I am Ready for Snow

The snow tires are on the Jeep. I just have to add my winter supplies and I will be ready for whatever Mother Nature throws at us.

I stopped at the church on the way home to see how setup for market was progressing. I think this is going to be a fantastic sale! There are so many lovely and unique items. The key word this year was “up,” because horizontal display space is limited. Many vertical display units have been added to provide more room. I borrowed this photo from my friend Carol:

I think most of this is Sarah’s. She made jams, lots of adorable zipper pouches and bags, and she always brings linen tea towels and soap. Local peeps, I highly recommend checking out the sale today or tomorrow. The location is the Mennonite church in Creston.

I should have taken more photos but it was pretty chaotic in there when I stopped.

Fortunately, I am not the only person who belongs to the co-op but doesn’t have product in the sale. They don’t kick you out for non-production.

I came home, made lunch for the husband and me—he stopped to get one of the trailers—and then started in on salsa. I cooked down several large stock pots of tomatoes. I’ll add the other ingredients today and process it. I’ll be very happy when salsa is done and the pork has been picked up and delivered, because all of that is weighing on me right now.

While I was in town, I went to Kohls because I needed some socks and underwear. I tried on a couple of pairs of pants, too; I’ve got plenty of dress pants for church and plenty of jeans to wear around the yard, but I need some pants that are in the middle—nicer jeans and some black or navy blue casual pants for fall. This is usually a failed quest; after making basic pull-on trousers and realizing just how badly most ready-to-wear pants fit me, I’ve given up on finding anything. I don’t have time to source fabric and make myself some right now, and I also want to wait until after my trouser drafting class next month to start that process. However, the Lauren Conrad brand at Kohls has been carrying “super high-waisted” pants. On anyone else, they would be super high-waisted. On me, they fit right at my waist. I bought a pair of dark wash flare jeans and a pair of black twill straight leg pants. The black ones, for some odd reason, were unfinished at the bottom. I hemmed them while the tomatoes were cooking down and now they are the perfect length.

I will be very curious to see what kind of custom pattern for me comes out of this trouser drafting class. Not only do I need a longer crotch depth on my pants, my hips are also higher than average. My widest hip measurement is 5" below my waist, not the standard 9" below the waist.

Joanns has some stretch corduroy in a lovely deep emerald color, so I bought enough for the Ramona Skirt from Tilly and the Buttons:

Unfortunately, the PDF version of the pattern is out of stock for some reason. I suppose I could order the print version; by the time it arrives from the UK, I might finally have time to sew. I probably could hack whatever comes out of the trouser class into a skirt pattern, too.