Because I Can Never Throw Anything Away

The front of one cutter quilt piece I wanted to work on had been stained, but the back looked great, so I cut it in half, embroidered both back sides and made it into a tiny tote. I was also able to add a length of beaded ribbon I've been saving because it was too short to use on anything but too pretty to toss. Anyway, it'll be a nice way to present a gift card to someone this year.

The back, with different embroidery. The variegated perle thread I used was also leftover scrap.

I also successfully hand-washed and dried the bigger piece of the crazy quilt piece -- again, never do this to anything you want to preserve -- so once I piece them back together and turn it into a rectangle by adding a bit to the smaller piece I'll have a nice-size and clean cutter piece to make into a journal cover.

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Better than Fried

I cut some chives from the kitchen garden to make garlic-chive baked fries for dinner. This is a great side dish for veggie burgers. Click here for the recipe from Taste of Home.com.

Stuff

After finding this Caron one pound skein of lovely peach yarn in my thrifted lot I raided my stash for two cakes of Mandala in Pegasus, which matches it perfectly. For practice and hand therapy I'm going to make another Worth Street Afghan with this free pattern , but this time I'll use the yarn that was recommended for it plus the one pound skein. I'm not quite ready to do the vintage/recycled linen quilt I had planned (still a bit too nervous about the idea), so I'm going to use some color therapy and make a quilt from these thrifted green fat quarters. I considered doing another Yellow Brick road patchwork pattern, but I might go with a split rail fence like this one.

The Mercantile

If you don't mind walking 33K square feet in retail space, The Mercantile may be the vintage/arts store you'd enjoy visiting if you're ever in Orlando. I certainly did. Because it was busy I didn't take any photos in the store, but it's absolutely amazing and chock full of antiques and artisan creations, most of which were pretty reasonably priced. For $21.00 I invested in a picture of sailboats for the guest bathroom I'm redoing, and a fairy mystery jar of cool stuff. The jaw was hand-painted and decorated, and utterly charming. I think I wanted the jar more than the contents. As you can see the contents were both generous and pretty cool, too. I finally have some vintage gloves to use for my art quilter bingo challenge!

Rayen

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