A Top a Day?

I haven’t quite reached the speed of making a top a day, but I finished the navy blue Scout Tee out of Kaufman Brussels Washer Linen, which is a linen/rayon blend.

I do love this fabric despite its tendency to fray at the slightest provocation. Pacific Fabrics in Seattle carries the entire color range although I bought this yardage at the quilt store here. I know I have other a few more chunks of BWL in the stash.

This is going to be in heavy rotation, I’m sure. Sometimes it is boring to make basic wardrobe pieces out of solid colors like white, black, and navy, but they are the heavy lifters.

I’ve got two more pieces of linen-ish fabrics waiting to be made into Scout Tees, and then I’ll probably move on to a different pattern. Or not. We’ll see.

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The weed killer is working very nicely, although I am going to have to go through and pull all the dead vegetation:

Still, this is effective.

I am going to plant peas this morning. We are supposed to get thunderstorms and strong gusty winds this afternoon. If it’s going to rain, it might as well rain on peas in the ground. I cut the grass in the garden yesterday and it looks much better out there.

I picked up six more apple trees from Susan yesterday. These are grafts that came from trees on the family homestead of a friend of ours near Bigfork. The original apple trees are over 100 years old. I somehow ended up with another one of the grafts a few years ago and that tree has taken off. Our friend thinks they are some kind of Macintosh-type variety. Friend took the ones that she wanted and these were left. I gave two to our neighbor next door and we’ll figure out where to put the rest of them.

I think I may have a broody hen. One of the chicks I got from WS year—which almost looks to me like a lavender Orpington—has been parked in a nesting box for over a week now. I am not sure how many eggs she has under her, but I would not mind having a few more chicks.

Another one of our neighbors stopped by for eggs yesterday, so he and I sat on the porch for a bit and visited. The two male hummingbirds—the little flying roosters—were chasing each other around the feeders, the mama and papa robins were tag-teaming bugs and worms for the babies, and two swifts came swooping through the porch, also in search of bugs. Bunny was sitting out in the yard, calmly munching on dandelions. No one seems to care that we’re around.

After I plant peas this morning, I am going to sew for the rest of the day. It might be a good day for a big pot of soup, too.