And today a painter is coming to paint the ceiling bases of these hanging lights over the kitchen bar. The bases are covering too-large holes in the ceiling. Painting them the color of the ceiling will help them recede and not stand out.
And after this fairly quick painting job is done, I’ll go pick up the raw milk and cream that I get every two weeks at Local Jo’s–and will deliver some to Mike’s family. I take a cooler with ice and frozen blocks in it to keep everything fresh and cold.
Then I’ll make my noonish dinner and will sew. It’s raining, so likely I’ll not be able to grill the two lamb chops I defrosted. Tomorrow: chicken salad with homemade mayo.
Alex is here mowing–between rain storms. The grass is now thick and happy–an apple green carpet that is soft and cushy underfoot. And it is growing like crazy. All the plants are also thriving.
Yesterday I got all the blocks I had set up on the half-square triangle quilt sewn together yesterday, and I’m loving what I’m seeing. I have not connected the 20-inch blocks themselves yet.
Now I’ll have to make a lot more of the units, and I have the sub-units (4-inch squares) set up to do that work via chain piecing. Plus I found a kind of pumpkin yellow orange for the sashing for the bottom left block. When all are done, I’ll have a top that is 60 by 60–and I’ll figure out what to do to take it out to the 70s range, width wise, and maybe 80s length wise.
I’m going to use Kona Thistle for the sashing between the big red blocks.
It is soft and does not compete with the outrageous Kaffe Fasset prints, but will separate, gently, them. I may use it as the binding too.
Of course I won’t position two green centers next to each other when the time comes to finalize the layout.
The next group of Summer Camp mystery blocks drops tomorrow–so there’s that work for the weekend.
Girlie will be done next Friday. How nice is that?
Very, I’d say. I miss her so much.
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