A Little Here A Little There

Little by little things get done even if it doesn’t look like much progress is made at time.  The Morning Glory quilt still looks the same but I am part way done with the 3rd side and for my Slow Sunday Stitching with Kathy I will take more stitches on that blue strip all the way around and work on my quilting in the evening too.  Also linking to Quilting is More Fun than Housework — Life in Pieces —

Alaska from Friday night

Five mask done for Aniya’s family – I am sending the t-shirt loops home with them to string through the casing themselves so they can get the fit right and then we will see how many more they want.

In case you are wondering about the loops I cut the t-shirt off under the arm holes of an old soft t-shirt of Mike’s so I have a large rectangle of fabric – cutting the seam off – then I cut the strips at about 3/8” inch – you gently pull the strip one at a time through your fingers to stretch them out.  This makes “elastic” – fit the loop around the ears of the person that will wear it – cut the piece and tie a knot in it and then stuff the knot into the casing if you desire so it is out of the way.  I do have elastic ordered but it won’t come until late next week.

The three Early Girl tomato plants are covered in tomatoes that will be ripening quickly now – two of the plants in the pots are now taller than I am (5’7”) they are tied to tall stakes.  The Romas are beginning to blossom  – those are the ones I planted from seed in March and they are about 3 to 4 feet tall now – with this heat and me watering them almost every day they will have fruit before you know it.  After seeing how fast the tomatoes grow from seed I might just do that and start in February instead putting them in little pots that can then be transplanted into larger pots at the end of March or April.  I had the Roma’s in very small pots then transplanted into – maybe 4” pots? then into the large 5 gallon buckets and they grew so fast in the past two to three weeks it is amazing.

The cucumber plants hanging from the pot (I think I have two plants in it) are doing ok – I wasn’t sure how they would do but they are not too heavy as I’m sure it is one large root ball in that pot now – one more in a pot sitting on the deck it is not doing as well!  There will not be a lot of cucumbers but enough that I have not bought a cucumber in several weeks

Melanie will come over for a little bit this afternoon and I will give her some tomatoes, oregano from the garden and a cucumber or two if she wants.  I think I will glue baste another hexie diamond while she is here I haven’t worked on them this week.

Connecting Threads  is having a deal each day this week – you will see on the top of their page CYBER in JULY click on that to see.  Make sure to use the code if they give one – each day this week is a surprise sale – I have no idea what it will be until I too look.  What will it be today? Last day of the daily surprise SALE – I wonder what it will be today!

AccuQuilt has their electric cutters on sale – save $150.00 with the purchase of the Go!Big Electric Fabric Cutter the sale will bring the price down to $450.00 use the code BIG150 at checkout

Green Fairy Fat Quarter bundle sale