We've seen some progress on the Oregon Autumn Cardigan this week. I'm liking it so far. Working a color chart printed in B&W is a bit of a challenge, but I can check my color copy on the iPad or my phone each time I have to change colors. (Our printer only prints B&W.) Then I just have to go by light or dark.
I cut out the 2 1/2" strips on Friday.
I began piecing on Saturday. I'm using the strip-piecing method. I sewed the pink center fabric strip to the first light strip, then cut into 2 1/2" sections. I lined the sections all up going the same way next to my sewing machine and then sewed these sections, one after the other, to another strip. (That yellow rectangle is a small stack of Post-It notes identifying my 1/4" boundary for seams.)
When I have a strip done, I take it to my cutting surface and cut them apart. This goes very quickly. Then I press the seams toward the new piece. You just have to keep track of which way the spiral goes around the center piece. It can swirl to the right or to the left, but you want to keep it consistent. This shows the pieces sewn to the first dark, ready to cut apart.
In this photo, I was ready to add the second dark.
When I had all the blocks finished except for the last two strips Sunday evening, I had to finish at least one block, so I could see how the blocks would look.
Zachary's doll went into the mail on Monday. It was delivered on Saturday.
Overly ripe bananas often into waffles for breakfast. (We also use them for smoothies.)
Our waffle iron was a wedding present when we married in 1965. She looks prettier than I do, but she's younger than I am, and she has only had one job to do for her entire life.
I made lasagne one day, using my no-boil recipe. (You don't need special noodles for this; regular lasagne noodles will cook nicely in the sauce.) I often put black beans or garbanzo beans in my lasagne, but we needed to use some of our TVP (texturized vegetable protein), so I soaked that and mixed it in with the cottage cheese, eggs and silken tofu filling. It was yummy. We had vegetable soup the next day with a half-recipe loaf of Dutch-oven bread.
We had oatmeal one morning. I had some help with clean-up from my pre-rinse specialist.
The pups went to the groomer on Tuesday. The weather was still nice, so we walked, stopping at the off-leash area first, so they could run off some energy first. Here's a shot of Sandy actually getting to the ball before Dusty did.
We walked home after dropping the dogs off at the groomer. It made a nice walk.
They are pretty boys now.
It began to cool off by mid-week, and we had light rain off and on, so the walking trails weren't as enticing. We still got out with the pups almost every day.
Today is March 25th, otherwise known as Sandy's Gotcha Day. We had stuff going on when his first birthday happened (Charlie's cataract surgery) so we decided to celebrate today instead. Here's what Sandy looked like on March 25, 2023.
We've had a great year, and Sandy has learned a lot from Dusty, most of it good. One thing Dusty has learned from Sandy is, if you run after the ball but you don't give it back to the one who threw it, the game is over. Sandy drops the ball at our feet, so we can throw it again, and Dusty is starting to do that now.
Someone else who likes to play ball: Johan.
What's in The Doll's Storybook: In this reedited rerun from July 2019, Charlotte and Mariah decide to put on a play. In Fuzzy Town––A Play, the dolls demonstrate how it costs nothing to be kind to others and offer encouragement. This might apply to social media, as well as in-person interactions.
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