The Accidentally Thrifted Art Quilt Part One

I needed a couple of small quilts to use in my home office, so I thrifted a lot of three last month from ShopGoodwill.com. No one challenged my bid, so I won the lot for $9.99. From the moment I opened the box I had the sense I'd gotten a lot more than I bargained for.

This geometric quilt is cleverly pieced; no way could I have matched up all those seam lines.

This baby quilt is really bright and charming, too. Then I unfolded the third quilt, and things started to get a little weird.

The last quilt was an art quilt, with hand embroidery, beading, and amazing patchwork, for which I basically paid three bucks and change. Stop in tomorrow to hear more about it in Part Two.

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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.

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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