Wearing Flowers

I love love love this Burda 6146 top. I see several more in my future. I adore basic patterns like this because I can change sleeve styles and necklines for fun variations. No one wants a Flintstones wardrobe. This is probably the most perfect V-neck ever. It’s not so low that I am flashing my bra at everyone.

I lengthened this top so it’s more like a tunic. I’m kicking around the idea of lengthening the pattern into a dress, maybe with a loose self-fabric belt?

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Saturday was an absolutely stellar day—75F and sunny. You can tell you’re in Montana when it hits the mid-70s and everyone says, “Wow, it’s hot today.”

We moved the chicks from the garage to the nursery room in the coop Saturday morning. Seeing big chickens staring at them through the wire is scary—those Leghorns are very nosy—so they stayed huddled in the corner most of the day. However, the husband reported that they were partying in there by the time he closed up the coop that night.

I moved my car out of the garage and swept the garage floor with the push broom. I could plant another raised bed in the garden with the amount of dirt that comes in on my car every winter. 🫤 I need to vacuum out the car now.

The Homestead Foundation hosted its Spring Pie Social on Saturday evening. I think it was the best one ever in terms of attendance and money raised, and there was no pie left at the end of the evening.

I have made the decision to resign from the Foundation Board on June 1, the day after the plant sale. I want to stay involved and will manage the website and chair future plant sales, but I cannot continue to volunteer the amount of time that I’ve been spending on Foundation activities. There have been times of the year when that board position has been the equivalent of a part-time job. I might be willing to continue if I weren’t also the chairman of the pastor search team for our church, but that is a demanding position and there just isn’t enough of me to go around. I want to have time and energy for the things I want to do.

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Cali Fabrics is carrying a designer viscose/nylon stretch twill, so I ordered some for a pair of StyleArc Linda pants. I bought it in red, because I never seem to have a pair of red pants when I need them.

I also bought what they had left of some Robert Kaufman ponte, which is the black-and-gray print on top. I wanted three yards, for a dress, but they only had half of that amount left so a pair of pants it will be. (Probably also Linda pants.)

Both fabrics are quite nice.