2013 January 12 — Patchwork Times by Judy Laquidara

Not So Bright Yarn Order

January 12, 2013 · by JudyL

My boxes from The Loopy Ewe are usually full of brightly colored yarns — oranges, lime greens, purples . . but not the most recent order. As luck would have it, I placed my order AGAIN so that it arrived on Saturday. Note to Self: Do not order from TLE on Wednesdays!

Vince was home and when we got the mail, I grabbed the box and stuck it in the floor of the car. We were headed to the neighbors and while talking to them and getting back in the car, he noted the little “Box of Fun” sticker on the outside of the box.

Box of Fun

In the middle of talking with my neighbor, the conversation took an abrupt turn . .

Vince: No! Not another package from The Loopy Ewe!
Me: But . . it’s a BOX OF FUN!
Vince: I thought you weren’t buy anything else this whole year!
Me: But . . it’s a Box of Fun and it’s for a challenge!

My neighbor, not being a knitter, has no idea what The Loopy Ewe is and when I kept saying “box of fun”, I can only imagine what she was thinking I had ordered. Can I face her again?

The truth is . . it was a box of fun but boring yarn.

January Yarn Order

All gray and brown. No red, no lime green, no orange . . boring brown and gray. Winter must be about to get the best of me!

Seriously, I wanted the grays to go with my coat and the brown is for a shawl that I plan to wear a lot so I figured brown was a good choice.

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QOV #2 Top Done

January 12, 2013 · by JudyL

Who’s bright idea was this to make three tops just alike? Boring!

QOV #2

I think I’m going to switch to working on the blocks for Nicole’s quilt for a while. But, first, I’m going to get dinner going and then hopefully I’ll be able to sew more after dinner.

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Dinner Last Night

January 12, 2013 · by JudyL

Since it was warm yesterday, I spent a couple of hours working in the garden. It’s a good thing because today it’s in the low 50′s and cloudy — not cold but not a beautiful, sunny day. There are quite a few frost damaged leaves on the mustard, chard and kale so I cut those off and gave them to the chickens. The carrots are doing amazingly well. The broccoli and cauliflower was completely ruined in those three or four 15º nights. We had been having nights in the 50′s and all of a sudden, we had those nights down in the teens. With no conditioning cold, they broccoli and cauliflower couldn’t survive.

Last night I fixed mustard greens and a carrot recipe from one submitted during the carrot challenge. Those carrots were so quick to fix and so delicious. I should have left off the sugar because our carrots are already so sweet. I’ll definitely be making this again but will be leaving off the sugar. I weighed the carrots and it took 10 of them to make 1 pound. Based on that number . . we have a whole lot of pounds of carrots out there, probably at least 100 pounds. I figure there’s about 40 pounds per row and I have almost three full rows.

It’s a good thing we love carrots. I’ll end up canning some and dehydrating some so we’ll have carrot chips but I’m going to leave them in the ground as long as I can, just digging the ones we want for our meals each day.

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January, 2013 Quiltathon Day 3

January 12, 2013 · by JudyL

Let the sewing begin at my house! Breakfast is done and kitchen is clean. Last load of laundry is drying.

Two rows of the second QOV have been sewn together, with three rows remaining. The plan is to get this top finished and then get my first Comfort & Joy block done and then work on Nicole’s quilt.