My Peeps, Past and Present

Some of you may not know that I produce a weekly sewing podcast called The Straight Stitch: A Podcast About Sewing and Other Fiber Arts. Today’s podcast episode is an interview with two of the members of the Mountain Brook Craft Cooperative. I am also a member of this group, which meets on Thursdays at our community center. I thought it would be fun to hear how the cooperative began and how it has grown in the past 15 years. Carol Edgar is one of the founding members of the Cooperative and Sarah Anderson is the current president. (Sarah is also the author of the Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs by Storey Publishing.) Sunnie and Robin also belong to the co-op. This is an amazingly talented group of women and I am continually inspired by the beautiful items they create. Our annual sale is coming up in another week.

These are a sampling of the gorgeous bags that our friend Judy makes and will have in the sale.

If you’d like to listen to the episode, you can do so on the podcast website. The podcast is also available at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and many other podcatchers.

Unless I find a way to warp the space/time continuum to give me another 24 hours in each day, I probably won’t have anything in this year’s sale, but I am contributing by handling the social media marketing for the sale. The podcast is a piece of that.

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I trimmed the Christmas quilt—the one I finished quilting Sunday afternoon—and it’s awaiting binding. I’ll have to look in my bin of binding to see if I have something already made up. If not, I’ll make binding for it.

Today is a housecleaning day. My canning supplies will be stored temporarily so my visiting friends have a place to sit. Three of my high school friends—and the girlfriend of one of them—are touring Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. They will be here for a few days. I am excited to see them!

We are supposed to get thunderstorms this afternoon, so the first task on the to-do list is to drive the golf cart and wagon out to the garden and bring in a few more watermelons and some cabbages.

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I had a visit with my naturopath yesterday morning. I gifted him a bag of Blue Boar Berry tomatoes. Because I have nothing that needs fixing besides my knees and hips—which are feeling much better thanks to the stretching exercises—we spent most of the time talking about combatting the effects of getting older. He has been my primary care doc for almost 20 years now. I know his wife, too, because she is a knitter. I’ve been seeing him twice a year, but he told me I can stretch that out to 10-12 months. When I first started seeing him, I was severely hypothyroid and had a host of other associated problems. He has helped me wean (mostly) off my thyroid medication. I am down to a tiny dose twice a week.