Now that sounds more positive. How have you bribed him?

Have fun with Izzy tomorrow. I love your cherry story I wish I knew that trick when I was young with the greengages

When eating cherries, my Mum taught me to challenge myself to eat the fruit but leave the stone still on the stalk. It was a trick her mother, my Gran, taught her. My Gran, as a child used to sneak under the net curtains that were draped over the cherry tree and eat them whilst they were still on the tree like that and the blame was put on the birds This was fine until her younger brother sneaked on her and got her into trouble

Got the rawlplugs for fixing the shelves to the walls today. I am hoping DH will drill and fix them up tomorrow whilst I am out (positions are already marked) and then I can see about starting to sort things out. Tomorrow should be good - going to the Embroiderer's Guild Regional Day - 2 talks on sewing subjects and about half a dozen stalls of sewing books, notions, threads and fabric . Izzy will also be coming with me in her guise as a Young Embroiderer, and being a trail blazer to boot , they have never been asked if a YE could come to one of these days before!

Not enough cherries for a pie? Cherry tarts would be a nice alternative.

I like your pineapple quilt, great way to use scraps with the unifying black fabric.

Kathy

So much for the rest. Checked the weather report to find that if I wait for cooler temps later in the day it's likely to be raining so I mowed the lawn just now.

Sure could go for Lemon Drizzle Cake. Wow! That sounds good.
Nancy, Safe travels. I am sure you are headed to see family. I hope you have a wonderful time.
Annis, Believe it or not I refrained from eating many cherries. I so much wanted there to be enough for a pie. I'll indulge when I pick again tomorrow.
Kathy, You tease. Cutting bolts of fabric for a TQS project kit? Now we have to think about what's up.

Here's picts of what's waiting for me in my sewing room.



This is my Trash to Treasures Pineapple Quilt. 3/4 of the blocks are done. ESS. But that's all I am doing. It's too busy for anything else to show. Have to figure out what to do in the border.


This is cut and ready to sew. It's a "SewTogether Pouch" with 3 zippered pockets inside. Its suppose to be for sewing notions and tools but it's a gift intended to be used as a make-up bag.


Same deal here.



This fabric is cut and ready to sew into a cloth basket for my grandson toys. They have 2 dogs. BB is the spitting image of the little dog running at the base of the tuck. And Jet looks just like the dog sitting in the pickup. Couldn't believe I found that fabric. I got that stuff cut during the last 2 days.

Think I'll have a cuppa and see if I have any energy to find my way to the sewing room. If only I had Lemon Dizzle Cake. I have a Juki set up on the other side of the table from the T to T quilt where I can work on the bags. Who knows where the spirit will move me.

genevacarroll wrote:
"Well, it's a marvelous night for a Moondance
With the stars up above in your eyes
A fantabulous night to make romance
'Neath the cover of October skies
And all the leaves on the trees are falling
To the sound of the breezes that blow
And I'm trying to please to the calling
Of your heart-strings that play soft and low
And all the night's magic seems to whisper and hush
And all the soft moonlight seems to shine in your blush"

Van Morrison - "Moondance"
One of my favorite songs

Lois - we'll be having temps in the high 90s today (it was 106 on Monday, but then it cooled off for a few days). Thankfully we don't have the humidity, it's very dry here. I do not tolerate humidity at all. My son graduated from boot camp in San Antonio last September and we were there to see it. Ugh, it was like a sauna even early in the morning. Nearly fainted during the outdoor ceremony at 9 am and then had to get quickly back to the car and air conditioning. Don't know how they survived the eight weeks of intense physical training in that heat. He is stationed in Monterrey, CA now, just a few hours from home. Lovely weather there. Next year he will be stationed somewhere on the east coast... so far from home...

A cold veggie pasta salad is good to eat in hot weather. Also making banana mini muffins for my guild's 'new member' luncheon tomorrow.

The new term for guild officers just started and I have passed off my vp and news editor hats and am chairing membership now. Sunday I will be attending my guild's workshop in fabric painting. I'll share photos next week. Not much time for piecing and quilting - busy cutting up about a dozen bolts of fabric for an upcoming TQS project kit.

Kathy

Lois, how many of those cherries did you eat as you were picking them? I remember picking cherries as a teenager in Idaho and ate a few too, even the sour ones.

Why are you going there Nancy?

Sorry I don't have time to join in, but I love what everyone's doing. Thanks for sharing!! I'm getting ready to drive to Kansas City bright and early tomorrow morning.....

Rest well, I'm looking forward to the cherry pie. We've been out walking today by the canal and had lunch out so I've not got any sewing done yet. It's been a beautiful day and I feel so much better for it. I'm going to make a lemon drizzle cake in a bit so that will go well with a cuppa later.

I've never had crab cakes but googled them and they look yummy.

AnnieLu wrote:
Left over grilled chicken. Yum! But that's not the best. My girlfriend called me on her way home from the Jersey Shore saying she's bringing us crab cakes from Ship Bottom Shellfish, Long Beach Island, NJ. They are the best. If you go to LBI make sure you get those crabl cakes.

So I was picking cherries by 7:00am this morning. Temp is to rise to 90F with the dew point somewhere in the 70's. Even at 7:00AM I was soaking wet from dew on the tree and high humidity. But here's the prize.


The tree is quite young. This is the first year we've gotten a crop. That's enough for a cherry pie. They are sour cherries. No one seems to grow them anymore and I can't figure out why. They are not prone to disease. They don't get wormy. No spraying. Tomorrow there will be as many more ripe one with the high temps today.



Next week the blueberries will start to ripen. They are loaded. I have to find stakes to support the branches they are so heavy with fruit.



It's now rest time. Hope I don't sleep through my sewing time. Still have to mow the grass.

Well, I took my mom her medications and groceries I was able to get home before lunch! Yay!
So I went into the sewing room and worked on the unknown art quilt. At 5:30 pm this is what I had completed.





This is a pattern from Derrick Lockwood. I made the entire quilt for my son when he graduated from college. Now I am making just the center. I spent a lot of time figuring out where to start and stop the pattern, how big it would be if I cut my strips 2" instead of 1 1/2" and did I have enough fabric? So far all this fabric has come from my stash. Boy, does that feel good!

My sweetie is off playing golf today so I will have the house to myself for awhile. I can turn up Van Morrison and quilt away!

Take care,
geneva

You can use snow, shaved ice (like they use for snow cones), crushed pellets like they sell at Sonic, or bigger ice cubes. You do get differing fractures due to size of particle. My latest dyeing was with bigger ice chunks from a serve yourself site. You want the ice to melt, obviously, but,,, the speed at which melts has a direct impact on color splitting or combining. Mine melted so fast that I got few fractures, no splitting, and I'm just thankful they didn't turn out mud! I love Browns, but not when I'm going for lots of distinct color.
Luann

Lois, your slip covers are wonderful! Very impressive sewing, for sure!

And those of you mentioning ice dyeing -- I'm intrigued. A friend of mine does snow dyeing; same thing, I guess? But you guys do it by buying ice?? Why didn't I think of that?! Sounds like a lot of fun! And the photos you've all posted so far of your dyed fabrics are just gorgeous!