Wearing Fruits and Vegetables

I went to sewing yesterday and handed the raffle quilt top over to Joyce, who is going to quilt it. Judy will make a label for it. When Joyce is done, she’ll give the quilt to Jessie to bind, and when Jessie is done, the quilt is coming back to me for photos. The quilt will be a fundraiser for the homestead foundation.

[Yes, we have a Jessie, a Joyce, a Janet, and a Judy in our sewing group.]

I stayed and knitted and visited with Sarah. She is very excited about the upcoming growing season. She was never able to grow tomatoes when she lived in Washington state but she can grown them here, and they’ve become one of her passions. It is lovely to have friends who go whole hog on things the same way I do.

We got to see Jessie’s almost-finished quilt during show and tell. (She was sewing down the binding while we sat and visited.) The spools are made up of sewing-themed fabric, and Joyce quilted it with an allover sewing-themed pattern. If you look closely, you can see needles and spools of thread. Jessie plans to hang this in her sewing room.

I stayed and knitted to the end of the skein of yarn I had with me, then left and came home to work on the Sunbonnet Sue quilt. I’ve got 21 of the 30 blocks quilted. I plan to get at least six more done today, finish the rest tomorrow, then start the sashing and borders. I am pretty sure I know how I want to quilt the sashings. I am still thinking about the borders.

The Sunbonnet Sue is on track to be quilted by the middle of next week, and then it’s a matter of attaching and sewing down the binding. I’m like Jessie—I like to sew my bindings down by hand.

I also assembled a second baby quilt and cut out fabrics for a third one. I have enough fabric to do five, even though I only need four, but I’ll go ahead and make an extra one to have on hand.

I found this fabric on the Walmart mystery remnant rack the other day:

Of course I bought it! How could I not? It’s a light rib knit and it’s going to become a Laundry Day Tee. I can wear it at the plant sale. LOL.

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One of our employees has expressed an interest in starting his own business. This young man is pretty sharp. He keeps the other employees in line and the husband trusts him enough to leave him in charge on jobsites. (This is also the kid that calls the husband “sir,” and refers to me as “HR,” which makes me laugh.) The husband will help anyone who is willing to put forth the effort—he had to learn this stuff on his own—so he is teaching this kid how to estimate the costs of an upcoming concrete job. The husband gave him all the information and told him to come up with a price. The husband is also estimating the job. They conferred about it last night in a phone call, and this morning, the two of them are going to go over the two sets of numbers.

Apparently, the husband also advised this kid that he should marry someone capable of running the administrative end of things if he wants to start his own business. We do have complementary superpowers. The husband is great at making money and I am great at managing it.