A Busy Week

I feel like I have once again overloaded myself with stuff. I like to stay busy, and of course, I always like to help out wherever I am needed, but right now things are a little too overwhelming. I plan to sit down (when I have time, LOL), and prioritize what has to be done and make a note of when it has to be finished. 

I haven’t done much sewing for myself, but I do have a quilt hanging in the lobby of a local bank this month. 

The colors are more vibrant than the picture. 

There is a church in Refugio that has bought a quilt from me the last few years for their raffle, and two of the ladies stopped by to see if I had something ready for them. I don’t! They saw the quilt I’m making for my church’s raffle and asked it they could buy it. 

I told them it wasn’t for sale, but I have another in the same color-way that I can add some borders to. 

They like it, and they want a king size, so I am working on some borders currently. I’m not making good progress, but it will definitely get put on my priority list. 

Someone donated fabric to the guild, and I took the larger pieces to make kits for donation quilts. Betty helped me cut, fold, and bag kits for 3-yard quilts. We were able to get 15 kits made by supplementing from my personal stash. 

The next time we have a charity sew day at guild, I will take these kits and my 3-yard quilt books. It would be wonderful if we could get 15 quilts made for donation.

We are having another raffle at church for baby quilts. It is scheduled for September. 

Other than that, I am still working on customer quilts, and I am still canning. Yesterday, I shredded up some cabbage, and chopped onion, green tomatoes, bell peppers, and a couple of hot peppers for chow chow. I salted it all before I left the house and left it in the refrigerator so the water would leach out. Or as my granny used to say, I let it sweat down. 

I didn’t have a big enough bowl, so I used my cake carrier. LOL. It worked. I canned 12 pints yesterday evening. 

I am hoping to do some jalapeños today. The plan is to make some candied, and some pickled. I stopped at the store and got some carrots to add to the pickled ones. I haven’t figured out yet if I want to make pints of half pints.