Some socks for me.
Thought I better start making some socks as ours are getting rather hard to mend anymore what with all the holes :) Next on the needles are some socks for hubby. I also have on the needles a sweater for hubby and another one for myself. Yes I multitask LOL.
Don't know if you can see this but I wanted to show you how to piece batting on something you are quilting. You line up the pieces and sew them together. 
It's an excellent way to use up scrap batting for small wallhangings or table toppers.
This is the batting all sewed up and ready for my table topper.
And here's the top of the table topper. I have since finished this. Need to get a pic of the finished topper for you. To make this topper you need 5" squares and 2 1/2" squares. Place the smaller squares on opposite sides and sew from corner to corner (you can mark them on the back but I just winged it). Cut off the excess triangles. (Don't throw these triangles away. I have an idea I'll share in a later post) I squared them up to measure 5" and then tried out the placement on the table to see how they looked the best and then sew them together. I used a 5" border. I used two packages of precuts for this and had plenty left over to make another one plus. The squares I used weren't even from the same designer but I think they look great together.
On the home front, our chickens have started laying again. Boy did we ever miss our home grown eggs. We were getting them from an Amish farm but their eggs just didn't even compare to ours. They keep their chickens penned up and ours have access to fresh grass - big taste difference! We've been juicing and drinking our green juice every chance we get. I give the pulp to the chickens. They do not like carrots and their run is looking a little orange ;) but they do like the greens. I even had some chard and parsley growing in the garden so pulled some chard leaves for the chickens and juiced some of them for us too. I picked a little bit of the parsley (left some to grow) and dried it. mmmm parsley potatoes mmmm.
I started some seeds and the plants are up and just waiting to get bigger and the weather to cooperate so I can plant them. The weather today is pretty yucky. It's turning colder and it's raining. Last week we were over two inches above normal for the year. Hope it keeps up and we have no drought this year. I have to wait for a sunny day to hang my clothes out on the line so I did them yesterday since it was so beautiful out but the week before I had almost two weeks worth of laundry. No fun doing that much laundry. Took me all day.
Cabin News- We burned a lot of brush and small twigs. We pulled up some rotten tree stumps but need to take our saw with us next time so we can cut some of them out. The wet weather does help with this kind of job. It would have been so much harder if the ground would have been really dry.
I guess that catches you up on my life, how's yours been?
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