Stitching a Star

There was a full moon last Sunday. I have learned to minimize my social media use during full moons because it seems like the online world loses its collective mind for a few days. And then we had the tragic events of Wednesday afternoon. All I am going to say here is that these types of events bring out both the best and the worst in people, and I’ve seen both in the past couple of days. If you have the chance to spread love or hate in the world, I hope you will choose love. We have enough hate.

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I tried out the Sawtooth Star quilt patch embroidery project. It was a lot of fun:

I grabbed scraps that were handy to my cutting table. These are from the crazy quilt pillow project. I think I need to be a bit more deliberate in choosing fabrics with better contrast, but I like this a lot. The finished patch is about 3" square.

I did no sewing Thursday or yesterday. Thursday involved a whole bunch of running around and a lot of paperwork. I dropped in to sewing group for about 30 minutes to attend a planning meeting for the sale that is happening in two weeks. Yesterday, we took the pigs to the processor. That took most of the day—it’s 91 miles one way, but we were driving conservatively with the trailer hooked up to the truck. When we got to the processor, we visited with the owner for about 45 minutes. He’s a great guy but he’s retiring in November. Fortunately, he was able to sell the business to someone who plans to keep it going, so we will be able to raise pigs again next year.

I enjoy our trip to the processor every fall because I get the husband to myself in the truck for five hours and we have time to catch up and do some long-range planning. The weather was stellar and driving through Montana is never a hardship. However, I am getting really itchy for an actual road trip—one where I am driving—so I may have to come up with something.

The husband is working today on a big concrete cutting job. I was thinking I might start cleaning up the garden, but we got rain last night. I won’t work out there if it’s too soggy. We’ll see. Now that the pigs are gone, I can open the gate between the garden and the pig pasture now and make a pile in the pasture for burning next month. At the very least, I could cut back the lavenders and start putting hoses away.

As for what to sew next, I have lots of projects in the queue. The stash needs a good reorganization, though. I’ll probably start there.