I froze some, made a peach cobbler and still had a basket full left. We had bought some peach chutney at the Peach Festival one year and I really enjoyed it with soft cheeses so off I went to my trusty cookbook and found a recipe that sounded not too hard.
What a lot of work for two not quite full jars of chutney.
I had also picked up a basket of concord grapes and decided to try my hand at some jelly. Yummy! There was just about an 1/8 of a cup that didn't fit into the jars so I gave it the taste test and even warm it tasted so good!
Now all of this work meant a shopping trip before hand. A new canning pot, some new calipers for removing the jars from the hot water bath, a magnet for picking the lids out of the bath and that miracle additive - pectin to get everything to just the right consistency.
The weather was quite cool last week and it was time to clear the garden. The zucchini was prolific but we didn't have too much success with much else. One of the farmers at the farmer's market told us he suspected our problem was an air born blight that hit the cucumbers and no one seemed to have much luck with beets this year.
Our first small patch for veggies is now clear except for the fennel.
We left the herbs and marigolds in the second veggie patch. We've been drying herbs all summer so should have enough to take us through the winter.
As you can see our garden plots are small but it's amazing how much time they took to maintain and keep weed free!
Hopefully there will be more time for quilting next week. I'm looking forward to hearing what the new colour will be. Green? Orange? Brown? I'm hoping for green or brown so I can finish off another row.
Checking in with
Angela to see what others have been up to last week.
13 comments:
What a cool quilt! I've never seen one like this before. Get that binding on so you can finally enjoy it!
This quilt is new to me also. I can't figure out how it is done, but it is very light and breezy, so nice. The red looks like it will go well, so congrats on a good finish.
Your RSC13 quilt has aged well!! It looks like the red will work well for the binding. Here's hoping you will find time for that next week!
I have made jam before...it IS fun :)
Your quilt is beautiful!
Wonderful finish on the Tumbling Stars! The piano key border is really striking. ;-)
Your tumbling star quilt sparkles. Very pretty. Home preserved food is the best.
The star quilt is beautiful! I think that the red will be perfect. Sorry to say that orange is the new color though. It will all come together soon.
Lovely tumbling stars quilt; it's a brilliant idea to use Friendship stars in two sizes. I'm sure that red fabric will finish it off perfectly.
What a super COOL quilt! I LOVE this one.
Your canned food looks delicious. Yum!
Congrats on the almost finish. It's a beautiful quilt. What a great RSC project.
What a great quilt... will I be seeing it in real life soon?!?
The colorful border on Tumbling Stars is amazing!
Love your orange purchases, you can never have too much orange. Unfortunately it gets too cold her to grow Rose of Sharon--yours is so pretty!
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