a trip to the store and more stitching

early morning visitor – looking for breakfast?

8:30 am – first time out for 14 days –  except for a daily walk

wow! – it seemed like a big event

grocery shopping, enough for another 2 weeks

a huge thank you to Thrifty’s and their staff

they regulated the number of shoppers, the shelves were well stocked with only a few things missing

like all bulk foods , meaning no chocolate covered raisins!

and they wouldn’t use personal recycle bags – but they didn’t charge for paper bags

(to encourage shoppers to supply their own bags many stores now charge for large bags)

remember climate change??

the sample book is progressing

lining the back of the covers this time

with the striped shirt material – I wanted to show students that using striped material can be tricky

it doesn’t always line up straight

cut large enough to fold to the front – I trimmed the corners, turned under the raw edges and hand stitched them down

then I cut material for the “pages”

4 times the width of the cover and just a little less than the height

after the stitching is done, on each individual page, they get folded into the center

and the messy backs are hidden

the back cover has a “missage”

I ran out of new reading material and have been enjoying

House at Pooh Corner, When We Were Very Young and The Tao of Pooh

what to include on the pages?

I had to try Kate’s instructions for hexies – March 27 – they (the instructions) were perfect

and I stitched one up in no time – but I can’t imagine doing a whole quilt

then, cleaning kitchen drawers, I found two old Japanese sashiko coasters

unpicked the binding which can be used again and peeled off the backing

getting excited about this book

it is really Spring in Victoria

March is going out like a lion

it is raining, cold and blustery