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:
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Yes, I did time this for a cool screenshot. |
Made some hexagons and started watching
The Dragon Prince.
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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.
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Hi!!!! |
A question mark (? I think) came to visit.
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Not pictured: rampant French fry and tater tot theft behind me. |
Met more of Valerie's family and saw her dad's band perform.
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We're so cute. |
Went to a lot of farmers markets and ate a lot of tamales.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.)
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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.
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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.
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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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