I’m a bit late with this, but better late than never.
You can pop back here to see what my wishes for the month were.
I’ll start with my stitching achievements. There weren’t too many. Quite a contrast to January.
There were all my green blocks and strip.
The only quilt that was completed was “Swoon”.
I have been considering how to make a cover for Elly May, but her shape would make that extremely difficult, especially with the tablet holder, so I thought of alternatives. I have a few fun retro tablecloths that would have worked really well, but they were all a tad too small. In the end, she is going to bed under a vintage sheet. Purple isn’t the ideal colour for my room, but the only other option I had was orange, which didn’t suit either. I may come up with another colour at some stage, but this will have to do for now.
There was no knitting or crochet and the only other project I worked on can’t be shared just yet.
There was just one lonely thread spool emptied in February,
As for my 15 Minutes, not so good, but travel does that.
February = 21/28
Year to date = 51/59 = 86.44%
NON STITCHING HAPPENINGS
I tried no new recipes.
Having said that, our tomatoes finally started to produce. Not a lot, but large. This was a relief, as we thought we wouldn’t get enough to make any preserves this year.
Therefore, we were delighted to make a batch of Grandma Bird’s Tomato Sauce.
Then, a couple of weeks later enough to make a batch of Red Tomato Sauce. We are so pleased to have replenished our stock, as we were down to the very last bottle. These two batches will now last us a couple of years.
There are now enough tomatoes on the plants for us to make a batch of Tomato Relish as well.
Some books were read and listened to.
On the home front, we purchased our new lounge.
On a fun note, after sharing that I am using a phone book for FPP papers, this year’s phone book was delivered. How sad is that. Remember when it was multiple fat volumes, now it is smaller than the free magazine the supermarkets put out each month. It went straight in the recycle bin, as there is plenty of paper in the book I already have.
We had our fun day out to see the Sunflowers.
Other than that it was just our recent holiday.
All in all, a good month.
6 comments:
Telephone books are a thing of distant memory here! Nice work on the pickling/sauce front Janice. xx
Back when w lived in the Big Smoke the phone book was more than one book, it was several! It's probably much smaller now, too.
I’m always looking for phone books. They are so thin now.
I love home made relish. Mine have worked out so different. The last batch not so good.
I showed a telephone book to a group of school kids (nine years old) and had to tell them what it was. "Oh," said one, "so you can stalk people?" Sigh
You did have a good month, especially making the sauce from your home grown tomatoes. And doesn't Mick look cute in the sunflower patch! Call me strange, but I dont like to use paper for string piecing, I couldn't cope with all that ripping out. I like to use fabric, old thin sheets work fine, and I've used up most of my tracing vilene from long ago Knit Wit sewing days for this as well.
Your Swoon quilt is lovely. I like your new lounge.
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