Restoration Work

I've started restoring and reinforcing this vintage quilt piece in order to make it a little sturdier before I turn it into a pillow.

I love the primitive applique in the center, so I'm using embroidery to reinforce what's left of the leaves and stems before I add a little of my own lace and fabric to revive the flowers.

The piece also has some holes and fray spots, which I covered with lace.

From the back of the piece I filled in some missing batting with little bits of my scraps, and then patched over the spots with plain white muslin. All of this work is intended to preserve the original quilting as much as possible, and restore what's missing or needs protecting.

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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.

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.

In the Kitchen Garden

Our strawberries are taking over the kitchen garden, but I don't mind. This week I want to make some strawberry banana nice cream (a vegan version of ice cream) and maybe a chocolate cake with berries and cream for the topping. There's thyme in the garden now, too, which I'll dry and jar for cooking along with the chives and the oregano. Next we'll plant cucumbers, as I use a ton of those in our salads and for snacks.

Rayen

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