There’s a lot to catch up on from the weekend and it all started with painting. I didn’t take any photos but we finished the last room of our big painting project. This is the combo kitchen/den and has the most trim. I switched out the window shades so there were holes to patch and lots of taping to do. We got the room back together yesterday and are very happy with how it turned out. We are especially happy with the new shades. We don’t really like blackout kind of shades but, when watching TV during the day (football season) the glare on the TV is horrible. I found something called day/night shades that are basically two shades stacked. One is light filtering and one is light blocking and so far they seen to work great.
In between the painting tasks I got a few other things done too. I finished 2 more veterans quilts.
The one on the left is a Chandelier Quilt and I don’t know who made it, but I like it a lot. The one on the right was made by Becky during her marathon session of trying to use up a lot of hand dyed fabrics. I think she made about 5 tops from her stash. I particularly like this one.
Next I moved on to finishing the cutting for the fish quilt. For the background there are 7 rows. I cut the gradient into 7 bands of color and these are the piece shapes for each fish block.
Each color band is in a labeled bag with extra fabric for the inevitable cutting or sewing mistake. Everything is packed up and ready to take to Maine.
There’s enough pieces and parts there for a big quilt, a baby quilt and probably a couple of placemats. I also have tons of fabric left for cutting sashing and binding. Remember that with the Monty quilt I had enough fabric for 3 big quilts. I like to make lots of extra when I’m dyeing fab. In Maine I’ll just be working on blocks. I’ll leave the extra gradient fabe and solids home for the sashing, borders and binding to do later.
Yesterday I took a little time to make some new shampoo bars. Soap making is really so easy and fun. These are made with canola oil, coconut oil, palm oil and lard. This is a lye soap. You measure out the fats in one bowl and melt them in the microwave. The lye is dissolved in water in a Pyrex container and then both are cooled to about 110 degrees. Then they are mixed together and the poured into the mold. I use the rectangle shape for the shampoo bars so I. Know which is which in the shower. This will sit covered for a couple of days and then will be cut into bars. The cut bars take at least a month to cure.
In a few weeks I’ll have a year’s supply of shampoo for me and Mom for less than $10.
I finished off the weekend by loading and starting quilting the next 2 quits.
This week I need to get back to some yard work but I also have 6 more quilts to quilt after these. In between I’ll continue my crochet project and sew on some of the dozens of potholders that I cout out.
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