Hexies and Hoodies

The process of moving items through the pipeline continues. The little boys’ (smaller) hoodies are done. They requested train fabric for these and Auntie Janet was happy to oblige:

I pressed the seams on the back of the EPP project using my little appliqué iron:

That took some time but worked well. Once that was done, I trimmed the edges to make them even:

I put a 2" border on this using some additional fabric from the kit. (No photo yet.) I want to put a second, larger, border on it, but I need to stop at the quilt store(s) this morning to find something suitable, hopefully in a mocha brown color. I am sadly lacking in brown fabrics.

I canned 19 pints of white beans—we were completely out of them—and made two pumpkin pies for the husband. While I was at it, I thoroughly cleaned the coffeemaker and reorganized a couple of cabinets. I also did my last podcast interview of 2024 yesterday, which will be posted Tuesday. I plan on taking off the last two weeks of December.

I get a lot done when I can work without interruption.

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, as a rule, but I am going to be much more vigilant about protecting my schedule in 2025. I may not have a job outside of the home but that doesn’t mean I am sitting around doing nothing. I particularly dislike having to rearrange my time to manage problems created for me by other people. We’ll see how it goes.

Now that the EPP project is done, I want to take a break from that and work on some embroidery again. I think I am going to work on my embroidered chicken project for a few weeks.