I'm finally finishing up Charlie's T-shirt quilt. The two strips of footprints are appliquéd onto the back and the binding is half done. Only the hand-sewing of the other side of the binding to do, and it will be done.
I don't know if I'll have it finished before we leave for to the Rose City Yarn Crawl or not, but will get some of it done. I don't plan to take it along. It would fill up the car and be very difficult to work on!
The Sunday Morning Wrap has only one section to go, and then the final ribbing section. The Pattern is designed by Espace Tricot. I haven't needed the third skein of yarn yet, but the second one is getting pretty low.
Olivia, the new character in my stories, came wearing a party dress. She needs some play clothes, so I made her some leggings.
Now I'm working on a knitted top to go with it. I'm using the Map Dot Watonga pattern by Sharisse Dunn from Sugar Grove South. I just have a few rows to go and then the buttons to sew on.
I finished taking the photos for the new story, which will come out this Friday.
We had another Madroña Vineyards Pop-up meeting on Tuesday. (It's basically a wine-drinking party with a little education about how the vineyard is run.) We had supper during the meeting, which is online. I had some leftover black-bean soup, leftover black-eyed peas and some leftover squash and sweet-potato soup. I thought the flavors would be compatible, so I mixed the three together. It was delicious, was great with the white wine we had and was just enough for two people.
We had some salad and muffins as well. To fancy it up, I served some carob soy pudding (recipe below in "What's my tip of the week"). I'm off chocolate for now, and carob tastes almost the same. It was good.
The muffins use applesauce. We had a big container of applesauce open, and I wanted to use it up before it went bad.
Tuesday was a busy day. The pups went to the groomer in the morning. While they were having a spa day, we went and got our Covid boosters, recommended by our doctor, since it had been six months, and Covid is going around again. We were just walking to our car after we finished some quick grocery shopping, when we received the text that the pups were ready to pick up. They won't stay this pretty for long, so I had to get a photo on the back deck. (Treats were involved.)
We took some walks early in the week, going into the woods or along the trail. Dusty wore his fleece, because he gets cold easily, and his birthday suit was minus some hair.
Dusty isn't much of a water dog, but I got this photo of my handsome boy.
Sandy went after sticks thrown into the water. It's good the current was gentle.
Dusty really likes to fetch things, so he went in, too, but seemed to have second thoughts.
The hike was a little over three miles. There's still some melting snow to skirt, and some mud in places, but it was great fun.
We'll be on our way to the Portland area in a couple of days. I'm looking forward to the Yarn Crawl and seeing Soren and Johan. The pups are looking forward to visiting Louis, who just celebrated his ninth birthday.
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What's in The Doll's Storybook: An unexpected snowstorm closes the dolls' school. The dolls have to change their plans in Snow.
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