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July 2019 Projects

The June List

• Paint living room wall
• Hexify 6 fat quarters
• Piece half-hexies
• Hang art
• Replace back door
• Pipe two pieces of the tunikurti
• Sew cut and thrust hood
• Set up rain barrels at back house corners
• Plant roses
• Construct garden gate
• Wash wool
• Set up craft room

Holy cow it's July already.

When? ...how?

Anyway. I sure was busy, but not with list-related things:

A shot of a person's lap under a fuzzy grey-blue blanket, with stacks of yellow English paper-pieced hexagons on their knees and a small white dog at their feet, and a still from The Dragon Prince on the tv.
Yes, I did time this for a cool screenshot.
Made some hexagons and started watching The Dragon Prince.

A living room with a number of bookshelves, two orange velvet armchairs, and a small cabinet full of yarn, lit by an extremely bright chandelier.
it burrrrrrns
Valerie and I got my living room light installed, and oohed and ahhed at how much we could see with it in place of my two-lamp system.

A question mark butterfly resting at the base of a panel of tan house siding.
Hi!!!!
A question mark (? I think) came to visit.

A four-man band with two guitars, a bass, and a drummer, on the ground floor of an open arcade at a bar, with multicolored lights. The front guitarist has long white hair, and is clearly having a great time.
Not pictured: rampant French fry and tater tot theft behind me.
Met more of Valerie's family and saw her dad's band perform.

Two young women smiling at the camera. One has glasses and short purple-dyed hair, and the other has long red hair. They're sharing tamales in a paper boat while sitting in the shade.
We're so cute.
Went to a lot of farmers markets and ate a lot of tamales.

A piece of pink lace knitting on the needle, with many multicolored stitch markers.
This is like six months of knitting.
Made a bit of progress on my laceweight drapey cardigan, which I may just get to wear next spring.

A sushi mat made of skewers and pink and turquoise crochet cotton.
Had college flashbacks with this one.
Twined up a sushi mat just in time for my sister and her friend to come over for house show and tell and making (you guessed it) sushi, since she's been hearing me tell stories about that for years now.

Skewered beef on a grate cantilevered over a small fire enclosed by a double stacked wall of grey landscaping stones.
Yes, that is an oven grate.
Built a fire pit, scavenged wood to fuel it, and whipped up a pretty dang tasty roasted dinner. (Plus s'mores, naturally.)

A four-shelf barrister bookcase full of neatly folded fabrics, with cards of lace and bags of silk thread in the top shelf. Two copy paper boxes sit in front of it, one with a pile of white and pale green fabric in it.
Just ignore the stuff in the box.
Bought one of the bookshelves I've been lusting after, and filled it with fabric...and then discovered my fabric stash is less extensive than previously believed, and I could totally buy more...

Instead I filled the remaining shelf with patterns, lace, embroidery materials, and my collection of silk mill ends.

A white hand holding two rectangular silver buckles, a very battered quarter, a mood ring, and a round, flat pebble, above a variety of shirt buttons.
None of these are buttons.
Sorted my button bowl. Found a very very very battered quarter, a mood ring, two silver buckles, and a lovely round flat rock among the buttons.

A Snapchat of the photographer's legs in knee-high rainbow-striped socks and black high heels, with the caption "Rocking these pride socks" in rainbow letters.
Please note how perfectly the stripe sequence and the letters match.
Bought screaming loud pride socks and wore them. Got lots of compliments. Enjoyed being a peacock for once.

A very large chunk of tree trunk in the passenger seat of a car, as seen from the driver's seat.
Log is my copilot.
Moved a lot of stuff. A lot a lot. Including this...log.

(It's the stand for Valerie's anvil. It weighs at least as much as the anvil.)

Bright, border print fabric with scattered flowers, hearts, and skulls on the top half against a purple background, and four versions of Frida Kahlo in different outfits lined up along the bottom in a stylized garden.
Frida la Catrina, from the Alexander Henry Folklorico collection.
Drooled over, attempted to resist, and then bought the remainder of the bolt of, this stunning Frida Kahlo fabric for a new skirt. At the moment it's serving as very large wall art in the living room, and it may well stay there for a while.

A young white woman making a disgruntled Kermit face, surrounded by sheets of thin plastic.
Feeling a little enclosed here.
Helped my parents paint the new ceiling at the old house. Felt a bit like creating a set for a ghost story while hanging sheets of plastic over everything we didn't want to paint.

A young white woman with red hair tied back, standing in stained and painted work clothes in a lush garden, with bee balm and purple coneflowers peeping over her shoulders.
I'm not more than a foot in front of the beebalm here.
Finally mourned, a little, for the garden at the old house, which is gloriously lush and full of life and extraordinarily large beebalm. The house I always knew I would leave, but the garden is alive and might miss us. Not to mention, there are thousands of hours of work in it, and some of them are mine.

The July List

• Paint living room wall
• Sew seashell skirt
• Hang art
• Replace back door
• Pipe two pieces of the tunikurti
• Set up rain barrels at back house corners
• Plant roses
• Construct garden gate
• Wash wool
• Sew octopus skirt
• Install kitchen faucet

I continue to be hopeful! And ambitious! Probably overly so!

At least one skirt is happening, though, and I really should get the roses in the ground and hang some art. Wool-washing also needs to proceed at a pace that'll see it done before the weather turns. I need the garage back by then.

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